Secondary hard disc

[cellardweller]

What is a reliable hard disc, which could happily fall into the affordable category, for backup as a secondary hard disc? I'll be buying one soon (I hope) and don't know my ass from my elbow.

For backing up purposes, is it necessary to partition the secondary? Should I just specifially use it for storage of my .wav files and nothing else? Does this depend only on the storage capacity?

Finally, what is the difference between NTFS and FAT32? NTFS is the newer of the two I would assume, perhaps more efficient than the FAT32?

Enlightenment appreciated!

Thanx.

 

[LiquidBronze]

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i like having an external hard drive to back up everything, one that is seperate from everything else. its not always on, so the life span will last a bit longer, and im a paranoid freak about losing data from random crashes, power outages and so on. so i just back everything up once a month or so on the external, and not worry about it
and there are many externals that are good, maxtor, seagate, whatever fits your budget

peace
LB

 

[Bulls Hit]

Anything that soins at 7200, with 8MB cache should do the job.

Norton Ghost is an excellent backup/image copy tool

 

[fldrummer]

You could go raid1 (i think it's called that) and when you copy your data onto the drive it copies it to 2 drives. So if one fails you have the other.

 

[cellardweller]

How many HD's can you run in a single PC? Assuming what I've read is true, the secondary IDE port on the motherboard is for another HD, correct? What is the difference between connecting a hard disc to the secondary IDE port, as opposed to running it off of the same ribbon cable as the primary hard disc?

Can a HD be slaved either way? And if so, wouldn't this (the secondary IDE port) be a better way of connecting it?

Thanx...