On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Coffin Michael C wrote: > AVLogic.com - they're terrific!). By the way, the lockable removable racks > with power/IDE activity lights are only $12 at AVLogic.com and work great if > anyone is interested.
A word of caution: >From my reading, the cheaper devices (Centronics-style connector) are good for about 1000 swaps - either side. Say, three years, maybe a little less, with daily swaps. For your use that's fine. There are hot-swap caddies too - see www.vipower.com - but hot-swap is not an ATA standard, and it does not work with Linux. That said, you can still shut the system down but not turn off the power to the whole system in order to swap. Note that a solution involving a second system, both running drdb, can give you hot-swap of the whole server. You could then use _whole_ disk for archives, and swap when you want without taking down the service at all. -- Cheers John. Please, no off-list mail. You will fall foul of my spam treatment. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
