Ditto

Merry Christmas Fluff, don't over stuff the fluff!! HeeeHeee....

LOL! Merry Christmas to you too ...and the fluff will not be stuffed this year, I'm not well

First off, I'll say it again [since it's been 7 hours]: Merry Christmas, all of you all across the Ocean!!! Hmm...well, he started it by trying to claim the cool new drive! Yep. And I'm still finding new stuff about it. [Like the fact that it will search sources for 10 seconds and then go to sleep.]
Hehe. The sad part is I had to save all the boxes for when I needed to take the drives back out. [On average, 6 months after they went in the computer.] LOL. I just hope that it doesn't die or give me any SMART warnings. I went through too much trouble getting my twisted combination of HP's QuickPlay, 3 partitions, and Vista to boot properly--let alone copy to the WD in the first place. [In the end, I ditched the QuickPlay partition. But now I've got some space to...err....download music. ]

wow i posted in this thread and never said:

Merry Christmas to everyone

I save all my boxes also Do you have a copy of your C: (OS + other files) in your fireproof safe?

Edit:
Member rdgrimes told me he used a fireproof safe also.

Not yet. I can't find a good time to make a backup, because I always have some important program in beta at one time or another. I did keep the original HDD for the laptop [which works flawlessly right now], and have [some sort of] OS backup for the desktop, though.

When FireFox exits beta and the OS's get the official service packs [and they get tested], I'll back up the main partitions for each system. I'll just have to be careful for a few months.

yeah it is over kill for me to do that. My pc will burn up but i have a back up

I have all of my HDD stuff i want to save on DVD-RAM discs in the safe also.

May you get well soon so you can stuff your fluff. Take care...

You see, the laptop is pretty much a mirror for the desktop. The internal drive houses OS, programs, and music/music videos. The external drive houses my pictures, all the stuff I've downloaded, and a small backup of the music [what hasn't been written to DVDs]. The only difference is in recoverable pictures, and TV recordings, which if I cared I'd author to DVD Video.

So, to sum it up:

Laptop=250 GB + 250 GB [int+ext]= 500 GB [40 or 50% used]
Deskto=200 GB + 320 GB [Samsung + Seagate]=520 GB [50 to 65% used]
The 20 GB difference is negligible, thanks to the TV shows taking up just a tad more space. If one crashes, I can still function.

What raid config. are you using Wallace?

None. Whether that's good or bad, I don't know.

The only benefit I'd get is start-up time, and that's pretty fast right now [when I don't hibernate]. I just spread the workload out between partitions/drives, disable Windows' prefetch and superfetch, enable write caching, and everything goes plenty fast.

Not bad at all! I use Raid 3 and 4. The 400GB backsup my whole other 400GB automatically should one die on me my other will have the same image. I am going to be upgrading to 1TB drives soon here for my space is about 40% free.

I plan to go get a 750 GB drive and backup my whole desktop to it, unplug it, and set it aside for Instant Recovery, should anything go awry. I plan to get 2 or 3 additional drives to help even more. I want the paging file on a drive that's rarely used [like the drive where I'd store pictures], TV recordings on one drive [where a 750 GB would come in handy], OS and apps on one drive [shared as cache for photo and video editing], and 1 drive to be shared between duplicates of my music [iTunes and WMP each have their own libraries, with MP3s and such that get changed independently] and programs/updates that I dowload.

I might also go for a 320 GB HDD for the 2nd bay in my laptop, since I'd see the benefit of having swap file & music on one drive, OS and apps on the other. [That's how my single drive is partitioned now, minus the fact that the PF is the first file on the first partition].

This is my Christmas gift to all 'Freaks that enjoy technological talk. Merry Christmas to the next time zone!

What do you mean time zone? We are in the same time, same space! JK

Its 4:11 AM
must wrap up my Kids prezzies before they wake up

Happy Holidays all
going to drive 12 hour trip Boxing Day (no internet for 2 weeks)

Are you gonna have withdrawls? Thats a long time without the CPU, dunno if I could hold off that long. Thank goodness for laptops!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too, its only 6:20Pm here.

sounds like a plan to me

Hello Sexy!! Hello!!