I just replaced 5 old hard drives on my server with a 1 Terabyte drive.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Do you have ANY idea how freaking long it takes to move a terabyte of data? (I moved a significant amount of it between two computers via my home network- it was convenient. Never mind. :P )

I've been working on it for TWO DAYS. I may actually finish it up some time tonight.

I wonder how long it'll take to defrag the damned thing once I'm done... :rofl:

I still remember the day I upgraded my first computer from a 240mb hard drive to a 500mb drive. I thought then the space on THAT new drive would last me forever-- it was full in two months...)

[sakabatou]

1. WTF are you working on that needs that much space?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. I store hard drive backup images for clients

The first thing I do when I receive a computer to work on is to make a backup image of the hard drive(s)- it's the only way to make certain no data will be lost if I screw something up. Image files can be somewhat large.

[sakabatou]

7. Oooooh

Yeah, those can run into megs depending on what compression there is.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. I use Acronis, and I don't compress the images.

I've never trusted compression since some bad experiences with Ghost (a long long long long long long long time ago).

[sakabatou]

18. I have no idea wtf that is

I just download whatever the camera has it (raw) as and that's it.

[Deja Q]

26. Ghost is a Norton product - what can you expect apart from a bag of binary bunk?

[DainBramaged]

31. Me too, and agree.

Wait until solid state drives become the norm. NO heat, NO noise, NO mechanical failure, unlimited size. And faster than Ironman.

[Renew Deal]

10. A lot of things need that much space these days.

Data sizes are ridiculous.

[csziggy]

2. I'm trying to back up data on 400GB. On CDRs. With a 24x CDR burner...

I've got a DVD burner in the newer computer, but don't want to take the time to move it over. Good thing I can do this in my spare time. :crazy:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Good luck with that.

One hell of a major project there. It's not something I would commit to.

[Angleae]

8. This is the reason I now back up on to an external hard drive.

Backing up 350+ GB on CDs or DVDs sucks.

[csziggy]

11. Yes, but when I am searching for photos from a particular few month period,

it is easier to page through CDRs than to search the hard drive.

And about half our photos are on CDRs from when we transfer them while on trips. And photos are about 90% of what I need to back up. Many may already be transferred but I believe in redundancy.

[mduffy31]

16. Yeah well watch out

I was doing that and it melted down and I lost 80GB of music and fun

[Angleae]

17. You lost your primary & backup drives?

[mduffy31]

20. Gone

all gone. some is on backup but for the most part it is all gone. I have a lot of it on CD but it is just a major pain in the ass, the stuff I ripped for my ipod video wise is another thing.

[DS1]

29. you're crazy

Do you at least have NERO to manage it all?


KEE rist, what's that 1,000 CDs?

[DainBramaged]

32. BUY an external drive, Western Digital or Maxtor, 500GB

I gave one to my Daughter to back up her photography and music. You can always make more money, you can't make more time, AND an external DVD burner is LESS than $50 from reputable sellers on Ebay. Go that route if you want stacks of furniture protectors.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. I thought the first hard drive I bought for 2k

which was a 5mb drive, would last forever, too

[DainBramaged]

33. OMG I did that in 1992, paid a little more though for my IBM PS1

20MB, $2200, TWO MB ram, $2000. And THAT was a bargain.

[DarkTirade]

6. Heh... my first computer had a 40 meg harddrive.

Right now between my harddrive and my two external drives I've got 490 gigs.

Plus three and a half gigs worth of SD cards floating around. :P It's funny that the tiny little speck of plastic in my phone holds something like 25 times as much data as my entire first computer did.

[Renew Deal]

9. I hope that new drive is being mirrored.

Don't take risks.

[jobycom]

12. Be sure you get a 9600 baud modem to move that data.

4800 is soooo McCain.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

14. Y'mean I have to give up my 300 baud acoustic modem?

Maaaaaannnn... next thing y'know I'll have to give up my 8 inch floppies (I actually have some, but I just don't have a drive to put 'em in :cry: ).

[jobycom]

15. Floppies? I'm hangin' on to the cards, man. They're coming back.

[lildreamer316]

19. I just recieved my first 500GB HD in the mail today (HP Personal Media Drive that inserts into my pc

Only paid $160 for it, so I'm happy..took 36min to move my music library over.
Lots of space left!! yay!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

25. where did you get yours

I need to order one too

[lildreamer316]

30. Amazon..

go figure. Really good price for that size..I couldn't do better for a factory sealed one, even on ebay. Free shipping, too.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

35. cool, thanks

[DainBramaged]

34. Buy.com

Western Digital My Book Office Edition 500GB USB 2.0 $127.33 free shipping.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. Only ONE terabyte drive?

Don't you need another, so you can mirror it? Just in case? Attached to another computer, in another building, just in case?

Anyway, yeah, moving huge amounts of data over a normal home network is slow. Even slower if the network is wireless. Better to slap the drive in an external drive case and plug into to the source computer. Even better to install it in the source computer temporarily. That speeds up the copy. If you care about the speed.

I need a bigger drive, so I can download more music. Terabyte, eh?

I still have the drive from my first computer. Ten mb. That was huge. Then came Windows.

:hi:

[dembotoz]

22. just think of all the porn you could store

just a thought....

[DarkTirade]

23. ... could?

:P

[DS1]

24. You need a switch running at least 100Mbps

they cost about 20 bucks these days. Get with the times. I moved about that much in 30 minutes the other day.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

27. I do have a switch- that's not the bottleneck.

I didn't want to tear down my server until everything was copied and tested so I used an external USB hard drive connector to plug the new drive in. That's why the data was moving so slowly.

It wasn't a matter of pure speed for me, only of convenience. While the data was copying I still had access to it on my network- the old drives were all shared and mapped so I simply copied it all remotely via my main computer. When it was all done THEN I took the old drives out, slipped the new one in, and was up again in just a few minutes.

Get with the times indeed. :evilgrin:

[DS1]

28. USB?!? Masochist

(secret shame that external USB drivers are our "backup" plan at work. what a pathetic joke)