And lo on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:48:42 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake, saying:

> Invisible wrote:
>> It even claims to have RAID. (But I wouldn't trust that as far as I  
>> could throw it!)
>
> I want to know why every one of our three different types of servers at  
> work (everything from a now-ancient PC to a cutting edge Dell Poweredge)  
> has hot-swap drives, and every one of them requires you to boot into the  
> BIOS at the console in order to change a drive. (Well, the Dells do. The  
> others just need a power cycle.) Why bother making it "hot-swap" if you  
> have to be physically present and out of the OS in order to swap it?  
> What's "hot" about that?

Because you don't have to interrupt the power supply :-P

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