Benjamin Franz wrote: > On 9/30/2011 8:41 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Hakan Koseoglu<hakan at 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. mark