Lots of drives what to do

[Stiganator]

so here is the run down on my drives

Internal
-500GB Windows XP seagate (150 gb used)
-250GB Maxtor OS X (200gb used)
-250GB WD * empty
-200GB seagate * empty
-120GB seagate * empty

External
-500GB MyBook wd (467 gb used)
-250GB Inland PATA seagate empty

Should get some usb enclosures for the starred ones or what should I do with them? RAID is out since they are different sizes, though I suppose I could do JBOD, but I don't really want all those disks running all the time. I suppose I could consolidate my 100+ case of disks of random data. It's a daunting task...

 

[Safeway]

467gb used on that external is .

 

[xSauronx]

sell the unused ones, and buy new ones to make RAID sets?

what the hell you people are doing with all this data is beyond me. and why you have a TB+ free and cant figure out what to do with it is another puzzler.

 

[mcmilljb]

I agree. If they're empty, just get rid of them for some bigger drives. Why keep so much stuff on the external drive? The empty ones should be able to get you a decent drive.

*edit*
Doh! Left out rid.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: mcmilljb
I agree. If they're empty, just get of them for some bigger drives. Why keep so much stuff on the external drive? The empty ones should be able to get you a decent drive.

the external i get if its a backup and full of misc data. but still....i have 200GB of space, i *might* have 150 of it full soon

if nothing else, rip all your dvds and cds

 

[Stiganator]

I'm a total data pack rat. I should use spring break to clean up my data. I used a file cataloger to label 100+ DVDs and there contents, but I don't think I've looked at any of them even once.

 

[slayer202]

send me the 120 and i'll use it for my rainbow tables

 

[Stiganator]

I'm thinking of using the external 250GB PATA as a time machine drive.

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
I'm thinking of using the external 250GB PATA as a time machine drive.

but...but....where did you get the flux capacitor.

 

[nageov3t]

get rid of the empty ones, compress the rest into 750's in a raid1 or raid10?

 

[chuckywang]

Craigslist them .. that's what I did when I got my 750 gb external (BB clearances FTW!!).

 

[Leros]

keep a few of those. Upgrade to larger drives and consolidate. I'm in a similar position myself. I have 4 drives: 160, 200, 320, 350 (or something like that).

I wanna have: 200GB for OS, 750GB data, then upgrade to another 750GB or 1TB when/if the first fills up. I also wanna implement some kind of external backup (1TB or so).

 

[imported_Baloo]

Why we getting computar hardware questions in off topic?

 

[Linflas]

I had a bunch of IDE 120-160GB drives sitting around so I took an old A7V (8 IDE devices) and an old KR7A (8 IDE devices) and built 2 Open SuSE Linux systems. Made the mount points under s single directory and used Samba to share it on each box and now I am using them for video storage.