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Swappable Hard Drives
Name: Mike Greaves Date: September 3, 2004 at 06:24:10 Pacific OS: Win XP Home Build 2600 + CPU/Ram: 1.6 GHz / 256 MB
Comment:
I have a removable HDD rack with two ATA HDDs in caddies which I want to use to alternate drive image backups. Both are configured as Primary slaves. Is it safe to hot swap them, or is there software which is needed for this?
Name: Dick Johnson Date: September 3, 2004 at 07:39:24 Pacific
Reply:
You can't Hot-Swap, but you can swap them with the system shutdown. Only SCSI drives with a controller can be Hot-Swaped.
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Response Number 2
Name: ludedude25 Date: September 3, 2004 at 08:34:24 Pacific
Reply:
If you want Swappable Hard drives look at getting some USB 2.0 enclosures. And if your computer doesn't have usb 2.0 then a pci usb 2.0 card.
USB 2.0 enclosure $27 shipped us
http://www.3btech.net/crioex5dv3ha.html
PCI USB 2.0 controller card $20 shipped us
http://www.3btech.net/pciusb20fica.html
I have drive enclosure and a 4+1 pci card. If you ask me it's as fast having the drive inside the computer.
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Response Number 3
Name: wiredsj Date: September 3, 2004 at 09:04:59 Pacific
Reply:
Mike,
Chad makes an excellent point, having it installed speeds up the process dramatically. USB enclosures are very handy if you're working on multiple computers or if you need to take data off site but they're VERRRRRYYY slow! If you want the best of both worlds you'll need a firewire enclosure.
ciao, wired
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Response Number 4
Name: tonyme7 Date: September 3, 2004 at 09:52:25 Pacific
Reply:
usb 2.0 is faster then firewire 400mb per sec on the firewire compared to 480mb per sec on the usb 2.0. but hey if your not sure they have hot swap bays that can do both usb and firewire
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Response Number 5
Name: giveitago Date: September 15, 2004 at 12:58:34 Pacific
Reply:
You CAN hot swap IDE drives if you have the disk mounted in a removable caddie and use software such as swap manager. http://www.softhelp.cc
USB2.0 and Firewire enclosures are an alternative, but a lot slower. They do have the advantage of being able to be used on almost any computer - so if portability is important its the way to go.
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