Thomas20 (0)
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PC Upgrading WIndows 8 and bigger drives !
I fantasised a while ago about making one of them raid things where you dump a bunch of drives into a case, with one on off switch and the data duplicates itself as a mirror automatically. But my computer knowledge, and time available to work it all, out meant that each time I just to the easy option and each time added another external 2TB drive ona usb lead.
So I am now on three 2 TB drives, replicated for back up on another three 2 TB drives plus a couple of 1 TBs plugged onto the motherboard flopping about inside the pc case. It is a pain to duplicate everything and I have run out of usb ports to plug them all in at once as it is and I need another 2TB of space at least. So that means another x2 2TB drives. Plus there are power leads everywhere.
I gather there are ways to make XP work with 3TB and 4 TB drives but again I am not sure I can be arsed because it seems looking at it today that you can get a pc base running windows 8 with a decent spec for 400 GBP that will read 4 tb drives.
4tb drives cost about 20GBP more to buy than a 2tb i.e. negligible so I figure what I save on the first set of drives will contribute 100GBP or thereabouts towards the new machine plus I won't have to upgrade XP seperately (not that I ever actually would have done I suppose).
So apart from the obvious issue of losing a whopping 4tb of data when a drive goes down (which really is no different to losing a 2tb drive if it is backed up), are there any obvious flaws in this plan and the bigger drives ?!! Edited on Jan 26, 2015, 12:42pm |
