Re: OT: Query on mirroring for Paul Breeze et al.

[marc@xxxxxxxx]

I use an 80Gb Iomega HDD (external HDD in enclosure)
It is 'hot' plugable in Windoze XP (USB2)
It gets allocated a drive letter upon connection and is accessable from Windoze
apps as well as DOS apps.

I have heard (rumour) that you can buy the USB HDD enclosures and fit whatever
size IDE drive to them that you want (available for 2.5" and 3.5" HDDs).
(perhaps they are also available for SATA drives which appear to be the latest
technology available with drive sizes getting up to and over 400Gb)

Regards

Marc


Quoting "J. R. Fox" :

> Harry Binswanger wrote:
>
> > Yes, I used to use a pull-out hard drive. It's fine except for a
> minor
> > annoyance: you have to re-boot before putting in or pulling out the
> drive.
> > I don't know why I balk at that: with the way I use my computer I have
> to
> > re-boot three times a day anyway (sigh). But it ain't fun.
>
> That sounds like a vote in favor of an external USB hard drive.
>
> The new REV drive from Iomega sounds intriguing (35G per H/D cartridge,
> they say up
> to 90G with compression), but even if the reviews turn out to be
> uniformly
> excellent (I've only read about 1/2 of one review, so far), the price is
> still
> off-putting. Hopefully their prices will come down, eventually. In the
> meantime,
> you can get a Maxtor or a Seagate, ext. USB 2.0 hard drive, with up to
> 160G
> capacity, for a bit under $200. Still rather portable, if not nearly as
> portable
> as a REV cartridge. Thus far, I have preferred something I can shuttle
> in & out
> of a safe deposit box (an alternative to having a fireproof safe on the
> premises),
> so I have used a combination of DAT and CDs. The CD capacity has been
> adequate for
> most OS/2 compressed partition images, but for those of W2K or later,
> forget it !
> So I may take a look at burning DVDs. I happen to believe in not putting
> all my
> reliance on one single methadology.
>
> Jordan
>
>