Is this overkill??

[Quadacon]

I have one 1TB WD Blue and one 3TB Seagate, is that overkill? (I do have a lot of data)

 

[kenrivers]

If, as you say, you have a lot of data then this is not overkill. The question is do you have a backup plan in case either drive fails? If not then you need to seriously think about backing up your data.

 

[bryonhowley]

Overkill I do not think so. I have a 90GB SSD for Windows 8 an 120GB SSD for OS X 10.8.2 and 6x 3TB WD HDD for my games apps music movies and such and I do not think that is overkill so I may not be the best one to judge that. And as soon as I scrape together the money I will be getting 2 more 3TB drives to add to a PCI-E SATA controller because I am running out of room on my Steam Drive.

 

[wdmfiber]

I'd say no as well. Ideally you would have a SSD for your boot drive, 120 or 240 gb. And two 3 TB drives for storage; with the same data on both 3 tb drives for redundancy/fail-safe.

3 tb drives are a good value(cent per gig), but 4 tb prices are dropping fast.

And this assumes a lot of data isn't only 100 gigs worth... or at the other extreme end, (like byron h) into the double tb digits. I think if the 2011 Thailand floods didn't happen, we would be have inexpensive 6 tb single drives (4-5 platters) by now.

 

[theiDunnotouch]

I'd say no as well. Ideally you would have a SSD for your boot drive, 120 or 240 gb. And two 3 TB drives for storage; with the same data on both 3 tb drives for redundancy/fail-safe.

3 tb drives are a good value(cent per gig), but 4 tb prices are dropping fast.

And this assumes a lot of data isn't only 100 gigs worth... or at the other extreme end, (like byron h) into the double tb digits. I think if the 2011 Thailand floods didn't happen, we would be have inexpensive 6 tb single drives (4-5 platters) by now.

4tb drives don't exist do they?

 

[ZeroMotivatioN]

I'd say no as well. Ideally you would have a SSD for your boot drive, 120 or 240 gb. And two 3 TB drives for storage; with the same data on both 3 tb drives for redundancy/fail-safe.

3 tb drives are a good value(cent per gig), but 4 tb prices are dropping fast.

And this assumes a lot of data isn't only 100 gigs worth... or at the other extreme end, (like byron h) into the double tb digits. I think if the 2011 Thailand floods didn't happen, we would be have inexpensive 6 tb single drives (4-5 platters) by now.

4tb drives don't exist do they?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007603%20600457700&IsNodeId=1&name=4TB%20and%20higher

Enjoy

 

[theiDunnotouch]

I'd say no as well. Ideally you would have a SSD for your boot drive, 120 or 240 gb. And two 3 TB drives for storage; with the same data on both 3 tb drives for redundancy/fail-safe.

3 tb drives are a good value(cent per gig), but 4 tb prices are dropping fast.

And this assumes a lot of data isn't only 100 gigs worth... or at the other extreme end, (like byron h) into the double tb digits. I think if the 2011 Thailand floods didn't happen, we would be have inexpensive 6 tb single drives (4-5 platters) by now.

4tb drives don't exist do they?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007603%20600457700&IsNodeId=1&name=4TB%20and%20higher

Enjoy

wow I really didn't know, thanks ZeroMotivatioN.

 

[ZeroMotivatioN]

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wow I really didn't know, thanks ZeroMotivatioN.
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