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Does a simple internal hot-swapable drive solution exist?

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metropole

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I have been experimenting with several solutions over the last years.
An internal hot swap solution seems to be involved; i.e. using the right RAID card. Even then I run into issues that the OS didn't offer the "safely eject" feature or recognizing drives without rebooting.

In one of my setups I am using currently:
http://www.startech.com/HDD/Mobile-...emovable-25-SATA-Drive-Enclosure~SAT2510U2REM
This is a 2.5" drive enclosure. It is nice for safe keeping of backup drives.

However, I just installed one in a Dell T100 server with win 2003 server. I am back to the same old problem. The server has RAID, but apparently can't support hot-swap.

Is there a simpler better solution out there? It is somewhat ironic as I can achieve hot-swap by simply plugging in the USB cable with the drive enclosure.
But I like the clean setup of a drive bay.

Is there anything on the market that allows hot swap easier? Any external enclosures?
 
The embedded controller probably has hot-plug disabled. Get a cheap hot-plug capable controller card and use that for the backup drive.
 
Did you go through your controller's settings? The LSI SAS controller that's included with the T100 does support hot-swap capability.
 
Could not find anything in the BIOS settings. Is the LSI the controller built into the MOBO or extra? My T100 does not have an additional controller. Just on board.
 
XenIneX said:
The embedded controller probably has hot-plug disabled. Get a cheap hot-plug capable controller card and use that for the backup drive.
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Going that route will I still need a utility or wil win2003 recognize the new capability?
 
Moved to SSD & Data Storage subforum. You should get better help here.
 
The biggest issue is the OS support. And what I mean by that is convincing the OS that you want the to be able to unmount the filesystem. This was not always easy on the windows OS especially windows 2003. In the past I have found utilities can force the unmount howvever since AHCI has come along these are no longer needed or developed.
 
That drive bay supports hot swap just fine, as you said. So you just need to plug it into an achi sata controller with hot swap support in bios, driver, and os. Just like you did last time.
 
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