[Klug-general] Hot Swap Drives

[Peter Childs]

I'm looking for a bit of help on specs for a computer.

I'm trying to put together a server. Nothing really high spec standard
high end PC Server

The only thing that needs to be good is the disks, Budget is low so
need to really stick to SATA not scsi I think (Hard Disk sizes are
better and the disks cheaper)

If I want to be able to hot swap the disks, (Linux Soft Raid) Can I do
this with Any SATA controller or do I need specialist equipment? And
what about Bays are all SATA removable bays hot swappable?

I'm looking at the top end Novatech Barebones with Case and then just
adding the disks.

Yes the machine is for work and it will be running Linux, PostgreSQL
and probably the kitchen sink, (DHCP, NFS, SAMBA etc) to start with as
I need to upgrade our current server and then split the load between
it and this new computer, Most of the work is the PostgreSQL
database..... (Thats been running without being touched for 3 years
and really needs a clean up)

Oh and before anyone goes silly I'm trying to keep the bill down.

Any ideas or surgestions

Thanks

Peter