Hello Yes, you can hot swap the drives with the H730 and a backplane. I show all of the T330 configurations have backplanes. Having the drive marked as removable is determined by how the device is presented to the OS by the driver. If you want to change whether it is listed as removable in the OS I think you will need to edit the registry. When you create the RAID 0 on the drive you are using for backups it writes information onto the drive describing the RAID level, number of drives in the RAID, size of array, stripe size, etc. The controller stores a record of this information as well. When the information about the virtual disk differs between the controller and what is stored on the drive the controller will put it into a foreign state. This is a safety mechanism to avoid data loss/corruption. If you want to perform backups using the method you described this would be the process: You will repeat that process when you perform the next backup. I assume that you will be rotating through 2-3 disks in a rotation. If that is the case you are eventually going to reuse a disk. When you insert a disk that already has virtual disk data on it then the controller will recognize it and put it into a foreign state. You will want to clear the foreign configuration. This will delete the virtual disk information and put the drive into a ready state. You can then start from step one and create the virtual disk again. Thanks
Hello, I have a new T330 with four full size HD caddys and four Dell 2TB SATA hard drives.  I'd like to configure three of the 2TB drives in a RAID 5 and use the remaining slot for hot swapping in multiple off site backup drives.  How naive was it of me to think this is possible? I got the three drives running in RAID 5 no problem and I managed to configure the last drive as what I think is an "independent" drive (set to RAID 0). At this point I'm starting to have doubts that the H730 is going to let me swap in different drives into that slot at will, let alone present the drive in the slot as "removable" to the OS. Any feed back on this would be appreciated, Kai.
PowerEdge T330 with H730 - Possible to Configure one HD Slot as Removable?