19 Sep
2001
19 Sep
'01
20:40
Thanks to both Ian and Jaska. I had given a little thought to RAID, but did not have time to investigate properly. Now this paranoia about the possible consequences of failure of my present HDD has set in I am going to
I understand absolutely. Mirrored IDE RAID is dead simple to install. Once you have set up the second HD in a caddy the way you are talking about, all you do is plug in the RAID controller card and connect both HDDs to it. The system sees it as one drive of the same size as each of the two (ie if they are 20GB drive, the system sees them as one 20GB drive and keeps them in sync) .... Jaska's solution is an elegant way to get more speed etc, but I sense what you want is security (full HDD copy outside the machine) like me :)