What is the size of your.....................hard drive

[Hawaii_Mike]

Hmmm.. Between my photography, video, gaming, and ReplayTV/DVArchive (MPEGs), I always seem short on space even though my rig has two 80 GB IDE/ATA drives, one 160 GB sata drive, and one 250 GB external USB drive to do routine image backups... so that's over half a TB!!!

Michael

[R_Fredrick_Smith]

[img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]I wanted to have a "terabyte" but I was too scared.
I settled for an external USB2/Firewire 250gig, and a couple of 80gig USB2/Firewires. Then three networked computers with another 340gig between the three. Seems to work well, but I still look over my shoulder every once in a while.
Cheers,
rfs

[mfharper]

Hey Mike I'm not laughin! I'm sitting on about 500mb of zip storage and a Jazz drive with 9gb of disks. I just can't bring myself to store images on them though because I know I'll just have to transfere them to cd or DVD some day.
Mark Harper

Well I built my own external Firewire case. Its basically an external 4 bay SCSI enclosure with 2 firewire to IDE bridges. Inside I now have 4 250GB drives. You can then have 1 terabyte that is 100% portable (if need be).

The pics aren't anything to be proud of but you can at least see it.

[isaiahbrink]

Hey Michael, right now, I am between computers (using a family members currently) but a few things I keep in mind when checking out hard drives. Of course size, the bigger the better and more expensive. The second is frequently overlooked which is speed. I would recommend especially if you are getting a larger hard drive, something in the 7200 rpm range, this will save time when saving and opening of files and software. If you are like myself and working with a small budget, I would recommend getting a cd or dvd burner to archive them (make more than one copy of each disc.) Plus the burner is a good idea if your computer ever crashes beyond repair, or just crashes and data is lost. Having external hard drives is a good idea, they are portable and add much needed space, with the added benifit of being cheap and being portable. Zip drives are good, but the disks are fairly small and not everybody has a drive. Anyways, just my 2 cents.

Isaiah Brink

LOL...I feel a little "small" at the moment here.. on my iBook, I have a 40G.. my PowerMac came with a 40G as well...but after all the software and programs on them loaded, they only provide ≈ 30gigs.. but I can't have 30gigs on them if I want to save a batch of images to a DVD..I have to keep at least same free available space on the DVD in order to burn anything on it.. I just had my Powermac G4 rebuilt..so I am looking at getting a 300gig internal hard drive that will store this that and the other thing on it.. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] What's nice is.....I firewire them togather and I can upload my jobs to my desk computer and leave my ibook pretty much empty for the location work I do..

JP