Hot swop caddy drive recognized problem Hardware and Software Hardware by ggeoff Hi I have an Antec Easy Sata hotswop hardrive caddy. I have been using it with two hard … Re: Hot swop caddy drive recognized problem Hardware and Software Hardware by ggeoff … data. It seems to me that the Antec or other hotswop enclosure provides a cheap way of backing up large collections… Re: Hot swop caddy drive recognized problem Hardware and Software Hardware by ggeoff @adam k there is no problem. A NAS would cost 20 times as much as an Antec hotswop unit. And the Antec unit is only a little more than buying a hard drive mounting unit. All that is required is to backup video files to a removeable media which the Antec does. Re: Hot swop caddy drive recognized problem Hardware and Software Hardware by adam_k I never needed to hot swap disks, but you could try to go to computer management/Disk management and right click the disk and select offline. I don't know if windows will find your second disk and make it online or if you will have to make it online yourself. If it works, it appears that you can create a script with diskpart. Be warned: I haven't… Re: Hot swop caddy drive recognized problem Hardware and Software Hardware by adam_k I would suggest to get yourself a big enough NAS (Network Attached Storage) and copy everything there. I saves you the trouble of swapping disks and the risk of falling one of them or windows messing up your filesystem with repeated ejections and insertions. They may have a slower speed, but NAS come with all options of RAID - which gives it the … Re: Hot swop caddy drive recognized problem Hardware and Software Hardware by caperjack building you nas storage[box] computer would not be that costly, first site built a 13tb one for 2500.00 alot but ,but a 1 oe 2 tb drive in a half decent computer will work just fine ,i have a dell complex 745,i paid 80.00 cdn for it , and one of the suggestion from the site i bought the tower on was to use a nas box , lots of info on line . […