Backing everything up

[Danny]

before I reformat sucks.

This is taking ages cos I gotta take all my save games with me, arghhhh.

[Jayce]

if you have an ehd it doesn't take long.

[Danny]

Ehd = external hdd? Still took long. Slowwww transfer rates. Installing windows again now..

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[Jayce]

Ehd = external hdd? Still took long. Slowwww transfer rates. Installing windows again now..

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didn't take long for me, only the music really took a while, but I have a load of music.

[Danny]

I has 130-150gb of music.

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[Mitch]

of course using an 'ehd' takes long to do backups

usb = slow

i prefer to backup to an ihd

[Jayce]

of course using an 'ehd' takes long to do backups

usb = slow

i prefer to backup to an ihd

I used a crossover cable so it was alright.

[Danny]

it's a laptop i kinda have to :X

but hey reformat done (although it fucked up first time cos I left USB mouse plugged in) so I had to do it again cos it just hung on "Completing installation".

OH WELL, time to reinstall everything and update drivers etc etc etc

[Jayce]

it's a laptop i kinda have to :X

but hey reformat done (although it fucked up first time cos I left USB mouse plugged in) so I had to do it again cos it just hung on "Completing installation".

OH WELL, time to reinstall everything and update drivers etc etc etc

please tell me you put 7 on it.

[Danny]

I had W7 on it before, so.. yeah.

Windows 7 = <3

Wonder how many reboots i'll have to do until everything is back to norm.

[Gav]

I just use a laptop drive and plug it in (inside) whenever I want to backup. It works perfectly well, takes about 10 seconds to plug in and obviously the transfer speeds are very fast.

[Tim]

I just had to go through the tedious process of backing everything up off my laptop too to prepare for my trade in. The night before the switch was going to happen, my external hard drive had a catastrophic failure/data loss (WD MyBook 500GB - quality stuff) so I had to do it all over again. Thank god it didn't happen after the switch. I bought a new 1TB one anyways for cheaper than I originally bought the 500GB one for, lol.

[Danny]

I've been using a 320gb seagate external hdd for the past 4 years? Cost £90 at the time.

[Tim]

I've been using a 320gb seagate external hdd for the past 4 years? Cost £90 at the time.

Yeah, you can get 1TB for that price now. =P

[Gav]

Yeah, you can get 1TB for that price now. =P

Actually saw one, including next day delivery, for £59.99 the other day. Pretty awesome.

[Justin]

i've never done a backup

[Jayce]

I had W7 on it before, so.. yeah.

Windows 7 = <3

Wonder how many reboots i'll have to do until everything is back to norm.

fuck yeah.

my friend still always uses XP.

he got a new laptop with 7 on it and still put XP on it instead.

[Danny]

What an idiot. XP is outdated and insecure compared to W7...

[Jayce]

What an idiot. XP is outdated and insecure compared to W7...

that's what I said, he disagree's though.

[Brad]

Fire, your friend is a tard

On the sort of topic of hard drives, god damn they are so CHEAP now. I just want to buy like ten 2tb just for the fuck of it because of the prices. Amazing how some hardware prices have been changing. Although the RAM market prices still fluctuates way too often.

[Tim]

Fire, your friend is a tard

On the sort of topic of hard drives, god damn they are so CHEAP now. I just want to buy like ten 2tb just for the fuck of it because of the prices. Amazing how some hardware prices have been changing. Although the RAM market prices still fluctuates way too often.

A lot of the files are getting bigger though, so it remains relatively the same. JPEGs and PNGs, etc not so much, but video files, especially HD ones are huge.

[Brad]

I love me some bluray rips

[Danny]

My avatar br rip isn't even the best quality and it's like 10gb.

Looks fucking amazing though..

[Jayce]

I might download avatar in blueray later now, thanks danny.

[Mitch]

I should backup my stuff. I would cry if any of my HDs failed.

But backing up 2.5TB is effort.

I might just buy 4 2TB drives and set up RAID5 so I have 6TB of storage and can recover from a drive failure.

[Mark]

4x2=8 mitch

[Mitch]

i'm aware of that... however:
(4-1)*2=6

raid5 uses one drive for parity

[Mark]

Oh.

Times like this I regret not keeping up to date in the hardware / tech world. The last time I actually knew stuff was before sata / raid even was around.

[Danny]

RAID had been around for a long time mark.

[Mark]

RAID had been around for a long time mark.

Yeah I know, but I havent paid attention to computers in a long time. I built a computer in about 2003 and since then I havent really followed hardware advances. Yeah Sata was around then I think cause I had a sata hd in my comp, but it was new. as for raid, i dunno if it was around then but if it was i dont remember.

whatever just dont call me out danny!