nice new option on Dell desktops

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:30 am

i just noticed that Dell has their "DataSafe" option when configuring new systems...they add in a second hard drive and install Ghost 10 to do automated restore images to it. pretty nice option.

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 2:14 pm

Nice option as long as the drive does not fail

Also, this is only available for select models.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:16 pm

Something you can easily do yourself also, although it's nice that they offer it.

If it's a mission critical system you're best off with a hardware RAID mirror though.

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:02 pm

yea... was gonna say.. wouldent a hardware RAID just be simpler?

rndmtask · Post by **rndmtask** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:53 pm

I thought I was going to see that they were offering AMD chips in their computers. This option isn't as nice as I had expected, but it is great for people who have no idea.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:11 pm

I thought I was going to see that they were offering AMD chips in their computers.

Heh. Yeah, I thought the same thing. There's been a lot of buzz on the tech boards that Dell is going to start offering systems with AMD processors.

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:07 am

FlyingPenguin, this is only going to happen if Intel decides to stop offering them advantages for selling Intel Only.