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I don't use a removable drive, I just know I probably should, but I
use two serial ATA drives. They are faster than IDE and some boards
and drives are hot swapable. I think mine are but I don't care as I
don't take them out. Actually I don't have a serial card anymore I
have four ports on the new motherboard I have now. I had to upgrade
as I am doing lots of video work. Video is the only thing I have seen
that is more intensive than TS2ki on a poor computer. I've used
regular SCSI drives and they are even faster but I don't remember if
they are hot swappable. My old board had a port on the outside of the
machine so it would really be easy to have an external SCSI drive.
If you are backup up more than a few gig then hard drives are about it
as right now I think.
Jimmy
I've been using a removable, internal hard disk for backing up and
archiving. I'm looking to upgrade and wanted to see what technologies
you guys are using.
The benefit of a removable internal drive is that it's nearly twice as
fast as USB 2.0 and Firewire. It connects directly to the IDE
controller so reported throughput is more than 1 GB/minute (though in
practice it's more like 200-400 MB/minute because of file handling.
The downside is it's not hot-swappable.
With archiving, I need capacity so the neat little USB micro drives
aren't really an option.
So, I guess my priorities are portability for off-site storage,
capacity and speed. Any suggestions?
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