On 10/30/05, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy's suggestion of hot swap drive bays and a mirror, half of which > gets rotated regularly seems like a good plan also. I would do that > myself but I don't really want to invest in the hot swap chassis and all > of the drives etc. Actually, that is why I started looking into > USB/Firewire drives.
They don't necessarily have to be *hot* swappable. They make chassis that go in the 5.25" bay. You put your hard drive into a frame, and the frame slides into and out of the chassis. The setup is very cheap. The downsides are that you have shutdown your computer to swap, and you have to either have a computer with the chassis installed (or have one to install), or take the hard drive out of its frame and open the case and install it. So if data loss is accompanied by computer loss, you're gonna have to deal with this. With a USB/Firewire disk you could just plug it in. That'd be handy especially if the only thing available at the moment were a laptop. The upsides are that internal disks are cheaper. Newegg lists 80GB internal disks for $50 and up, and external 80GB disks for $80 and up. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
