Nick Smith wrote: >> but switched to sata in a trayless hot-swap carrier >> when I went to larger drives. > > Do you have any links to the hardware you used? I too am looking for > such a solution.
I hesitated to recommend this at first because I built the box out of an old server motherboard and a bunch of old parts in a huge tower case and had lots of mysterious hardware-related issues at first. But after replacing the RAM and the 2 old sata controllers with a single 8-port pci-x card everything is rock solid. It actually has an older 4-slot drive bay with trays that I didn't swap because the old Promise Sata controller running them didn't support hotswap. And the 3-slot trayless one wouldn't recognize my 750 gig drives at bootup with an SIIG controller but would when they were swapped in later. With the new controller: http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=953632 all of the drives will hot-swap and are all recognized if they are in at bootup including some new 1.5TB Seagates. The trayless bay is this one: http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1187023 which takes the space of 2 5" bays and holds 3 drives but other sizes are available. For this purpose you could use 2 fixed drives and only one that swaps. The server is set up with 2 fixed scsi drives for the OS, and all of the sata drives are software raid so they are detected regardless of insertion order. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
