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Need some hot swap advice...

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Hey all, just curious what you guys might suggest - work here at a PC Shop, and we have a 'clone' PC just for cloning customer's data off, as a backup for them

Unfortuneately, like everything through here is IDE.

Any suggestions for hot swappable IDE controllers? I was looking at the Highpoint RocketRAID 454, as it says it supports hot swap, but only under RAID? Does that mean it won't work, unless we run a RAID of some sort?

I'd like to have individual Hot Swappability... maybe a PATA to SATA convertor?

*EDIT*

Looking at this -
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16812156010
Maybe hook that to our swappable drive cage, then run it to a SATA setup? That'd allow us to hot swap, right?
 
I think you might be best off with a USB enclosure. IDE doesn't normally hotswap well - the interface doesn't connect grounds first like sata does. Using the sata->ide adaptor will work, but then you'd have to mess around inside the case to plug something in. The external enclosure will make it easier.

 
hmm, IDE weren't meant to hotswap, period. I've heard of the highpoint card you're talking about but never, ever seen it in action. You might be better off doing a network based cloning setup vs a seperate PC. I know one of the major clone softwares has a boot option to do everything from a network share. Save image, load image etc. You might want to look into that, it could possible be a better option.
 
Yeah - I would also look toward an easy to leave open external USB enclosure. Definitley look for one that has a detachable IDE cable as thats soldered in on a lot of enclosures and frequent use will probably necessitate the eventual replacement of the cable. I'd also use a power extension/splitter/whatever to reduce the strain on the power connector cable as well. Configured with say - an extended 18" or so power cable, and a 18" IDE cable you could just about mount the enclosure out of the way and just leave the cables on the bench. The key feature on how pluggable drives such as SCA SCSI or SATA are the fact that the ground pins make first contact. Without that capability you really run the risk of frying the drive or getting data corruption.
 
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