Hot Swap SATA Drive for backups

[Burgal]

Hi there.
Been doing backup to disk with backupexec for a long while however I wanted to expand the availaibility of drives for a while now. Just running into a small problem.

Using a whitebox server with an ASUS board with an ICH5 southbridge and onboard SATA. The data/os drives are on an older promise sata raid card (Raid 1) with 2 sata ports (in use).

I bought 5 vantec EZSwap SATA caddies and one caddy enclosure (SATA 5.25" Internal). I was going to do hot swap SATA drives and rotate them daily. One major issue. ICH5 isn't SATA Hot swappable. Not many mobos are it seems.

I need to find a way to take most of what I have invested in, and turn it into a hot-swap backup.

Do you guys have any suggestions?

 

[Infinity306]

You could try Granitedigital

http://www.granitedigital.com

they have quite a few external Sata hot-swap drive systems

Cheapest way and best way may be to just get a SATA Controller card that supports hot-swapping, unless your expansion slots are already full..

 

[vdinenna]

LSI Logic SAS3442x-R

3Gb/s Searl Attached SCSI PCI-X card with RAID. It can do PCI slots, but not as good as PCI-X.
It has 4 external and 4 internal drive capability. LSI has an 8-port extrnal also. External port is multi-lane cable.
Internal is SATA. Costs about $350.

No config needed for JBOD. RAID config thru BIOS.

Vince

 

[Burgal]

it's just for backup, so something under $100 bucks is good. I'll check out the granitedigital site.

Thanks