[ltp] ThinkPad 600 Second Hard Drive option

peter nol linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Sun, 7 Jul 2002 08:59:19 -0400


Thanks. Yeah, i'll do both. That's what i meant.
On Saturday 06 July 2002 09:37 pm, Robert A Munro wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 17:45, peter nol wrote:
> > Thank You Eric.
> > I want to stripe- store my information on 2 drives- that's twice as
> > secure. Just so that if one drive dies, the other saves my info. Unless
> > the power blows out, then both drives will probably be dead :)
> > So that means i get the CD out and get an adapter for a HD and use that?
>
> If you want to duplicate your data on two drives, that's called...
> mirroring, not striping.  Striping is for performance, not security.
>
> But I'm not certain that _any_ notebook IDE controller does mirrors.
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
>
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