[labnetwork] System backups

[tony whipple]

  Hello John;

There are several places out there, but the place we currently
get our supplies from is Memory Depot.  The nice thing is the
package plugs into the 40 pin connector and for power a small
wire from the package goes to the normal 4 pin plug.

Web link to the IDE section http://www.memorydepot.com/ssd_diskonmodule.asp
(This is not a recommendation, just a known source that we had 
successful results with.)

We are current search is for the SCSI SSD package

Bye, Tony W.


On 10/15/2010 4:27 PM, Hughes, John S wrote:
> Hello Tony,
>
> As per your suggestion, I asked our IT folks to look into getting SSDs to use as backups for a lot of our process tool computers. We have quite a few "legacy" systems, and the question they asked me was: where can we get an SSD drive with an IDE connection and<2GB capacity, since some of our older systems can't handle the high capacity drives.
>
> If you, or anyone else, knows of a good vendor for such drives, I'd appreciate hearing about them.
>
> Thanks
> John
>
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> On Oct 7, 2010, at 10:57 AM, tony whipple wrote:
>
> Hello Keith;
>
> Great topic.
>
> We had similar concerns. Some of our equipment use DOS
> and the computers that came with the system could only accept
> a limited size of hard drive, which you can not buy anymore.
>
> When a hard drive failed we tried buying old recycled hard drives but
> found they did not last too long. And we could not replace all the old
> computers with a new one since some systems might need an ISA slot.
>
> The solution we found was to use smaller solid state drives.
> That way we could keep our legacy computer. This has worked
> so well that we make back ups of the whole drive and copy it on
> to another solid state drive. This spare solid state drive can then
> be swapped out when the original hard drive fails. Minimum
> equipment down time.  Only thing is that the back up work needs
> to be done before you have problems. Making regular backups
> from time to time helps, that way you do not lose to most current
> recipes.
>
> They make them in many sizes and configurations, IDE, SATA, and USB.
>
> For backing up the drive I like to use an IDE to USB adapter and
> plug that into the normal desk computer. From there you can
> mirror or ghost the drive, or even store it on a remote server and
> then copy it to the new spare solid state drive.
>
> Regards, Tony W.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 10/6/2010 2:30 PM, Keith Bradshaw wrote:
> We have 35 computers running systems in our clean room.
>
> Stuff like the Ellipsometer, PECVD,Etchers, SEM, three different RTA's, Furnaces.
>
> How do you back up and protect all these systems from a disk failure?
>
> We use WIN95, 98, and XP....whatever the manufacturers were using when they wrote the operating software.
>
> cordially,
>
> Keith Bradshaw
> University of Texas at Dallas
>
>
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