- Oct 31, 2012
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Hi everyone. I have some questions about future storage options.
Here is my situation. I have been archiving family pics and videos to my pc the past couple years. I have a large family video collection that starts as far back as the early 90s and continues to grow. I have had a video camera in my hands since I was a teenager, and all the footage I have recorded over the years is beginning to pile up.
A lot of the videos started on older analog sources like VHS-C and Hi 8 format, then went to Digital Mini DV, and now I have a flash memory HD camera that is all digital. I have all the videos now sorted, dated, and organized on the media computer I built.
This computer has 6 internal drives - all at random sizes for different uses. The first 2 drives are 2 TB each. The first drive has all the pics/videos on it that I have been archiving, and the second drive is a back up to that. I then have a 3 TB external drive as a 3rd back up.... you can never be to sure when it comes to HDDs, right?
So, the 2 TB drive is down to it's last couple hundred gigs, and it won't be long before those are taken up.
I wanna plan ahead for the future, as I have more media I plan to add to the collection in the coming weeks. A lot of it HD media with larger files. I no longer have any more physical room in my tower. I have the Cooler Master HAF X tower, and all the hard drive bays are full.
I was wondering what my options would be for more massive storage addition. Is it possible for me to build a second tower that has nothing but hard drives in it that I could connect to my PC via a single cable of some sort through a PCI slot or anything? Just put a power supply and drives in it basically. I would like to be able to have the physical space to add more HDDs as I need them. I guess my goal would be to have a series of more 2TB drives. I would buy them in pairs so each drive has a back up for itself.
Here is a complete list of my current specs:
-Cooler Master HAF X - High Air Flow Full Tower
-CORSAIR HX Series HX850 850W Power Supply
-GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H Motherboard
-AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz Processor
-16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 Ram
-Nvidia GeoForce GT 440 Video Card
-Hauppauge Colossus Video Capture Card
-2 Optical Drives - Dual Layer DVD Burner & Dual Layer Blu Ray Burner
-Windows 7 Ultimate on a 240GB Intel SSD boot drive - 520 Series
-6 Internal Western Digital Hard Drives (HDD mechanical) @ 7200 RPM each - Not raided - Random storage capacities for a total of 7TB of storage space.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Here is my situation. I have been archiving family pics and videos to my pc the past couple years. I have a large family video collection that starts as far back as the early 90s and continues to grow. I have had a video camera in my hands since I was a teenager, and all the footage I have recorded over the years is beginning to pile up.
A lot of the videos started on older analog sources like VHS-C and Hi 8 format, then went to Digital Mini DV, and now I have a flash memory HD camera that is all digital. I have all the videos now sorted, dated, and organized on the media computer I built.
This computer has 6 internal drives - all at random sizes for different uses. The first 2 drives are 2 TB each. The first drive has all the pics/videos on it that I have been archiving, and the second drive is a back up to that. I then have a 3 TB external drive as a 3rd back up.... you can never be to sure when it comes to HDDs, right?
So, the 2 TB drive is down to it's last couple hundred gigs, and it won't be long before those are taken up.
I wanna plan ahead for the future, as I have more media I plan to add to the collection in the coming weeks. A lot of it HD media with larger files. I no longer have any more physical room in my tower. I have the Cooler Master HAF X tower, and all the hard drive bays are full.
I was wondering what my options would be for more massive storage addition. Is it possible for me to build a second tower that has nothing but hard drives in it that I could connect to my PC via a single cable of some sort through a PCI slot or anything? Just put a power supply and drives in it basically. I would like to be able to have the physical space to add more HDDs as I need them. I guess my goal would be to have a series of more 2TB drives. I would buy them in pairs so each drive has a back up for itself.
Here is a complete list of my current specs:
-Cooler Master HAF X - High Air Flow Full Tower
-CORSAIR HX Series HX850 850W Power Supply
-GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H Motherboard
-AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz Processor
-16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 Ram
-Nvidia GeoForce GT 440 Video Card
-Hauppauge Colossus Video Capture Card
-2 Optical Drives - Dual Layer DVD Burner & Dual Layer Blu Ray Burner
-Windows 7 Ultimate on a 240GB Intel SSD boot drive - 520 Series
-6 Internal Western Digital Hard Drives (HDD mechanical) @ 7200 RPM each - Not raided - Random storage capacities for a total of 7TB of storage space.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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