[computers, me] Free Space

[bridgetester]

I now have approximately 1 terabyte of free hard drive space. *bounces* (Yes, this is glee-inducing! What? Why are you looking at me like that?)

If that only applied to the rest of this place... *looks around in bemusement*

Comments

[firynze]

Dude. Jeeeeealous!

I only have about 500Gb of free space. *pout*

[bridgetester]

Then get more! ;)

[foxfirefey]

Yeah, but is it RAIDed?

[bridgetester]

RAID 0, as it's 2 500 Gig Drives.

[chouyu_31]

I'm replying now because I only recently noticed that you friended me, and I thought I would look at a few of your older entries before perhaps friending you back.

In any case, if either drive in your RAID 0 array dies, you lose all of your data. It's actually better (from a reliability standpoint) to have two completely independent drives. If you want better reliability, and are willing to purchase more drives, using a RAID 1 mirror of pairs of drives, which you then RAID 0 stripe (called 0+1 or 1+0, I can't remember), or a RAID 5 array (when using X+1 drives, you get the space of X drives, and the +1 is used for error correction information), will both work well.

Just FYI.

[bridgetester]

*nods* I know it's possible to use better RAID formations, but then I wouldn't have had a terabyte at the time of posting. :)

Silliness, yes. But it amused me.

[lacey]

*jealous*

[bridgetester]

Spend part of a paycheck on hd? :)

[lacey]

Can't right now, but that is a distinct probability in the future!

[bridgetester]

Excellent. *steeples fingers*

[australian_joe]

Nice!

I was pretty pleased at having only 400Gb... but mind you that's in a laptop. 8-)

[bridgetester]

My laptop has 10 gigs. *hides*

How in the world did you obtain 400?

[australian_joe]

Bought a laptop that takes two drives. Toshiba wouldn't sell anything larger than 160Gb, or anything faster than 5400rpm, so I ripped them out and put my own 2x 200Gb 7200rpm drives in. 8-) I could have had half a Tb in the laptop, but only if I dropped down to 5400rpm speeds, and, well, I already have one inescapable performance hit with Windows Vista, I wasn't about to knowingly build in another.

[bridgetester]

I'm still waiting on the day when they stick the iPod-sized hard drives in laptops. With the right laptop design, you could have 4 of the 160s in there (at least), and the size'll likely be much higher by the time they get around to doing it.

Whatcha think of Vista, aside from the speed? (Short-medium version, not book)

[thelala]

For now. Don't forget Parkinson's second law.

[bridgetester]

My law of HDs = Buy something in the high-end range, much higher than you think you'll need. You'll find ways to fill it somehow.