{"id":806,"date":"2015-05-08T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chatteris.biz\/blog\/?p=806"},"modified":"2022-03-08T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T10:47:30","slug":"second-hard-drive-added-to-weather-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chatteris.biz\/blog\/second-hard-drive-added-to-weather-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Hard Drive Added to Weather PC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chatteris.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hdd.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4999\" width=\"184\" height=\"132\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Added a 1Tb secondary hard drive to the weather PC, this was bought from dabs.com and was delivered within a few days, I&#8217;ve always had excellent service from dabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dell Precision 490 has a spare bay for a hard drive but it needs a special caddy, these are less than \u00a35 from Charles Computers on Ebay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fitting is really straightforward as all the required cables are pre-installed, once plugged up, the PC is turned on and as soon as the Dell logo is shown, pressing F2 enters the BIOS, here the SATA drive is enabled, before rebooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m using Acronis True Image 2015 and using the Tools&gt;&gt;Clone Disk option made the secondary drive bootable and also this will be where backups are stored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have set Acronis to generate &#8216;Version Chains&#8217; it does this by making a full backup first&nbsp;and then differential backups, every fifth backup is a full one and the chain starts again, any version older than six months is deleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Version chain is ran three times a week to the secondary drive with a full backup to an external drive being done weekly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Added a 1Tb secondary hard drive to the weather PC, this was bought from dabs.com and was delivered within a few days, I&#8217;ve always had excellent service from dabs. 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