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For removable drive enclosures, try www.dirtcheapdrives.com. They've got
them for both IDE as well as misc SCSI drives (50pin, 68pin, etc....
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Fritz [mailto:fritz@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:04 PM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Off-topic: Tape Backups
> I've been using Ghost and a removable hard drive for backup for a
> couple of years now. I have a 30GB drive and back all up in disk
> images.
That sounds interesting. I can't find any removable HD's on
shopper.cnet.com -- what are you using? Probably costs a bit more
than the $50 per 10GB I mentioned before. :-)
> OK, now don't start flaming but I use a FAT32 driver on my NT 4.0
> system because I can restore individual files from the Ghost FAT32
> disk image.
Couldn't you do that if both were NTFS? Or doesn't Ghost support
NTFS?
Somebody on RT mentioned the Plextor CDRW drives. I did a bit of
digging and it sounds like they're getting the reliability problems
under control. The Plextor drives (and some others) use a technology
called BURN-Proof, which allows the drive to pause recording if it
runs out of data, then resume when its buffer fills up again.
http://windows.oreilly.com/news/pchardnut_0900.html says they used to
be afraid to move their mouse while burning a CD, for fear of
interrupting the burn. With the Plextor they successfully wrote a CD
while defragging their disk! So CDRW's might be a reasonable
alternative after all -- if you get the right drive.
Gary
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