RE: hot swap of failed drive is scheduled; RAID 5 protection on disk drives;

Actually Lucas, I agree with you.

This isn't a big deal now-a-days.

Heck, I made sure the 270 we bought back in 2003(?) when I worked at another company had hot-swap
cages.

I did think the concurrent maint of I/O cards on the 810 we bought at my last company was pretty cool.
AFIAK, that's still hard to find on PC servers.

Charles Wilt
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:00 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: hot swap of failed drive is scheduled;RAID 5 protection on
disk drives;

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:40 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That is a cool thing. I've replaced a few over the years. Remember

going

to a shareholders banquet the night of one and informing one of the

plant

managers that we replaced a drive while hot. He was impressed - didn't
even notice. Gotta get that word out.

I know i'll piss some more people of with this comment, but what's so
interesting about this?

Since i've been working in IT (around 8 years), we've had hot swap
disks - a few years back they were optional, but nowadays even the
cheapest servers have hot swap drives. It's nothing new, it's nothing
interesting, and it has worked solidly on every platform i've worked
with in the past few years.

Heck, even hot-swapping SATA disks using Linux MD works fine - which
is a nasty hack.

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