RE: [cobalt-users] hard drive 61 revisited

["Jeff Edwards" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>You should stay with a 5400rpm drive and not use the 7200rpm drives.

>Any particular reason, just curious?

Primarily because of thermal issues within the box. Power draw may be an
issue too??  but I know of people using 7200rpm drives in the Raq


 > But I have another question - I use some pretty slick IDE RAID
>controllers on 2000 systems; I can take a running IDE drive and create a
>mirror of it without any type of source-drive reformat, try that with a
>SCSI drive (I've never seen a system that can be made into an
>after-the-fact RAID).
>
>Has anyone ever tried to use such a controller to make a backup system >
>drive? For the price of a drive, I could take it out of the RAQ, connect it
>to this controller with another drive, using the BIOS based utility I could
>"theoretically" make a mirror backup of it.

Why not use Norton GHOST ??

Jeff