Oh Joy!, Trying to organize my files....


  1. Posts : 2,164
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
       #1

    Oh Joy!, Trying to organize my files....


    I've got 14 physical hard drives attached to my PC and decided tonight that I was going to organize all of my media files so that certain shows and documentaries aren't spread out across the drives. this way I can clean up my libraries and make it easier to find stuff.

    It's gonna take a while.
    Sometimes I envy the people that only have 1 hard drive in their machine.

    Guess I'll make me some coffee since I have to drive my brother and father to the airport at 4:30am, it's 12:47am right now.
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    Windows 10,Windows 7,Mac OSX
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    Zepher said:
    I've got 14 physical hard drives attached to my PC and decided tonight that I was going to organize all of my media files so that certain shows and documentaries aren't spread out across the drives. this way I can clean up my libraries and make it easier to find stuff.

    It's gonna take a while.
    Sometimes I envy the people that only have 1 hard drive in their machine.

    Guess I'll make me some coffee since I have to drive my brother and father to the airport at 4:30am, it's 12:47am right now.
    Have fun. I consider it inconvenient just to backup my data and computer each month, and to backup to my offsite backup.
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  3. Posts : 1,849
    Windows 7 x86/x64, Server 2008r2, Web Server 2008
       #3

    Zepher said:
    I've got 14 physical hard drives attached to my PC and decided tonight that I was going to organize all of my media files so that certain shows and documentaries aren't spread out across the drives. this way I can clean up my libraries and make it easier to find stuff.

    It's gonna take a while.
    Sometimes I envy the people that only have 1 hard drive in their machine.

    Guess I'll make me some coffee since I have to drive my brother and father to the airport at 4:30am, it's 12:47am right now.

    1 hdd + 1 Crash = millions of lost memories
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  4. Posts : 2,164
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #4

    mckillwashere said:
    Zepher said:
    I've got 14 physical hard drives attached to my PC and decided tonight that I was going to organize all of my media files so that certain shows and documentaries aren't spread out across the drives. this way I can clean up my libraries and make it easier to find stuff.

    It's gonna take a while.
    Sometimes I envy the people that only have 1 hard drive in their machine.

    Guess I'll make me some coffee since I have to drive my brother and father to the airport at 4:30am, it's 12:47am right now.

    1 hdd + 1 Crash = millions of lost memories
    everyone should have a backup drive.
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  5. Posts : 1,849
    Windows 7 x86/x64, Server 2008r2, Web Server 2008
       #5

    Try to tell that to OEM manufactures.
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  6. Posts : 2,164
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    mckillwashere said:
    Try to tell that to OEM manufactures.
    Why? 2nd internal drive isn't a "real" backup, unless you want them to bundle an external USB drive with the machine.

    for your very important files you should have 3 copies, 1 on the computer, 2 removable or external USB/e-SATA/1394 with 1 of them offsite and rotated with the other one every 2 weeks or every month.
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  7. Posts : 2,578
    Vista 64 bit and 32 bit (SP2)
       #7

    [QUOTE=Zepher;1167558]
    mckillwashere said:
    for your very important files you should have 3 copies, 1 on the computer, 2 removable or external USB/e-SATA/1394 with 1 of them offsite and rotated with the other one every 2 weeks or every month.
    That's pretty much what I do (except that I use 2 travel drives) . . . and I thought I was being too OCD, but I get a lot of comfort from it, after having had multiple hard drive crashes and lost data over the years!
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