2017-03-20 17:22 GMT+01:00 Wols Lists <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Get a cheap PCI(e) SATA card! You should be able to get something for > around GBP20, and if it's only temporary who cares if drives and cables > are left all over the place so long as the data is safe while you're > updating. :-) This means: 1) that i'm using SATA on my servers 2) that I can power down for adding a new card 3) that I have enough HDD slots available but 1) usually I use SAS 2) I can't power down the server when replacing a disk. 3) our older server have all slot full. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html