pc organization
 

how do you guys organize your drives and information?
i'm just wondering, i've got a lot of shit to spread around but i just got four 250gb drives (i can only fit 3 drives in my computer though). on the side i've got an 80gb, 200gb external, and two 180gb drives.

one uh 160 GB hard drive

cool, you're useless. anyone with any lots of data spread around?

200gb Sata HDD

C:/ Partition is main windows place with all programs and documents etc.
D:/ Parition is where i keep all my music
E:/ Partition is where i keep mah movies/tv shows

250b IDE HDD

F:/ Porn
G:/ Backups of everything
H:/ ISOs of games movies etc etc.


what do you fill all those hdds with anti, 4 250gbs? and then externals?

i've got around 300gb in video, 120 in photoshop and photography, 40gb in iso's and games, 75gb in music, and some other random shit.

raw video as in what you have captured or shiz you gestolen from dc hubs?

shit i've stolen. i thank my time living on campus with dc++. you've given me a good idea, i think i'm going to partition one of the 250's to around 80 for operation and program files and use the rest fo any video spill over.

[quote="TGB!":f5d22]
The most important thing is to STICK to it - have one section be your default Download section, and update it regularly putting shit where it needs to go. My HD's are a fucking NIGHTMARE right now. . .because Im so god damned lazy.[/quote:f5d22]

same here, i stuck to it for a while, but then i started saving stuff to my desktop, then when it got full just dragged it into a new folder and then again and again and again as you can see;

[img]http://jesusburger.net/upload/MESSS.jpg[/img]

yeah i've always had a set "incoming folder" in which shit gets sent off from there. i try to make the best use of 'my documents' i can. i'll figure it out as i go along. hopefully i can just throw old shit into a 2006 folder and start a new 2007. i regret not using dates as a means to organize everything from the beginning. any tips or advice anyone?

lol christopher walken

elstat that looks like my desktop with all the icons n shit

i love how if you fill your desktop it keeps going off to the right, so then you just drag the stuff you can see and when you select align to grid a few months later you are surprised by a multitude of porn you thought you had lost

I have the same thing everything gets saved to Desktop so i don't spend ages hunting thru folders to find it, then I select all and drop it into a new folder cry:

Two 80 gig Seagates formerly raid 0. In this build raid was a pain in the ass and i saw no real benefit from it last build, so im just using them seperatly. One as the OS drive, and the other as the "media" drive.

1 250 gb WD external hard drive, which like most people here, I usually save everything to desktop but before it looks like Elstats biggrin: ill sort it into the multitude of folders i have in the External Hardrive

I'm a lil' behind the times. Only have 2 drives. Main drive (30g) has the OS installed and games. The 80g drive is just storage for mp3's and pics.

Ive 2 sata 2 drives a 400 gig (372 after format) with a 10 gig partition for ghost images. Thats my main OS installation drive, xp at the minute. My second drive is a 250 (232 after format) secondary OS drive containing vista 64 ultimate edition. External media consistts of a 3.8 gig flash drive which is for random stuff.

Also got a few memory card readers on the shuttle and the monitor itself which fill up the drive section quite a bit.

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/drive-setup.jpg[/img]

Keeping them tidy is simple enough, vista has a premade folder for dloads under the user section, by default everything goes to there. Xp is the same deal really, just usually keep media in the shared folder of limewire.

I don't tend to install that much at all, rarely my drive get anywhere even near half full, any games i can't be bothered with usually get uninstalled. Only problem with a dual hard drive\dual OS setup is having to install games and programs on both operating systems.

I prefer vista by far but some games can be akward about it and not run properly, because of my missing ram xp is being used more lately as vista turns into a chugathon with only 768megs free, especially when trying to run a game. Also audio for the ps3 has to go through xp as the control panel option for the onboard sound won't work in vista and won't let me enable spdif in.

lmao.

[quote:a98bf]My second drive is a 350 (232 after format) [/quote:a98bf]

Wtf 112 gigs missing. I understand the sizing of drives is a bit of "fals advertising" based on bits, bytes, and techno jargin like that. But i have never heard of it being off by so much. I mean id expect it to be short by about as much as the 400 gig you have.

Wtf 112 gigs missing. I understand the sizing of drives is a bit of "fals advertising" based on bits, bytes, and techno jargin like that. But i have never heard of it being off by so much. I mean id expect it to be short by about as much as the 400 gig you have.[/quote:cba04]

lol i meant 250, hit the wrong button. mad:

I was all like holy fuck someone call the BBB these bitchs are taken geeks for a ride!

have a 80 gig drive and thats it. 40 gb is all my programs, other 40 is media, torrents, porn, movies, pix and install files

30gb = OS
90gb = games and other programs
external 120gb = saved pictures and backups

When I build a new system I will be doing probably 3 320 gig drives or something like that. Will be much easier to seperate everything out. You just have to decide where you want to put everything and make sure you follow through with it.

With a shit load of drives, you might forget and just save to the main drive. Maybe put a stickie and remind yourself not to install or download to c.

I kept doing that and my 30gig which was supposed to be for os filled up really quickly because i kept forgetting to change the "c" when installing programs.

figure out how many partitions you need and try to stick to it.

Just buy a 1tb drive and partition it.

when the price comes down. cheaper to buy 3 320gig.

Theyre £200 over here which isn't a bad price.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... subcat=768

happy:

Then again could grab 3 of these and have more storage for slightly less

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... subcat=768

if something happens tot hat one drive you're fucked.

And if anything happens to your backup drive, same scenario. You're really walking a tightrope keeping backups on hard drives. Prefer to burn it all to a load of dvd's in addition to having a backup drive.

i don't see how it's the same scenario, if i have two drives holding the same important information; if one fails there's still another? how would i be fucked?
i'm not going to burn 200 gigs to dvds, how long would that take?

Im talking about if your backup drive fails, usually that will be the largest drive of all your drives, if it does fail then you still have your info on your os drives but have to go and buy another backup drive.

Dvd's may not be ideal but what i would consider to be a good backup solution would be a blu-ray recorder. At the minute they hold upto 50 gigs for movies, for a recordable blu-ray its 25gigs max at the moment(i think) and theres alredy discs in testing holding 200 gigs.

For a 2x bluray writer you're talking £500+ which is over $1000. May be expensive but if you have shit you don't want to lose i suppose its worthwhile, just burn the data and store them out of the way and you always have your backups.

back up drive fails that's what, 50 bucks down the drain? (plus i get these drives free so i don't really care). if the terabyte drive fails that's what, how much down the drain along with all your info? i don' see any problem in backing your shit up on drives. i can't imagine a drive sitting around in a clean well kept spot would just fail for no reason without any use. besides, i get these all for free and they are all 250s so who cares really.

annoy:


Hard drives have a pretty high failure rate compared to the other components in your pc. A hard disk based backup is not really a practical solution because of this. Why do you think companys use tape drives etc if hard drives were so dependable? cuss:

ok. you're right.

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