If you have a software raid, you are limited to using a backup solution that you can run in your operating system.
If you have a hardware raid, the array is a single device and you could back it up to a single larger hard drive or tape device in any environment that you choose.
There are a...
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You don't need the silencing part of this mechanism, however the suspended elastic would suit your needs perfectly.
Alternatley, get a notebook hard drive and suspend them like in the link above. They generally are more robust than desktop...
An overheating hard drive can be cooled by simply allowing adequate airflow over the drive, freezing the drive in 99.99% of cases is a redundant practice.
Martin Dare
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Affordable data recovery
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Ed,
Precisely my point, an exercise in futility.
I have more problems with people that try catch all solutions to problems that I could have resolved if there was no amateur tinkering with the drive.
Current head sizes are minuscule comparatively, however the particle fiction heat build up...
Failing finding cheap affordable drive imaging software.
You can run any build of Linux, even down to a floppy image, then use the dd command to mirror a drive.
Just make sure you know which way you put in your /dev's :)
Martin Dare
www.darepc.com
Affordable data recovery
Martin@darepc.com
Fat32 while offering excellent cross system compatibility as far as operating systems go, has a lot of difficulty dealing with files larger than 4gigabytes. It quite often causes errors and can actually corrupt the whole file system at the FAT (file allocation table).
There are many pieces of...
When you say that you have striped 3 drives, I will have to assume that you have set up your array in either raid 0 or raid 5.
If formatted one of the disks from your array and you were running raid 0. Sorry, but 66% of your data is gone, also depending on the size of the stripe that is on...
When, and when not to freeze your hard drive.
I have been reading a lot of posts on these forums lately; one of the stock answers from people is to freeze the hard drive that has issues.
If we remember back to our basic science lessons, we understand that the temperature metal is at affects...
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