I am setting up a server for a business, and one of the specifications that they have set is a RAID 1 configuration for the two drives in the machine (the OS will be installed on this mirror). One of the mirrored drives will be in a hot swap bay, so that at the end of the day, he can take the bay drive out, put it in a safe, and put another drive in. The two hot swappable drives will rotate each day.
I am trying to set this up on a Lenovo ThinkServer TS140, but have a two issues:
When I start the server up, I do not get a prompt to configure a RAID array. I had worked with another server of the exact same model, and would get a prompt to hit CTRL+I to enter the RAID configuration utility. Do I need to install something first?
I was wondering if this would be possible using the mainboard RAID (or given the fact that the mainboard never prompts for such), if I need a controller card for this?
The owner of the business says that his current server does this, so I'm going to head over there to examine the old one, but that won't be until 5PM. I tried contacting Lenovo technical support, but 1) he insisted the option was there when it never prompted for such, and 2) also insisted that I needed Lenovo hard drives to make this work (with or without a controller card).
Thanks in advance.
2016.06.14 Edit:
It is exactly as he described it. He has a FastTrak TX2300 and a RAID controller. The drive bay and the internal drive both plug into the controller card, and he just yanks the drive at the end of the day. I also asked how long he has been doing this, and he said "Just about 10 years."
As far as "Taking out a disk out of a RAID array is no replacement for a proper backup", I didn't say it was. This is just what he wants to do. I'm going to recommend he also use NovaBackup to an external hard drive, but this is one of his specifications.