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Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> Well said - guess there isn't a convenient modality for backing up 500GB of
> data?
Yes, there is. Buy two. :-) I don't know about elsewhere in the world,
but 2 1-TB drives would run you <$400 here.
Then use robocopy (or rsync on Linux and probably Mac). I'll give you my
robocopy scripts if you want - you can even take a volume shadow so you can
keep using the disk while it's backing up.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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>> A 1.5 GB SATA Seagate Barracuda drive costs a mere $95 from newegg.
Hopefully that's TB. :-)
> I don't know, man... Backing up spinning disk to... spinning disk? Is
> that such a sensible idea?
Why not? It's a backup. It's not like you can read a tape without spinning
it. What are you going to back it up to, FLASH RAM?
> (Then again, I don't have any hard data on the reliability of HD verses
> tape verses CD. I've heard that spinning HD up and down wears it out
> faster than keeping it spinning, but I don't know if that's true...)
And by the time you actually have to worry about that, those drives will be
your temp drives and you'll be buying 15TB SSDs for the next computer.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> *brrr* - I shiver at the thought of a mobile HDD as a backup device...
Why? If you have two copies, then crashing one doesn't affect the other.
> How do you feel about the statement that the fact that if a drive is mobile,
> inherently it will never last as long as a "traditional" statically mounted
> drive that just sites in a cradle internally in a climate controlled server
> rack / box?
Depends. Does the building with the servers in it burn down?
How long do you need it to last?
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> Hmm... well, no contest there. I guess there can be other factors involved
> besides on / off frequency then?
Google published a whitepaper with good statistics about this. As you might
guess, they have excellent records and a sizeable number of disks.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Invisible wrote:
> Seems kinda unlikely though...
I've had cheap enclosures die on me. If you really want to test, take the
drive out and plug it into your desktop machine.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> Read a while ago that the RAF had to pay compensation to almost a hundred
> car owners - one of their air-defense "steerable-array" radars went haywire
> and scanned over a road - they burned out almost every vehicle's ignition
> and fuel injection microprocessors with the radar beam!
I occasionally hear a fighter jet come overhead and then hear my garage door
opening. Happens about five times a year. I live near Mirimar (aka "Top
Gun"), so we get fighter jets overhead pretty regularly. Many times a day
where I was working across the road.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Invisible schrieb:
>>> Personally, I'd probably use SSD for my system partition (for the
>>> faster booting) and use cheap spinning disk for my POV-Ray renders. ;-)
>>
>> How much storage capacity do you need for a Linux system partition?
>>
>> They fit /entire/ Linux installations on a single CD, so...
>
> Ah yes, but under Windoze all programs insist on being installed on C: ;-)
... if you let them, yes :-P
But you're right, setting up a Windows system so that the system
partition fits on a comparatively inexpensive SSD is still likely to be
a major feat - and i wouldn't be all too surprised if Windows system
partition size managed to keep up pace with the evolution of SSDs :-)
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Darren New wrote:
> I've had cheap enclosures die on me. If you really want to test, take
> the drive out and plug it into your desktop machine.
Like I maybe mentioned, it's an eSATA, so has a totally different
connection and can't test it in desktop of housemate.
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Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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Tim Cook schrieb:
> Like I maybe mentioned, it's an eSATA, so has a totally different
> connection and can't test it in desktop of housemate.
Nobody in reach with eSATA on their machine? Neighbors? Friends? Work
colleagues?
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Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> Have ordered a new one, which will arrive in two or so days.
Unrelated, but I have been starting to wonder about that.
Here if I want to buy a piece of hardware, I go to the store and buy it.
That's it.
However, I have seen tons and tons of people use that exact expression,
ie. "ordered <piece of hardware>, will arrive in <some amount of> days".
Is this somehow different there (wherever it might be)? Is it that there
aren't any computer hardware stores nearby and you have to buy them
remotely and get them by mail or something? Or is it that stores don't
have hardware in stock, they just order them on demand?
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- Warp
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