Hot swappable HDD Lenovo laptop?

Is there any Lenovo model that supports Hot Swappable HDD? I've seen reviews that mention the Y710 and Y730 to have a second hot-swappable HDD, but are there any others?

I am not looking for the ultrabay HDD replacing the optical drive. Just regular HDD being hot swappable.

 

That would require dual HDD bays along with the ODD (since you can't remove your one HDD as it would have your OS installed), which I don't think any other Lenovo's have, with the exception of maybe their W700.

 

I don't think taking off your hard drive cover while the machine is running is recommended.

 

Apart from the hardware, I'm intensely curious as to what operating system allows hot-swapping the boot hard disk?

 

Well I suppose you could boot from the disk in the bay and then do whatever you want with the primary HD. It could be hot-swappable as long as it's SATA.
Probably not recommended on a regular basis though as it'll wear out connectors and turn your unit into a brick.

 

MS-DOS.

It is more productive to support hotswapping at the hardware level.

 

MS-DOS most definitely does not support hard drive hot-swapping. For example, there is no way to make the "kernel" re-read the partition table when a new disk is inserted.

 

After further review, the W700 does not have hot-swappable HDD. So far, AFAIK only the Y710/Y730 have that feature. Perhaps the only laptops with that feature.

 

Funny, worked every time here.

 

I don't think we're talking about boot hard disk here. Maybe a secondary HDD.

 

The SATA Ultrabay adapter caddy doesn't support hot swaps?

 

I'm pretty sure it does.

 

It does. I have a HDD caddy for my T500 and it is hot swappable.

 

When I try to remove my hdd (from the ultrabay) safely in Windows 7 (from the right lower corner's usb-icon) it never works because it says that the disc is in use and because I use NTFS-format I don't want to remove it without stopping the device first because NTFS is lot more vulnerable than FAT32 if you remove it without making it ready for it. So, I have always had to shut my machine before changing from ultrabay hdd to optical drive. Changing optical drive to hdd naturally isn't a problem.

 

I bet it's just one of the services. Probably indexing. But of course it could also be something else, like a software program.

 

Try hotswap! and unlocker.

 

"Apart from the hardware, I'm intensely curious as to what operating system allows hot-swapping the boot hard disk?"

The person above is correct. Hot Swapping the system device amounts to a new OS. The act, by defnition, changes the OS. There is a contradiction in terms.

Renee

 

i don't think this is possible.

 

Boot drive, of course not. But a second harddrive seems possible. Just like the ultrabay drive.