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Well, that was fast. 750GB gone... like that!

ftaok said:
Yeah, but look at it this way. The money you would have spent to go 250GB from the start can be used to buy a new 320GB HDD and an external case. So you'd end up with a 320GB Macbook and a 160GB external HDD. Not sure what the money difference would be, but I'd suspect Apple would have charged at least $100 for the extra 90GB.

Swapping HDDs in Macbooks is super easy ... not Dell easy, but if you've ever swapped an HDD in an iBook, the Macbook is like stealing candy from a baby.

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thats true. It was 100 to upgrade it thats why I didnt go for it. Now my question it can my Macbook handle a 320gb HD?
 
OP i know how you feel!!!

my current setup

MBP
• Internal - 500gb (nearly used half of it in 2 months!!)
• External - 2x 500gb, 1x1tb (1 50gb full, other 500gb half full, 1tb only got 200gb left).

time capsule 1tb. ~300gb left (used for computer backups from imac with 750gb, ibook and MBP)

everything is filling up so fast! i am seriously going to have to save some money and buy a large external enclosure. i do not have a backup solution for my current external HD's on my MBP, because i cannot afford it!!

i mainly store movies on it, my BluRay collection is getting larger and larger by the minute. i have probs only aroung 50gb of itunes music. not that large get, but it is growing.
 
rhett7660 said:
Ummm.. what does? Is there suppose to be a link? Just checking.

Edit, found it when I quoted:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32344438@N06/3024035252/

What kind of machine is it? What does it run? Back up etc? I have been looking into doing one of the lime technology nas boxes.
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It is based on OpenSolaris and VirtualBox. The five visible drives are a RaidZ array. The machine hosts several other virtual machines and keeps things synched between 3 homes (via FIOS/Comcast/Time Warner).

DropBox, FolderShare, No-IP, Network Solutions, Google Applications, DynDNS fill in the gaps.

I looked at that Lime unRAID server - I might add that to a location as well.
 
Whoa...I read the title of this thread and thought "750 GB gone" meant "750 GB disappeared coz of some kind of hardware/software screw-up."

Your problem is a better one to have :)
 
fivepoint said:
A while back, I started a thread called "Storage Solutions for our OUT-OF-CONTROL iTunes Libraries". A few months later I decided on a library solution for myself which included 2 750GB hard drives which I found for cheap, one which would house my iTunes library, the other of which which would back the other up weekly. I also purchased a 1TB HD which I used to back up my iMac's internal 750GB HD through Time Machine and an Airport Extreme.

Well, 43,000 posts to the thread and several months time later, my solution now sucks. My 750GB HD is full! That went way faster than I thought it would. :(

Anyway, I suppose there is no real 'point' to this thread other than to serve as a warning to anyone planning their own storage solution, to er on the side of 'too much' as well as a place for people in similar situations to vent their frustrations.
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The potential of your scenario is exactly what prompted me to get a Drobo instead of a external drive for my movies.
 
Tomorrow said:
Whoa...I read the title of this thread and thought "750 GB gone" meant "750 GB disappeared coz of some kind of hardware/software screw-up."

Your problem is a better one to have :)
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Hahaha, yes, I agree! I'll just have to consider myself "lucky", right?



Capt Crunch said:
The potential of your scenario is exactly what prompted me to get a Drobo instead of a external drive for my movies.
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That was certainly an option... However, due to the significant cost discrepancy and a few other things, I decided against it in the long run. Do I regret my decision? I don't know... I think if I had a Drobo, I'd almost have to have TWO of them, because I don't trust all of my content in one enclosure.
 
fivepoint said:
That was certainly an option... However, due to the significant cost discrepancy and a few other things, I decided against it in the long run. Do I regret my decision? I don't know... I think if I had a Drobo, I'd almost have to have TWO of them, because I don't trust all of my content in one enclosure.
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You know what's going to happen right? In a few months, Drobo will go out of business and my drobo will self-destruct. I will then post a thread outlining my woes which you will post in describing how you envisioned my exact scenario and deliberately avoided it.
 
jessica. said:
Well what I don't get is if you own the physical DVD why bother ripping it? Or is that not the point? Is it a convenience thing? You never have to actually leave the couch?
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this is a good point, but in the case of me, with 2 young kids - having DVDs ripped and in a box and the movies software accessible is the way to go. :)

To the OP, not surprised at the overflow. :(

Whenever I get around to doing this, I imagine a huge server with tons of TBs. More b/c i rip my CDs into lossless, but for the movies which i'll handbrake.

Then again, by the time I get around to it, they'll probably have 1 TB flash drives :)
 
Capt Crunch said:
You know what's going to happen right? In a few months, Drobo will go out of business and my drobo will self-destruct. I will then post a thread outlining my woes which you will post in describing how you envisioned my exact scenario and deliberately avoided it.
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I truly hope not, Captain. I wouldn't wish that on anyone! Plus, if that ever happened I'm sure someone on eBay would be more than happy to sell you a new drobo for a few thousand dollars so you could retrieve all of your old data! :D
 
tom5304 said:
That Drobo system looks smooth and sweet, but am I really crazy enough to spend $600+ on backing up a bunch of DVDs? Well, maybe I am. :eek:
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I thought the same thing ... and then in a fit of madness I broke down and bought one (one of the 1st gen Drobos).

BEST. DECISION. I'VE. EVER. MADE. (at least with regard to computer stuff).

I didn't pay $600, I paid $375 (Canadian). Sure, it's USB 2.0 only (the newer ones include FW), but it's fast enough. Initially, I put two 250 gig and one 320 gig drive in there. When I started ripping my DVD collection that filled up quick. So I just added larger disks.

No reformatting, no moving files around ... just pull out the smallest drive and slap in a bigger one - and the space is available immediately.

Highly recommended.

Only downside: As a former system administrator, I too am paranoid about putting all my data in one enclosure. The only solution is to buy a second one, locate it somewhere on the other side of the country and back up to it nightly.

(that's not overkill, is it? ;) )
 
Drobo scares me..I almost got one but between the countless bad reviews and just the price I've decided it's cheaper and safer to just buy drives. Think of it like this. The Drobo is $500 plus the drives so to get 2.7TB of data you need four TB drives plus the drobo. Lets say you get a deal on the TB drives at $100 each so that's $900 for a "Raid 5" array of 2.7TB of data. Now, take that same $900 and you can buy 8 1TB drives plus a decent enclosure. Now you can either due raid 1 or just mirror them yourself and your data is much safer and you have 4TB of data vs 2.7TB with the Drobo.
 
I just Had a 1tb go today lost pretty much everything on it, most I had backed up, some things not, but nothing totally irreplaceable. I've pretty much decided this is like chasing the Dragon, a Never ending battle of buying Hard Drives and Redundancy, and it's really not worth it to keep chasing it. I've decided I'll back up everything to DVD, and Use my ATV in a Syncing mode. Now that 2.3 has video Playlists I can make several nights of viewing lists and sync them over to the ATV, now to do that long awaited upgrade of its HD.
 
I got my AppleTV about 4 months ago and set out with the intention to put all my current DVDs into digital form and then just buy in digital format from that point on.

Now, I am not even close to have begun that project. I've put about 30 movies on my setup (served with a G4 Mini) but I just don't have the patience, or more importantly, the need to do all my movies. If I want to watch a movie I have on DVD, I put it in my 360 and watch it. If a movie is out I want to watch, I rent it through the AppleTV. I mainly am just backing up movies I know I will watch over and over again.

Maybe if I had a dedicated machine to backing up these movies, that would be different as I take my MBP to work on a regular basis. The Mini is just not good enough for that task.
 
detz said:
Drobo scares me..I almost got one but between the countless bad reviews and just the price I've decided it's cheaper and safer to just buy drives. Think of it like this. The Drobo is $500 plus the drives so to get 2.7TB of data you need four TB drives plus the drobo. Lets say you get a deal on the TB drives at $100 each so that's $900 for a "Raid 5" array of 2.7TB of data. Now, take that same $900 and you can buy 8 1TB drives plus a decent enclosure. Now you can either due raid 1 or just mirror them yourself and your data is much safer and you have 4TB of data vs 2.7TB with the Drobo.
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well, and you're bottlenecked by USB. What if Drobo breaks - what do you do with the drives?
 
Keeping Back ups is a bit*h....but necessary...
 

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I've been eyeing a Drobo for a while; is it really that simple for upgrading the drives bit by bit? If so, the time you save alone quickly makes up for the $500 or so that the enclosure would cost...

mkelly said:
No reformatting, no moving files around ... just pull out the smallest drive and slap in a bigger one - and the space is available immediately.
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legacyb4 said:
I've been eyeing a Drobo for a while; is it really that simple for upgrading the drives bit by bit? If so, the time you save alone quickly makes up for the $500 or so that the enclosure would cost...
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Only if you're adding a drive. If you remove a drive and replace it with a bigger one, the drobo can take a DAY to reorganize everything.

That said, I think it's worth it. I'll drop in a drive and let it chug overnight.
 
My MacPro has 4TB in its drives. I keep my music on drive 2 (18,719 songs + other stuff) 655 GB free. In drive 3 I have my TV shows and only 427 GB free. I have a lot of shows to rip and I don't think I'm halfway done. Hour shows take up just about 800MB each. The 4th drive is for my movies and I have about 550 GB free. Movies are between 1 and 2GB each and in some cases I have a smaller 'ipod' version. The first drive has all my programs and photos and has used only about 100GB of space. My backup are on DVDs and external drives. Been thinking about a Blu-ray drive for backup, they are now about $150 but the disc are still expensive but a lot less per GB than a HD and I would think safer. What I rip are the shows I always come back to, Disney, Science Fiction, some Comedy (love Scrubs). I'm a collector, I have thousands of DVDs and they take up way too much space, but I love them anyway. ;)
 
Im In Trouble

I'm a student so i have no money to be spending on this so i have to get by with what i've got. My Macbook (which i got a year ago ditching my windows and i am so glad i did) has a 120GB i have around 30GB if that on there as i have been hesitant to add music. I use this for all my music which i rip to the itunes standard. I do that because i move my laptop around a bit and that way i always have it as i am really into my music.

I have got two external hard drives 80GB:( and 160Gb:( - I know rubbish - the 80GB i have been using for time machine and last week i started putting tv shows and movies onto my 160GB. When i need the space il ditch time machine and just back up my school work and that as a file. At PC World externals are so cheap so when i run out I will just get what i need.

The annoying thing is, being a student I have free time sat a my MAc after school and its so easy to rip movie and that i just leave it in the background as i work. lol.

I get jealous looking at everyone else's amazing setups of TB upon TB :D
 
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