On 12/4/06, Mike Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to improve that by setting up a RAID 1 system with two > external hard drives. The laptop is normally plugged into the > external drives, but on occaision i take it travelling, without the > external drives.
If you're ever going to be running with the external drive disconnected, you don't want to do RAID1. What you want to do is to run a utility to sync the contents of the internal drive, to the external drive. I do this with my iBook here, to one partition on a 250GB external firewire drive. I use Carbon Copy Cloner to do the copying, though there are faster utilities (like SuperDuper) if you're willing to pay for them. Oh yes, and if the external drive is in a firewire enclosure, as opposed to USB2, the copy will be _significantly_ faster. -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
