margrave
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Years ago on a desktop with a 40 GB drive, I had a 250 GB D:\ drive to back it up, and also to backup two other computers in the home. Just rsync-driven file-level backups.
Later I moved to a desktop with a 1.5 TB drive, and I had a 500 GB D:\ drive to do backups.
Now I have a desktop with 512 SSD and 2 TB D:\ ... and a third Q:\ drive for backup, a 2 TB HDD.
Well ... I still to regular file-level backups to that Q: drive, but I'm also doing full images of C: and D:, with differential backups. And the 2 TB Q: drive, which seemed enormous a year ago, is now filling up. I'm not near full yet, but the inexorable increase in storage needs suggests that I should consider a bigger Q: drive.
It doesn't need great speed. Just big size. What should I choose?
I don't want an outboard NAS device. I want to simply swap out that 2 TB HDD for something bigger. Is a 4 TB drive available? Is it economical? Or would an even bigger drive make sense?
Who makes such? Recommendations?
Later I moved to a desktop with a 1.5 TB drive, and I had a 500 GB D:\ drive to do backups.
Now I have a desktop with 512 SSD and 2 TB D:\ ... and a third Q:\ drive for backup, a 2 TB HDD.
Well ... I still to regular file-level backups to that Q: drive, but I'm also doing full images of C: and D:, with differential backups. And the 2 TB Q: drive, which seemed enormous a year ago, is now filling up. I'm not near full yet, but the inexorable increase in storage needs suggests that I should consider a bigger Q: drive.
It doesn't need great speed. Just big size. What should I choose?
I don't want an outboard NAS device. I want to simply swap out that 2 TB HDD for something bigger. Is a 4 TB drive available? Is it economical? Or would an even bigger drive make sense?
Who makes such? Recommendations?