Re: OT: External HD recommendation

[Gooly <gooly@xxxxxx>]

Jerry,

RAID-Cards are normal PCI-Cards, so if your laptop supots 2 hd and one add. 
pci-card - yes I think so.
I once read about a test in a pc-magazine (c't)
and wrote to my broker (jan 2003):
>There they checked some PCI cards. A recommanadtion for a good card (fast) at 
>a cheap price (Euro 32.-) were the Speedway133 of Z-Cyber (www.z-cyber.net).
>This card can do RAID 0 (fast) and RAID 1 (save) and RAID 10 (a combination 
>of RAID 1 +0, but you need more than 2 harddrive).
>This card is working under Win98 and under WinXP (for later update).
>Other good cards are:
>RocketRaid 133 (www.highpoint-tech.com) Euro 49.-
>orFasttrack100tx2 (www.promise.com) Euro 99.-

Gooly

Am Freitag, 8. August 2003 19:17 schrieben Sie:
> Gooly
> Do they have RAID cards for laptops ?
>
> Thanks
> Jerry
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gooly" <gooly@xxxxxx>
> To: "Omega list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 1:04 PM
> Subject: Re: OT: External HD recommendation
>
> > 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