robotnerd Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 i just picked up a 320 gb external hard drive a few weeks ago for about 95 bucks. i figured that was a pretty good deal. i dont know what id do with a 1 tb hard drive though. yeah, same deal.. 320 is plenty of space for everything i'm doing at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtmanner Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 1TB is definitely pretty massive for home use, but I wouldn't ever say excessive, especially given how it seems so many of us here probably have rather large music collections on our computers. It's just great overall for having such a high capacity. It's kind of ridiculous, but the database center for Aetna in Middletown has about 33 TB. Seeing the computers is unbelievable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgoodcore Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 I'm seriously considering a powermac with 4 500gig drives as a home server. It sounds excessive, but a couple years ago my wifes HP laptop crashed and at the same time so did the external backup drive. We lost all the photos of my kid, who was 9 months at the time, even the shots of her being born. We got most back from our friends and family, but it was a nightmare. Ever since then I've been crazy about backing things up. I bought my wife an imac and I got one too. I'll never own another PC as long as I live. if you want to make sure you don't have that happen again get two different external hard drives. when hard drives die they tend to die based on time and the lot they were made in. getting a bunch of drives at the same time from the same maker raises your risk that many of them will die together. don't go too overboard and a mac pro w/ 4 drives provides enough redundancy that you shouldn't have an issue. in the newest incarnation of os x there's a new backup utility called time machine. it lets you hook-up a drive and get daily back-ups of a lot of your stored information. it looks awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 I need to buy a 1tb drive. I'm just waiting a year or two to see if there are any major issues with the Seagate or Western Digital drives. Seagate is amazing and they offer 5 year warranties on their drives, but I'm a huge fan of the W.D. MyBook series. I currently have a 500gb and its filled to the brim. It's only my backup, so I don't actually have extra space. Adding a 1tb would be swell. I also want it to be a network drive, so I can just use it as my shares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadmonkey Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Man I honestly remember when I installed a 2 GB hard drive in my computer and thought that I would never fill this thing up. Now to save up for a 4 TB Raid array computer tee hee shit what are your specs? Currently running AMD XP 3000+ 2, GB Ram, about 300 GB total HD space, BFG 7800 GS Video Card, Soyo Dragon KT-400 ultra Mother Board Samsung 22" Widescreen LCD Dualboot: Linux(Ubuntu)/Windows XP (just trying to get software equivalents on the Ubuntu side so I can wipe the XP drive) It's pretty much a 5 year old machine that I've been putting a little bit of money into every now and again. I am loving the issues and fun I have trying to network the Linux side with my Macbook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakland Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Yeah, Time Machine is insane. I honestly can't quite comprehend how they did that, but it's rad. But the best solution we've come up with so far for backing up the baby pictures is ... TO PRINT THEM! We just sent 600 photos to Apple for printing. Now that is a true dedication to analog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsterdamned Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 Does anyone have a relatively new, extra hard drive they'd be willing to unload? Mine's ready to shit the bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakland Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 I saw that 1TB drive at the mac store today for $369. That's a nice price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elephanttttt Posted September 22, 2007 Author Share Posted September 22, 2007 I saw that 1TB drive at the mac store today for $369. That's a nice price. very nice price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsterdamned Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Does anyone have a relatively new, extra hard drive they'd be willing to unload? Mine's ready to shit the bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skumbucket Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Does anyone have an extra-hard drive ready for bed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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