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From: "Cathal A. Ferris" <pio@csn.ul.ie>
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As far as I know, there are ide add-in cards that support hot-plugging of
drives, not too sure if this feature is availabe on the cheaper
promise/highpoint controllers, but it is definitely available on the
higher-end (true ide-raid) cards.

Cathal.

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Ciaran Johnston wrote:

> Vincent Cunniffe said:
> > I run several co-located servers, and the solution I have adopted is
> > IDE drives. They're cheap, fast, and you don't have to keep buying
> > media for them. Combine it with a removable HD caddy from Peats or
> > Maplins, and you have a complete onsite/offsite backup solution with 4
> > entire generations of data for about ¤250 (2 * 80GB/5400 drives and a
> > caddy for the server).
> >
> > You do need 60 seconds of downtime to replace the drive, but that's
> > pretty trivial if done once per month.
>
> Hmmm... this does sound interesting. I think it may be the way to go... I'd
> still be interested in hearing people's opinions on the tape drives I
> mentioned, though, esp. wrt. this solution. I know knocking a drive around
> doesn't do it any good.
>
> /Ciaran.
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