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In Reply to: RE: I'm not leaving XP posted by scruffy_ on April 04, 2014 at 15:44:39
I have Acronis True Image clones of the two hard drives (4 drives total) that I use on my main desktop, all of which started off from a single drive build of just the OS. However,
-- two drives sit "unused" (ie, not used on a daily basis but they get updated a month or two after I'm sure updates/changes are not buggy),
-- one "in use" drive is dedicated to programs/software and is not used for internet browsing (no anti-virus/internet security/always-on/etc programs -- performance oriented setup) and
-- the other "in use" drive is dedicated to internet only (anti-virus/internet security and a couple of "expendable" programs).
If I'm in "program/software mode", the appropriate drive is connected. If I'm in "browsing mode", then that drive is connected.
Other than the shut down/start up time, the swap takes about 10 seconds and is better than any other method I've seen to lessen the risk of bad things happening.
And even if it did, I have a "practically" ready-to-go clone via Acronis in 15 - 30 minutes (depending on the drive). The backups are only used to clone to another drive.
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except that I don't swap realtime but use ejectable 2.5 and 3.5 in bays.
I can go from XP to 2012 in 2 minutes or so and restore in under 5 minutes.
Acronis on Win Server requires close attention in use and so I use dual boot to Backup and Restore from XP.
On the desktop I'm using, I can't do it because it's actually two different interfaces in an older computer: PATA and SATA (using an adapter). The next computer build will be all SATA.
I was actually thinking about getting the eject trays last year but decided to just wait until I could start working on the new computer. I may even do an XP/W7 separate drive build.
"except that I don't swap realtime but use ejectable 2.5 and 3.5 in bays"
How have you physically configured those bays?
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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