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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jon Tara who wrote (14331)	11/25/2003 12:24:40 PM
From: jw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Hi Jon, I've only had 1 Hard Drive crash in 18 years, about a month ago, and it seems all the backups, CD-r's, Tapes, and whatnots just creates a lot of clutter, space and TIME. Then when you need the backup, does it work? The more I read about RAID the more I'm leaning toward it. The PCI card, Silicon Image, under $10 on e-bay. I have one. The extra Hard Drive, under $50, i'm getting one, two trays from Computer Geeks, $6.90 ea. Cables and whatnots, probably under $100 bucks total. The Silicon PCI Ultra Raid cards supposidly(sp?) has an undocumated(sp?) feature that you install the second Blank Hard Drive on the 2nd IDE port. Both HD's master. Then as you turn on computer the first HD will create an image to second HD in about 30 minutes. (Raid 1). Now you could pull the second and store. Maybe occasionaly(sp?) plug it back in, mirror it, switch it to #1 IDE and use it. Rotate the HD's so to speak. Anyone with suggestions appreciated. I'm working toward that goal slowly. If it works, gather up all the CD-Rs, Colorado Tapes, remove tape drives from computer, remove the cd-r from computer, it only works part time anyway, delete all the backup programs and have your BACKUP, UPDATED in a small HD right in front of you. Anyone that wishes, may throw cold water on my Parade. (:-) /jw ps: excuse spelling, done intentionally. pps: maybe pick up one/two more HDs and have a bunch ready to go. dannysdailys.com, In it's simplest form, RAID 1 is both effective and cheap! It takes a second hard drive and mirrors it to the first in real time. Because it's a mirror, it's always up to date and fully bootable! If one of the drives crash, the other takes over automatically. You get a little popup to tell you it happened. Other then that popup; you wouldn't even know a drive crashed at all!