I may have to buy one

[scooterscot]

Amazon have the Crucial M4 512GB for £514 and some pence at the moment.

I'd be tempted too. Really tempted.

Think I'll replace the drive in the 24-inch, Late 2006 iMac first though. Still using this machine daily with only 2g ram. But with an SSD, oohh

[TimberWolf]

About 20 times the price of a HDD per GB.

[wim121]

512Gb is fine. I've just found out that Windows doesn't like backing up onto drives over 2Tb

Now WTF do I do with the 2 x 2.5Tb external drives I've just bought do do backups onto?

Why not set them up in raid? Data redundancy is almost the same as backing up anyway ...



NB: I dont see why people back up from one medium like mechanical HDD's to another mechanical HDD. All my backups are done to a tape drive, then stored at a relatives house.

[doodab]

About 20 times the price of a HDD per GB.

About twice the price as SAS per GB, with 20 times the IOPS and no adapter required.

[Joeman]

I dont see why people back up from one medium like mechanical HDD's to another mechanical HDD. All my backups are done to a tape drive, then stored at a relatives house.

Why do people still backup to physical media? I keep all documents in the cloud, and my NAS drive backsup to amazon S3. Hardware requirements are low and my machines are largely disposable.

[d000hg]

512Gb is fine. I've just found out that Windows doesn't like backing up onto drives over 2Tb

Now WTF do I do with the 2 x 2.5Tb external drives I've just bought do do backups onto?

Which version of Windows? Or does even 2k8 have this limitation?

[TheFaQQer]

Tempting but I doubt you need more than 256gb even if you put all your virtual machines on it.

My Oracle R12.1.1 VM is 298GB. My XP VM that I'm using for the current project is 149GB. Then there are a few others - it's pretty easy to burn through disk space if you try hard enough

The hard drive I use for the Virtual Machines is 687GB full, 184GB spare.

[TheFaQQer]

512Gb is fine. I've just found out that Windows doesn't like backing up onto drives over 2Tb

Now WTF do I do with the 2 x 2.5Tb external drives I've just bought do do backups onto?

Buy a NAS enclosure for them, with RAID enabled. Set it up as a network drive and back up onto that.

XP Pro x64 works OK for me that way, and it recognised the 8TB Drobo drive I used to use as well.

[doodab]

Why do people still backup to physical media? I keep all documents in the cloud, and my NAS drive backsup to amazon S3. Hardware requirements are low and my machines are largely disposable.

Primarily because above a certain volume it's neither cost effective or practical to use the cloud. I've ~1.5 to 2TB of data and vms that need backing up regularly and it's simply not feasible to use the cloud. It's also quite expensive once you get to that level, so actually cheaper to bring it in house.

[DodgyAgent]

512Gb is fine. I've just found out that Windows doesn't like backing up onto drives over 2Tb

Now WTF do I do with the 2 x 2.5Tb external drives I've just bought do do backups onto?

You can use them for Bitcoins - I have no idea of what this is all about - something for the Geeks

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