one day at work, i had this brainstorm of using some of the removable HD trays i’ve got laying around to install into a system and using it as virus scanner / disk utilities machine. see, the object was to create a nice system that could run multiple scans + maintenance tools on multiple drives at a time w/o bringing the whole system down to swap drives each time.
now i understand that SATA drives support hot-swapping and as much as i would like to make my removable HDD tray a SATA one, unfortunately most of my clients all have IDE drives. i do understand however, that when you have your IDE drives behind a RAID card, that they benefit from being hotswappable.
so i was wondering if it was possible for me to install a RAID card and have the removable HDD trays attached to that card become hotswappable, w/o including or forcing them to be a part of an actual RAID array?
i don’t want to destroy the data already on them, just find an easier and more efficient way of doing my job.
