[ltp] ThinkPad 600 Second Hard Drive option

[Eric Jorgensen]

On 06 Jul 2002 18:37:55 -0700
Robert A Munro <ramunro1@ix.netcom.com> 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.


	You'd have to do it in software, and take the big performance hit that comes
with it. 

 - Eric

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