Quantity of HDDs
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wow...648GB , when MS says they expect to see .5 tb drives in near future, I thought who would have those kinda of storage for home use. I guess they are right in some sense :-) Regards, Kannan
Kannan Kalyanaraman wrote: MS says they expect to see .5 tb drives in near future, I thought who would have those kinda of storage for home use That's just for installing Windows. ;P
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I have six, totalling 648GB, in my main PC 24/7. I am a hoarder so I just add new drives when I run out of space rather than moving old files over to archive, and I do my weekly backup by filling one of two removable 200GB drives with everything on my data drives so 200GB of the total is not-usuable. (Once bitten, twice shy, three times and you can just f**k off if you think I'm going to loose any more data to a corrupt file system.) I still use the very first hard drive I ever bought - a 4.3GB Seagate somethingorother. The next one I get I think I'd better use as an excuse to take out the old drives though, they are a tad on the slow side nowadays. :(
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Damn, seven hard drives! I've only got 3 in mine (totaling 153 GB). I've been thinking about getting a fourth though, a SATA Western Digital Raptor drive.:cool: Brad Jennings Sonork: 100.36360 AIM: hongg99
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Once bitten and still using hard drives as a backup? :omg: I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. - Aleister Crowley
It's fast, cheap, easily upgradable when more storage is needed, and there is always going to be a backup no more than seven days old kept offsite incase the drive in the machine fails. Critical data still gets backed up to CD occasionally. What is wrong with that? :~
David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
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I have six, totalling 648GB, in my main PC 24/7. I am a hoarder so I just add new drives when I run out of space rather than moving old files over to archive, and I do my weekly backup by filling one of two removable 200GB drives with everything on my data drives so 200GB of the total is not-usuable. (Once bitten, twice shy, three times and you can just f**k off if you think I'm going to loose any more data to a corrupt file system.) I still use the very first hard drive I ever bought - a 4.3GB Seagate somethingorother. The next one I get I think I'd better use as an excuse to take out the old drives though, they are a tad on the slow side nowadays. :(
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David Wulff wrote: totalling 648GB What on earth do you use it all for??? I have 40GB on my work machine and it's only around half full... Ok.. granted there are laods of network drives around here totaling well over a TB but what could you possible have on 648GB??!?!? The only thing I could think of is if I had ripped most of my DVD's on the HDD. Regards, Brian Dela :-) http://www.briandela.com IE 6 required.
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It's fast, cheap, easily upgradable when more storage is needed, and there is always going to be a backup no more than seven days old kept offsite incase the drive in the machine fails. Critical data still gets backed up to CD occasionally. What is wrong with that? :~
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OK, given that critical data is still backed up to CD, I see the convenience of just quickly doing a non-critical backup to another hard drive, but hard drives are not generally viewed as a really safe backup device. I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. - Aleister Crowley
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David Wulff wrote: totalling 648GB What on earth do you use it all for??? I have 40GB on my work machine and it's only around half full... Ok.. granted there are laods of network drives around here totaling well over a TB but what could you possible have on 648GB??!?!? The only thing I could think of is if I had ripped most of my DVD's on the HDD. Regards, Brian Dela :-) http://www.briandela.com IE 6 required.
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http://www.briandela.com/rss/newsrss.xml RSS FeedBrian Delahunty wrote: What on earth do you use it all for??? Windows. :)
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Cisco4321 wrote: I currently have 7 HDDs installed on 1 puter Seven? :omg: How 'bout just one? Heck, mine isn't even that big (we're talkin' hard drives here!)... just a 30gig'r.
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Obviously it depends on many factors. 1 IDE controller can support 2 drives. Most computers have at least 2 IDE controllers (primary and seoncdary). Many have 4 for a total of 8, and you can of course add in I/O cards to add more. I'd be more concerned with power though. Lots of drives draw a lot of juice, and if your power supply is not up to the task, expect to hear a big bang. -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
you can of course add in I/O cards to add more Yeah.. two Maxtor PCI to IDE cards I'd be more concerned with power though Then I'm hoping that the two 450W power supplies hold up. :laugh: Maybe I should part this thing out and make two computers out of it.
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Steve Thresher wrote: The 10,000 rpm drive is amazingly fast! Yeah, I don't keep up with the hardware stuff anymore but I think they're like the second fastest HD you can buy for a desktop computer and they're pretty decently priced.:cool: Brad Jennings Sonork: 100.36360 AIM: hongg99