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Backup storage hot swap

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Hello everyone!

My problem is simple. I need a NAS or similar with two or more single bay for SATA HDD with hot swap.
The purpose is to do backups from a server, at night. One time a week, or wathever, someone swaps one HDD and take it home (so we have several backups in different geographical places).
The main problem i found in my search over available NAS:
- no led that indicates disk activity, so a user can know its safe to do the swap
- no case free, that means the HDD must be attached to some kind of specific bay.

best regards

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The iStarUSA T-5-SA 1x5.25" Bay Trayless Anti-vibration SATA Mobile Rack does not have a led to indicate disk activity. You will need to rely on the computer hard disk activity led.

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