BIG Maxtor Hard drive 300 Gig

[DrSardonic]

I need a really big hard drive. The Maxtor Maxline II 5A300J0 300GB seems
like top of the heap right now.

I have a Maxtor 80 but am really a WD man. Should I trust 300 gig to
Maxtor?

Is something better coming.......a Terra Bite would be nice.......actually a
pair of terrabytes would be

 

[Bowser]

Don't trust that much data (also known as "time and money") to a single
drive. Get a SATA RAID card (like the one from Adaptec that has four ports)
and set up a RAID array using four drives. Maximum space and
fault-tolerance. Not cheap, but excellent.

 

[Dr.Ralph]

I need a really big hard drive. The Maxtor Maxline II 5A300J0 300GB seems

like top of the heap right now.

I have a Maxtor 80 but am really a WD man. Should I trust 300 gig to
Maxtor?

Is something better coming.......a Terra Bite would be nice.......actually a
pair of terrabytes would be

I don't see any reason why you should not trust a 300 GB disk.
Only problem is, if the disk dies on you, and you kept all of your
important data on the disk and no backup.

Back up is important - so I would suggest that you either bougt two
identical 300Gb disks or a tape drive for backing up your data.

DVD burners can only burn 4,3 GB to one disk - this makes more than 60
dvd's o bacnk up a 300GB drive.

But you could image your win xp to a single dvd, keep your 80 Gb maxtor and
back up imortant data to this disk - but the best idea would be the more
expensive one - buy a small fast drive for win xp and programs (ie. a WD
raptor 36 GB SATA), and two big drives in raid 1 for data.