At 13:03 9/9/2002 -0400, you wrote: >In the hour of 11:03 AM 9/9/2002 -0500, Barry Aronson spoke this: >>Clint! The external USB drive i was referring to is the Maxtor 3000LE >>120 GBs. Yes I know I will need a USB controller card regardless. My >>MOBO supports USB1.0 natively but a new PCI card will support USB2.0 in >>Windows 2000 and USB1.1 in Windows 98SE which are the OSs besides my >>Solaris 8 on a separate hot swap drive. >> >>So it is like the "old days" :) when an legacy box and drive could run >>on a newer larger drive cuz the manufacturer included installation >>software that would allow it to recognize the size? >> >>What do you think about an external HDD solution to backup and or >>installing multiple OSs on it so learning can be continued and expense >>stays stable? CD-RWs will be outdated as the best solution soon as the >>new technologies will be looming large soon. Even the DVDs are going out >>in favor of multiple laser drives and the storage space will be in the >>terabyte range. The flourescent disks will cost comparable to a CD-R and >>store over the max capacity of a DVD. >> >>It is all perplexing to know what is the right decision to make. >> >>I'll await your reply. >> >>thanks, >> >>Barry ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Firewire is being superceded by Fast Firewire which is supposed to be >faster than USB 2.0 while Serial ATA is now out with sustained transfer >speeds of 150 mbs which blows any other ATA or even SCSI interfaces away >unless iSCSI and newer fibre channel drives get going. The plus side to >serial ATA is that it is affordable for consumer use, while iSCSI and >fibre channel may never be. >For data storage some European storage firms have found holographic >technology has reached the petabyte stage (1000 terabytes). >CDRW and DVD's have some of the best cost per mb or gb (with DVD). >How is the external for booting OS's? > >Peter Kaulback
Peter! i have not as yet purchased the drive yet so do not really know as to how it would boot OSs. My best guess is that if one uses System Commander for instance and installs multiple operating systems through it then booting should not be a problem off a huge drive externally interfaced. So you still think a CD-RW is my best bet? Barry ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
