[darkpuppet]

NOS,

Currently, I have 4x 1TB seagate barracudas.... I know Feral ain't a fan of the Seagates, but since I have more dead Western Digital Drives at home than Seagates, I thought I'd give it a whirl.

I'll take some pics -- there's power and activity lights for each drive.

Everything is technically hot-swapable in my setup.. however, I haven't fully tested yet, since I'm running the nightly build alpha software and don't need to be experimenting too much.

As things run on open BSD, you can hotswap anything by taking it offline first, then swapping, then putting back online and remounting.... I know, unlike windows, hotswapping a USB device without first taking it offline will cause freeNAS to crash and reboot -- which could be the alpha state of the software, or a linux quirk.

To be honest, if you have to swap something, there's no realy hurt in shutting the system down and then bringing it back up (unless there's a read/write operation in progress), and considering this is home use, uptime in the event of a drive failure isn't my biggest concern.