Hard disks

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

"Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org> writes:

> I am considering buying a new hard disk for my Linux PC for the explicit 
> purpose of backup. 
> In the past, I have been burned by removable devices (tapes and disks). 
> Also, in the past, I have had good luck with Western Digital. 
> Currently EIDE 100GB are running about $130. WD seems to be about $20 
> higher than Maxtor. 
> My strategy is to have one backup HD and one primary HD, and maybe use the 
> 8GB as a backup boot system. 

I tried the ide hotswap bays, but I could never get them to actually 
hotswap; I had to reboot the machine to change the removable disk.

What I ended up doing is putting the hotswap bay in an old machine
that I use just for backups. That way I can shut it down as needed
to swap out the disk.


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