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Hi Sherril,
for a non-problematic every second clone of your harddisk to a second harddisk
think of RAID. You only need a RAID card (~50-100$) and a secopnd HD.
If your HD crashes - nothing happens - you can keep on going.
Now you just exchange the crashed HD (some days later - for these day, of
course a crash of the remaining HD means a desaster), restart wait a bit
until your old HD has been coned - and that was your HD-crash.
For detailed infrmations have a look at (even it is meant for SCSI & Linux, it
very good explained and valid for Windows and IDE HD too, just don't buy a
SCSI-card ;-):
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/what_is_raid.html
Am Freitag, 8. August 2003 18:27 schrieb Frank Fleisher:
> Hello Sherrill,
>
> USB 2.0 is fast and reliable. I never had much luck with Firewire on the
> windows side, however. Actually, I think USB 2.0 is faster than
> Firewire. So I wouldn't invest in Firewire.
>
> I use USB 2.0 external enclosures (from Belkin and ADS brands) that
> will hold any 3.5" or 5" IDE device, like
> a CDRW or harddrive. Check to see if your laptop USB actually supports
> 2.0.
>
> You can use an adapter to install a 40gig laptop 2.5" HD into the
> external enclosure, and clone your laptop. I don't know about Casper,
> but Ghost will clone your harddrive so that you can be up and
> running as soon as you swap the hard drives.
>
> Friday, August 8, 2003, 8:38:50 AM, you wrote:
>
> SHS> I'm in the process of setting up an external USB 2.0/Firewire drive to
> SHS> backup my Toshiba 40gig laptop using Casper . Would appreciate do's,
> SHS> don'ts, stay aways from anyone who's been dragged around this
> SHS> particular barn yard.
>
> SHS> Email privately if you like.
>
> SHS> TIA
>
> SHS> Sherrill Styers
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