Comments on: What to do when you realize you’re running out of disk… http://www.chuqui.com/2010/03/what-to-do-when-you-realize-youre-running-out-of-disk/ Typing Without A Net Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew http://www.chuqui.com/2010/03/what-to-do-when-you-realize-youre-running-out-of-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-3478 Andrew Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:15:04 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/?p=6055#comment-3478 If you need more internal space, you can sacrifice your optical drive and replace it with another 500G disk. If you need more internal space, you can sacrifice your optical drive and replace it with another 500G disk.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.chuqui.com/2010/03/what-to-do-when-you-realize-youre-running-out-of-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-3323 Andrew Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:15:04 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/?p=6055#comment-3323 If you need more internal space, you can sacrifice your optical drive and replace it with another 500G disk. If you need more internal space, you can sacrifice your optical drive and replace it with another 500G disk.

]]> By: Why I don’t depend on Time Machine (and other followups to the backup note..) | Chuqui 3.0 http://www.chuqui.com/2010/03/what-to-do-when-you-realize-youre-running-out-of-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-3312 Why I don’t depend on Time Machine (and other followups to the backup note..) | Chuqui 3.0 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:36:03 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/?p=6055#comment-3312 [...] it’s now Monday, and about 24 hours after I posted my note on my new backups and disk scheme. And I wrote that after I was mostly done setting things up and the backups were set up and running [...] [...] it’s now Monday, and about 24 hours after I posted my note on my new backups and disk scheme. And I wrote that after I was mostly done setting things up and the backups were set up and running [...]

]]> By: Back from vacation… | Chuqui 3.0 http://www.chuqui.com/2010/03/what-to-do-when-you-realize-youre-running-out-of-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-3303 Back from vacation… | Chuqui 3.0 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:31:49 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/?p=6055#comment-3303 [...] because it was clear I was going to run out of disk space sooner rather than later (and you can read more about that here); and I’m spending a bunch of time in Lightroom working through photos and cleaning up my [...] [...] because it was clear I was going to run out of disk space sooner rather than later (and you can read more about that here); and I’m spending a bunch of time in Lightroom working through photos and cleaning up my [...]

]]> By: chuqui http://www.chuqui.com/2010/03/what-to-do-when-you-realize-youre-running-out-of-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-3308 chuqui Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:54:33 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/?p=6055#comment-3308 If you're talking about over-the-net setups, I used them ( <a href="http://www.chuqui.com/2009/12/following-my-own-advice-on-backups/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chuqui.com/2009/12/following-my-own-...</a> ) and stopped because I didn't think the pricing was good enough and the disadvantages (primarily because of broadband speeds) made them not ready for me. I expect that to change as prices per gig come down and broadband speeds go up, unless you get stuck with a broadband cap that's too low. <br><br>If you're talking about physical off-site, for my purposes, I store my off-site disks at work. My general thinking is that anything that takes out both my house and my office at the same time will give me bigger issues to worry about, and it's good enough for now. If I was independent and didn't have a convenient lockable drawer, I'd go with a secure box somewhere rather than depend on them living at a friend's place. If you get really paranoid, you could fedex them to someone you know in another timezone, I guess. Mostly I'm worried about the building-catastrophe (house burning down, etc) and being reasonably recoverable; larger natural disasters that destroy a large region? I guess it comes down to just how far the the six sigma run you feel you need to go, and every decimal point gets increasingly expensive.. If you're talking about over-the-net setups, I used them ( http://www.chuqui.com/2009/12/following-my-own-… ) and stopped because I didn't think the pricing was good enough and the disadvantages (primarily because of broadband speeds) made them not ready for me. I expect that to change as prices per gig come down and broadband speeds go up, unless you get stuck with a broadband cap that's too low.

If you're talking about physical off-site, for my purposes, I store my off-site disks at work. My general thinking is that anything that takes out both my house and my office at the same time will give me bigger issues to worry about, and it's good enough for now. If I was independent and didn't have a convenient lockable drawer, I'd go with a secure box somewhere rather than depend on them living at a friend's place. If you get really paranoid, you could fedex them to someone you know in another timezone, I guess. Mostly I'm worried about the building-catastrophe (house burning down, etc) and being reasonably recoverable; larger natural disasters that destroy a large region? I guess it comes down to just how far the the six sigma run you feel you need to go, and every decimal point gets increasingly expensive..

]]> By: VegasTom http://www.chuqui.com/2010/03/what-to-do-when-you-realize-youre-running-out-of-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-3306 VegasTom Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:39:17 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/?p=6055#comment-3306 What are your thoughts on off-site storage schemes? What are your thoughts on off-site storage schemes?

]]> By: Marshall http://www.chuqui.com/2010/03/what-to-do-when-you-realize-youre-running-out-of-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-3307 Marshall Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:38:12 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/?p=6055#comment-3307 In late 1984, I bought a Corvus Omnidrive off the show floor at Comdex. Since it was a show demo, I got it "used", at half price: $1250 for 11 MB.<br><br>Yesterday, I went to Fry's (hardly a low price leader) and bought three 1.5 TB drives for $270+tax.<br><br>That's a 400,000x more storage for 1/5th the price. <br>That's an improvement of two million in 25 1/2 years. <br>That's doubling about every 28 months. In late 1984, I bought a Corvus Omnidrive off the show floor at Comdex. Since it was a show demo, I got it “used”, at half price: $1250 for 11 MB.

Yesterday, I went to Fry's (hardly a low price leader) and bought three 1.5 TB drives for $270+tax.

That's a 400,000x more storage for 1/5th the price.
That's an improvement of two million in 25 1/2 years.
That's doubling about every 28 months.

]]> By: lmorchard http://www.chuqui.com/2010/03/what-to-do-when-you-realize-youre-running-out-of-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-3305 lmorchard Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:58:06 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/?p=6055#comment-3305 Thanks for the rundown! I've been eyeing up those drive toasters for awhile, and been wondering if they'd be useful enough for keeping around and rotating a handful of backup drives.<br><br>Also... as for the future shock from storage media - I'm still somewhat floored that I could probably swallow a 16gb MicroSD accidentally and not really notice it. Not terabytes there, but offset by the tiny tininess. Thanks for the rundown! I've been eyeing up those drive toasters for awhile, and been wondering if they'd be useful enough for keeping around and rotating a handful of backup drives.

Also… as for the future shock from storage media – I'm still somewhat floored that I could probably swallow a 16gb MicroSD accidentally and not really notice it. Not terabytes there, but offset by the tiny tininess.

]]> By: evanrobinson http://www.chuqui.com/2010/03/what-to-do-when-you-realize-youre-running-out-of-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-3304 evanrobinson Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:37:58 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/?p=6055#comment-3304 Regarding size of drives:<br> Like you, I started with a 10MB drive (in a Compaq Deskpro running at ... 8Mhz?).<br><br> When I joined Adobe, one job I got was "interfacing" with IT on behalf of Graphics Products. We spec'd a bunch of stuff, but the relevant funny is trying to figure out what we needed in the way of backup for the twin towers in San Jose. We surveyed a bunch of people to find out what HDs they had (IIRC, a couple of GB was pretty standard), did some multiplication, and concluded that there was something like 3 terabytes in the towers. That was about 1997, IIRC. I have that much on my desk, now -- 500GB in the notebook, 1 GB in the main TimeMachine drive, three 500GB bus-powered drives for various uses, and more.... Regarding size of drives:
Like you, I started with a 10MB drive (in a Compaq Deskpro running at … 8Mhz?).

When I joined Adobe, one job I got was “interfacing” with IT on behalf of Graphics Products. We spec'd a bunch of stuff, but the relevant funny is trying to figure out what we needed in the way of backup for the twin towers in San Jose. We surveyed a bunch of people to find out what HDs they had (IIRC, a couple of GB was pretty standard), did some multiplication, and concluded that there was something like 3 terabytes in the towers. That was about 1997, IIRC. I have that much on my desk, now — 500GB in the notebook, 1 GB in the main TimeMachine drive, three 500GB bus-powered drives for various uses, and more….

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