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Does anyone know where I can get a bay for a hot swap scsi drive? I have a old server that has 2 SCSI drives. About once a year one of them goes bad and has to be replaced. The problem is to get to the drives takes about 3 hours of ripping STUFF apart to get at them. What I want to do is put in 2 bays that I can get at from the front of the machine. This way when a drive gives up the ghost I can just swap it out and SETUP the mirror again.

I looked at tiger and they seem to be into SATA bays.

Ideas?
http://www.scsisource.com/scsi_mobile_racks/

What are you doing to your computer that it loses a drive every year!?!?
Why don't you upgrade to SAS or SATA?
Thanks. I will check it out.

The machines run my call center. They get HEAVY use 24/7. The drives last about 1 1/2 YEARS and than they toast. OH well...

I can't ungrade to SATA because the only connection on the motherboard is a built in SCSI. This is a custom machine that uses little off the shelf parts.

What brand of hard drives are you using? We've had good luck with Seagate scsi drives running in all our servers. I just replaced one failed drive in our database server last month after 4-6 years of heavy use.
We also only use intel or promise pci raid controllers for our arrays.



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