Backup drive

mrbagrat · 01-06-2007, 07:54 PM

After hearing TOO's comment on how two of his seagate drives failed within one week, I've decided to buy a backup drive. One question though-how big are backups usually? I'm getting a 320gb main drive, how big should the backup drive be?

gamerman1988 · 01-06-2007, 08:16 PM

are you using a backing up utility or just going to drag and drop the files? I'm not sure how back up utilities compress the data, but what I do is gather all the files that I can't lose and zip them and put the zip file on an external drive which I only turn on to update the back up when needed

mrbagrat · 01-06-2007, 08:27 PM

Probably both, but I don't want to spend any more then 50$ on the drive.

Burgerbob · 01-06-2007, 10:16 PM

I would get maybe an 80GB drive, as you wont have anything more than that that you cant get again. Just something cheap.

Sacrinyellow5 · 01-06-2007, 10:37 PM

I'm sure a 80 or a nice 120 would do the trick, its just a matter of finding one in your 50 dollar budget.

mrbagrat · 01-06-2007, 11:28 PM

I just found and old 40gig in my closet. 7200 RPM tho. Would that work for just backups? Like, not compressed archives? How much do backups take up?

Jet · 01-06-2007, 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrbagrat

I just found and old 40gig in my closet. 7200 RPM tho. Would that work for just backups? Like, not compressed archives? How much do backups take up?

It depends how much you want to back up. However, I'd say that 40GB is fine for backups.

gamerman1988 · 01-07-2007, 12:47 AM

Only back up what you cannot afford to lose, something like family photos should take priority over say easy to get mp3s. After all my photos and videos and other irreplacable documents are compressed in a zip, it takes less then 40 gigs so you should be fine with that, unless you have a lot of stuff that you can't lose

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mrbagrat banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: See above Posts: 1,237	Backup drive After hearing TOO's comment on how two of his seagate drives failed within one week, I've decided to buy a backup drive. One question though-how big are backups usually? I'm getting a 320gb main drive, how big should the backup drive be?

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01-06-2007, 08:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
gamerman1988 Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 55	are you using a backing up utility or just going to drag and drop the files? I'm not sure how back up utilities compress the data, but what I do is gather all the files that I can't lose and zip them and put the zip file on an external drive which I only turn on to update the back up when needed

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mrbagrat banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: See above Posts: 1,237	Probably both, but I don't want to spend any more then 50$ on the drive.

01-06-2007, 11:28 PM	#6 (permalink)
mrbagrat banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: See above Posts: 1,237	I just found and old 40gig in my closet. 7200 RPM tho. Would that work for just backups? Like, not compressed archives? How much do backups take up?

01-07-2007, 12:47 AM	#8 (permalink)
gamerman1988 Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 55	Only back up what you cannot afford to lose, something like family photos should take priority over say easy to get mp3s. After all my photos and videos and other irreplacable documents are compressed in a zip, it takes less then 40 gigs so you should be fine with that, unless you have a lot of stuff that you can't lose