[TriLUG] Re: Dieing hard drive?

[Brian Daniels]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:20:25PM -0500, Joseph Mack wrote:
> Brian Daniels wrote:
> 
> > At the end of the week, swap to next bay and store the previous one in a big
> > anti-static bag.
> 
> are these hot swappable?
> 

The anti-static bags? :-)

The bay claims to be.  It's got a keylock that powers down the drive.  It will 
depend on your controller, but most stock motherboard controllers don't like 
this.  I just power down once a week (horrors!) and swap drives.  Since this is 
my home box, no big deal.

--Brian


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