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500Gb!!! FFS, man, that’s an incredible pile of shite you must have 🙂
I would strongly recommend you take a look at this cool tool:
Ah cheers for that Lens, looks like an interesting tool…
Unfortunately this is all data I need. So, my curreent options are:
Buy 4 300 GB drives and put them in RAID 5 on another machine, copy all the data over and then sell my 2 current 3GB drives… this only gives me an extra 300GB though, which I’ll fill in less than 6 months or so.
Buy a decent RAID card that lets me do online expansion, then get 4 HDs in RAID 5… same as before but when I run out of space again I can expand my array rather than move the data elsewhere.
Use Linux, which offers software RAID with online expansion (I think). Unfortunately I don’t know much about linux, and I don’t want to trust all my data to it.
The cheapo option…. break my data up and move some of it to another drive. This might cause issues down the line though…
Anyone got any other suggestions?
You must have more gay porn than Insane FFS – Get treesize pro and delete the ones that ‘don’t do it for ya’ anymore!
@Deicist wrote:
Ah cheers for that Lens, looks like an interesting tool…
Unfortunately this is all data I need. So, my curreent options are:
Buy 4 300 GB drives and put them in RAID 5 on another machine, copy all the data over and then sell my 2 current 3GB drives… this only gives me an extra 300GB though, which I’ll fill in less than 6 months or so.
Buy a decent RAID card that lets me do online expansion, then get 4 HDs in RAID 5… same as before but when I run out of space again I can expand my array rather than move the data elsewhere.
Use Linux, which offers software RAID with online expansion (I think). Unfortunately I don’t know much about linux, and I don’t want to trust all my data to it.
The cheapo option…. break my data up and move some of it to another drive. This might cause issues down the line though…
Anyone got any other suggestions?
Get an external storage array and stick it on there!
@=XDC= MadHippy wrote:
@Deicist wrote:
Get an external storage array and stick it on there!
I was actually pricing up Scsi external storage arrays and found a place that does them for about £1 per GB… unfortunately I need about a Terabyte so that’d be a grand and I don’t have that kind of budget. Buffalo do a nifty thing called a terastation…but in RAID 5 it only gives you 750GB(ish) for £650. I’m trying to not spend very much…although I think I’me going to have to bite the bullet and splash out some serious cash 🙁
Wow! Just as a matter of interest, what is all this data and is there any chance some could be archived to tape?
Of course, if its none of my business, just tell me 🙂
It’s mostly video (300 or so GB), music (100GB ish) and comics (100GB ish) the rest is just general crap, games, operating systems etc…
I think I’m going to get an external 300GB drive and put everything except the music and video on that. That should give me some breathing room for a while.
all entirely legal of course
kin L.. You should burn the films, games, art, etc etc to DVD.. believe me If i used yuor data storage I’d need.. ummm more than 5000gb lol 😀
@XDC-snell wrote:
Or buy a cheap pc and build your self a file server 😀
This is my file server 😛
it’s a 2K3 box that basically just has an OS drive and then this archive drive (2*300GB in RAID0) in it.
@XDC-Insane wrote:
kin L.. You should burn the films, games, art, etc etc to DVD.. believe me If i used yuor data storage I’d need.. ummm more than 5000gb lo
I can’t be arsed with DVDs though, they get lost and scratched and you have to put the disk you want in…. this way I have instant access to everything, and I can stream any video or music over the internet to wherever I am.
aye good point Mr D 😀
I’m pretty good at keeping things in vair good nick so its alright for me.. however gonna get me a media system so I can stream my Divx through my Xbox360 too TV 😀
@Deicist wrote:
@XDC-snell wrote:
Or buy a cheap pc and build your self a file server 😀
This is my file server 😛
it’s a 2K3 box that basically just has an OS drive and then this archive drive (2*300GB in RAID0) in it.
@XDC-Insane wrote:
kin L.. You should burn the films, games, art, etc etc to DVD.. believe me If i used yuor data storage I’d need.. ummm more than 5000gb lo
I can’t be arsed with DVDs though, they get lost and scratched and you have to put the disk you want in…. this way I have instant access to everything, and I can stream any video or music over the internet to wherever I am.
Build another one then 🙄
@Deicist wrote:
@=XDC= MadHippy wrote:
@Deicist wrote:
Get an external storage array and stick it on there!
I was actually pricing up Scsi external storage arrays and found a place that does them for about £1 per GB… unfortunately I need about a Terabyte so that’d be a grand and I don’t have that kind of budget. Buffalo do a nifty thing called a terastation…but in RAID 5 it only gives you 750GB(ish) for £650. I’m trying to not spend very much…although I think I’me going to have to bite the bullet and splash out some serious cash 🙁
Why dont you get one of those DIY external HD thingies… ie
HD (Fuck knows whether it would be compatible – youre the techie!)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Seagate_IDE.html
Case
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/HD_Accessories.html
Whats that… about £350?
or theres this… half the price you are quoting (bottom one)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Maxtor_External.html
Ive got a maxtor external and it serves me well 🙂
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