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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"frank" <frank@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> 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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Hi, thanks for the response.
Can I use any SATA controller with it (while not loosing hot swap)?

"Ron Reaugh" <ron-reaugh@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> "frank" <frank@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:tLsRc.222749$a24.125645@attbi_s03... 
> 2003 
>
> www.acronis.com  TrueImageServer
> 
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> yes.  Use KingWin KF-83
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"Alex" <someone@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> 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" <ron-reaugh@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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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" <ron-reaugh@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> "Alex" <someone@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:cf8pmc$2a6$1@news.mch.sbs.de... 
>
> Don't assume that.  Use onmobo SATA(Intel) or SiliconImage based cards
like
> from www.siig.com or Promise.
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