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I'm wondering if there is any harm (e.g risk of data loss) in changing the device in my optical bay (e.g. from optical drive to HDD), while my operating system (BSD, Linux or Windows) is running? I would of course unmount the HDD or SSD in the optical bay, before removing it.
I am asking generally for all kind of systems, but I am using a Lenovo T430. My OS is in the first drive, not the one in the bay.
That depends on your laptop’s(?) make and model. – Daniel B – 2019-02-21T21:20:03.517
Ask the fly its opinion first. – JakeGould – 2019-02-21T21:23:34.613
Added make and model – jumpingwires – 2019-02-21T22:20:37.650
Why not leave the optical in and use an external usb enclosure for the hard drive? – UnhandledExcepSean – 2019-02-22T02:24:41.397
I don't need the optical bay, and I am using an 128gb ssd for my operating system, and a 500gb sshd for all my personal data and configs. The folders are symlinked (softlink) on my Unix machine: "ln -s /dev/sdb1/Documents ~/Documents" and so on. In the rare scenario I need a cd, I create a disk image file. My backups are on my USB drives. – jumpingwires – 2019-02-23T07:29:16.307