extra storage

Troncoso

Troncoso

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i have a new 300GB HDD in my pc now. my uncle says i should store all my data on it and us my original one to boot the OS since it is faster....well, is there any way that i can just configure it so that it automatically uses the new HDD as more storage space?
 
If you already have a ton of files on the 300gb it's already too late to shrink the primary in order to see a second storage partition created there. Need more storage space? Instead of making the old smaller drive the OS host why not grab a seconnd 300gb or larger model for that. Your current primary is already comfortable size wise.
 
my primary with the OS installed is an 80GB. the new one is currently empty. i havent used it yet. i have it partitioned though, so that half of it is shared over a network. the other partition, i just want to act as additional memory to my 80GB. so when it is full, it will automatically start saving on my new drive. does that make sense?
 
In other words when the 80gb starts reaching capacity you have something inplace to redirect files to the secondary storage partition set up on the new 300gb model. Any program you use for this should be configured to send files directly to the new drive to avoid running into "out of memory" or "out of space" type error messages that will appear once the host drive has run out of space for things like virtual memory.

For just how to go about seeing an auto save configuration I asked someone who works regularly with networking to review the thread here to see what programs are available for the task you have in mind there. There are a few example of how to go about archiving files or as the link here shows how to go about that with an email server. http://www.michigan.gov/documents/GWArchiving_145491_7.pdf

If that was for Excel you could use the Excel backup scheduler found at http://www.1st-download.com/downloa...er/excel-backup-file-save-scheduler/8674.html
 
You are best off getting a third party utility like retrospect to schedule back ups and use disk quotas. I don't think windows does this natively and if you are running linux there would be lots of scripting involved.
 
transfer ur all data into ur 320 gb hdd then make ur another one ur boot volume as it is allready.....
 
PC eye said:
I find more links for Apple/Mac and OS X while one shopping site sees the Client for Windows 7.5 version at http://www.shop.com/EMC_RETROSPECT_7_5_CLIENT_1PK_WINDOWS_%28CZ10G6175%29-43557010-p!.shtml?trk=13
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There are other third party applications out there, I am just not too familiar with them. I personally use rsync with a cron job, but that is not something everyone can just do, or should even mess with

Retrospect has a nice easy to use GUI, and a built in scripting applet which would allow you to write your own scripts using their simple scripting language. This would allow you to set disk quotas and do scheduled back ups, and then even overwrite back ups after they are so old to save space.
 
The link seen there was from using that one program as the search item. Under that catagory rather then specifying one program's name in particular I wouldn't be surprised to even run across a few free programs as well as the retail product seen there.

I figured since you are the one working with these type of applications you would be able to recommend what would likely work the best for Troncoso's setup there. An easy gui to work with always seems to help more then getting into any awkward ones.
 
wow, do i really need to go through that stuff just to use my hd? well, if you guys got a new 300Gb HDD to put in your computer, how would you go about using it?
 
For what you are planning there to see a special configuration for designation of one drive and one partition for seeing files automatically saved you then need programming of some type. For simply saving files you download on your own you manually select the drive and folder to be used there.
 
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