I'm currently thinking of adding disks to my NAS at home and I was wondering where the requirements lie for a succesful hot insert/removal of a drive. Is it the drive type, OS, Backplane, ... ?
My current setup:
- Supermicro 846 with EL1 backplane
- IBM M1015 IT mode
- Debian stable
- SATA3 disks
I usually power down my NAS, but that was when I was still using a Norco hot swap chassis and those are known to blow drives due to the flaky backplane. Shutting down my Vsphere environment is also a cumbersome task so if hot adding drives is safe, I'd rather do that.
My current setup:
- Supermicro 846 with EL1 backplane
- IBM M1015 IT mode
- Debian stable
- SATA3 disks
I usually power down my NAS, but that was when I was still using a Norco hot swap chassis and those are known to blow drives due to the flaky backplane. Shutting down my Vsphere environment is also a cumbersome task so if hot adding drives is safe, I'd rather do that.