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Re: Thanks for all the replies by laudablepuss 05/07/2003, 8:40pm PDT
mrs. johnson wrote:

It seems that keeping a backup on a new drive is a bad idea. I'd need a 200+ gig drive, and those are still sort of expensive (I think?). Maybe the dvd burning is the best option. I don't put too much stress on my drives, but they do go off at night.

the mrs.


If you take my suggestion and got three 120 GB drives (each cost around $130) and put them in a RAID 5 configuration then you'll have 240 GB of storage with parity. If one drive dies, no matter which one it is, you won't lose any data. Replace the drive, rebuild the RAID, and you move on with your life as if nothing had happened. Motherboards that support IDE RAID cost about $150 generally speaking. You could also buy an IDE RAID controller card and add it to your current machine.

A quick look on google turned up this article which not only explains the various kinds of RAID but also talks about some PCI RAID cards. I don't have time to read it, but I can tell you that AnandTech has a reputation for knowing their shit.
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Somebody fucking help me. by mrs. johnson 05/07/2003, 1:33am PDT NEW
    Solution - listen to less trance NT by Entropy Stew 05/07/2003, 1:54am PDT NEW
        At this point, trance takes up only about 15 gigs. NT by mrs. johnson 05/07/2003, 1:57am PDT NEW
            Wait, I know this - back it up "with a lever big enough". Yeah. NT by Entropy Stew 05/07/2003, 1:59am PDT NEW
            You just keep talking while I triangulate your position... NT by Hillary Rosen 05/07/2003, 4:31am PDT NEW
    Re: Somebody fucking help me by laudablepuss 05/07/2003, 2:04am PDT NEW
        Re: Somebody fucking help me by Guido Jones 05/07/2003, 6:40am PDT NEW
    Re: Somebody fucking help me. by Ray, of Light 05/07/2003, 6:36pm PDT NEW
        Re: Somebody fucking help me. by Entropy Stew 05/07/2003, 6:45pm PDT NEW
            How old can a new drive get? Hard to say. NT by Ray, of Light 05/07/2003, 7:17pm PDT NEW
                Three NT by Mr. Owl 05/08/2003, 12:55pm PDT NEW
    You've still got all the original CDs, right? NT by niche 05/07/2003, 6:49pm PDT NEW
    Thanks for all the replies by mrs. johnson 05/07/2003, 8:16pm PDT NEW
        Re: Thanks for all the replies by laudablepuss 05/07/2003, 8:40pm PDT NEW
 
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