Another Hard-Drive

BloodWolf · 22 Oct 2006 at 00:25

Hi,

I'm thinking of buying a small hard-drive for backup.

Would you have to do that raid crap? Or will it work fine without? Because I don't understand it

Thanks

wizardmaxx · 22 Oct 2006 at 06:47

Don't need raid at all. Just need free IDE or SATA port, or you could go external if u got usb. You haven't said what system u got atm.

BloodWolf · 22 Oct 2006 at 07:36

ive got

amd x2 3800
asus a8n-e ultra nforce 4
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA-II
ati x1900xt
2gb mushkin ram

wizardmaxx · 22 Oct 2006 at 07:38

System is new so u can go for 80gb sata and install internally or go for an external usb 2.0 hdd if its purely for backups. That way its only spinning when its needed.

t31os · 22 Oct 2006 at 11:51

Less gb per £ on the smaller drives, somewhere in the 200 - 300gb range will be more gb per £.

Just to point that out. Find those 80gb totally pointless unless you have a strict budget.

BloodWolf · 22 Oct 2006 at 21:44

t31os said:
Less gb per £ on the smaller drives, somewhere in the 200 - 300gb range will be more gb per £.

Just to point that out. Find those 80gb totally pointless unless you have a strict budget.

Not really under strict budget.

squiffy · 22 Oct 2006 at 21:51

t31os said:
Less gb per £ on the smaller drives, somewhere in the 200 - 300gb range will be more gb per £.

Just to point that out. Find those 80gb totally pointless unless you have a strict budget.

Aye, pointless unless portable drive where masses of data isn't required.. Or Windows 9x install, or 2000/XP boot drive.

"small drive for backup" depends how much you want to backup, if you have 300GB of data that needs to be backed up a 80GB is unsuitable. 160GB is only a tenner more.

BloodWolf · 24 Oct 2006 at 02:18

It's mainly games e.g Americas Army, patches ect

so i dont ave to keep dl them