is it safe remove ssd disk with power on?

[Azuwi]

i did it and now it acting a bit weird..i dunno.. i think.. it safe or not?

[Omega]

SATA is hot swappable. So if it's a SATA drive yes you can remove it while the PC is on. Do unmount it first to prevent data loss.

[Eldin]

Yes it's safe.
I unplugged and plugged in my SSD multiple times while PC was on.
It's still working perfectly fine.

[Cave Yeti Supreme]

Originally posted by Omega:

SATA is hot swappable. So if it's a SATA drive yes you can remove it while the PC is on. Do unmount it first to prevent data loss.

This person touches on it; purely electrically, the SATA connector is hot plug capable. Whether or not the stuff you were doing with the system or the stuff on the disk can survive a hot swap is questionable and situational...

[Azuwi]

Originally posted by Omega:

SATA is hot swappable. So if it's a SATA drive yes you can remove it while the PC is on. Do unmount it first to prevent data loss.

what do you mean unmount it?

the Windows was turned off, as I had no operativ system running when I did it, I clicked the windows start button > Shut down PC > plug out Sata cable from SSD , plug back in sata cable to SSD (but the power cord to power supply was on and the motherboard lightning was on) while i did it, and the ssd was not screwed mounted. I googled it and it said it was safe to not screw attach ssd when they are plugged in because they are not sensitive to vibrate nor do they vibrate. (no physical disks) They are just laying on a piece of metal/plastic.

[vadim]

Originally posted by Rayden☆✪:

i did it and now it acting a bit weird..i dunno.. i think.. it safe or not?

Depends. You can remove it safely after turning it off in OS. If you did not do that before extraction, filesystem could be been damaged. But this usually happens only if you performed disk writes immediately before extraction and part of data still keeped in OS disk buffers.

Originally posted by Rayden☆✪:

the Windows was turned off, as I had no operativ system running when I did it

So, no data loss could happen. It completely safe. Don't worry.

[Eldin]

Originally posted by Rayden☆✪:

Originally posted by Omega:

SATA is hot swappable. So if it's a SATA drive yes you can remove it while the PC is on. Do unmount it first to prevent data loss.

what do you mean unmount it?

the Windows was turned off, as I had no operativ system running when I did it, I clicked the windows start button > Shut down PC > plug out Sata cable from SSD , plug back in sata cable to SSD (but the power cord to power supply was on and the motherboard lightning was on) while i did it, and the ssd was not screwed mounted. I googled it and it said it was safe to not screw attach ssd when they are plugged in because they are not sensitive to vibrate nor do they vibrate. (no physical disks) They are just laying on a piece of metal/plastic.

That's totally safe.

When I did plugging/unplugging my PC was fully on and I was running Ubuntu from HDD.
I plugged/unplugged SSD multiple times and it was same as plugging/unplugging USB flash drive.


In your state (PC is off but it still has power) I was swapping RAMs and GPU.
I don't know how safe is that, but mine still worked after that.

[_I_]

if the sata port is set to hot swappable in bios and windows, and you dismount or use windows eject option
then yes it is safe to remove while the pc is on

else it can damage the drive or corrupt data on it

[Bing Chilling]

can you specify "Acting weird"
drives are hot swapable,
that said if this ssd was your system drive it is possible you corrupted windows slightly.

if it wasn't your system drive. then its still possible the drive was being written to and you may have corrupted it
depending on how bad this "acting weird" thing is
you may want to reset the drive.

but it'd like to know what you mean by acting weird.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If eject is not an option even though you have hot swap sata ports and they are set to ahci + hot swap in bios. Make sure you actually install your Intel or amd chipset drivers, it helps. But if eject doesn't exist for your sata drives, bring up disk management and next to the drive you wish to physically remove (make sure it's not being written to) and where it shows the drive letter, right click there and click Offline. This temp removes it from the system, allowing safe removal.