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August 8th 04, 05:44 PM
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Using SATA drives in hot swap enclousure as a backup solution?
I'm trying to find a backup solution based on SATA drives in hot swap
enclosures. The backup is really more a spare copy. I want to do this on a Windows 2003 server. It seems to be more difficult to do than I thought... Would any SATA enclosure work with a regular SATA controller? Does Windows support the hot swap? What do I need? Here is what I tried so far: I ended up getting the Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 RAID controller and one SuperSwap 1100. The regular SATA controller doesn't support hot-swap according to Promise. Currently I'm using two SATA drives. One in the SuperSwap and one fixed. I think hotswap would work if I use a RAID 1 configuration. However I think for my backup plan it is simpler to use the drives as regular drives. I ended up creating two arrays (Stripe 0). Each array has one drive. This way I can assign both drives a drive letter. However the hot swap feature doesn't work. If I remove the drive in the SuperSwap 1100 and put it back neither NT nor the Promise software recognizes the fact that the drive is back. I needed to create a new array and reformat the drive. 
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August 9th 04, 08:56 PM
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"frank" wrote in message news:tLsRc.222749$a24.125645@attbi_s03... I'm trying to find a backup solution based on SATA drives in hot swap enclosures. The backup is really more a spare copy. I want to do this on a Windows 2003 server. www.acronis.com TrueImageServer It seems to be more difficult to do than I thought... Would any SATA enclosure work with a regular SATA controller? Does Windows support the hot swap? yes. Use KingWin KF-83 What do I need? Here is what I tried so far: I ended up getting the Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 RAID controller and one SuperSwap 1100. The regular SATA controller doesn't support hot-swap according to Promise. Currently I'm using two SATA drives. One in the SuperSwap and one fixed. I think hotswap would work if I use a RAID 1 configuration. However I think for my backup plan it is simpler to use the drives as regular drives. I ended up creating two arrays (Stripe 0). Each array has one drive. This way I can assign both drives a drive letter. However the hot swap feature doesn't work. If I remove the drive in the SuperSwap 1100 and put it back neither NT nor the Promise software recognizes the fact that the drive is back. I needed to create a new array and reformat the drive.
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August 9th 04, 10:19 PM
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Hi, thanks for the response.
Can I use any SATA controller with it (while not loosing hot swap)? "Ron Reaugh" wrote in message ... "frank" wrote in message news:tLsRc.222749$a24.125645@attbi_s03... I'm trying to find a backup solution based on SATA drives in hot swap enclosures. The backup is really more a spare copy. I want to do this on a Windows 2003 server. www.acronis.com TrueImageServer It seems to be more difficult to do than I thought... Would any SATA enclosure work with a regular SATA controller? Does Windows support the hot swap? yes. Use KingWin KF-83 What do I need? Here is what I tried so far: I ended up getting the Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 RAID controller and one SuperSwap 1100. The regular SATA controller doesn't support hot-swap according to Promise. Currently I'm using two SATA drives. One in the SuperSwap and one fixed. I think hotswap would work if I use a RAID 1 configuration. However I think for my backup plan it is simpler to use the drives as regular drives. I ended up creating two arrays (Stripe 0). Each array has one drive. This way I can assign both drives a drive letter. However the hot swap feature doesn't work. If I remove the drive in the SuperSwap 1100 and put it back neither NT nor the Promise software recognizes the fact that the drive is back. I needed to create a new array and reformat the drive.
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August 9th 04, 11:04 PM
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"Alex" wrote in message ... Hi, thanks for the response. Can I use any SATA controller with it (while not loosing hot swap)? Don't assume that. Use onmobo SATA(Intel) or SiliconImage based cards like from www.siig.com or Promise. "Ron Reaugh" wrote in message ... "frank" wrote in message news:tLsRc.222749$a24.125645@attbi_s03... I'm trying to find a backup solution based on SATA drives in hot swap enclosures. The backup is really more a spare copy. I want to do this on a Windows 2003 server. www.acronis.com TrueImageServer It seems to be more difficult to do than I thought... Would any SATA enclosure work with a regular SATA controller? Does Windows support the hot swap? yes. Use KingWin KF-83 What do I need? Here is what I tried so far: I ended up getting the Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 RAID controller and one SuperSwap 1100. The regular SATA controller doesn't support hot-swap according to Promise. Currently I'm using two SATA drives. One in the SuperSwap and one fixed. I think hotswap would work if I use a RAID 1 configuration. However I think for my backup plan it is simpler to use the drives as regular drives. I ended up creating two arrays (Stripe 0). Each array has one drive. This way I can assign both drives a drive letter. However the hot swap feature doesn't work. If I remove the drive in the SuperSwap 1100 and put it back neither NT nor the Promise software recognizes the fact that the drive is back. I needed to create a new array and reformat the drive.
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August 11th 04, 02:09 PM
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OK, I will go with the regular SIIG SATA card.
Is there a difference between Addonics and Kingwin enclosures? "Ron Reaugh" wrote in message ... "Alex" wrote in message ... Hi, thanks for the response. Can I use any SATA controller with it (while not loosing hot swap)? Don't assume that. Use onmobo SATA(Intel) or SiliconImage based cards like from www.siig.com or Promise. "Ron Reaugh" wrote in message ... "frank" wrote in message news:tLsRc.222749$a24.125645@attbi_s03... I'm trying to find a backup solution based on SATA drives in hot swap enclosures. The backup is really more a spare copy. I want to do this on a Windows 2003 server. www.acronis.com TrueImageServer It seems to be more difficult to do than I thought... Would any SATA enclosure work with a regular SATA controller? Does Windows support the hot swap? yes. Use KingWin KF-83 What do I need? Here is what I tried so far: I ended up getting the Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 RAID controller and one SuperSwap 1100. The regular SATA controller doesn't support hot-swap according to Promise. Currently I'm using two SATA drives. One in the SuperSwap and one fixed. I think hotswap would work if I use a RAID 1 configuration. However I think for my backup plan it is simpler to use the drives as regular drives. I ended up creating two arrays (Stripe 0). Each array has one drive. This way I can assign both drives a drive letter. However the hot swap feature doesn't work. If I remove the drive in the SuperSwap 1100 and put it back neither NT nor the Promise software recognizes the fact that the drive is back. I needed to create a new array and reformat the drive.
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