Storage Solutions Is it safe to unplug drives in S3 mode ?

[nRiTeCh]

In complete sleep/suspend mode "S3", when the whole system appears to be in powered off state (processor fan/hdds/ etc. all off) is it safe to remove any connected IDE or Sata drive unless its the system boot drive?

Has anybody tried this?

I think its completely safe as theres no power to any of the hard drives supplied during this period.

 

[William States]

Hi,


Check this out.


http://superuser.com/questions/6415...remove-any-type-of-device-while-in-sleep-mode



Regards,

William States

 

[nRiTeCh]

I have already figured it out just after opening this thread.. I successfully unplugged sata and ide drives except my boot disk and system was as is. No issues/bsods/hangs etc.

 

[vivek.krishnan]

It depends on what are the open handles for the files and folders on the device.