Should I get a 320GB, 500GB or other sized HD?

[j00fek]

1TB ePENIS IS TEH BIGGAR

 

[SViper]

Originally posted by: JRock
I personally feel that with the size of HD's today no matter what route you get you should always get at least 2 so you can mirror your data. I don't know about all of you but losing any of my sh!t would be devastating. That's why I'm running RAID10 at home so I can recover from multiple drive failures and not lose anything. I also keep a copy of all my important data on the SAN here and another copy on optical media in a safe deposit box.

That would work for some people, but people like me don't need all of that. I don't have any data that I absolutely need to have. About the only thing I consider remotely important enough to keep is a copy of my resume and that's less than 1MB.

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: JRock
I personally feel that with the size of HD's today no matter what route you get you should always get at least 2 so you can mirror your data. I don't know about all of you but losing any of my sh!t would be devastating. That's why I'm running RAID10 at home so I can recover from multiple drive failures and not lose anything. I also keep a copy of all my important data on the SAN here and another copy on optical media in a safe deposit box.

My critical data is stored on my school's servers, so I'm not really concerned about HD failures and the like. If I lose some downloaded games/movies/etc, that's annoying but not a big deal.

 

[Looney]

You guys say that now, but wait until you lose 500GB... even if it's just warez, that's a lot of data to replace. And with drives so dirt cheap now, it's crazy NOT to have some sort of redundancy. I have both RAID1 (my main drive for OS and such) and RAID5s (my 1.2TB drive) going in the same system.