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External HD.
Buy a cheap PATA drive and a cheap enclosure.
Buy a cheap PATA drive and a cheap enclosure.
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Originally posted by BeBro
I knew someone would make that kind of comment 
Hard to resist an obvious comment
The first part though, was seriously meant. This and some multiwrite CD/DVD will reduce your need of media and time.
The electronic solutions mentioned is too risky unless you have some level of RAID, and then it isn't cheap any longer.With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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The cheapest way is to memorize all the porn in your brain, so you can just fantasize later on. Costs nothing.In da butt.
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You can get ~500GB of DVD's for $25. There's just no competition. Especially since each of his backups is apparently about DVD-sized.Originally posted by LordShiva
But much more of a pain to swap around, file, etc. Plus, you can't rewrite to them (rewriteable ones are more expensive), so you need more GBs in the first place.
A 400GB PATA hard drive and a cheap external enclosure won't set you back more than $150 (probably less). Or, you could buy a 3rd hard drive to go with the two already in your computer, put them in RAID 5, and have redundancy as well as increased performance
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USB sticks are a waste for backup of large amounts of data. For ~5 GB, just buy two rewritable DVD disks. As a DVD is about 4.7 GB, that will serve you well until you hit some 9.4 GB of data to backup. Rewritable DVD disks are a bit expensive, but that's only relatively speaking. What do they cost, 2$? 2.5$?
External hard drives are great if you have a larger amount of data, though.
Anyway, what do you people do to have so much data? I find that I can fit all of my critical data on one DVD disk - I have many more gigabytes of other data, but don't really need to backup it because I can redownload or otherwise reacquire it.Solver, WePlayCiv Co-Administrator
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Anyway, what do you people do to have so much data?
He said he doesn't graphics stuff.Comment
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It's my own gfx library if you will. And it's not purely for hobby anymore (as it was earlier, when I just modded some game stuff here and there for fun).
Judging from the anwers, I guess I'll look around for a good DVD solution
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QFDMOriginally posted by Kuciwalker
Anyway, what do you people do to have so much data?
He said he doesn't graphics stuff.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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I guess. But time is money, and DVD burning takes much longerOriginally posted by Kuciwalker
You can get ~500GB of DVD's for $25. There's just no competition. Especially since each of his backups is apparently about DVD-sized.
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AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
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I have ~150GB of music, meticulously sorted, tagged, organised into playlists, etc. It would suck so hard if I lost it.Originally posted by Solver
USB sticks are a waste for backup of large amounts of data.THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTFComment
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Maybe if you organise it. I can't be arsed to. Then again, I don't have nearly 150 GB.Originally posted by LordShiva
I have ~150GB of music, meticulously sorted, tagged, organised into playlists, etc. It would suck so hard if I lost it.
Organization... I really should get the tags on my MP3s right someday. So that all those fancy media players would actually become useful.Solver, WePlayCiv Co-Administrator
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You don't have to do anything whle the DVD burns. And if you're backing up less than 9.4 GB, all you have to do is swap 1 DVD out.Originally posted by LordShiva
I guess. But time is money, and DVD burning takes much longer
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You want a good Title and Tag program?Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTFComment
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