Storage Dilemma.

[iCraig]

I've never had enough space to store stuff in the past, but during the past few days I've acquired more than I can think of a use for. :undecided:

Now, it's free storage from my boss, and selling it on would be a bit indecent by making money off his gift and I never say no to free stuff, especially an 80GB hard drive and a 250GB external drive.

So currently, I now have 2 physical hard drives, one split into two partitions, and two USB external drives.

C:\ System - 68GB *partition*
D:\ Work - 43GB *partition*
V:\ Vista - 80GB (Only trialled vista on this drive to see how it was. Won't be activating it yet so I'll be removing it from this drive soon, leaving this totally empty.

G: Backup - 80GB My existing back-up drive.
F: New volume - 250GB. It makes sense to make this the backup drive, but what to do with the other one?


Let me have your thoughts and ideas.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by iCraig

I've acquired more than I can think of a use for.

Non sequitur right there. It's impossible to have too much storage.

I have 2TB of disks in just one of my PCs (though I do have most of that in RAID 1, so only about 1.2TB useable). My media box has another 1TB.

As for your situation, it's entirely up to you. If you're really pushed for what to do with the space, use both external disks for backups. Two backups are better than one.

[Feek]

Let me be the first to suggest that you need to download more porn

[iCraig]

I stream my porn

No evidence, no mess. Well, no mess of the PC kind anyway.

[Daz]

Something a bit out there - stripe the 2 80gigs to give you some disk bandwidth niceness.

My setup (on my workstation/server)

2 x 200GB Striped - 50GB root partition, 250GB data partition (top level is data_archive, music, pictures and videos), 100GB virtual machine partition). Second internal 160GB disk, boot partition and 1st backup for music, pictures and 2 virtual machines.

Finally, a 500GB external drive which holds a backup of everything, some refreshed nightly, others weekly.