Are the drives Hot Pluggable?
Removing and inserting drives in most, if not all other, ATA arrays on the market is problematic due to the inability to power down a drive via command. Secondarily, insertion or removal of an ATA drive onto a hot power bus causes power surges that can damage to any of the drives on that power bus. This is a primary reason why other ATA arrays are not considered enterprise class. Nexsan shuts down power to a defective drive, via our patented chip technology, upon failure and does not reapply power to an inserted drive until it has been completely seated and verified as a ATA-6 drive.
