Re: [TCLUG:6384] Cheap high-volume backups?

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>]

Of course, you could just use software raid in Linux instead.. if you want
to run a real RAID setup, you might as well go with hardware scsi raid.
It's not worth investing any cash into a hardware IDE raid setup, IMO..

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Nate Carlson
the infinite loop
natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 kotek@oath.net wrote:

> Well how about doing IDE RAID? I am currently looking into this right now.
> http://www.arcoide.com/
> the system itself sees only one hard drive for every two drives you have connected, at 225 bucks it seems like a good solution.
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> >   Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Dan Willenbring wrote:
> > 
> > > How about a 20 gig IDE HDD?  They are only $250-300 and it wouldn't take
> > > long at all to transfer all that data...  It wont be much for scalability
> > > and it's not very robust, but if your looking for fast, big and cheap it's
> > > the route I would go.
> > 
> > Well, basically I already have four IDE devices - 3 HDDs and a CDROM.
> > 
> > Also... there seems to be a problem with copying from IDE1 to IDE0... as
> > in ripping a CD onto hda1/ I don't know why, maybe my hda1 is faulty,
> > maybe my MBoard is... in any case, I need to do this backup in less than
> > 20 days so I don't have time to replace drives/mboards...
> > 
> > -Yaron
> > 
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