Too Many Hard Drives
How many hard drives is enough? I’ve got a hard-disk buying fever; they’re just so cheap:
I have three internal Seagate drives, four external firewire Seagate drives, a WD firewire drive, and two USB drives for a grand total of:
- Internal: 320GB + 500GB + 250GB = 1070GB
- Laptop: 120GB
- External Firewire: 300GB, 300GB, 300GB, 400GB, 500GB = 1800GB
- External USB: 40GB, 200GB = 240GB
This brings me to a grand total of 3230 GB, or 3.2 TB of disk space available to me at any given time. Imagine how troublesome my storage needs would become if I decided to say, use RAID?
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i have 2 hard drives 200gb,40gb each. u have really a large no of space
I have a 500W in the desktop, with 3 SATA hard disks. Then I plug the 6-8 externals into the wall using a $40 belkin strip of some kind.
Hey, Elliott Back, please tell what power supply adaptor you use? How many W? and coudld you tell how much did pay for whole 3.2 TB set?
I ask becouse i want to build similiar thing.
I’m just thinking of the power consumption of that…oy
I think it’s just an addiction, jk……….no there is nothing wrong with having that much disk space if you are actually using it. What is a complete waste is to have that much space just so you can say you have that much space. Kinda like a “Mine is bigger than yours” thing.
Keeping a backup schedule of all that must be hell in itself.
I back up, as of today, 0% of my disks. My motherboard supports raid, so I’ve thought about RAIDing my boot volume with something else, but so far I haven’t done anything. Backup is tricky. If I were you, I might try the MIRRA personal backup server.
How much of your disk DO you back up, and how?
I’m not just asking to annoy you: I’ve got real backup concerns and I’m trying to find a reasonable solution.
If I had a LOT of bandwidth, I might dump stuff to Amazon S3 or something like that, but I don’t. I don’t want to spend the money to build a D2D2T setup, and I think D2D is good enough, anyhow. I guess I could just do rsync-based incrementals and just swap out disks, but I’d want rsync to be able to span volumes–I want to back up to JBOD, not RAID.
*ugh*
Aye, that’s the rub. It’s bulk storage and scratch disk for computational work, so I don’t really need to back it up
Elliott: So, how do you back up that 3.2 TB of disk?
I don’t know about hard drives, Elliott – but your eyemyspam site is sick! I’m not in the habit of opening from unknown senders but every once in a while curiousity rears its ugly head. Your site has saved me a couple times. Thanks -
I will be converting XP to Vista by legitimate upgrade.
by the way, do you have vista RTM yet? i have been unable to successfully download the iso
those 500gbs cant be cheap. they have to be at least 150 each. when a person gets rich enough to splurge 150 on a whim, consumer goods are no longer providing any fulfillment. he has to move on to the greater materialistic conquests of life – ultramodern housing, connoisseurship, sexual tourism, a ticket to zero gravity, the concerts of beautiful idols…
Dude, I thought we got you to stop buying those.
Actually, is it 3.2 TB enough for you ?