I currently use a second hard drive in a removable carrier to periodically make a Ghost backup clone of my main drive. After making the clone I slide the drive out and store it well out of harms way. This has a great advantage because the backup drive is electrically isolated from the computer during storgae. It is then not subject to the same corruptive influence that might damage my main drive.
The process works well but does use up a needed external drive bay. I would much prefer to mount the backup drive permanently inside the computer case. However, this would then mean taking the case cover off to connect and then disconnect the power and data cables each time I want to make a backup.
Does anyone have experiemce with leaving a data cable connected to a second hard drive but just disconnecting the power cable? If this would not cause a problem then I can use a key lock switch to simply "turn on" the hard drive when I want to make a backup. Of course I would only turn it on or off with the computer powered down but this would free up the external bay and be much more convenient than removing the case cover.
The process works well but does use up a needed external drive bay. I would much prefer to mount the backup drive permanently inside the computer case. However, this would then mean taking the case cover off to connect and then disconnect the power and data cables each time I want to make a backup.
Does anyone have experiemce with leaving a data cable connected to a second hard drive but just disconnecting the power cable? If this would not cause a problem then I can use a key lock switch to simply "turn on" the hard drive when I want to make a backup. Of course I would only turn it on or off with the computer powered down but this would free up the external bay and be much more convenient than removing the case cover.