Nick Smith wrote:
>> but switched to sata in a trayless hot-swap carrier
>> when I went to larger drives.
> 
> Do you have any links to the hardware you used? I too am looking for
> such a solution.

I hesitated to recommend this at first because I built the box out of an 
old server motherboard and a bunch of old parts in a huge tower case and 
had lots of mysterious hardware-related issues at first. But after 
replacing the RAM  and the 2 old sata controllers with a single 8-port 
pci-x card everything is rock solid.   It actually has an older 4-slot 
drive bay with trays that I didn't swap because the old Promise Sata 
controller running them didn't support hotswap.  And the 3-slot trayless 
one wouldn't recognize my 750 gig drives at bootup with an SIIG 
controller but would when they were swapped in later.

With the new controller:
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=953632
all of the drives will hot-swap and are all recognized if they are in at 
bootup including some new 1.5TB Seagates.  The trayless bay is this one: 
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1187023
which takes the space of 2 5" bays and holds 3 drives but other sizes 
are available. For this purpose you could use 2 fixed drives and only 
one that swaps.

The server is set up with 2 fixed scsi drives for the OS, and all of the 
sata drives are software raid so they are detected regardless of 
insertion order.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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