Post your external storage.

[kellen]

Not my pic, but it is my external. A mercury elite dual e-sata. Perfect for the mac pro and is only 60 bucks. Esata only.

 

[j0nheck]

External Storage:

(Top) OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro in RAID0, 2x 1.5TB.
(Bottom) Wiebetech TrayDock, 400 GB

I primarily use the Mercury for media storage and backup (only filled about 1TB ATM). The Wiebetech is exclusively used for backups via Deja Vu.

Very satisfied with both products--although I haven't been able to test the Mercury's faster interfaces (eSATA & FW800)......still waiting for new MBPs!

 

[jgodden]

6TB Buffalo NAS Raid 5

Also have a WD Elements 750GB and a WD Passport 250GB

 

[BeamWalker]

Main Storage is inside this puppy:

AMD based Fileserver 4x320GB Seagate /CF with FreeNAS

Not the newest one but still a very good machine. I'll propably update the drives with larger ones in the next couple of month. There is still plenty of space in this thing.

On my Desktop:

1,5 TB Version. ATM serves as a backup for the fileserver.

& just ordered one of these for 2,5" drives:

I have yet to decide what to put in it. I'll know once the new MBPs are out. I'm gonna use it as a mobile storage device.

 

[macgeek18]

I just have the same Radioshack HD enclosure as the OP with a WD 500GB HD.
And I have a Seagate Momentus Go 250GB with a dock as my portable Time Machine.

 

[nobunaga209]

I have this one...

Lacie huh? Final Fantasy 13 much?? Sorry I couldn't resist...

 

[alexh123drum]

not really, ideally you'd want a tower unit rather then traditional desktop, at least sata2 disk connectors, and more the better, have it set up to access your network, via wireless or wired ( better ) and leave it running, set up sharing and access and it should work a treat, you can add HDD's as and when you need

Thanks! have to look into that when I move before summer.

 

[str8bucs]

I just ordered this in the 4TB model

Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d

http://go.iomega.com/en-us/products...ion/network-hard-drive-ix4-200d/?partner=4760

 

[DeepIn2U]

I just ordered this in the 4TB model

Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d

http://go.iomega.com/en-us/products...ion/network-hard-drive-ix4-200d/?partner=4760

Can you do TM backups over the internet, access file server on a separate partition over internet (not same subnet) and do so securely?

I'll looking to update my solution for my MB as a separate or add-on to my Time Capsule.

Thanks.

 

[Hilmi Hamidi]

Lacie huh? Final Fantasy 13 much?? Sorry I couldn't resist...

Err, what?

 

[xplor]

i have an old 320Gb Lacie hard drive but i dont use it.
My external storage is the web.
Carbonite for backup of my all computer and dropbox to store important stuff and sharing documents for work. When the ipad comes out here, i'll be buying a 50Gb account.

 

[Mr. McMac]

The Macally G-S350SU houses a Westen Digital 10EARS (Green) I TB HD used for Time Machine backups on my iMac



A 320 GB Western Digital My Passport Essential used for data and Time Machine backups on my mini.



My PC formatted (NTFS) External HD's. A 320 GB Western Digital My Passport Essential, and an old 500 GB Maxtor One Touch III



Rosewill RX-DUS100 2.5" & 3.5" SATA to USB2.0 & eSATA Hard Drive Docking Station used for testing drives

 

[AENAON]

The Box With The Lighers

Oh ****, did I make a caffeinated cup?

 

[Hisdem]

I use a Western Digital My Passport Essential 500GB as a mobile Time Machine backup and at home I have the network set up using a shared iomega ScreenPlay Plus 1TB. Although I prefer the WD Passport for it's size and the fact that it looks like it was made for the MBP.

 

[Fa7mac]

iMac & TV

 

[fel10]

Iomega Prestige 1 TB - I use it as my "Time Machine" to back up my Macbook Pro.

Toshiba 500 GB - I use this one to store all my iTunes media. (Videos, Music, Pictures)

 

[caseys]

Alas I can't post the external storage I manage for work

I was admittedly testing the other week an array with 64gb cache and 64x73gb SSDs in a raid-5 setup. Now that was speedy

I'm a San/storage engineer by trade

 

[ideal.dreams]

1TB Portable Hard Drive for TimeMachine Backups

320GB Portable Hard Drive for Movies

 

[daneoni]

Nothing fancy, just took my stock HDD and shoved it in a USB case i got from Amazon for my SuperDuper weekly backups.

 

[AppleNewton]

each has 2TB drives (dual-bay enclosure has 2x2TB in RAID0, and the portable is 640GB TimeMachine), all running FW800, wish i could run them on eSATA.

Also waiting on receiving my new iMac 27"

 

[jetjaguar]

how do u like those owc housings ? is the fan on that dual one loud ?

 

[hadegbite]

Oh ****, did I make a caffeinated cup?

How did you get your text like that...software? Effect?

 

[AppleNewton]

how do u like those owc housings ? is the fan on that dual one loud ?

The five single drives are these http://www.octometa.com/store/ (and are fanless designed and dont run hot to the touch).


the dual-bay is OWC and the fan is relatively low noise, where i have it its not audible (with all the drives on there is a slight low ambient audible noise but nothing that is extremely loud).

So far im liking the dual-bay enclosure. I just picked it up a few days ago on their clearance section. so not a bad deal.

 

[jetjaguar]

The five single drives are these http://www.octometa.com/store/ (and are fanless designed and dont run hot to the touch).


the dual-bay is OWC and the fan is relatively low noise, where i have it its not audible (with all the drives on there is a slight low ambient audible noise but nothing that is extremely loud).

So far im liking the dual-bay enclosure. I just picked it up a few days ago on their clearance section. so not a bad deal.

thanks .. im looking for external storage for my imac .. and i cant decide between the g-raid 4tb, the OWC 4tb and the wd my book2 4tb (uses green drives tho)

the owc is the cheapest of the bunch .. i like the housing but i hate the writing on the side lol

 

[AppleNewton]

thanks .. im looking for external storage for my imac .. and i cant decide between the g-raid 4tb, the OWC 4tb and the wd my book2 4tb (uses green drives tho)

the owc is the cheapest of the bunch .. i like the housing but i hate the writing on the side lol

tell me about it, its the only drive out of the bunch that has any logos and writing

I'd recommend any of them but the WD if it does infact have green drives in any form of RAID, just because the green drives power off intermittently to save power and RAID confuses that with the drives falling offline and essentially throws up errors to rebuild the RAID. (as most current gen WD Green drives lack TLER).