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Data Storage For Home?

Posted by Cliff on from the hard-drives-outstripping-backup-capacity dept.

kuom asks: "Every couple of years, I face the same problem: running out of hard drive space. No matter how big of a hard drive I get, I seem to find ways to fill it up within a few months. The size of my hard drive grew from 2.5G to 13G, to 20G, to 40G, 80G, 120G, and most recently, 200G. Today, I have a combined hard drive space of 280G, but I again find that I only have about 2G of free space left. My collection of family photos, web site content, TV episode captures, music files, and my archive of ISO files for various operating systems, they just eat up my hard drive space so fast. I could get a 400G hard drive, but I figure maybe it's time to think about something long term, something like EtherDrive or StorageWare. But the price tags are definitely out of my range. Slashdot readers, what do you suggest for home data storage?"

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  1. Re:here's an idea... by Frodo+Crockett · · Score: 2, Funny

    (the mobo doesn't have to be great, nore the ram)

    Noooo, you don't need good hardware for a fileserver. Stability and data integrity don't matter at all. [/sarcasm]

    Dimwit.

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    "The newly born animals are then whisked off for a quick run through a giant baking oven." --heard on Food Network
  2. Re:DVD by fm6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're right, of course. But that leads us to our next Ask Slashdot: "I have hundreds of data DVDs witch all kinds of shit on them. I can never find the one I want. How do I keep track?"

  3. Re:here's an idea... by Jozer99 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ya, I don't get the main parent: "I keep filling up disks and buying bigger ones and I am sick of it. Can anyone recomend a slightly bigger disk that will permanently solve my problem?"

  4. Simple. by clambake · · Score: 3, Funny

    Print a harcopy.

  5. Re:2.8TB RAID 5 for $4100 by Glonoinha · · Score: 3, Funny

    He is looking for a way to back up porn.
    For $4,100 he could just hire people to come to his house and fuck each other while he watched.

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    Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
  6. Re:DVD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I removed the labels by soaking the disc in isopropyl alcohol and after that, I had no problem reading the discs.

    Next time, try putting the labels on the other side of the disc...