[ltp] ThinkPad 600 Second Hard Drive option

[Robert A Munro]

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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