Benjamin Franz wrote:
On 9/30/2011 8:41 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Hakan Koseogluhakan@koseoglu.org wrote:
Why would you move disks around machines unless you're recovering them after a failure?
Because I can. Why wouldn't you? Mine are nearly all in swappable carriers and it is a lot faster to move them than to ship data any other way.
Because you are wearing the machine's connectors out. They are rated to be *infrequently* changed out. When you do it on a regular basis it will just be a matter of time until they develop electrical/physical problems.
<snip> Most of our servers have all drives in hot swap bays (and the older ones that don't are being surplussed as fast as we can)... *ALL* of which have sleds they have to fit in. The only drives I swap on a regular basis are our offline backups (of the online backups), and that's every two weeks, and for that I've got a dual bay eSATA base, just drop them in, then push it up. Nothing else moves until it dies.
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