When I carefully picked and selected the computer I'm currently using two years ago, I never even thought it would lack in diskspace. 2 80GB disks in a RAID 1 (mirroring) setup - "secure and large enough" I thought. Well, the system still runs secure, but I've been running out of space constantly the past weeks/months.
I either go out and grab a pair of nice 160GB drives, doubling my available space, or I go for an external solution connected by USB2 or FireWire. Since I don't have FW on this box - but I probably will when I get a new one - it would be wise to get a setup that both runs of USB2 and FW. Looking at prices, a Maxtor OneTouch (FW + USB) external 250GB disk, doing 7200 rpm, 8MB cache would cost me about 240 euro. Two new 160GB disks to stick in the RAID1 would cost me about 200 euro.
Now, I think that if I moved the less important data to an external solution, the 80GB would be more than enough to carry the important things, so in time I think I'll just get an extra disk.
Heather accepted the prize, so I'll be shipping it to her on thursday.
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