On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:53:06 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote:

Per Char Jackson:
When I bought the server case, I almost dropped another
$100 for drive hot swap capability, tool-less and without opening the case.
It would have been sweet, but that case held 24 drives and I thought it
would be overkill. I thought to myself, who needs 24 drives? Little did I
know, eh?

Do you recall the make/model? That might be on my short list....

The case that I bought was the Norco RPC-450B, which holds 15 drives if you
add the 5-bay adapter. My 16th drive wasn't physically mounted, but rather
just laying there. I see that current Newegg pricing is only $90.

The case that I wanted was the Norco RPC-4224, which now sells for a
whopping $416.99 at Newegg. With that case, though, any drive can be hot
swapped just by yanking it out via the front panel. No need to pull the case
out of the equipment rack or open it up. A couple of guys in the avs forums
bought that one and they won't shut up about how sweet it is.


Tangentially - and not looking for hard facts - does your gut say I
would be penny-wise-pound-foolish to implement DriveBender under 32-bit
XP instead of 64-bit Windows 7 Professional?

As far as I know, 32-bit XP would be fine. I took a really quick look at the
site for platform requirements and didn't see it, but you could ask in their
forum or just email support. For me, they've responded really quickly when I
had questions.

I see that the new version of DriveBender now supports UNC paths, so you can
add network drives, NAS drives, etc., to your storage pools now. That could
be handy.