I think I need more storage, what do you guys think?


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House fire. Robbery. Flood. Extra space in "rm -rf" bug in Finder, etc.

From what I get from his post (I could be wrong) but it's all in his house, so a disaster like fire, flood or robbery would destroy the data. But your other points are pretty good

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Surely that setup isn't cost-effective whatsoever.

Based on what? When I bought the first 4TB, they were $120 each, the second 2 were $99 each. I bought the last 3 drives for $212 total.

My total out the door cost for 9TB over the past 18 months has been $890.

As I mentioned a few posts up, I do want to pick up a bare-bones Drobo for 3 of the drives that I no longer want in my OS X Server.

And granted, while we all have our opinions as far as the efficiency of my setup, it works just fine for what I need and everyone's mileage may vary. Having said that, if you don't like my setup, then go get your own and post about it.

I haven't lost a single file in 10+ years due to the way in which I store, archive and copy my data, I would chock that up as success.

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So you have all of this redundancy. But all under the same roof..... Yeah.....

You say that as if house fires and break-ins are things that happen every week.

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You say that as if house fires and break-ins are things that happen every week.
Happens a lot more than you think. I used to be a medic in a a small-to-medium size city; we'd average 3 calls per week for structure fires. And lots of cities publish police incidents online; just looked at the one for the college city I lived in, which is considered one of the safer cities in the US: about 4 burglaries and 4 armed robberies per week.
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I vote ya mail 1 or 2 my way, and if you're in the mood for new drives get some multi TB drives instead of a ton of single TB drives :)

They happen every minute...

So basically, you just created this thread for e-peen. I should go ahead and make a thread saying that I have 18TB of space then.

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Critical mass, here I come...

3 TB local disks, 3 TB on my router, 3 TB on my OSX Server down in the garage.

you can never have enough storage :)

I have 4TB in my MacPro, 8TB in my windows machine, and 6TB in my linux box, as well as i think 7-8 portable HDD's from 250gb-1TB and of course...my pride and joys.... two servers at home (one his remote connected to my business office [which my servers at work I won't even go into...we do a lot of video editing, 3d design, programming, debugging...so I think at work I have over 680TB of storage on my servers there) each with 250TB of storage (my home office is my remodeled attic which I built an enclosed room and installed a second AC unit in my home to redirect air to my office and the server rooms. The server room stays closed and there is one window which has a window mounted AC unit and I also took two industrial fans, built a custom fiberglass enclosure to act as mini chill towers). As well as the two servers is another that serves as my machine to run my VM's on.

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