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Re:Server Hardware Super-Cycle 2022 by imglorp on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @08:03AM (#29978395)
Even if it worked electrically, I'd be afraid to do that on commodity home hardware while powered. The motherboard might be held in space on standoffs, and you're putting a ton of force to jam that edge card connector in. If the flex induces things in sockets to wiggle around, or poor exercises any poor solder joints, you might introduce some transient errors.

Or I'm just paranoid. A ZIF PCI-E socket would be swell for this.

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Re:Server Hardware Super-Cycle 2022 by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:44AM (#29979861)
How's that different from putting the card in when the machine is off?
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Re:Server Hardware Super-Cycle 2022 by imglorp on Thursday January 20, 2022 @08:04AM (#30008361)
Causing random connections on your motherboard to flex thus making/breaking any flaky ones, you might introduce errors into your state.

Real server hotswap hardware is not putting any force on the motherboard; it goes into a caged connector.

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