@lanodan
Sata maybe, but last time I tried to hot-plug a 12V power cable, my PSU restarted.

@alyx Sounds like an awful PSU, I hotswap my drives all the time.
I basically only reboot for hardware changes like the GPU, even if that shouldn't even be needed since PCIe also has hotplug capabilities.

@lanodan
I remember seeing a Linus video on hotswap PCIe... and it didn't work at all. And we're not talking about consumer MB, pretty sure it was server grade stuff.

@lanodan
I'll give the the hotplug sata another try... maybe last time it was a fluke.

@alyx I think it's more like a software issue but I'll try grabbing that video

@lanodan
Well.. bios is technically software, so yeah, the conclusion at the time was that the bios wasn't stable at the time. Don't think he's made a follow-up video on the technology since then. Maybe there are MB out there that are now capable of PCIe hotswap.

@alyx Video I found from linus was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigN2mkQMPc and it seems to work after fiddling into the BIOS (which isn't that awkward, I needed to for USB to work nicely on my previous MB…)

Seems like it's experimental, wouldn't risk my new AM4 mobo but it's nice that it could start being an option when NVMe is a thing.