[G4] two 500 gb drives

[John Niven]

I agree that a TRUE backup benefits from seprate site storage. On the other hand, it's not so easy to remember to do the backup. At work I have a firewire drive that I do regular bootable backups too using CCC. I then turn it off. 

Another great use of two matching internal drives is to create a mirrored RAID array using Disk Utility. This just appears as one 500Gb drive on your desktop, but constantly writes to both drives. If one fails the other still carries on. You could put your MOST valuable files on the 40Gb in an external fw case (freeing up a power connector also), which would be unplugged and therefore not wearing out anymore..... 

John


--- On Tue, 5/6/08, Al Poulin <alpoulin at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Al Poulin <alpoulin at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [G4] two 500 gb drives
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 9:43 AM
> On May 6, 2008, at 10:13 AM,
> <thekirkline1941 at verizon.net> wrote:
> > A while ago, I purchased two Seagate 500gb Barracuda
> internal hard  
> > drives for my G4 Quicksilver (800 mhz). I had hoped to
> install both  
> > and use them as automatic backups to the original 40
> gb drive. I  
> > also purchased the required PCI card in order that
> they would be  
> > recognized to their full capacity. The problem I have
> run into is  
> > that there is only one extra power supply cord P5
> available.  
> > Question: how do I connect both drives in order to use
> them as
> 
> I would put one of them into an external Firewire box. 
> Make it  
> bootable.  Keep it off line except when backing up, and
> maybe place in  
> some other location for extra safety.
> 
> A bad power hit, or lightning strike, or house fire could
> ruin any  
> internal drive.  And why have it spinning whenever the G4
> is running?   
> By the way, I ran an extra, internal Seagate Barracuda 40GB
> in my  
> QuickSilver 733.  Just a compromise on cost, but not the
> best thing to  
> do.  The Seagate ended up being my main drive, and the
> original IBM  
> drive was the backup only because I did not like to hear
> the IBM heads  
> clattering.
> 
> Al Poulin
> 
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