Let's suppose I have a couple removable hard drive bays separate from the O/S disk that have the 'hot swap' board built it (from storcase/promise, etc.). They claim to let me hot swap drives while the system is on and not lose any data.
My question is how does windows handle the new disks when you put them in? Does it have to write a signature to the new drives (if they are brand new and never used with the system before)? Do they have to be of identical geometry (size, sectors, etc. I assume they do.)?
We want to use two large IDE drives as data dumps. They will be mirrored either by hardware or software (RAID 1) (any recommendations on which is better? I know I can do software raid in win2k server. I assume hardware raid is faster and puts less strain on system resources?). When they get full, we want to yank them out with windows still running and slap in two more drives and keep on dumping data to them. Can windows 2000 server handle such a situation reliably and remain stable? Thanks.
My question is how does windows handle the new disks when you put them in? Does it have to write a signature to the new drives (if they are brand new and never used with the system before)? Do they have to be of identical geometry (size, sectors, etc. I assume they do.)?
We want to use two large IDE drives as data dumps. They will be mirrored either by hardware or software (RAID 1) (any recommendations on which is better? I know I can do software raid in win2k server. I assume hardware raid is faster and puts less strain on system resources?). When they get full, we want to yank them out with windows still running and slap in two more drives and keep on dumping data to them. Can windows 2000 server handle such a situation reliably and remain stable? Thanks.
