What is a Swappable Drive?
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Swappable Drives, To make the laptop smaller and lighter, many models have "swappable" or interchangeable drives. With an interchangeable drive, there is only space in the case for one drive (floppy drive, Zip drive or CD/DVD drive). If you want to change from one type of disk to another, you just pull one out of the bay and put the other one in. In some laptops with swappable drives, you must turn the computer off first, change the device and then reboot the computer. Other laptop models may have a "hot swappable" devices , in which you can interchange the drives without turning the computer off; this feature saves you the time involved in restarting the computer. While swappable drives allow you to use several types of drives in your laptop, remember that you will have to carry those extra drives with you if you want to use them on the go. |
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