Kingwin HDD Power Switch Module 6 Switches

michael · Mar 9, 2016

Hi Guys,

I want to buy this Kingwin HDD Power Switch Module 6 Switches

But I just want to confirm one thing, suppose if I connect two hard disks to it, 1st button connected to 1st hard disk with Win 10 installed and 2nd button connected to 2nd hard disk containing Windows 2012 Server R2, then can I just keep 1st button ON and boot through Windows 10 and then keep only 2nd button ON boot through
Windows 2012 Server R2 WITHOUT changing any boot priority sequence in BIOS setting?

Please answer

Thanks

95Viper · Mar 9, 2016

EDITED, @Jizzler kick started brain: ~~No, you would still need to choose which port to boot with. All this does is, let you turn the power off and on to the drives you opt to connect to it.~~

You need a Data switch, that you can plug into the MB and then, select which drive uses that port...
Sorta like this: 4 Port SATA III / II / I Switch With KeyLock and LED 6Gbps Compatible

Or, a hot swap bay.

cdawall · Mar 9, 2016

Set up a dual boot? Seems like infinitely less work.

95Viper · Mar 9, 2016

cdawall said:
Set up a dual boot? Seems like infinitely less work.

Cheaper, too.

Disparia · Mar 9, 2016

Can't speak for all boards, but I've used boards where this works just fine. They're just going to boot off of whichever drive is on at the time.

Of course, being that they're just two Windows OS and it's easy to setup I like that idea about just dual-booting them. You'll pick one at bootup (one can be default).

95Viper · Mar 9, 2016

Jizzler said:
Can't speak for all boards, but I've used boards where this works just fine. They're just going to boot off of whichever drive is on at the time.

+1

You know what, I was not thinking OS and was just thinking drives... however, if you did have the boot order set for the drives, it should look for the first set of boot files... and boot to whatever it finds.

michael · Mar 9, 2016

I know and I did dual boot in past but this time I want to setup independent booting OS .
I just read one review about such a hard disks switcher where a guy said that he had like 6 hard drives and he kept one for his daughter one for his son for gaming and 1 drive for wife and let them I use their own OS independently .

Caring1 · Mar 10, 2016

Theoretically it would work if only the one drive was powered on at boot up.

michael · Mar 13, 2016

Guys, This is a really great device that I have come across, very useful for those who want to do practices on different OS just by the click of buttons.

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Storage	Samsung pro 840 256GB, Segate 3TB and 1TB
Display(s)	LG 23" Full HD LED
Case	Antec LanBoy Air
Power Supply	Cooler Master M2 Silent Pro 850 Watts
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Motherboard	Asus P8Z&&-V Deluxe
Cooling	Thermalright Silver Arrow
Memory	Gskill Ripjaws 1600Mhz 8GB *4 = 32GB
Storage	Samsung pro 840 256GB, Segate 3TB and 1TB
Display(s)	LG 23" Full HD LED
Case	Antec LanBoy Air
Power Supply	Cooler Master M2 Silent Pro 850 Watts
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Kingwin HDD Power Switch Module 6 Switches

michael

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where the hell are my stars

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