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    WTB: Rosewill RSV-SATA-Cage-34 Hot Swap Cage

    Hello, I'm looking for a Rosewill RSV-SATA-Cage-34 hot swap cage 3 x 5.25" to 4 x 3.5" like this. I bought 2 when I originally setup my server, but it has room for one more, and now I need to add some more drives. I'm in Sacramento, California, USA and I'm happy to pay via PayPal or whatever...
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    Thoughts on building a silent home storage and virtualization hot swap tower server

    I'd like to build a more powerful home server with hot swap. (What I have now is a Xeon E3-1226 (4c/4t) and 8 GiB RAM in a first generation Fractal Design Define. The reason that I have a separate server box in the first place is that I thought storing all documents on a server and accessing...
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    Hotswap issues

    Hello, I have a 6027R-E1R12L server with Ubuntu 18.04.3 running. It currently has 4 HUH728080ALE600 drives being used as ceph OSDs. I recently bought a couple more HUH721010ALE600 drives which I plugged into the backplane in front. The new drives however aren't being recognized by the running...
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    Are drives hot swappable without a BackPlane?

    So, I see chassis that are often advertised as "Hot Swappable" which, typically means they have a backplane of sorts. My question is, are drive not connected to a back plane hot swappable? For example, if I have drive connected to my Perc H310, using SSH 8087 to SATA breakout cables, would...
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    Looking for 8+ bay hot swap chassis.

    Hi there, I'm in the market for a chassis with 8+ hot swap bays. Currently have my eye on RSV-L4412, but this chassis is just massive! Hoping for something a touch smaller, if possible, maybe 3U, around the same price point ($229.99 CAD). Any suggestions?
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    WTB - 5 drive hot swap cages (Supermicro CSE-M35T?)

    Hi everyone. I'm looking for a 5-drive hot swap cage that sits in a 3x5.25 bay. I've used icyDocks in the past and haven't had the best luck so I'm wondering if Supermicro cages are better quality. Does anyone have (3) of these kind of cages that hold 5 drives (3.5") and fit in a 3x5.25 bay...
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    Hot Swap

    I'm building a file server for a client which will have four data drives in a RAID 10. I'm trying to select the RAID card I’m going to use. We have been using RocketRAID cards, but my boss would like to see about using LSI; however, no matter which card I use it must support hot swap, but I’m...