It's well known that as a best practice, it is best to eject a hard drive via OS before disconnecting it.
I recently purchased an HDD dock station like this one hdd dock .
So far speeds have been decent with 1 drive, and no issues with it.
I plan to connect a 2nd drive every once in a while, copy important data, and use it as a cold storage on the 2nd bay.
Most of the time I use this on Linux, but sometimes on Windows.
When I inserted the 2nd drive on the 2nd empty bay while computer was running, it said I need to eject the drive, but in reality, it is going in on the 2nd empty bay, I'm not hot-swapping the 1st bay.
Is this a false positive detection?
My question to you experts is, what would be the recommended approach to swap the 2nd drive with HDD docking stations. Do I need to umount and eject the 1st drive or even turn off/restart the computer everytime I want to insert/remove the 2nd drive?