Backing up huge amounts of data

[Mr. Rager!]

That might be a possibility, although I'd probably have to get USB ones. I don't think the board I put in the server has firewire capability. Unless I get a card that would give me those connections. I think I have a few PCI slots free in the server.

There are cards that you can get that can give you firewire capabilities. Yeah, it'll still be time consuming, but it's cheaper than a lot of other options and very secure.

Apparently, HP is coming out with a home use server with 2TB storage capacity.We're stoked for it at work.

[Shabo]

Actually, USB 2.0 is faster than the first firewire, so if you can get your hands on the newer firewire technology, go for it.

[Mr. Rager!]

Actually, USB 2.0 is faster than the first firewire, so if you can get your hands on the newer firewire technology, go for it.

Well considering Firewire 800 (IEEE 1394b) has been out for about 4 years now and still quite a bit faster than High-speed USB, I don't think it'd be a problem.

Besides, Firewire was basically made for that type of data backup.

[Shabo]

Well considering Firewire 800 (IEEE 1394b) has been out for about 4 years now and still quite a bit faster than High-speed USB, I don't think it'd be a problem.

Besides, Firewire was basically made for that type of data backup.

As told by Wikipedia:

Firewire 800 allows a transfer rate of nearly 800 Mbit/s, BUT Windows XP limits the transmission speed to 100 Mbit/s (until you run the manual patch), whereas USB 2.0 has a transfer speed of nearly 480 Mbit/s. Therefore, IF you have the ports for Firewire on the computer, it's still going to be slower than USB 2.0 if you are running WXP unless you know about the patch. Even Vista does not support the full speed of Firewire 800 yet (when will Microsoft learn to play nice with Apple? *le sigh*). If I remember correctly, MadMike is using a Microsoft OS, so he will need to get the patch if he wants to use Firewire. Either way, it's going to be tremendously expensive for him to back up his entire collection using an external (or 3 or more) so he might want to back up his favorite movies on an external, and then if he ends up needing to reload the movies on his computer, it won't take as long as if he didn't back any up, and as he gets additional funds to purchase external drives, he can back up more movies. That would probably be his best bet.

[Pedersen]

Actually, he's using Ubuntu Linux right now, so that shouldn't be an issue.

[Mr. Rager!]

Therefore, IF you have the ports for Firewire on the computer, it's still going to be slower than USB 2.0 if you are running WXP unless you know about the patch. Even Vista does not support the full speed of Firewire 800 yet (when will Microsoft learn to play nice with Apple? *le sigh*). If I remember correctly, MadMike is using a Microsoft OS, so he will need to get the patch if he wants to use Firewire.

There you go MadMike, you now know about the patch.

[tollbaby]

Mike, hindsight is 20/20, but here's what I plan on doing when I get my brand-spanking new laptop (I currently don't have a DVDRom drive or a writer): I want to make a disc copy of every one of my DVDs.

While you were copying them all onto the hard drive, I'd have made a backup DVD copy as well (granted, too late for that now, but I doubt you're done acquiring DVDs... right?). I know it kind of isn't what you were looking for... just decided to share anyway in case anybody else is playing around with ideas.

[MadMike]

While you were copying them all onto the hard drive, I'd have made a backup DVD copy as well (granted, too late for that now, but I doubt you're done acquiring DVDs... right?). I know it kind of isn't what you were looking for... just decided to share anyway in case anybody else is playing around with ideas.

I'm not sure you understand why I was copying them. It wasn't to have a backup copy of them, it was to have them on a server that is accessible to the media PC I built (I just finished the second one, I'm hoping to finish the third one this weeked) so that I can have all my movies in one easy to access location, and I'm not constantly swapping discs out.

There's a couple threads about my project in here, but I'm too lazy to look for them right now.

[tollbaby]

No, I understood why you were backing them up.... it just seems silly to me to make yet another backup of THAT (but then, I'm the girl who's had two computers die on me in the last year).... just ignore me I'm not a techie type person anyway. LOL