Just wondering what sort of external storage and backuping you guys use?

For me:

External Hard drive:

1 x Passport style western digital 500GB. Rather new and filled with pretty much everything I have, pictures, videos, games, software... trying to think of something I dont have on here... probably my secure information which I wouldnt trust here. Small, quite... runs a bit hot when transfering date. Ideal for travel as it is small yet big storage. I think its got about 360GB of stuff in it, so should last a bit longer.

2 x 180GB Western digital. My old external harddrives. Not used anymore but still full of my old data. Pretty much my back up of the one above. My back ups back up.... yeah paranoid a bit.

Flash drives:

3 x 4GB flash drive. Toshiba, small cheap, trash. When ever one of my friends has something cool I want I give them one of these, my "trash drives". Dont really care if I lose these as I just use them to swap data before putting it on a more stable media. I think I've lost 2-3 of these over time.

1 x 32GB Toshiba flash drive. My personal storage device. Filled with photos and my favourite movies and tv shows along with some documents ect. Pretty new and expencive but handy with the amount of travel I sometimes do. I love having the ability to carry around all my favourite data on a tiny little flash drive.

1 x 4GB Ironkey Flash drive. An amaingly cool piece of tech. I just got it a few days ago. Basically an uncrackable flashdrive. Water proof, tamper proof (if you try to break into it you are guaranteed to destory the data inside).


About 4 years ago I had my harddrive crash, lost everything I had with zero backups so since then I have been pretty anal about backing up ect.

 

God I couldnt imagin backing up onto CDs ect. To big and to easy to damage.

But yeah, while I could find most of what I have it would take ages and be annoying, and a bit of it is stuff I doubt I could get again.

 

I have a main OS SSD which contains my OS and core performance critical programs, and then I have two 1TB hard drives. For backup I have a 1TB external HDD, I backup my data, movies, music, photos, applications, documents, audio project files, images etc, all onto this external, I have a lot of movies and tv shows backed up onto DVD aswell.

 

I have nothing really. I burn my games I get and delete them from the harddrive, I have a DVD or two loaded with all the programs I use on fresh installs, and that's it. Probably wouldn't hurt to backup my family pics now that this has reminded me to.

 

I built a ~2.2 TB NAS about a year ago. I've got about 1.6 TB free.

 

Documents and pictures are all online, while music gets burned onto rewritable DVD's. TV shows and movies aren't important enough to bother backing up.

 

Documents and pictures I keep online on Windows Skydrive, everything else is in various assorted flash drives.

 

Just had my external 500 gig drive go out on me, thankfully I was able to get most everything off of it before it died. Currently backing up my music collection to DVD, should have probably been doing that sooner

Lost a bunch of my downloaded and backed up games, thankfully I can re-download or alcohol 120% those again. A lot of my school work was almost lost, good thing is I went ahead and backed that up to my new school's server last week. That would have made me rage pretty hard...

Dunno if I will be able to replace the external HDD anytime soon, moving into the dorm this coming weekend and school starts the following Tuesday... Not to mention I am broke as a joke >_>

At least the drive waited 6 months after the warranty ran out, instead of the usual 6 days...

Anyone have any external drives they would recommend me look at?

 

I have about 300 gigs of quality porn on an external hd

 

I like western digital, I've had two of them for well over a year now... probably almost two years.

 

According to the Western Digital support site, I bought the drive on 12/15/2007 and the warranty ran out 1/13/2009. That's about a year and a half's use, though I'll admit that I was more than brutal to the thing...

Was thinking of picking up this later on, that is if I can snag a job on campus

 

I have a 650 gb TrekStor external HD, a desktop and a netbook.

The most important stuff is on the external and all three computers - as that's the stuff I'm usually working on. Important stuff (pics, music-archive) is stored on the external and the desktop, and the unimportant stuff is spread over the network.

I rarely burn DVDs/CDs as I trust them even less than my HDs.

I use Allway Sync to synchronise the important folders between my computers and its only problem is that the free version stops at 40.000 files per month. But there is no need to synchronise your music archive every other day >_>.

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So you never had a girlfriend?

 

Backing up files is for squares!

<_<

 

I'm heading to Uni in the fall, switching to a laptop from a desktop and I actually need an external hard drive for once. What is everyone using in these modern days? (Didn't want to start a new thread)

 

WD Elements. 1tb. It's a pretty good drive, though you'd probably want to look at 1.5 or 2tb these days.

My 1tb cost me $180 NZD.

 

Same as me. Except I have some family pics on an old external hard drive that i got years ago but i dont really use it often.
Music is on an ipod and computer so ill usually have on or the other with me. Nothing terribly important so i can download it again. I usually delete movies, shows, porn after i watch it

 

1.5/2 TB would be nice but 1 would be fine. I'm more looking for something that's durable enough to lug around/100ish$ can/US.