Hot-spare question

[ITschoolGuy]

Hello -

I really don't know if this is the proper forum in which to post this question. I would like to find out what's involved in setting up a RAID Level 1 array using serial ATA hard disks with a Promise Technology 20378 controller, SuperSwap 1100 trays and a hot-spare. I have done RAID 1 with SATA before, but never had occasion to use a hot-spare. Does anyone know if it's even possible with the particular controller I mentioned?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Chris

 

[Paulreg]

I am trying to buy an IBM x206 and I want to set up simple Raid 1 mirroring. One supplier tells me that I just need to buy 80GB 7200 RPM SATA disks with EZ Swap trays and these will support Raid 1. Other suppliers say that I need to buy a proper SATA Raid controller. All I want to be able to do is survive a disk failure, power down, swap out the u/s disk and have the system rebuild it. Will EZ swap tray facilitate this ? Thanks
Paulreg