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_RIP_

11 February 2006 05:43 PM

Huge hard drives. What's the point.

I've just had a small 40 GB IBM hard drive start the click of death noise. I copied over the data (which wasnt very important as I had heard of problems with this particular model) to another drive. Now if this had been one of those 400 GB jobs, I doubt I could have done much. Does anyone back up 300/400 GB drives? Let's say you have a nearly full 300 GB drive, even as a second drive and not a boot drive, what would you do do protect data loss? Just regularly back up the most important stuff? OK they might be faster as they get bigger. But is that it? What am I missing here? :confused:

Scooby-Doo

11 February 2006 05:58 PM

I have 2 drives 300gb and 250gb. the 300GB drive is partitioned into C and D and E is the 250GB drive. C holds the operating system and critical files I don't want to loose. D holds all game installs, MP3's and all my DVD backups (and yes I own them) and E is my backup drive. C is ghosted monthly onto E so I can restrore the system whenever and have an array of backup dates available. D I am not worried about loosing as I can replace all the data from discs. Still have plenty of space for future DVD's and backups but you would be surprised how many GB's modern games take up.

lightning101

11 February 2006 06:01 PM

Create a raid array that writes to both at once creating a live backup of data :)

David_Wallis

11 February 2006 06:56 PM

Doing that allways makes you wonder about the MTBF on the drives..

My current server has around 300gb of data backed up to other disks and computers, but my plan is to provide a mirror for the OS (currently 10k 18gb SCSI)

The data will then me on 4x400gb SATA drives with Raid 5 and an Online Spare.

But yeah Id allways advise backing up.. LTO anyone?

David

Scooby-Doo

11 February 2006 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lightning101

Create a raid array that writes to both at once creating a live backup of data :)

If you do that and install a program that totally cacks the OS is the backup not then cack ?

David_Wallis

11 February 2006 07:21 PM

Yep.. thats why backups are called backups and mirrors / raid arrays are called 'Fault Tollerance'

David

stevebt

12 February 2006 06:26 PM

i have over 800gig of storage space on my pc in 4 drives and i bet i have only got about 50 gig spare, i need myself another drive i think :)

scoobie-shieldy

12 February 2006 07:04 PM

steve u in same boat as me, lolz but i got 1tb of storage lolz and bout 80gig left hehe

lightning101

12 February 2006 07:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David_Wallis

Yep.. thats why backups are called backups and mirrors / raid arrays are called 'Fault Tollerance'

David

Thats what i've been doing wrong for the last 20 years :lol1:

mart360

12 February 2006 08:48 PM

I have -- well its sor now :( a dat drive for my backups,

It used to be a weekly run, now i may go down the DVD route..

if i can work out how to do it

Mart

bigsinky

13 February 2006 09:27 AM

I have 4 x 300 SATA drives and a small 80GB IDE drive in my rig. my 80gb has my windows xp pro install on it and it is backed up and Ghosted as well. the rest is filled with ****e. movies, mp3, games etc. Deffo recommend the backup option as a reinstall of xp involves mobo drivers, video drivers, soundcard, and pci card drivers as well. not hard if you have the install cds but a right royal PITA.

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