Ianwoollam Wrote:
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> Well I have the same board as you so that should
> do hotswapping
Quick question though Doesn't it
> wreck the hard drive when you take it out?
> (Obviously when the drive isn't in use I mean
)
Nope, SATA's designed for hotswapping. Some controllers even have the 'safely remove device' tray icon for SATA drives. Mine doesn't, but still not a problem. From the limited testing I've done, the Intel controller supports hotswapping, but the JMicron one (the SATA port near the I/O shield, above the top PCIe slot) doesn't. Annoyingly one of my Samsung drives only works on that controller, so I've hooked that socket up to the 2nd caddy.
Been backing up 540gb (from 2 320gb drives) using it today. Set it off at 7:30ish and it finished at 11:17am apparently.
//edit: that was with the verification on too, so it would have taken half the time to do a backup only. Now all I'll have to do is an incremental backups, which will take barely any space at all, and using Acronis True Image, you can pick which backup too use, the base or any of the incremental addons images. Usefully TI allows you to mount backups as virtual drives too, so if I need to restore a single file or folder, then all I have to do is mount the image and it appears as an extra hard drive (with read or read/write properties as you choose). Pretty awesome. :D
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/01/2007 02:38PM by gav.