External storage and backup
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External storage and backup
Just wondering what sort of external storage and backuping you guys use?
For me:
External Hard drive:
1 x Passport style 2.5 inch western digital 500GB. Rather new and filled with pretty much everything I have, pictures, videos, games, software... trying to think of something I dont have on here... probably my secure information which I wouldnt trust here. Small, quite... runs a bit hot when transfering date. Ideal for travel as it is small yet big storage. I think its got about 360GB of stuff in it, so should last a bit longer.
2 x 180GB Western digital. My old external harddrives. Not used but still full of my old data. Pretty much my back up of the one above. My back ups back up.... yeah paranoid a bit.
Flash drives:
3 x 4GB flash drive. Toshiba, small cheap, trash. When ever one of my friends has something cool I want I give them one of these, my "trash drives". Dont really care if I lose these as I just use them to swap data before putting it on a more stable media. I think I've lost 2-3 of these over time.
1 x 32GB Toshiba flash drive. My personal storage device. Filled with photos and my favourite movies and tv shows along with some documents ect. Pretty new and expencive but handy with the amount of travel I sometimes do. I love having the ability to carry around all my favourite data on a tiny little flash drive.
1 x 4GB IronkeyFlashdrive. An amaingly cool piece of tech. I just got it a few days ago. Basically an uncrackable flashdrive. Water proof, tamper proof (if you try to break into it you are guaranteed to destory the data inside). Data encrypition to military and US government standards. And a really cool feature, a built in secure internet browser with access to a secure proxy network with inbuilt data encryption for indentity protection and information protection. Due to the nature of the drive I put all my personal information on this, my Jewellery designs, contacts, clients, invoices ect. Bank data, IRL numbers, contacts, financial data. Stuff I wouldnt trust in any other electronic storage device. It cost an arm an a leg but with the amount of travel I sometimes do and with the inbuilt secure internet browser and uncrackable (supposedly) encryption its very worth it.
So yeah... a little paranoid. But about 4 years ago my harddrive exploded and I lost everything I had with zero backups. Since then I have been very anal about backups ect. And I find the convenience of flash drive fantastic.
For me:
External Hard drive:
1 x Passport style 2.5 inch western digital 500GB. Rather new and filled with pretty much everything I have, pictures, videos, games, software... trying to think of something I dont have on here... probably my secure information which I wouldnt trust here. Small, quite... runs a bit hot when transfering date. Ideal for travel as it is small yet big storage. I think its got about 360GB of stuff in it, so should last a bit longer.
2 x 180GB Western digital. My old external harddrives. Not used but still full of my old data. Pretty much my back up of the one above. My back ups back up.... yeah paranoid a bit.
Flash drives:
3 x 4GB flash drive. Toshiba, small cheap, trash. When ever one of my friends has something cool I want I give them one of these, my "trash drives". Dont really care if I lose these as I just use them to swap data before putting it on a more stable media. I think I've lost 2-3 of these over time.
1 x 32GB Toshiba flash drive. My personal storage device. Filled with photos and my favourite movies and tv shows along with some documents ect. Pretty new and expencive but handy with the amount of travel I sometimes do. I love having the ability to carry around all my favourite data on a tiny little flash drive.
1 x 4GB IronkeyFlashdrive. An amaingly cool piece of tech. I just got it a few days ago. Basically an uncrackable flashdrive. Water proof, tamper proof (if you try to break into it you are guaranteed to destory the data inside). Data encrypition to military and US government standards. And a really cool feature, a built in secure internet browser with access to a secure proxy network with inbuilt data encryption for indentity protection and information protection. Due to the nature of the drive I put all my personal information on this, my Jewellery designs, contacts, clients, invoices ect. Bank data, IRL numbers, contacts, financial data. Stuff I wouldnt trust in any other electronic storage device. It cost an arm an a leg but with the amount of travel I sometimes do and with the inbuilt secure internet browser and uncrackable (supposedly) encryption its very worth it.
So yeah... a little paranoid. But about 4 years ago my harddrive exploded and I lost everything I had with zero backups. Since then I have been very anal about backups ect. And I find the convenience of flash drive fantastic.
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Re: External storage and backup
I have a Western Digital Elements 1 TB External, a Corsair Flash Voyager 8 GB Flash Drive and a couple of micro-SD cards - one in my phone and one in my mp3 player, with micro-SD to SD adapters so I can plug them into my laptop's card reader.
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Re: External storage and backup
Oh yeah I have a micro SD card in my phone and a spare, only 250MB I think though... My current laptop doesnt have a card reader though, although the one I want to buy in a few months will.
How much of the 1TB have you used?
How much of the 1TB have you used?
What does defeat mean to you?
Nothing it will never come. Death before defeat. I don’t bend or break. I end, if I meet a foe capable of it. Victory is in forcing the opponent to back down. I do not. There is no defeat.
Nothing it will never come. Death before defeat. I don’t bend or break. I end, if I meet a foe capable of it. Victory is in forcing the opponent to back down. I do not. There is no defeat.
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Re: External storage and backup
A bit under 300 GB I think.Teaos wrote:Oh yeah I have a micro SD card in my phone and a spare, only 250MB I think though... My current laptop doesnt have a card reader though, although the one I want to buy in a few months will.
How much of the 1TB have you used?
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Re: External storage and backup
Ah cool. I considered a 1TB model but I liked the smaller physical size for travel, and I doubted I could fill it up.
But on that note, one of my friends has over 3TB of information. He basically downloads entire tv series, movies, games, music, 24/7. He hasnt even watched most of it. Just likes having it. He's the guy my trash drives usually goes to.
But on that note, one of my friends has over 3TB of information. He basically downloads entire tv series, movies, games, music, 24/7. He hasnt even watched most of it. Just likes having it. He's the guy my trash drives usually goes to.
What does defeat mean to you?
Nothing it will never come. Death before defeat. I don’t bend or break. I end, if I meet a foe capable of it. Victory is in forcing the opponent to back down. I do not. There is no defeat.
Nothing it will never come. Death before defeat. I don’t bend or break. I end, if I meet a foe capable of it. Victory is in forcing the opponent to back down. I do not. There is no defeat.
Re: External storage and backup
Haha, at this point we don't have any real backups, in Stitch's computer we have 3 hard drives, totalling to about 1 TB and we are going to be getting a new Hard Drive for our other computer, our dad and mom both have 500 and 320 GB respectivly, and I have an 8GB flash drive, and Stitch has a 1GB flash drive, we have a random 1GB flash drive, my dad has a 32 GB flash drive for all his work stuff. And I think that's all. Oh, and we have a 1TB drive in our dad's shed that is connected through our home network...
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Re: External storage and backup
Roll up, roll up, get your free online backups here:
http://www.humyo.com
I use it to backup mostly media files, especially digital photos of my new(ish) daughter that could never be replaced if say, my (hopefully) empty house was sucked into another dimension. There's a fairly generous 5GB limit which could be a second backup of your most precious stuff. You can even point it towards a normal Windows folder and have it upload everything inside. Very nice for free
http://www.humyo.com
I use it to backup mostly media files, especially digital photos of my new(ish) daughter that could never be replaced if say, my (hopefully) empty house was sucked into another dimension. There's a fairly generous 5GB limit which could be a second backup of your most precious stuff. You can even point it towards a normal Windows folder and have it upload everything inside. Very nice for free
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Re: External storage and backup
My external backup is called my laptop.
Anything important gets coppied from one computer to the other computer and my laptop.
Anything important gets coppied from one computer to the other computer and my laptop.
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Re: External storage and backup
External 1TB HD attached to my Mac Mini, which sits under the TV and a Video link. It has a copy of all my important items, plus another copy on my laptop.
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