Sorry, another geek post.
You’ve got your kilobyte (1,000 bytes)
You’ve got your megabyte (1,000,000 bytes)
You’ve got your gigabyte (1,000,000,000 bytes)
And now we’ve reached the terabyte (1,000,000,000,000 bytes)
I’m finally able to put the last piece of my backup strategy into place. The UPS man delivered my first-ever 1TB drive today. That’s right – 1 terabyte. Clare asked how big that was. It’s big. One trillion bytes big. I needed something to use for off-site storage that would handle the 2 x 500GB drives I’m using for videos.
Here’s what I’ve got going on right now:
Internal drives
320GB (operating system & Documents & Music & Pictures)
500GB (Videos 1995-2007)
500GB (Videos 2008-?)
External drives (kept here, backed up twice weekly)
250GB (Documents & Music & Pictures)
500GB (Videos 1995-2007)
500GB (Videos (2008-?)
External off-site drives (kept off-site, backed up monthly)
160GB (Documents & Music & Pictures)
1TB (All videos)
The backups are underway right now. Transferring ~600GB of video to the external drive via USB looks like it will take 4-5 hours. Time for this dude to go to bed. Should be done in the morning.