CadetStimpy Posted January 14, 2016 Author Posted January 14, 2016 8Tb Hard-Drive Excessive file-hoarding takes another leap forward! Quote
SentaiBrad Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 I just added another 4TB to my system too because I needed it. :P Not that I could probably afford that drive. Edit: And I also prefer Western Digital. I got tired of my Seagates failing on me. Quote
DOS76 Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 I want 16 of them but will probably wait until my next failure before I get one that is if my MediaSonic ProBox enclosures support drives that big. I bought another 5TB Seagate Backup drive last night so I can store all of my PS2 games on my basement HTPC. Quote
Jason Carr Posted January 16, 2016 Posted January 16, 2016 By the way, if you guys have a little bit of money to spare, and have lots of data, you need to know about Crashplan. It's amazing because there's no limit to how much you can back up. So if you have 10 TB on a computer, you can literally back up 10 TB to the cloud for relatively cheap. I've used the service for over 5 years and I feel like I'm completely ripping them off. I'm not kidding when I say I have 30 TB backed up in the cloud. I pay for the family plan which gives me 10 computers. Can't remember what I paid (I keep getting it on sale) but it was something like 2 or 3 hundred for 5 years when I last renewed. As per how well it works, not only have I backed up that much, I've also successfully restored terabytes and terabytes after hard drive crashes, so confirmed, you can trust it. Quote
SentaiBrad Posted January 16, 2016 Posted January 16, 2016 My upload speed is only like 350kb though. It takes like 45min to an hour to upload 1GB to YouTube. xD Quote
Jason Carr Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 Yeah, thankfully it will run in the background and you can throttle it, but yes, of course it does require a decent upload speed especially for the initial backup. I remember my initial backup took months and months. It keeps up fairly well to changes though once you've done the initial uploads. Quote
DOS76 Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 That sounds magnificent but your ISP would just throttle the shit out of you so they can gradually keep selling you faster and faster speeds (crooks) Quote
CadetStimpy Posted January 19, 2016 Author Posted January 19, 2016 Yah, shit, I forgot about reality there for a moment. Quote
SentaiBrad Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 Tends to get away from us. ;) Thankfully my ISP is actually really cool. The DL speeds are great for the price, but UL lacks severely. I'm debating if I can get the faster upload package and write it off each year as an expense. ;) Quote
CadetStimpy Posted January 19, 2016 Author Posted January 19, 2016 SentaiBrad said The DL speeds are great for the price, but UL lacks severely. What UL speeds do you typically get? Quote
CadetStimpy Posted January 19, 2016 Author Posted January 19, 2016 SentaiBrad said 350-380kb/s Ouch! Quote
SentaiBrad Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 Actually, they must have upped it since I last checked, but not by much. http://www.speedtest.net/result/5009093974.png Quote
DOS76 Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 I have FIOS and they weren't kidding when they say upload speeds match their download speeds I actually get faster upload speed the majority of the time so they must be taking it serious. Its too bad I never use it. I would trade that in second for some faster download speeds (that didn't involve me paying more loot). Quote
SentaiBrad Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 I wish Charter offered much more past what we have, but just shy of getting business service I can't, which they also apparently wont do at residential addresses. I will wonder if I could write off a portion of my internet bill and call it a work expense. :P Quote
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