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I mentioned a while back I bought a Serial ATA card and two drives.
This setup is in addition to the normal Primary and secondary IDE
controllers. They have the option to run RAID or as two regular
drives. The 120 GB drives were $350 for the pair and $30 for the
Serial ATA card. They are very fast and run in a SCSI type mode.
You set your machine to boot the SCSI controller not the IDE first.
They do use a smaller cable so you have to buy two drives not use any
you currently have. You can still use you IDE drives so it offers
lots of possibilities.
One thing to remember about drive failure is they are often caused by
heat so you can lose two drives pretty fast. Another cause, it just
happened to me, is the power plug or power supply can get burned and
the arcing causes any number of failures including killing a drive.
Be sure none of your hard drives, tape drives or CD units are on the
same cable as any of your fans. There is a higher probability that
fans can cause an arc in a cable plug where a splitter is connected.
Best regards,
Jimmy Snowden
mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx
Friday, August 8, 2003, 12:04:58 PM, you wrote:
G> Hi Sherril,
G> for a non-problematic every second clone of your harddisk to a second harddisk
G> think of RAID. You only need a RAID card (~50-100$) and a secopnd HD.
G> If your HD crashes - nothing happens - you can keep on going.
G> Now you just exchange the crashed HD (some days later - for these day, of
G> course a crash of the remaining HD means a desaster), restart wait a bit
G> until your old HD has been coned - and that was your HD-crash.
G> For detailed infrmations have a look at (even it is meant for SCSI & Linux, it
G> very good explained and valid for Windows and IDE HD too, just don't buy a
G> SCSI-card ;-):
G> http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/what_is_raid.html
G> 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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