New Hard Drive
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Tue Aug 14 15:09:20 UTC 2007
Jacques B. wrote:
> On 8/13/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
>> I discovered I can buy a new IDE 160 GB Western Digital Hard Drive
>> for $83.00 plus shipping. I would like to replace this old 160 GB with a
>> new one. What method would you suggest for putting all the stuff on the
>> old hard drive on this new one? It seems that dd could do it but I
>> wonder how fast it would be?
>>
>> Any experience will be appreciated.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>> Linux User
>> #450462 http://counter.li.org.
>>
>
> Just a thought, but if your current drive works fine and you are
> buying another of identical size, can you set it up as RAID 1 so that
> the old drive will mirror onto the new one? Sounds like you want to
> retire the old one and bring in a new one of the same size. RAID 1
> will give you the peace of mind of having that new drive PLUS having
> your data mirrored onto two drives. I've only dealt with hardware
> RAIDs so not sure (without Googling it) how you'd set that up in the
> meantime. If it can be set up to mirror the current drive onto the
> new one at configuration time and then carry on from there you'd have
> no backing up at all to do. The software RAID would take care of
> doing it for you.
>
> Jacques B.
>
>
Thanks I will look up raid 1 because I cancel all the sata stuff and
ordered another 160 GB Western Digital. If it works as you say then it
will be lots better than backing up :-)
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
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