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TOCA
Aug 3, 2012, 9:45:14 AM8/3/12
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Oh, I recall those days, when a handful of floppies would do fine for
backup, then came the CD-R's and one disk would hold all your digital stuff,
later came the DVD-R's to rule them all.
A few days ago, I decided to do a full backup, just in case, and the 250GB
drive gave me an "Out of space" message...WTF!! 250GB's of space is no
longer enough? Do I realy have that many pictures and videoes saved for
prosperity?
Guess I'll have to go back to the old 3 Mpix camera and VGA size video, and
recode all my music to 64 bit or less :o/
Sigh, went and bought me a new hard drive, 500GB, reformatted the lot, and
am now almost up and running again, with a full TB of onboard storage, and a
handful of old drives for backup, hooked up via different ports, one is on
the IDE port, one is on the USB 3 port and one on a USB 2.1 port, guess I
have to start saving up for a couple of TB drives soon, or stop accumulating
stuff :o(
Next on the list: Install all the flight stuff, then all the useful programs
(Office, image and video editing, etc.), then trimming and tweaking, and I
should be back to normal in a week or two :o)
Hope you are all enjoying your stable old rigs, this one was running for
almost 3 years with no need for tweaking or upgrades, which is a new record
for me, I used to reinstall every thing from scratch about once a year, but
Win7 seems to be all it should be, for now :o)
Tommy C, Denmark
Hard at work!!
backup, then came the CD-R's and one disk would hold all your digital stuff,
later came the DVD-R's to rule them all.
A few days ago, I decided to do a full backup, just in case, and the 250GB
drive gave me an "Out of space" message...WTF!! 250GB's of space is no
longer enough? Do I realy have that many pictures and videoes saved for
prosperity?
Guess I'll have to go back to the old 3 Mpix camera and VGA size video, and
recode all my music to 64 bit or less :o/
Sigh, went and bought me a new hard drive, 500GB, reformatted the lot, and
am now almost up and running again, with a full TB of onboard storage, and a
handful of old drives for backup, hooked up via different ports, one is on
the IDE port, one is on the USB 3 port and one on a USB 2.1 port, guess I
have to start saving up for a couple of TB drives soon, or stop accumulating
stuff :o(
Next on the list: Install all the flight stuff, then all the useful programs
(Office, image and video editing, etc.), then trimming and tweaking, and I
should be back to normal in a week or two :o)
Hope you are all enjoying your stable old rigs, this one was running for
almost 3 years with no need for tweaking or upgrades, which is a new record
for me, I used to reinstall every thing from scratch about once a year, but
Win7 seems to be all it should be, for now :o)
Tommy C, Denmark
Hard at work!!
NM5K
Aug 3, 2012, 10:08:33 AM8/3/12
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On 8/3/2012 8:45 AM, TOCA wrote:
> Oh, I recall those days, when a handful of floppies would do fine for
> backup, then came the CD-R's and one disk would hold all your digital
> stuff, later came the DVD-R's to rule them all.
>
> A few days ago, I decided to do a full backup, just in case, and the
> 250GB drive gave me an "Out of space" message...WTF!! 250GB's of space
> is no longer enough? Do I realy have that many pictures and videoes
> saved for prosperity?
>
> Guess I'll have to go back to the old 3 Mpix camera and VGA size video,
> and recode all my music to 64 bit or less :o/
>
> Sigh, went and bought me a new hard drive, 500GB, reformatted the lot,
> and am now almost up and running again, with a full TB of onboard
> storage, and a handful of old drives for backup, hooked up via different
> ports, one is on the IDE port, one is on the USB 3 port and one on a USB
> 2.1 port, guess I have to start saving up for a couple of TB drives
> soon, or stop accumulating stuff :o(
I'd like to get another big drive, but after the flood caused
> Oh, I recall those days, when a handful of floppies would do fine for
> backup, then came the CD-R's and one disk would hold all your digital
> stuff, later came the DVD-R's to rule them all.
>
> A few days ago, I decided to do a full backup, just in case, and the
> 250GB drive gave me an "Out of space" message...WTF!! 250GB's of space
> is no longer enough? Do I realy have that many pictures and videoes
> saved for prosperity?
>
> Guess I'll have to go back to the old 3 Mpix camera and VGA size video,
> and recode all my music to 64 bit or less :o/
>
> Sigh, went and bought me a new hard drive, 500GB, reformatted the lot,
> and am now almost up and running again, with a full TB of onboard
> storage, and a handful of old drives for backup, hooked up via different
> ports, one is on the IDE port, one is on the USB 3 port and one on a USB
> 2.1 port, guess I have to start saving up for a couple of TB drives
> soon, or stop accumulating stuff :o(
the prices to jump, I've been in a holding pattern.
I've had two 1 TB drives flake out on me. One I killed myself
by dropping my cable box remote on it, and the other one the
controller flaked out. The disk is still good..
In theory, both should be under warranty, and I should at least
send in the one that flaked out. I wrote the other off..
I bought a 2 TB drive to replace the one that flaked out.
Anyway, I'm a multi-TB buoy here..
Mainly due to the hundreds of movies I record.
Fer instance.. they had all the James Bond movies on recently..
I now have every single James Bond movie made, except for the
newest couple.. :/ All are uncut and in widescreen HD format.
I just looked at the list in the folder.. 19 of those bad buoys..
I never realized they made that many 007 movies until I started
recording them all.. And ditto for many others...
For instance...Blade Runner.. I not only have the original, I
also have the two later directors cut versions.. I still think
the original is the best.. :/ So many movies, so little time..
I've been buying some flash drives so I can store movies for
portable use on my laptop.. I just bought a 64 GB flash drive
the other day for $29, and it's smaller than my thumb.
Held 20 movies with a little room left over.. Fairly amazing
compared to my first hard drive which was a mighty 85 MB..
Heck, I can have a data sneeze these days and fill up 85 MB.. :/
I think I'm gonna get off my rear and at least send in the 1 TB
drive that flaked on me.. It's a WD green.. The 2 TB I bought,
I went Seagate, cuz WD has been having a known problem with
their controllers flaking out. Mine sure did..
sambodidley
Aug 3, 2012, 12:18:09 PM8/3/12
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Some people collect coins while others collect movies. Both of them
usually just collect dust. But what the heck. Collecting is the hobby
itself. <g>
Sam
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usually just collect dust. But what the heck. Collecting is the hobby
itself. <g>
Sam
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sambodidley
Aug 3, 2012, 12:27:11 PM8/3/12
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drives that I drop into it when I need to store or retrieve data. If I run
short of space I just buy another bare drive.
Sam
TOCA
Aug 3, 2012, 1:51:00 PM8/3/12
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Some people collect coins while others collect movies. Both of them
usually just collect dust. But what the heck. Collecting is the hobby
itself. <g>
Sam
Tommy C, Denmark
NM5K
Aug 3, 2012, 1:58:50 PM8/3/12
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On 8/3/2012 11:18 AM, sambodidley wrote:
> Some people collect coins while others collect movies. Both of them
> usually just collect dust. But what the heck. Collecting is the hobby
> itself. <g>
> Sam
Some of the ones I record pretty much collect dust..
> Some people collect coins while others collect movies. Both of them
> usually just collect dust. But what the heck. Collecting is the hobby
> itself. <g>
> Sam
But then I'll get a wild hair and decide to watch it..
I tend to have favorites, and I'll watch em more than once.
But I have enough that I could watch a different movie for
quite a long while before seeing a rerun. I just did a quick
tally on the drives I'm running right now. "I have two older
EIDE drives sitting on the desk that I'm not using, and am
not counting any of the few hundred DVD's I've torched up"
At the moment... 906 movies on the drives.. :) I've got enough
now, that if I decided to cut off the cable, it wouldn't bother me
much. And they are handy to have when I'm up in OK. No cable
there, and even broadcast TV is iffy without a tall antenna.
It's digital now, and out of Tulsa, which is about 85 miles
to the north.
So I can just drag the laptop with me, and watch movies
till I puke. Up there, I'm actually more likely to be yakking
on 75m at night. :/
I've got a 12v PS for the laptop so I can run it off the car.
No worries about laptop power.
TOCA
Aug 3, 2012, 2:01:22 PM8/3/12
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"TOCA" <n...@valid.com> wrote in message
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> Oh, I recall those days, when a handful of floppies would do fine for
> backup, then came the CD-R's and one disk would hold all your digital
> stuff, later came the DVD-R's to rule them all.
>
>
> Tommy C, Denmark
I have a USB docking station for SATA drives and several large bare
drives that I drop into it when I need to store or retrieve data. If I run
short of space I just buy another bare drive.
Sam
I have a small portable 300 GB drive, for what ever I need to take to the
I have a USB docking station for SATA drives and several large bare
drives that I drop into it when I need to store or retrieve data. If I run
short of space I just buy another bare drive.
Sam
road, an other 40GB one for extra storage when I take the camera on a trip,
an IDE tray for normal backup, using my stockpile of old drives, and an USB
3 dock for SATA drives :o)
Sadly almost all my SATA drives are used in the big rig, and the current
prices on drives are keeping me from buying a big'un for the backup function
:o/
Now I have just finished clearing up 20 GB of space, by deleting doublets in
my music collection, next up is the video, and some day maybe even the photo
collection :o)
Tommy C, Denmark
ManhattanMan
Aug 3, 2012, 2:58:34 PM8/3/12
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On 8/3/2012 1:01 PM, TOCA wrote:
> Now I have just finished clearing up 20 GB of space, by deleting
> doublets in my music collection, next up is the video, and some day
> maybe even the photo collection :o)
About a month ago I noticed that about 100Gb of free space had
> Now I have just finished clearing up 20 GB of space, by deleting
> doublets in my music collection, next up is the video, and some day
> maybe even the photo collection :o)
disappeared from the HD. WTF??? Then I remembered I'd left FSX and
Fraps minimized for several days. Checked the movie file in Fraps and
sure nuff, I had left the hot key for movies as F2, which is used
frequently in spreadsheet edits, so had three or four long movies of
nothing but the FSX splash screen...
Note to self: leave movie hot key unassigned when not in use.....
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MnM
scott s.
Aug 3, 2012, 4:44:23 PM8/3/12
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"TOCA" <n...@valid.com> wrote in
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> "sambodidley" skrev i meddelelsen
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>
> Some people collect coins while others collect movies. Both of
> them
> usually just collect dust. But what the heck. Collecting is the
> hobby itself. <g>
> Sam
>
> I think you nailed some thing there :o)
>
> Tommy C, Denmark
I'm looking at getting a Synology DS212+ NAS and 2, 3TB drives.
WD has come out with a new line (red) for NAS drives. Not sure if
they are worth the premium over their other drive lines. I kind
of question if the "green" line is that good.
Someone on another site claims to have 24TB on his NAS, I guess
a lot of Blu-Rays.
scott s.
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> "sambodidley" skrev i meddelelsen
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>
> Some people collect coins while others collect movies. Both of
> them
> usually just collect dust. But what the heck. Collecting is the
> hobby itself. <g>
> Sam
>
> I think you nailed some thing there :o)
>
> Tommy C, Denmark
WD has come out with a new line (red) for NAS drives. Not sure if
they are worth the premium over their other drive lines. I kind
of question if the "green" line is that good.
Someone on another site claims to have 24TB on his NAS, I guess
a lot of Blu-Rays.
scott s.
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Dallas
Aug 3, 2012, 5:15:59 PM8/3/12
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TOCA wrote:
> Now I have just finished clearing up 20 GB of space, by deleting
> doublets in my music collection, next up is the video, and some day
> maybe even the photo collection :o)
My favorite tool for finding wasted space is Space Monger. It will map
> Now I have just finished clearing up 20 GB of space, by deleting
> doublets in my music collection, next up is the video, and some day
> maybe even the photo collection :o)
your whole drive with a graphical representation of the size of
everything.
Looks like the new version is payware.. but the old version is also
available.
http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/
Also, see my other post on CNET.. :- (
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Dallas
TOCA
Aug 4, 2012, 4:27:26 AM8/4/12
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Tommy C, Denmark
Gregory
Aug 4, 2012, 6:29:21 AM8/4/12
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On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 15:45:14 +0200, "TOCA" <n...@valid.com> brought the
following to our attention:
>guess I have to start saving up for a couple of TB drives soon, or stop accumulating stuff :o(
You mean like this:
http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/2x_WD_1TB.jpg
I think the drives above were bought at Best Buy store 'on sale' for
$115 ea. Looking at BB website, black Caviars are selling for $129. The
green Caviars are 'on sale' for $84.
What do you have for a controller? Integrated SATA? Check Newegg using
search terms: "Promise adapter" You'll have a choice between a 2-port
SATA II RAID card and a 4-port SATA II adapter. These products are, and
always have been 100% compatible with Windows. I've used Promise
adapters in just about every PC for over 10 years. They are affordable,
work GREAT, show up at boot time after POST, and appear in Device
Manager as SCSI. Oh course.. there's nothing like an Adaptec card.
http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/controllers.gif
In fact.. my FSX installation is on the E:\ drive, a 500 GB WD connected
to the Promise SATA controller. Unfortunately so is the Page File.
http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/UD3_E-drive.png
On Topic Check: this is an On Topic check. Am I on topic? or tangent?
-G
following to our attention:
>guess I have to start saving up for a couple of TB drives soon, or stop accumulating stuff :o(
http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/2x_WD_1TB.jpg
I think the drives above were bought at Best Buy store 'on sale' for
$115 ea. Looking at BB website, black Caviars are selling for $129. The
green Caviars are 'on sale' for $84.
What do you have for a controller? Integrated SATA? Check Newegg using
search terms: "Promise adapter" You'll have a choice between a 2-port
SATA II RAID card and a 4-port SATA II adapter. These products are, and
always have been 100% compatible with Windows. I've used Promise
adapters in just about every PC for over 10 years. They are affordable,
work GREAT, show up at boot time after POST, and appear in Device
Manager as SCSI. Oh course.. there's nothing like an Adaptec card.
http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/controllers.gif
In fact.. my FSX installation is on the E:\ drive, a 500 GB WD connected
to the Promise SATA controller. Unfortunately so is the Page File.
http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/UD3_E-drive.png
On Topic Check: this is an On Topic check. Am I on topic? or tangent?
-G
TOCA
Aug 4, 2012, 11:36:38 AM8/4/12
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"Gregory" <flights...@bkwds.comcast.net> skrev i meddelelsen
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> On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 15:45:14 +0200, "TOCA" <n...@valid.com> brought the
> following to our attention:
>
>>guess I have to start saving up for a couple of TB drives soon, or stop
>>accumulating stuff :o(
>
> You mean like this:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/2x_WD_1TB.jpg
That would be nice :o)
> following to our attention:
>
>>guess I have to start saving up for a couple of TB drives soon, or stop
>>accumulating stuff :o(
>
> You mean like this:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/2x_WD_1TB.jpg
>
> I think the drives above were bought at Best Buy store 'on sale' for
> $115 ea. Looking at BB website, black Caviars are selling for $129. The
> green Caviars are 'on sale' for $84.
>
> What do you have for a controller? Integrated SATA? Check Newegg using
> search terms: "Promise adapter" You'll have a choice between a 2-port
> SATA II RAID card and a 4-port SATA II adapter. These products are, and
> always have been 100% compatible with Windows. I've used Promise
> adapters in just about every PC for over 10 years. They are affordable,
> work GREAT, show up at boot time after POST, and appear in Device
> Manager as SCSI. Oh course.. there's nothing like an Adaptec card.
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/controllers.gif
>
> In fact.. my FSX installation is on the E:\ drive, a 500 GB WD connected
> to the Promise SATA controller. Unfortunately so is the Page File.
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/UD3_E-drive.png
>
and files + Page on #3 :o)
Tommy C, Denmark
Danny
Aug 4, 2012, 12:04:32 PM8/4/12
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Oooo. I see that is available at C-net. Let's go!
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