Storage Set up - please offer advice

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Doju

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Feb 7, 2009

• #1

I'm thinking this for my Alu MB.

500GB 7200RPM Seagate
1TB external for backups

Would that be good? Is it a bad idea to store that much on your notebook?

With 400GB full, how long would it take to boot? Five minutes?

 

és:

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 7, 2009

• #2

Doju said:

I'm thinking this for my Alu MB.

500GB 7200RPM Seagate
1TB external for backups

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OK. Erm..

Would that be good?

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What for? Everyday data that is being backed up via time machine?

Is it a bad idea to store that much on your notebook?

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No. That's what back-ups are for.

With 400GB full, how long would it take to boot? Five minutes?

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It won't make much difference to your normal boot time.

 

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Doju

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Feb 7, 2009

• #3

Yes, every day backup.

So, it wouldn't be a good idea to store 400GB of movies and music on my notebook?

 

és:

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 8, 2009

• #4

Doju said:

Yes, every day backup.

So, it wouldn't be a good idea to store 400GB of movies and music on my notebook?

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What I meant was...

It's fine to store that much on your laptop, just as long as you have it backed up. So no problem.

 

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detz

macrumors 65816

• Feb 8, 2009

• #5

Well it depends on if you want to back it up. My music and movies are on a server so the ones on my laptop don't need to be backed up, it's a waste of time and space so I tell Time Machine to not backup certain directories where I store those. Time Machine works fine if you're not backing up gigs a day, are you asking about a backup solution or a storage solution?

 

maestrokev

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 9, 2009

• #6

Any hard drive once you go past the 80% full capacity will start to slow down. Ideally you want to keep the drive less full or partition it to reduce seek times.

 

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MuDPHuDStudent

macrumors member

• Feb 9, 2009

• #7

That's a good setup.

I just got one of these and partitioned a few hundred gigs for time machine and the rest for storing media that I don't want to clutter my macbook's hard drive with.