Ok, The time has come. I need to look into Hot swap SATA. Anybody have
any real world experience? I'm looking for information on both cages and
OS stability.
The OS will be CentOS 4.4. Drives will be 250-400 GB SATA drives. I at
least need 3 drives. Two are connected to a 3Ware 80062LPKIT SATA Raid
Card. The third will be connected directly to the MB. The third drive is
connected for only 2 days a week (backup drive).
I will need Hot swap to work in to different situations: 1) Currently I
am doing weekly backups to a USB HDD that is stored off site. I would
like to move to a SATA drive as USB is slooooow. For this to work I need
reliable hot swap/add/remove. 2) In the case that one of the drives in
the raid array dies, I'd like to be able to replace it without downing
the server.
So, is SATA Hot swap ready for prime time? Should I wait? Comments,
experience, suggestions are all appreciated.
Thanks,
Garl
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