How often your HDDs die? Do you backup your ****?

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

I've lost several.

Anything worth keeping is worth backing up.

I use my FAM as backup since we have the same music/movie libraries

 

[badvillain]

For you guys that do a lot of downloading.

Do you download your stuff straight to externals or do you always put em on your PC first and then transfer stuff when you need the space?

I'm going to cop the 3TB external at BB on BF for 99, was just curious how the download gang usually manages their stuff.

For most the part you should be ok with doing it either way. But, this depends on how fast of a connection you are going to be using to both the internet and the external harddrive itself.

First, when you download make sure you are wired in and not on wifi, you'll see a tremendous boost in speed. Regardless, most high-speed providers don't provide more than 30mpbs to the average customer. If you are one of the lucky few who gets the highest-tier Verizon you can get up to 300 mpbs per second.

So if you have the average high-speed internet provider, theoretically you can save downloads directly to the external hard drive if you are using atleast Hi-Speed USB, because you won't ever have the data coming in faster than 30mpbs and the slowest data transfer speed for newer external harddrive connection types is 480mbps. But, if for some reason you have an archaic usb port in your computer and rocking a 12mpbs and are downloading from a decent server you might see some latency while directly downloading to the external.

Now, say you had the highest Verizon tier you could download and transfer just as fast to the computer as you would to the external harddrive with atleast Hi-Speed USB connection type or faster.

But lets have some fun and say you live in Kansas City and are one of few people that got Google's new service. You'll be seeing average speeds of 600 mbps. So if you were one of those peeps and wanted to save to an external harddrive and were downloading from an extremely fast server(They probably have to be located in Kansas City and on Google's figer optic as well haha), you would want to have at least a usb 3.0 or thunderbolt port/connection. So you could transfer the 600mpbs in real time.

Last but not least, be safe out there downloading

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Sorry it's a boring friday at work, thought I'd take some of you to school

 

[Tom]

cosigns TS


I've had PCs/Laptops since 98 and I've never had any HDD die on me.


Infact I still have my HDD from my very first desktop bought in 1998 and it still works fine.


I understand that nothing last forever and maybe I'm just lucky, But I also think that some of u just aren't taking proper care of ur sh1t (probably bump, drop, or slam ur laptops/PCs alot etc)

 

[yseJ]

have a raid and backup storage drive you backup once/twice a week, youll be eatin like a pig


well raid isnt really needed unless you really need to protect against hardware failure but its nice to have anyway

 

[GoldenGlove]

For most the part you should be ok with doing it either way. But, this depends on how fast of a connection you are going to be using to both the internet and the external harddrive itself.

First, when you download make sure you are wired in and not on wifi, you'll see a tremendous boost in speed. Regardless, most high-speed providers don't provide more than 30mpbs to the average customer. If you are one of the lucky few who gets the highest-tier Verizon you can get up to 300 mpbs per second.

So if you have the average high-speed internet provider, theoretically you can save downloads directly to the external hard drive if you are using atleast Hi-Speed USB, because you won't ever have the data coming in faster than 30mpbs and the slowest data transfer speed for newer connection types is 480mbps. But, if for some reason you have an archaic usb port in your computer and rocking a 12mpbs speed you might see some latency while directly downloading to the external.

Now, say you had the highest Verizon tier you could download and transfer just as fast to the computer as you would to the external harddrive with atleast Hi-Speed USB connection type or faster.

But lets have some fun and say you live in Kansas City and are one of few people that got Google's new service. You'll be seeing average speeds of 600 mbps per second. So if you were one of those peeps and wanted to save to an external harddrive and were downloading from an extremely fast server(They probably have to be located and on Google's figer optic as well haha), you would want to have at least a usb 3.0 or thunderbolt port/connection. So you could transfer the 600mpbs in real time.

Last but not least, be safe out there downloading

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Sorry it's a boring friday at work, thought I'd take some of you to school

Thanks breh.

I'm going to build a PC soon (like next week when the deals start dropping for components) so I'm going to keep this in mind. I'm going to either up the PC thread or make a thread asking for suggestions on what I should be looking to buy to make something that handles my media/downloading needs flawlessly

 

[badvillain]

Thanks breh.

I'm going to build a PC soon (like next week when the deals start dropping for components) so I'm going to keep this in mind. I'm going to either up the PC thread or make a thread asking for suggestions on what I should be looking to buy to make something that handles my media/downloading needs flawlessly

Yea I was just theoretically running through all different scenarios in which there could be an issue. I've seen few hosts serve downloads faster than a couple megs a second, so the only times you could ever really have a problem in the real world is if you had a really old usb port and are downloading from a fast server/host or you have the Google Fiber Optics and are downloading from another extremely fast server/host which matches your speeds.

Good luck with the build, I'm too lazy for that shyt. I do use many computers which is the reason I turned to the cloud. You should look into building a home theater pc too, so you could serve and store your video files(if your an Xbox person build a windows 7, do not use windows 8, with windows media center and the built in extender feature), a cloud service for the music, and google drive/dropbox for all other types of files.

 

[Neg Stark]

Ive never witnessed a dead HDD in my life.

Me either. I still back up my shyt though.

 

[yseJ]

Me either. I still back up my shyt though.

if you havent seen a failed hard drive in your life,
you

1)are young as hell
or
2) havent used your HD enough

 

[StatUS]

This one I bought back in 06 just died a few weeks ago. Other than that all mines still work or are not even being used right now.

 

[Brehmington Steele]

I have 2x 500GB, 1x 1TB Western Digital Passport USB HDs, love them. Also have 2x 64GB (really 60) USB keychains, and an old power cord 320GB Lacie from early college. Never had one die.

The USB ones are at a nice price right now:

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Lexar-JumpDrive-TwistTurn-Flash-LJDTT64GASBNA/dp/B002RL8UWU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353099055&sr=8-1&keywords=lexar+64gb]Amazon.com: Lexar JumpDrive TwistTurn 64 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive LJDTT64GASBNA (Black): Electronics[/ame]


should be a staple of keychains everywhere

 

[verbalkint]

Lost about half a tb of flicks & ....I've been at this a while tho...destroy & rebuild is what I believe. Luckily never lost my tunes once I got to a certain point. Google Music gots me now tho.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Lost about half a tb of flicks & ....I've been at this a while tho...destroy & rebuild is what I believe. Luckily never lost my tunes once I got to a certain point. Google Music gots me now tho.

I'd still back them up.

Downloading from Google Music gives you some weird file, not the mp3s you uploaded.

 

[R=G]

For you guys that do a lot of downloading.

Do you download your stuff straight to externals or do you always put em on your PC first and then transfer stuff when you need the space?

I'm going to cop the 3TB external at BB on BF for 99, was just curious how the download gang usually manages their stuff.

I download to Externals because my main drives are always close to packed until I make room for them with some back ups.

 

[Rickdogg44]

I'd still back them up.

Downloading from Google Music gives you some weird file, not the mp3s you uploaded.

Can you expand on this? I thought about joining the cloud music scene...

I still buy CD's so I can save them as lossless and steal clean drums and kicks

 

[R=G]

Did you know it costs like from $900-3,000 to recover data from a shaky HD?