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How to solve my storage problem
My laptop has only 500GB disk space. But I have about 5 TB data and
growing. I want to buy something that can hold that much data. And I can easily access the data from my laptop. Most cost-effective drive is 2TB - 3TB USB or ESATA external drive. So I need about 2 to 3 such drives and swap among them as I go along. Is there a solution I can access them all the them and less swapping involved? |
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How to solve my storage problem
Net Surfer wrote:
My laptop has only 500GB disk space. But I have about 5 TB data and growing. I want to buy something that can hold that much data. And I can easily access the data from my laptop. Most cost-effective drive is 2TB - 3TB USB or ESATA external drive. So I need about 2 to 3 such drives and swap among them as I go along. Is there a solution I can access them all the them and less swapping involved? No swapping - USB Hub. But you need at least 4 disks them, unless your data has no worth and you do not need a backup. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |
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How to solve my storage problem
On Jan 9, 4:15*pm, Arno wrote:
Net Surfer wrote: My laptop has only 500GB disk space. *But I have about 5 TB data and growing. *I want to buy something that can hold that much data. *And I can easily access the data from my laptop. Most cost-effective drive is 2TB - 3TB USB or ESATA external drive. So I need about 2 to 3 such drives and swap among them as I go along. Is there a solution I can access them all the them and less swapping involved? No swapping - USB Hub. But you need at least 4 disks them, unless your data has no worth and you do not need a backup. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: GnuPG: *ID: 1E25338F *FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C *0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans What is your data. If it is text/data records, them compression may help. Also, part the reasoning is how often do you want to acess that data. If it is an archive that you occasionally want to see small files from, then zipping the files may be fine. If it is a working database, then the only compression viable would be something like NTFS compression. If speed is critical, then compression may not be ideal. If it is music / video / photos then compression wll do nothing. To access 2TB ( ie size of current large disk) without swapping you may consider a RAID, eg JBOD, RAID5. I would avoid RAID-0 as a single disk failure loses all data. On JBOD a single disk failure only potentially loses 50% or 33%. RAID-5 can be slow without a speciallised controller board. You could also consider NAS, but dpends on the speed of your network port on laptop, and volume of data you will be transfering on a daily basis. Vista and Windows 7 both support NTFS disks (or logical disks) greater than 2TB. XP I am not sure, but would require special drivers. As Arno says, do not forget about backup, and I will add that one backup should be offsite Michael www.cnwrecovery.com |
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How to solve my storage problem
The most reliable way is to compress the data no-much work required or you can save the excessive data which is not used randomly in disks as back ups. -- pauladams |
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