SRL Archive - Celebratory Events

Was in my room upright on the carpet, knocked it over on accident, fell onto carpet on side (it was running), and now its broken! :spot:

Huzzah!

*Method admits that the title fooled him.

Thats balls :(

Is this good because you can get 1tb for $100 now?

Meh, 250 isn't that much. I know you can get 10 Terabytes for about $350 here in Australia.

[QUOTE=Dan's The Man;501726]Meh, 250 isn't that much. I know you can get 10 Terabytes for about $350 here in Australia.

Erm i have never seen a Portble hard driver over 2 tb, and if there was one for 10 tb it would be heaps more.

From: NiCbaZ
Erm i have never seen a Portble hard driver over 2 tb, and if there was one for 10 tb it would be heaps more.

Think he meant to type only 1 TB. Seeing as how I doubt they even created 3+ TB hard drives.

sucks to be you! unless of course it happens to be only 29 days old, and you can return it.

From: Buckleyindahouse
Think he meant to type only 1 TB. Seeing as how I doubt they even created 3+ TB hard drives.

wrong! i have a 5 PT drive!….i wish :(

I hope you weren't stupid enough to not back up the data that was on the external drive. All hard drives WILL break, eventually.

From: Esteban
I hope you weren't stupid enough to not back up the data that was on the external drive. All hard drives WILL break, eventually.

thats not very nice, who's to say that that wasnt his back upper for his computer hard drive? Then, by your logic he'd need an infinite number of hard drives to back up the other!

From: Esteban
I hope you weren't stupid enough to not back up the data that was on the external drive. All hard drives WILL break, eventually.

Seriously… What would be the point of backing up backed up data? Completely defeats the purpose of the first ext HDD..

& That really sucks YoHoJo, I've got a 500GB external hd here at the edge of my desk/table here and should probably move it.. my desk is really cluttered though (tons of CD's, dvds, broken XBOX 360..:().

From: [-jesus-]
Seriously… What would be the point of backing up backed up data? Completely defeats the purpose of the first ext HDD..

& That really sucks YoHoJo, I've got a 500GB external hd here at the edge of my desk/table here and should probably move it.. my desk is really cluttered though (tons of CD's, dvds, broken XBOX 360..:().

so if one HDD breaks you can buy a new one and back it up again with the spare one..?

From: Hugolord
so if one HDD breaks you can buy a new one and back it up again with the spare one..?

Can you rephrase that? Which HDD (the external or internal on your pc?) & back up which? Confused me a bit..

From: [-jesus-]
Can you rephrase that? Which HDD (the external or internal on your pc?) & back up which? Confused me a bit..

I think what everyone is saying is that hopefully YoHoJo had the data on the external drive in more place(s) than just that. Maybe that was the backup, meaning that all the stuff on it should still be somewhere else (since it was only backing it up).

That sucks YoHoJo :( Like some people said, I hope you had your data somewhere other than just there.

Iv'e got an old 250gb one too :) Iv'e got all my like year old pservers and old SCAR installers crap on it :)

Wtf TB HDs cost only 100-300$ now what the fuck? Where at?

newegg ftw

Yea i looked there already and saw these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000092&Description=terabyte&name=External%20Enclosures
External External= External HD?

From: YoHoJo
Yea i looked there already and saw these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000092&Description=terabyte&name=External%20Enclosures
External External= External HD?

Those are just hte enclosures & I don't think they come w/ an actual hard drive.

External HD's are here: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=414&name=External-Hard-Drives

Seagate internal + Antec MX-1 ftw! Has USB 2.0 and eSATA cables. Don't have an eSATA port on your desktop? No problem! It comes with a SATA to eSATA adapter, that uses a SATA port on the mobo, and a slot on the back (but not a slot on the mobo). And when USB 3.0 comes out, you still got a good internal drive, and an old enclosure. Got a quiet fan, plus silicon grommets.

And in regards to backing up: if data is only in one place, whether that place be internal, external, or online, the death clock is ticking. Having it in two places doesn't mean 100% safety either, but every copy you add makes the chance of survival go up exponentially.

From: Dan Cardin
thats not very nice, who's to say that that wasnt his back upper for his computer hard drive? Then, by your logic he'd need an infinite number of hard drives to back up the other!

I'm just saying, one should not just rely on backing up data on an external hard drive. All hard drives break, period. Valuable data should also be backed up onto a disc too.

\What would be the purpose of 3 terabytes anyways? Storage for backup is best done on dvds tucked in drawers anyways. Failure or breakage is always an issue with any electronic device. Dont gotta worry about that with dual layer dvds that you stuff away.

My laptop has 350g hard drive and I will never even come close to touching using it all. It really does amaze me how now days in just a few years computers have shrunk and went overboard on power and storage.


MEH DUFUS AWARD ALREADY SAID BY GUY ABOVE ME>

DVDs can start to deteriorate after 3 years (except for archival discs, but those are crazy expensive, and still not forever). Plus peple can steal/smash them just like an external drive. No backup is 100% safe. The only solution is multiple backups, to get closer and closer to 100%, but never quite there.

From: Boreas
DVDs can start to deteriorate after 3 years (except for archival discs, but those are crazy expensive, and still not forever). Plus peple can steal/smash them just like an external drive. No backup is 100% safe. The only solution is multiple backups, to get closer and closer to 100%, but never quite there.

Yeah, what Boreas said.
My advice: If you really want to be pretty sure you have a safe backup buy like 3 external HDDs and put a copy of whatever you wana backup on each and keep at least one of them on a secure remote place..
Yes might be a little expensive but external hard drives are really cheap now.. and they will get cheaper too..

You must store all of your pron here:
http://www.cyberbunker.com/

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've never had a drive fail.

dang :p ive got a 500gb one 2 inches from the floor on a ledge :/ maybe i should move it