My laptop's been in use for 3 years and i feel like it's time to do a bit of precautionary work in case the hdd dies on me. :)
Can i get an extra 2.5' HDD that is the same capacity as my existing one in the laptop, put that in an enclosure, connect to my laptop as an external USB drive, and run IDE RAID with the internal hard drive and the one connected by USB?
In case the internal hdd dies, i can easily put the ext. one in and boot my system without any problems right?
2007-07-04 11:53:03 · 3 answers · asked by Britt. 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
no not unless the laptop bios is raid capable ... few are ... what u can do is use acronis true image to mirror ur drive into a restorable file on the usb tho ... then u could replace ur harddrive in the laptop and boot from the acronis disk then use ur image to restore ur machine the state it was in when u made the image .. ...
2007-07-04 11:55:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have the right idea, but will not work as a raid device. You will need to run a program like Norton Ghost to get an image of the OS as it exist on the internal drive. You need a raid controller to run a raid device. Most raids have three or more disk and spread the information across all of them so you can recover. A single device will not usually work.
2007-07-04 12:00:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is ridiculous. raid is used in workstations and servers. just get a external hard drive and back up all ur data. if u do set up raid on a laptop, u will need to have those external drives connected everywhere u go. the computer will run much slower b/c the hd's are connected thru usb. it sounds like a nightmare, if it will even work (prbly not)
2007-07-04 11:58:14 · answer #3 · answered by Jake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋