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More info?)
If you use the Ghost solution, either create an image of
your hard drive everyday or say goodbye to any data that
has changed since the previous image creation.
This solution is actually nothing like Disk Mirroring.
>-----Original Message-----
>A much cheaper and easier to manage solution would be to
install a second
>hard drive: really doesn't matter if SATA or not.
>
>Then install Norton Ghost [or other imaging / recovery
utility], make a
>Ghost bootup Floppy.
>
>Now one can launch Ghost inside Windows XP, get it
to 'Image' the C Drive.
>Ghost restarts the PC and in DOS mode will create the
image file.
>
>Now if ever you need to recover, then boot off Ghost
Floppy and hten use
>image file to restore to any hard drive or partition.
>
>It takes half an hour to 1 hour for this process.
>
>It's fast, it's reliable and doesn't use up sytem
resources as would a full
>mirroring raid system. Also this setup would be cheaper
than 4 HDDs.
>
>"Rufio" wrote:
>
>> Got an "Intel" 865GBF(LK) using a Serial ATA card, from
my last PC (rather
>> than using the ATA ports on the m/board).
>>
>>
>> "Nathan McNulty" <nospam@msn.com> wrote in message
>> news:OcnlM4jgEHA.3864@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> > RAID 0 requires 2 drives. This is not fault
tolerant. RAID 1 requires 2
>> > drives and is fault tolerant. RAID 0+1 requires 4
drives. This is
>> > fault tolerant and provides huge performance gains.
>> >
>> > Your motherboard must support these different
methods. RAID 0+1 is a
>> > RAID 1 array of two RAID 0 Arrays. What motherboard
do you have and is
>> > it supported? I would suggest at least switching to
RAID 1 if it is
>> > supported for what you want to do. Unfortunately,
these RAID
>> > configurations (especially 0+1) cost a bit of money.
You may even need
>> > to buy a PCI RAID Card if your motherboard doesn't
support it and you
>> > really need it.
>> >
>> > ----
>> > Nathan McNulty
>> >
>> >
>> > Rufio wrote:
>> > > I have a Raid0 array, that I love (a pair of Serial
ATA 120Gb drives) -
>> has
>> > > is it possible to create a Raid 1 array of a Raid0
array (would it need
>> 4
>> > > drives or 3 ?) ?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > "Nathan McNulty" <nospam@msn.com> wrote in message
>> > > news:eqoJyojgEHA.3548@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> > >
>> > >>Well, you have two options. First, does your
computer support RAID 1?
>> > >>See this link for more info on RAID:
>> > >>http://www.acnc.com/raid.html
>> > >>
>> > >>Second option, you can use XP Pro and make both
drives dynamic and
>> > >>mirror them. XP Home will not do dynamic drives
and does not support
>> > >>software RAID.
>> > >>
>> > >>Your first option would be best if it is possible.
The second option
>> > >>will work, but you will lose system performance
compared to RAID
>> > >>
>> > >>----
>> > >>Nathan McNulty
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>Paul wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>>Hi,
>> > >>>Having just recovered from a failed C drive at
home, I
>> > >>>want to put in a second hard drive & move onto a
>> > >>>mirroring system so if the C drive fails, the
system will
>> > >>>still work and I can replace the faulty drive at my
>> > >>>leisure. Currently I use XP HE, is it best to
upgrade to
>> > >>>XP Pro, which apparently does mirroring, or is
there an
>> > >>>easier, cheaper solution?
>> > >>>Thanks for looking, it's appreciated.
>> > >>>
>> > >>>Paul
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>>
>>
>>
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