So I have had a serial RAID card running an array for several years. Each of the three hard drives is the following model:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640A 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Now, one of the drives has failed and needs to be replaced. I'm finding that there are no longer many ATA100 drives being made any more. I am, in fact, a little confused as to what ATA100 even means. I gather that it is the cable interface. The RAID card is very old. As I said, it is connected to the only serial port on the board. I've got a 2 TB USB drive that I've backed my data on to, but I guess I've got two questions:
This forum is great, by the way. Thanks to everyone for your help!
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640A 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Now, one of the drives has failed and needs to be replaced. I'm finding that there are no longer many ATA100 drives being made any more. I am, in fact, a little confused as to what ATA100 even means. I gather that it is the cable interface. The RAID card is very old. As I said, it is connected to the only serial port on the board. I've got a 2 TB USB drive that I've backed my data on to, but I guess I've got two questions:
Is it worth locating another compatible hard drive and reestablishing an array? Or should I simply purchase one large (2TB) internal drive and then use Windows to run daily backups to the external?
If maintaining the array is best, what sort of hard drive should I be looking for, given the above specifications of the other two?
This forum is great, by the way. Thanks to everyone for your help!