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

To: White Shoes who wrote (6895)	3/28/1999 5:27:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I am looking to buy a second hard drive for backup purposes. I hope you mean In addition to removable media. A backup strategy should include removable media. That said..I back up data and complete harddrives to a second drive. It is a matter of convenience and covers most types of failures. Alternate drives can be configured as boot drives in case the second drive fails..or as storage drives with access from floppies if the first drive fails. We have had extensive discussions on these matters on this thread. Feel free to follow up with questions. Also wondering if there is anywhere I can go to learn about the usefulness of different features of hard drives. storagereview.com is the premier harddrive site. Check out the harddrive comparisons, reviews and forum. So I'm thinking of getting a really high quality Seagate HD in the 4 gig range. High quality or high performance? There are not any worth while quality ratings IMO. Most drive manufacturers seem to have their run of bad luck with drives..usually a specific drive. IBM probably has the best sustained reputation for quality drives. I used to buy IBM drives. I have since switched to Maxtor. Maxtor used to have a less than perfect reputation for drives. They seem to have turned the page. Reviews indicate their drives out perform IBM drives..and run cooler. There also seem to be some deals on fast SCSI drives out there, of a modest size. SCSI drives are about twice the cost of IDE drives and the performance is the same..a little less or a little better. It varies..depends on the drive. Check the above link. If you need more than three drives or have other specific needs consider SCSI. Most users will be best served with IDE drives. My current setup is a Quantum Fireball 3 gig drive that makes noises that scare me It would scare me too. Take it as a sign. I like the idea of two drives but is it possible? Definately possible. I am posting from a machine with two IDE drives and two SCSI drives. The IDE drives have Win95 and the SCSI drives have Win98. I select the boot drive in the mobo bios. We have configured similar setups with NT on a primary drive. My second..in progress machine..waiting for a third harddrive.. has a pair of 17 gig Maxtor IDE drives...with a combination of NT and Win95. Is it worth it to get a SCSI drive? NO should I just give up and go with the new one and dump the old one? I would not use it for any thing other than experimentation types of applications..demo software and the like. Drives are cheap and dealing with harddrive problems is expensive. tjt.com has an 8.4 gig Maxtor 2880 5400 RPM drive for $129. Smaller does not save you significant $ and larger has some minor size barrier issues. KOT.. Keep On Truckin drive..used as a second boot drive in the case of first harddrive failure. ROMO Rotate and Remove harddrive..a harddrive in a removable tray used for backing up. Zeuspaul