External HardDrives

UtterNutter said:
My most reliable drive ever is a 106 MB (megs, not gigs) Seagate from 1990. It has been in use everyday since the day it got purchased until right now, and is STILL WORKING 100%!. They don't make 'em like they used to, that's for sure!
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I've got a 1gig seagate from around 1995 (I think) which is also still going strong. It's been in 20 different PC's over the years, lately relegated to a series of firewall experiments. I've carried it around in my bag, it's been dropped a few times, had bent pins and it just keeps on going.

In contrast, I've had 4 larger capacity drives bomb out on me over the last few years, usually due to controller card failure.

I've still got one of the most uber drives from the late 90's - a 2gig seagate SCSI barracuda. Totally indestructible it seems, now only really good for firewall usage. I've also got a 6gig Ultrawide scsi, which I'd love to have as a primary drive, if I could find a cheap adapater card for it.

Yeah, memory lane !

I'm not sure if uber sized hard drives is the way to go for me, it just makes me lazy, as I end up dumping stuff onto my drives which I could store on CD. I seem to always be at 80% capacity no matter how much HD space I have.
Right now, on 3 computers, I've got a combined 200gb, which is really nothing by todays standards. Almost all of that is used up.

A few years back, I made do with 20gb of storage and before that, 1gb - then again, we all know what that extra storage is all about - Movies ! :D
 
The ONLY thing buying a bigger hard drive does, is increase the time between cleanups! The percentage of used space will always be the same (probably 80% - 90%). ;)

Speaking of hard drives - BACK UP NOW!!!! You just never know... Trust me on that.

They say there are two types of people: Those who have lost data, and those who are going to lose data...
 
I'm still eyeing prices, as I see there're nice little portable external 1 Terabyte, 1.6 & now 2 Terabyte HD's available.. prices are still a little heavy.. but the advantage is that the damn piles and folders of insufficient storage-space cd's and DVD's, that we all end up with, can go bye bye. Like the piles of stiffy disks we all had.. I've got a couple of 1 gig flash memory drives - and the 4 gig flash memory drives are starting to appear (I was told they're locally available, for around R2,200 - still a bit pricey..

The main thing is to get rid of all the clutter of separate disks and folders, and head towards one or two (or more) easily portable little HD's which contain everything - no more searching, no more shelves layered with different disks - just a portable HD or two, which have everything needed..

To be wanting to maintain the old style method of tons of separate CD's and DVD's for storage, is to perhaps be missing the boat in some ways..

Having come into data storage, in the mid 90's, I remember the old days of painfully arj-ing big files across multiple stiffy disks in order to cart them around - so one or two thousand gigs in a little, easily carried and easily plugged in box, mmmm..

A pc box/laptop, keyboard and an external HD or two - and no other separate disks anywhere in sight - what a pleasure.
 
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Couldn't agree with you more. The freedom my drive has givin me is really astounding. Even tho it's only 80Gig and I've only had it a week now, it's helped me out allot.

I don't think I'd buy myself a 4Gig flash. For the price of one I could get two 80Gig external HDDs.

What scares me is I can still remember backing up the original Civilization game onto 3 or 4 stiffy disks, only to come home and find that one disk is corrupt. :rolleyes:

Ah, happy days. :)
 
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