Post your External Hard Drives!

[Karpfish]

the funny part is tat i cant see that dust normally. i guess i need to dust them off.

 

[bossass]

Two Seagate 300gb. Leave a bit to be desired in looks, but I trust them more than any other drive.

If I had more $ I get the wiebetech SATA enclosure with removable sleds.

 

[ChrisBrightwell]

2x 40GB, 3x 80GB, 1x 200GB, 1x 300GB

820GB total.

I have a 60GB iPod just out of frame, if that counts.

 

[elisha cuthbert]

mine
and a couple of dozen that cannot be in the photo due to being off site

 

[nplima]

Witness my external hard drive, and quake in your boots.

And quake we do indeed. RedTomato is samurai with great wisdom and honour. His G3 NAS/Web server kicks very much ass. Aye.


Did you add any specific software to index and allow detailed searches on those 4x300GB drives, or do you rely on having the clients use spotlight or something like that to find the files they need?

Nuno Lima

 

[indigoflowAS]

This is the one i got about a year ago...
If I had some money to spend i would get 2 750 gig drives so i could have a pretty sweet 1.5 TB external drive. The drive is actually sitting in my desk drawer now... drilled hole in the back of the desk for cabling and cooling... it works wonderfully.

Can you name the brand on that enclosure? Its really attractive.

 

[RedTomato]

Did you add any specific software to index and allow detailed searches on those 4x300GB drives, or do you rely on having the clients use spotlight or something like that to find the files they need?

Hmm. No. A lot of the space is taken by my DV files for editing. Also each staffer has their own folder and they're responsible for the contents. (plus a communal folder. Tho to be honest, they don't use the backup space all that much, they're not very techy.

I was hoping to avoid the pain of walking over and doing regular onsite backups - the server and the staffer machines are about 3 miles apart - but it looks like I'll have to install incremental backup software on their laptops and hope it doesn't jam the 256k upload on their office ADSL too badly.

 

[Kidman13]

the funny part is tat i cant see that dust normally. i guess i need to dust them off.

Sweet! I have that same Venus D3 enclosure to keep my 200gb Seagate nice and cool.

 

[AliensAreFuzzy]

The Lacies are a 160GB and a 200GB the WD is a 320GB all connected via firewire 400.

 

[Thrash911]

Hey people,

This is my "cowboy setup" of my external HD. It's a simple USB <-> IDE setup, with a cooler attached to the drive. To avoid annoying vibration sounds, its standing on a little piece of rug on some homemade legs..
.

 

[brikeh]

Hey people,

This is my "cowboy setup" of my external HD. It's a simple USB <-> IDE setup, with a cooler attached to the drive. To avoid annoying vibration sounds, its standing on a little piece of rug on some homemade legs..
.

Wow thats really.....ugly

 

[Thrash911]

Wow thats really.....ugly

Not supposed to be pretty, a'ight..

 

[RedTomato]

Hey people,

This is my "cowboy setup" of my external HD. It's a simple USB <-> IDE setup, with a cooler attached to the drive. To avoid annoying vibration sounds, its standing on a little piece of rug on some homemade legs..
.

Haha it's quite sweet in a geeky way. You do realise you don't need the cooler if it's standing on legs in the open air?

Might look a bit nicer with the cooler on top rather than underneath.

Is that an IBM model M keyboard in the photo?

 

[Shotglass]

the funny part is tat i cant see that dust normally. i guess i need to dust them off.

It's the flashlight.

 

[Perrumpo]

500 GB WD Studio

1 TB G-Drive Q

1 TB Time Capsule

120 GB iPod Classic

 

[diotav]

LaCie D2 Quadra 750GB for Time Machine. (FW800)

LaCie Rugged 120GB for mobile use. (FW800)

 

[MattZani]

60Gb 2.5" Out of PS3, placed into El Cheapo eBay External, does the job.

Has Every Apple OS From OS 9 to 10.6, with updates, in raw form so if need be i can burn to a CD/DVD and reinstall etc. Which is why it has an Apple Sticker on, i also put my iTunes library on it sometimes.

 

[alphaod]

2 WD 1TB Studio II and 1 WD 500GB Premium all daisy chained with FW.
Rosewill enclosure with 1TB Seagate running eSATA.
LaCie 250GB USB 2.0
An assortment of laptop drives in enclosures from over the years; one of each (I upgrade every release)
-40GB 4200RPM
-60GB 5400RPM
-60GB 7200RPM
-80GB 4200RPM
-120GB 5400RPM
-160GB 5400RPM
-200GB 7200RPM
-250GB 5400RPM
-320GB 5400RPM
-500GB 5400RPM

That's 5.54 TB. Enough?

And of course the 500GB 7200RPM in my laptop, but that's not really external.

I also have 1 1TB 3.5", 2 60GB 2.5" and 1 100GB 2.5" that are dead, so I don't count then. I also have 7GB 3600RPM drive that's just really old and I have no idea if it works or not. I have a 4GB MicroDrive in my PDA, but that's just silly to count.

 

[Kthxbai]

I got myself one of these, in my opinion the best looking external ever.

The thing is I can't seem to find (or take myself) a singel picture that really does it justice. It alway looks extremly cheap and plastic, which it neither looks or feels like irl.

 

[bobfitz14]

This is my new hard disk. I bought this one because it is the best looking external hard drive I could find. 160GB, 7200rpm, aluminium cased, USB 2.0.

I'm going to be using it purely for backup of all my iTunes music and videos, movies etc.

Freecom 160GB Hard drive

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if you move all of your iTunes files to a hard drive, do you have to like reconfigure iTunes at all, specifically when you're sycing an iPod or something, do you have to change the source path?

 

[Kthxbai]

if you move all of your iTunes files to a hard drive, do you have to like reconfigure iTunes at all, specifically when you're sycing an iPod or something, do you have to change the source path?

I have my Itunes library on my hard drive. I just moved the whole folder, and then put an alias/shortcut to it with the name "iTunes Library" where it use to be. a bit of a quick fix maybe, but it works fine.

 

[Perrumpo]

if you move all of your iTunes files to a hard drive, do you have to like reconfigure iTunes at all, specifically when you're sycing an iPod or something, do you have to change the source path?

All you have to do is point iTunes to the new iTunes music folder within the Advanced tab in Preferences.

 

[HBOC]

this thread was reserected from the depths... i hava a LaCie D2 quadra 500GB that i love!!

I will post pics tomorrow..

 

[bobfitz14]

All you have to do is point iTunes to the new iTunes music folder within the Advanced tab in Preferences.

well that's pretty simple. i might look into buying an external hard drive now because i've lost my iTunes library before and had to start from scratch, and my internal one is like 150GB and my library is about 40GB so it's a decent chunk.

 

[brotherben]

Mine

I have mine buried, on my desk behind homework and projects, so Im using a stock photo of it, I bout the case and installed a HDD, its 250 GB, with your choice of usb2.0, or firewire 400, I of course use firewire 400.