Looking for cheap hard drives...

[Bogie]

Looking for a pair of IDE drives, preferably new old stock, cheap. Small is okay, because they're going in a Windoze 98se box that is running some legacy software. I'm planning on setting up either a software or a hardware RAID on it, because the owner of the system's idea of a "backup" is "reverse gear."

[Nick1911]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136813

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0345153

[Jim147]

http://www.txmicro.com/

http://www.geeks.com

jim

[Bogie]

Kewl - I'd checked Tiger Direct and Newegg first, but looks like the drives from Microcenter will work out... Now to figure out a cheapo/freeware backup solution... RAID is going to be problematic with the Win98se system (it'd have to be card-based), so I'm going to try to find some backup software that'll let me copy the whole damn drive - any ideas?

[Jim147]

Would a SIDERaid card help you any?

I think I still have one or two of them around here.

jim

[Bogie]

I'm thinking that RAID is going to be more of a PITA than anything - the computer doesn't get updated - it just runs some legacy software. So I'm going to make the hard drive, then mirror it, and the user knows enough to swap the master/slave bit (he wonders where that is for the USB drive I've got on another of his machines for a backup, and "don't worry about it" gets his head twisting...) or just unplug and replug a fresh working drive if #1 goes belly up...

[Doggy Daddy]

IIRC, Goodsync will run in the free mode limited only by the number of jobs and/or the number of directories or files that you explicitly list.  If that's the case, setting it up to do a one-way sync from the root level of the drive should work.

DD

[HeroHog]

I have a case of New Seagate 40 gig IDE drives. You pay shipping and $10 a drive and they are yours, up to 6 drives.

[Bogie]

Ah... That'll probably work - Are they the same model?

[Jim147]

Do you have floppy drives on those units?

I think I have some old copies of Ghost around here.

jim

[HeroHog]

Yup!

[Bogie]

orsum... PM me your paypal addy and how much you want for shipping - I'll take two (we'll use 'em in -something- around here...). I may go with an addonics IDE/CF drive, but I don't know how well the CF cards will last.
 
I bought a copy of Norton Ghost a few years back, never used it. And have no idea what I did with it.
 

[KD5NRH]

RAID is going to be problematic with the Win98se system (it'd have to be card-based),

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=IDE+RAID+card&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=ivns&resnum=1&biw=1400&bih=938&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=7568019446216805304&ei=dS08TcnlMIL78AakmtmoCg&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CHwQ8wIwAw#

[AZRedhawk44]

It'd have to be card-based, as well as offer Win98 drivers.

Which means it'd have to be OLD.

Nothing made in the last 8+ years is going to even offer Win98 drivers.

[KD5NRH]

It'd have to be card-based, as well as offer Win98 drivers.

Drivers?  My old one comes up for config during POST, and appears to whatever OS as a normal IDE controller with one or two drives.  I had 3.11 running on that machine for a while.

[Bogie]

Simple good, complicated bad...
 
I've seen the user in question spray WD-40 into a computer that was making a little more noise than normal. While it was running.
 
Argh.