Lookin for laptop

[nsxdemon]

I'm looking for a relatively new laptop, something around PIII 500 MHz or so, that supports two hard drives. I haven't really looked too much, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of a laptop that can use two hard drives at once...hopefully it can use a dvdrom at the same time. Maybe even two battery slots if possible (like swap the dvd for a second battery or something).
So yea, basically i'm looking for a fully loaded lappy that can take two hard drives. I know that there are lappies that can use cd and floppy at once with just one hdd, so why not just one peripheral and two hdd's?
Any input's really appreciated,
nsx

 

[Burn]

Just curious why you want 2 hard drives. Dell sells laptops with 32gb drives and I even saw one 40gb drive in one laptop.

 

[skace]

Maybe he wants raid mirroring for his laptop? *Grin*

 

[nsxdemon]

I like working with at least two physical drives usually. It's mostly to REALLY separate my programs from my data so that if something really blows out on the OS drive, at least my data's ok. I guess you can turn it the other way around as well, but if one drive's gonna go, i'd rather take a 50/50 chance than a 100/0 chance if there's only one drive.
I was also kinda curious if they really did exist...i know that mobile storage is coming along, but it's still got a ways to go (the 40 gig that dell sells with the lappies is 4500 rpm, slower than the 5400 rpm used at the bottom of the value pc domain!). I'd rather get a smaller, faster drive than a huge slow@$$ one!
Anyway, still curious to see if a 2 hdd laptop exists...
nsx

 

[JackOfHearts]

You can't get two Hard drives in a laptop because of space and power problems two drives running will suck down you battery in no time at all....
If you have to have two drives get a USB drive...
Yeah USB drives are slow but yeah you get your 50/50 chance with failure... Just but your work on the USB and apps on internal and you will be fine(sort of)

 

[nsxdemon]

wow...guess the 32 and 48 gig drives that dell sells with the laptops are 5400 rpm...wow, i'm surprised. The customization links show that you can get an optional second hdd, but i'm wondering if it's usb or not as Jack just mentioned...hmmm

 

[SleepyGuy]

or another alternative is just get a cdrw drive in your pc... use multisession and save your date frequently.

 

[nsxdemon]

I guess if you wanna go all-out you can hook up a firewire hub to the laptop while it's docked and add a few drives to make it a slow mobile server...usb would make it ridiculous, but at least with firewire you wouldn't have to worry much about those transfer speeds.

 

[JackOfHearts]

Probably the dell system puts the second drive in the hot swap drive bay so you get two Hard Drives or like a Hard drive and a DVD drive...
You could go scsi and add external scsi drives

 

[Burn]

nsxdemon - Just to let you know, most laptops come with 4200rpm hard drives. None are faster than the dells...