Good morning all,
I'm finally completing the hardware for my FreeNAS build and I'm looking for some advice on a hard drive cage that fits in the 5.25" bays. As a bonus question, I have an M1015 on order to give the extra ports that I need, but I'm curious if I should put my main pool on the M1015 rather than use the ports on the motherboard (SuperMicro X10SLL-F - chipset Intel® C222 Express PCH). Is there any advantage to that, or any additional features I would gain?
I should mention that the reason I purchased the M1015 was so that I had some extra ports to install a 2 to 4 slot 5.25" drive cage. My intention is to use the drive cage to swap out hard drives for backup and for copying all the various hard drives I have laying around onto the NAS. I'd like to be able to "hot swap" the drives without powering down the computer.
I was looking at this one, the iStarUSA BPN-DE230SS-BLACK: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215240. It looks pretty nice. It has some activity lights for each hard drive, but it doesn't have a power switch for each drive. How important is a power switch for the drive in terms of safely hot swapping? I don't want to risk moving the drive around while it's powering up or down if I can help it.
Also, if anyone has a suggestion for a good quality drive cage that'll fit 2 to 4 drives and allow me to safely hotswap, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks!
I'm finally completing the hardware for my FreeNAS build and I'm looking for some advice on a hard drive cage that fits in the 5.25" bays. As a bonus question, I have an M1015 on order to give the extra ports that I need, but I'm curious if I should put my main pool on the M1015 rather than use the ports on the motherboard (SuperMicro X10SLL-F - chipset Intel® C222 Express PCH). Is there any advantage to that, or any additional features I would gain?
I should mention that the reason I purchased the M1015 was so that I had some extra ports to install a 2 to 4 slot 5.25" drive cage. My intention is to use the drive cage to swap out hard drives for backup and for copying all the various hard drives I have laying around onto the NAS. I'd like to be able to "hot swap" the drives without powering down the computer.
I was looking at this one, the iStarUSA BPN-DE230SS-BLACK: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215240. It looks pretty nice. It has some activity lights for each hard drive, but it doesn't have a power switch for each drive. How important is a power switch for the drive in terms of safely hot swapping? I don't want to risk moving the drive around while it's powering up or down if I can help it.
Also, if anyone has a suggestion for a good quality drive cage that'll fit 2 to 4 drives and allow me to safely hotswap, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks!