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Post your External Hard Drives!
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RedTomato said:
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?
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nplima said:
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.
Thrash911 said: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..
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Wow thats really.....ugly
Thrash911 said: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..
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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?
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
All you have to do is point iTunes to the new iTunes music folder within the Advanced tab in Preferences.
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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.
