That really does look like a great idea for my next system...
 

John: Thanks for the picture...sorry it took so long to get back to you (had to wait to get home as we filter cotent at work).
 
Just out of curiosity are those IDE or SCSI drives? If SCSI did you ever consider a RAID?

Regards,

Its SATA 2.

I have one of those. Promise... Right? If it's SATA2 it's hotswappable. All SATA stuff is hot swappable. Offcourse not when it runs the OS. But for swapping out a disk with projects it is a great solution...
And because the tray is aluminium it cools too.

I now have disconnected the little fan. As it started rattling..

At the moment I'd say use two or three internall disks (if can be one should be a SSD) and add a USB3 card (or maybe it's present on the mobo). And use two or four USB3 2 or 3 TB externall disks. That way backup is fast and easy. And with two and four units you can have a backup of your data. I have two usb3 harddisks myself.. (well one is USB2 but I'll change that soon)..

I do not recommend hot swapping an OS.

Ha!

+1 million!!

John


I do not recommend hot swapping an OS.