FYI the PERC won't like that. You will manually have to reimport it as a foreign disk each time and that will cause the "Raid 0" you created to go to "degraded." If you want to do something like that you should grab a pure SATA card and then install a removable bay in one of the 5.25 bays. (I think 310 had bays, tower?)
Yes, the 310 has 4 bays in the front.
3 of the bays are taken up by the current drives.
EDIT
I am confused. I thought the purpose of hot swap was to be able to do stuff like this?
Pull one drive out, put another one in, be ready to go.
Yes, the 310 has 4 bays in the front.
3 of the bays are taken up by the current drives.
EDIT
I am confused. I thought the purpose of hot swap was to be able to do stuff like this?
Pull one drive out, put another one in, be ready to go.
I just scanned through this. The problem parallels a difficulty I had with my sig rig and simply the (Intel) driver in AHCI mode. I'd switched from RAID. Meanwhile, my server doesn't use RAID. I use drive-pooling software. Both systems now use the native MSAHCI driver, which provides for dismounting a hot-swap drive.
Another poster mentioned an OpenManage software. There are utilities available -- freeware -- that support this need. But I'm not up to confident familiarity with your Dell 310 (which I searched to get an idea.) There is definitely a fix for this under a lot of scenarios besides your own.
The 310 should have 2 x 5.25 drive bays on top. Typically one optical and one empty. You could plug something like this in: (example only)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817998020
and plug it in to (again example only)
http://www.amazon.com/Crest-Port-SAT.../dp/B005B0A6ZS
Personally I would spend a couple of $ to get a 1/2 decent SATA card. Also the 310 may have onboard sata you can attach to. I think the optical drive hooks up to it but there should be 2-4 ports I think in there.
I recommend you read it. You are way out in right field.
Let me point out a few things:
PERC 6/i is not an Intel software RAID with BIOS settings. It is an LSI based hardware RAID SAS controller.
OpenManager is Dell's system Management application and has nothing to do with backups.
MSAHCI doesn't apply.
There is no "good" fix with out additional hardware.
I have to ask. If you where looking for a backup drive like this why not just get two external Hard Disk's from Costco?
How much data are you looking to backup?
Is this a business or personal setup?
We already have a small usb external drive, it is running out of room.
This is for a small business.
You can get a 2TB external USB drive from Amazon for less than $100. Why not just get two of these instead of playing swap games with internal drives?
You can put them in a USB box.
Would a usb docking station for sata drives work?
Something like this - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-120-_-Product
Or this - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...3469-_-Product
It is going in the server room. Nobody will be bumping into it.
I got slammed earlier for being "off-center." If this isn't a matter of hot-swapping drives from the array, you could simply get the low-profile SATA-III PCI-E card, configure it as AHCI, throw in a Startech hot-swap bay and caddy -- all fine. USB would also be fine -- without the add-in PCIE card. The docking station would also be fine if "USB."
I always thought the docking station idea was good for testing HDDs or a temporary connection for cloning. You can do what you want with any of these options.
Thank you, added to shopping cart.