Post your external storage.

[fineaddme]

hey appletnewton would u not recommend wd greens for time machine?
and is the octometa store yours?

 

[Cliff3]

The main unit is an HP EX490 storage server with 2 x 1.5TB WD15EADS and 2 x WD20EARS drives, and the CPU upgraded to an Intel E6300 2.8GHz dual core. This machine runs an iTunes client to serve up around 1TB of media to an AppleTV, hosts two Time Machine backups, one for for each of my Macs, hosts a backup of my photo library plus backups of other files. The external drive dock is connected via eSATA to the HP server and I use it to back up the storage server to bare drives that are stored elsewhere. The big external is a LaCie 2Big triple configured as 1TB of RAID 1, and it hosts a bootable clone of my Mac Pro's primary drive. The small external is a Seagate 320GB 7200rpm drive in a bus-powered FW800 Rosewill enclosure that hosts a bootable clone of my MBP's drive.

Update:

I replaced the EX490 with a Synology DS411 last Fall. I am still using the eSATA drive dock for server backups in conjunction with several WD green drives: a 2.5TB and 2 1.5TB drives. I stuck the 320GB 2.5" drive into a USB 3.0 enclosure from OWC for use with my new MBA.

 

[nani7788]

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[Macman45]

Have had my R4 for a couple of months now....Fantastic...finally found a use for thunderbolt that actually works!

 

[h1r0ll3r]

One of these for all around backup

And about 25 of these things for random/odd backups and such;

Not that exact model but, you know what I mean. I gots lots of USB drives lying around for some reason.

 

[Lagmonster]

Only thing I wish for in my NAS setup would be Thunderbolt for doing giant transfers...

 

[Sylon]

Picked this up not too long ago, using it mainly for backups on my MacBook. I think it looks awesome. I also have 2 WD Passports. I have 2 WD MyBooks at home for my home PC.

 

[GabooN]

All drives are attached to my Mac Mini.

500GB Seagate Freeagent - 2 partitions, 120GB for network clone of my MBP SSD, and 380GB for network clone of the MBP HDD.

2TB WD MyBook Essential - 1st is my media drive holding movies and tv shows for Plex server and my aperture photo vault. 2nd is a direct clone of the 1st.

2TB WD MyBook World Edition NAS - Setup as Raid 1 (1TB x2) and used as network Time Machine backup for my MBP.

1TB WD Element - Time machine backup for Mac Mini.

Also have a 120GB external drive enclosure that holds the original drive from my MBP. Don't currently have a drive to clone the Mac Mini to but the TM backups are enough for now I think. My MBP is my main computer so a quick recovery from any potential problems is more important for that machine, especially with my graduate studies program starting this September.

 

[brentmore]

Synology NAS - a great purchase!

 

[Badrottie]

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra Portable

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[Drew017]

2 and 8 gigs

 

[vastoholic]

Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 loaded with 4 x 2TB drives in Raid 0. 2 Partitions, 1TB for time machine backups and the rest for iTunes and other media storage.

 

[50voltphantom]

I love this thing.

 

[peapody]

 

[jetjaguar]

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damn how much external space you have?? which ones are those ?

 

[BrianInLA]

Synology NAS - a great purchase!

If you don't mind me asking, what model is that?

 

[brentmore]

If you don't mind me asking, what model is that?

I've got the 211j. It's since been replaced by the 212j.

 

[M0esmac]

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And if you don't mind, how do you use it all? I mean where iTunes, where backups ant stuff?
Thanks!

 

[peapody]

damn how much external space you have?? which ones are those ?

I have

2x4TB
2x2TB
1X1Tb

And if you don't mind, how do you use it all? I mean where iTunes, where backups ant stuff?
Thanks!

The 2 4tbs hold everything (music, movies, tv shows, other media); 1 2tb hold movies; 1 2tb hold tv; and the 1tb hold music

 

[Vege-Taco]

Promise Pegasus R4 - 4TB
Promise Pegasus R6 - 6TB
Promise SmartStor DS4600 - 8TB

Thunderbolt is awesome!


I also backup online using CrashPlan -- currently backing up only 1.2TB of the critical stuff.

 

[pjarvi]

My external drive enclosure died so I pulled the drive out of it and put it in a 3-in-2 drive bay for my PC. I currently have no external backup, just mirroring from drive 2 to drive 3:



Drive 1 is an SSD, 2 and 3 are both 2TB drives. Getting kinda full, and I do need to get another backup going. Everything is connected to a UPS but that's no excuse. Been contemplating building a home server but want to do some form of off-site backup as well.

 

[pepatrick]

External storage:

1. Lacie 2big USB 3.0. Found a used one ebay for cheap and ripped out the cheap 1tb drives.. Dropped in a couple 2tb WD blacks that was from last years PC project. Insanely fast and no problems.
2. Lacie 1tb little big disk Thunderbolt. Fast but not as fast the USB 3.0 and WD drives.
3. Corsair 32gb USB 3.0 thumb drive
4. Thermaltake BlacX duet USB 3.0. Nice but only used to make sure I have redundant backups of data.