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How should I backup my 750 gigs of data ?
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DUBBZ
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6. April 2005 @ 18:00 |
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Should I use dvdr or hardrives. Money is no object. I need speed & reliability (no loss data) when it comes to retreiving my files. Discs will be stored on spindles and hardrives will be kept in a safe. What would you burning guru's do in this situation. Thanx in advance.
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Daemon404
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6. April 2005 @ 18:19 |
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Well, my mom's company uses a tape drive for it's backups. each tape holds 24 gigs of data (at least teh ones my moms work uses do). Tape drives are up to $2000 or more though.
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6. April 2005 @ 18:37 |
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Money is no object though. Since it isn't you can buy me a few tape drives too, while you're at it. :)
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DUBBZ
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6. April 2005 @ 18:37 |
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O.K. I lied, money is sort of an issue. I was thinking about some $200 hardrives or about a few hundred dvdr's.
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6. April 2005 @ 18:48 |
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Personally, i'd go the harddrive route.
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Daemon404
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6. April 2005 @ 18:52 |
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I agree. The biggest storage HDD ive seen is 800GB... WOW
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kyle_101
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7. April 2005 @ 03:16 |
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Yeah i agrre HDD is the was to go, never know with those dvdr's they could deteriorate and then you would loose loads of stuff.
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DogBomb
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7. April 2005 @ 07:54 |
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HDD, maybe a few external/USB2 ones. Otheriwse, it's nearly 2 spindles of 100-pack DVDs at 5 minutes a piece...minimum. Or you could wait a few years for dual-layer Blu-ray DVDs which will hold 50GB each.
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DUBBZ
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7. April 2005 @ 13:51 |
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hey dogbomb, you say external drives, how bout internal drives, and just removing them when they are full. It's just me but i just like internal better than external, or do you know something bad about internal drives that i should be aware of.
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DogBomb
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8. April 2005 @ 01:57 |
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Nothing wrong with getting 3 Western Digital 250GB Internal hard drives to do your backups. It's just that you said "money was no object". ;)
I used smaller capacity hard drives as removable backups too when I got bigger ones and needed the drive bay slots. It's not that much of a pain these days with easy slide-out bays and Win XP (no stupid drivers to install). The only thing you might want to think about is whether you go for SATA or IDE drives. You can get really cheap IDE drives now (half price of SATA), but that's because IDE is on its way out. But I'm sure there will be cards out that will make them adaptable to a SATA-equipped motherboard...hopefully.
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8. April 2005 @ 04:42 |
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8. April 2005 @ 05:56 |
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How do you have 750 gigs not backed up already? I mean, my notebook only has 40 gigs. I also have a 200gb external harddrive. Surely if you had 750 gigs on your computer, you would just buy another hard drive thats exactly the same, backup your hard drive and store it. It might be just me but that seems like a simple solution.
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kyle_101
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8. April 2005 @ 08:41 |
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WOW Londor thats some really nice stuff there, (drooling)
Wouldnt mind having any of that stuff
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8. April 2005 @ 10:12 |
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Massive internal HDs would be what I would go for. I've got 1/2 a terabyte of storage space in my 2 PCs, easy to access & transfer files with my router. 750gig is a lot of info, is it films?
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8. April 2005 @ 15:36 |
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I think it's pulsar's police records he's wanting to back up ;)
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8. April 2005 @ 18:40 |
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I've seen a terabyte drive, however it has been a month since i've seen it and it carried a hefty price tag, however, i'm guessing it's cheaper than buying 3 250gb drives, it was 459.99 canadian.
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Xmonkey
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8. April 2005 @ 19:29 |
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go with a 1 or 2 terabyte HDD these are expensive But useful
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Xmonkey
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8. April 2005 @ 19:31 |
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But wow 750gigs thats alot of stuff if u want a more organized way if u got a dual-layer burner burn dual-layers disks
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8. April 2005 @ 20:47 |
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That'd be $540 dollars worth of DL media.
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9. April 2005 @ 00:00 |
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9. April 2005 @ 01:06 |
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Quote;
"I think it's pulsar's police records he's wanting to back up ;)"
LOL
There is not enough hard drives in the world to store my errant behaviour with! Just the amount of times I went over the speed limit on my bikes would make even the hardest judge shudder. The amount of speed that I went over would make police have a dicky fit! My record is 105mph over the speed limit. That would have been a lifetime ban me thinks!
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9. April 2005 @ 01:09 |
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Not wishing to incite or condone law breaking in any way, but can anyone beat my record? Going through villages at high speed does not count as I consider that dangerous. You may knock over a child or other innocent. You are only allowed to damage ones' self. The only criteria is that you have to be in the open countryside.
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Xmonkey
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9. April 2005 @ 09:13 |
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pulsar what in the hell are u talking about this is a thread about backing up files not driving around a countryside.
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9. April 2005 @ 09:28 |
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9. April 2005 @ 09:58 |
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Right on! I love Sledghammer :D
@ DUBBZ
The LaCie externals that webuser linked to are indeed an excellent and reliable option :)
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