Plans for my circa triannual machine upgrade

[johnlgalt]

Lol - I'm in a Master's of Biotechnology program, so it's not anything that can be considered mission critical. However, I have business files for the last 5 years now gone (I run a private computer repair and refurbish company, sole proprietorship), as well as being in the middle of starting a brand new business (since the beginning of the year) and I just happen to have a DLT drive handy....

Plus, I'm in talks to start another venture, or possibly 2. I need redundancy. Cloud is good and all, but I'm already going to be taxing my Internet connection as it is, one of the future businesses is video intensive. Cloud storage only goes so far - when each video is 2 GB or more, at true HiDef, then you can see where it runs into limitations very very quickly.

 

[9to5cynic]

Ahhh okay. I was very curious

Yeah, I have a couple of external drives, and two of them are backups of eachother, one is for files (which were just pushed to the backup drives) and now it is VMs for school. Then there's the new 1Tb drive that I'll fill with media.

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I guess you could try making a dropbox for each vid file, but that's pushing it
And you'd hate to violate the dropbox TOS and get all your files removed. :0

 

[johnlgalt]

Yeah, especially when we're talking like 200-300 files / month....

Since the new rig I built supports USB3, I'm going to grab a USB 3 external - BB had a 1 TB for around $140....

If I can find one online that does both USB 3 and eSATA I'm so there. Since this case supports hotswapping, I installed Windows with AHCI enabled - now I can hot swap to my heart's desire

 

[9to5cynic]

I just picked up a 1 TB WD portable HD at BB this week for $95 after tax. I believe it has usb 2.0 and 3.0

I don't have usb 3.0 though, so It could be usb 2 and just a sticker that said 3.0

 

[johnlgalt]

No, USB 3.0 devices are generally backward compatible to be usable on USB 2.0 machines as well.

I'll look into it - but I really want one that will do USB 3 / eSATA....

There has to be one, but I think those are a bit more expensive - I know the USB 2 / eSATA drives were.

 

[9to5cynic]

Not sure if this is a usb 3 feature, but the actual port/interface whatever you call it, has blue plastic on(in) it. Where the 2.0 ones had white (at least, on all the ones I have laying around).

It's quite a nice blue too, very 'androidforums'.


Ahh... the costs of staying up to date... o.0

 

[johnlgalt]

Yup - It designates USB 3.0 from USB 2.0 ports, just like IDE 40-pin cables were normal colored but IDE 80 pin cables always had one end that was blue (unless you got specially made cables).