Need more storage! + backup storage.

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Howdy,

Alright heres a little story (hope I don't bore you), from 2004 until 2013 I used a 80gb for my OS and a 160gb hdd for my documents and programs, same hdds all that time I remember getting them they was lightning fast over IDE :p and I had a 160gb usb HDD for backing up.
Then last year I got my self a 120gb Samsung evo and a 1tb Seagate barracuda, Holey hell the speeeed was immence, no idea how I lived on 120gb before...... no idea at all, and I now use 6 usb hdd's literally they are all just old hdds iv got and stuck them in caddys etc its a little bit of a confusing setup but yeah that's how im backing up and it sucks need to do something about it

Right now my 1tb is 80% full, I need more space!

So what are the recommendations to do, just two 3 or 6tb hdds, use one in my system and one in a caddy as backup? or are there cleverer or better ways of doing this stuff.

Thanks.
 
the setup I have is a Samsung EVO 840 SSD a 500GB Samsung HDD and a 2TB external hard drive.

my SSD contains nothing I don't mind loosing, my 500GB has steam games on and the odd backup of stuff and then I have my 2TB external drive which I copy my 500GB too in case anything happens to either of them drives.

before hand I had a 1TB WD passport which has started having issues but still useable so that's kept to one side and got my 2TB external drive.

depending on how much you think your backups are going to increase and what else your storing on the 1tb hard drive I would just get a bigger drive to replace your 1TB one that's nearly full.

you can get a WD green 4TB for £119.99 which is not bad for the amount of space you get

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-415-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1955

or you can get a 6TB drive for £194.99

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-455-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1955

guess there is also nothing stopping you buying another HDD and sticking it in a caddy as well
 
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