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How many external storage devices do you have?
Written by Arnan on August 3, 2008 – 2:40 am
Some small talk with some people over the past weeks made me think. How many external harddisks, memory sticks and cards do we actually own. Yes that includes the one from your camera too! But not your CD/DVD collection…
I did a quick count and came to 6. And a more thorough count went all the way up to 11.
Doesn’t sound like much… But still, 11 storage devices.
How many GB’s is that? Dunno… Quite a lot i think.
1x 320GB via Firewire (backup for iMac)
1x 320GB via Firewire (backup for Macbook Pro)
1x 320GB via USB2 (temporary storage for large files)
1x 120GB via USB2 (portable, when i leave with my bag, this thing comes with)
1x 256MB micro-SD (in my phone)
2x 32MB MMC cards (Nokia, unused)
1x 128MB Memory card (unused)
1x 320GB Ethernet disk (network storage)
1x 64MB CF card (System disk for my router)
1x 1GB MP3 player/Memory stick (unused)
A total of 1401.5GB (well over 1 TB). Including my computers it totals just over 2.8TB.
So how much do you have on the shelves?
Tags: harddisks, hardware, storageA 640GB Bonus
Written by Arnan on July 4, 2008 – 8:25 pmWut? Yes! hahaaa! I found 2 IDE drives in my magical closet of 320GB each. Not sure where they belong. But now they take care of the backups for both my Macbook Pro and iMac.
But… Yes, IDE drives. I bought 2 Macally 3.5″ USB2.0/Firewire400 casings. Turns out they’re stackable. Yay!
So behold! My massive storage tower… Isn’t it pretty? It’s aluminium seated on small rubber feet. The top one for my laptop and the other for the imac. Woohoo! Timemachine… No way, none of that… I bought SuperDuper! a while back. In all it’s awesomeness of cloning harddisks so that they are actually useful if the main drive fails. Instead of the mayhem Timemachine creates on a harddisk. Also Timemachine has proven me way too unreliable of loosing it’s contents or not recognizing the disk at all and thus has to reformat it for the “new” backup… Yea, rubbish!
Who let the phones out!!
Written by Arnan on June 3, 2008 – 1:01 pmToday all our phones died more or less. I’ve been sitting around switching someones data to a Mac from a PC instead of answering calls. While waiting for the data to copy a colleague walked in with a super sexy harddisk… I just had to have one. It has 2 FireWire 400 ports and, and this is the cool thing, a retractable USB2.0 port on a 3 inch cable. Wicked!!
So behold! The latest addition to the storage monsters!
A Lacie Little Disk “designed” by Sam Hecht. I don’t get the design part as it’s just a plain shiny black box… A monkey could be more creative than that. But hey, it looks nice anyway.
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