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I'd certainly second everything Jimmy says. I longer use hot swap
technology, I'm no longer convinced by the benefits of SCSI when compared
with the cheapness and high capacity of SATA(RAID). Have a browse thru
http://www.promise.com/product/product_guide/productguide.htm
I've used a number of thier card/on-board products and have been very
satisfied.
Jimmy, which motherboard did you decide on?
DJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Snowden" <jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Code 2" <code2@xxxxxxx>; "Omega-List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: OT - backup storage devices
> 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?
>
> --
> Thailand: an ad for donkey rides asked Would you like to ride on your own
ass?.
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