my hard drive is full - DPChallenge Forums

08/11/2008 01:47:14 AM · #26

what??? that cheap? damn, either i got majorly scammed or i got a really good hard drive in my laptop. the bill was $350!! including the guys time etc

awpollard

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

08/11/2008 01:49:28 AM · #27

Originally posted by JDubsgirl:

what??? that cheap? damn, either i got majorly scammed or i got a really good hard drive in my laptop. the bill was $350!! including the guys time etc

Laptop drives are more (especially good ones), if he did the OS and everything than it could get that high.

dwterry

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO M.Zuiko

08/11/2008 01:55:08 AM · #28

I know the feeling!

Check out 4TB of Storage

FireBird

08/11/2008 06:36:49 AM · #29

Originally posted by JDubsgirl:

Originally posted by pixelpig:
My $.02-worth of advice is to buy the biggest HD your computer system can handle & ask the shop to transfer your files to the new HD for you.

want to lend me the money to get it?

If you're using SATA drives I regularly see 250GB drives for 100 bux and less.

klkitchens

Pentax K-1

Pentax FA 50mm f/1.4 AF

08/11/2008 07:37:01 AM · #30

Check IE's size for temporary internet files and set it down to mayb 50MB or so. That will clear a bunch.

Reboot and look in C:\windows\temp and delete EVERYTHING IN THERE. if you just rebooted, it's doubtful much will still be "in use", but if it is, then it will not let you delete those.

ralph

Nikon Z9

08/11/2008 07:48:35 AM · #31

Originally posted by dwterry:

I know the feeling!

Check out 4TB of Storage

thought the drobo was to expensive so i got a DLINK DND-323 NAS with 2 WD 1TB SATA for 450$

Brad

Olympus OM-D E-M1

08/11/2008 08:10:40 AM · #32

Here is something else that eats a lot of drive space - the recycle bin.

Right-click on it, prpoerties, check the settings for space alloted. Most often it set to 10 percent, which literally sets side 10 percent of your hard drive that will be used only for the bin. Drop the settings down to 2 - 5 percent and reclaim some unusable drive space.

cowboy221977

Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

08/11/2008 08:32:22 AM · #33

with the cost of external hard drives now a days I would go with as big a hard drive as possible.Put all pictures, music, and videos on it and maybee even some of your programs..... The less that you have on your comp the faster it becomes.....

Jedusi

08/11/2008 09:02:02 AM · #34

I'm with the external backup - I can't justify the Drobo either so I've just ordered one of these.

WD Mirror

MattO

Nikon D4

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

08/11/2008 09:12:02 AM · #35

Run to your local target and pick up a 320GB my book USB external hard drive. They are currently selling for $79.99 plus tax. I use these or 500's and have 2 mirror each other of my work. But for your needs one should be fine for now. And no ordering or dealing with shipping and waiting time.

Matt

08/11/2008 10:50:06 AM · #36

Originally posted by MattO:

waha, we dont have tax here, waha. just thought id rub it in:)
ok ill run by there today and see whats what. thanks you so much everyone

dwterry

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX Diagonal Fisheye for Nikon

08/11/2008 11:18:53 AM · #37

Originally posted by ralph:

Originally posted by dwterry:
I know the feeling!

Check out 4TB of Storage

thought the drobo was to expensive so i got a DLINK DND-323 NAS with 2 WD 1TB SATA for 450$

Yes, Drobo is more expensive. The advantages I feel the DROBO 2 have over this solution (which, for me, are compelling enough to pay the extra cost and so they may be for others as well) are:

1) Drobo does something similar to RAID5, which is more "space efficient" than RAID1. If you use RAID1 then your 2TB system effectively is cut in half to just 1TB. If you use RAID0 or JBOD then you have "no protection" at all (lose a drive, you lose the data).

2) Drobo is completely automatic. If you've ever built a RAID5 system and later decided to add more space, you've had to back it up, delete the array, build a new array, and restore the data. With Drobo, you just add new/bigger hard drives and it automatically takes care of it. So although I started out pretty big to begin with (four 1TB drives), there are 1.5TB drives in the near future and I could easily replace my drives (one at a time, by the way) to upgrade the available space.

3) I've found that NAS (which means an ethernet connection is used) is fairly slow as far as hard drive access is concerned. Drobo 2.0 comes with both USB2 and Firewire 400/800 connections. And although the over-the-wire speed for Gigahertz Ethernet may be faster, I think it's the protocol that is used for these that makes them faster for direct hard drive access. Ethernet is fairly "generic", it has to accommodate all kinds of protocols. Firewire, on the other hand, can be optimized for hard drive access and deliver quicker turn arounds.

In the past, I have had to do all of my Lightroom processing (for weddings and such) on my local drive and then copy the data out to my NAS because trying to run Lightroom against the images on the NAS was just excruciatingly slow.

This past weekend was my first full blown wedding since getting the Drobo. I copied everything directly to the Drobo instead of to the internal hard drive and I did *all* of my processing on the Drobo. So I can finally report back... I found the speed to on the Drobo to be "good enough for processing", but if I were in a big hurry, I would still prefer to process on my internal drive. The good news is that it was much faster than my NAS experience and I really didn't expect it to match my internal drive speed. But it was good enough that I'm willing to continue processing images this way and enjoy the benefit of "full time protection" against my data.

muckpond

Nikon D200

08/11/2008 11:42:27 AM · #38

Originally posted by JDubsgirl:

waha, we dont have tax here, waha. just thought id rub it in:)

yeah, but you barely have people too. :P

ralph

Nikon Z9

08/11/2008 11:46:31 AM · #39

from my work (real life 10's of terabytes) we use raid 1 (mirrors) for critical
raid 5 for important \
no raid for crap ;)
i feel better using a raid 1 (my paranoia) for home

the DND-323 is for shared machines on a gigabit Ethernet so firewire/usb would not be approp.

at little more than 100$ for the basic box /
once 1.5 T -> 2 T boxes come avail. i'll just get another ..

the whole thing is a shell game - moving the data from drive to drive to drive ..
and old drives (10-30-160gig stacking up in the closet ..

Apple iPhone 5

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

08/11/2008 01:17:30 PM · #40

I'll give CCleaner a mention. It's a piece of Windows freeware designed to delete all the temporary files and even cleans up the registry. I've found it to be invaluable when trying to resuscitate Windows PCs...

08/11/2008 01:36:29 PM · #41

ok i got a little coupon for a 500GB my book external hard drive from Best Buy for $99.99. gonna go get it today:)

08/15/2008 07:11:38 PM · #42

ok i have the hard drive hooked up and everything but im still being told i have low disk space. is it supposed to automatically bput stuff on it or do i need to do something special here?

Simms

08/15/2008 07:26:33 PM · #43

Originally posted by JDubsgirl:

ok i have the hard drive hooked up and everything but im still being told i have low disk space. is it supposed to automatically bput stuff on it or do i need to do something special here?

YOu need to move it yourself, however dont move things like the windows folder.. just your images, music, films etc..

Message edited by author 2008-08-15 19:26:46.

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

08/15/2008 07:29:07 PM · #44

Originally posted by Simms:

Originally posted by JDubsgirl:
ok i have the hard drive hooked up and everything but im still being told i have low disk space. is it supposed to automatically bput stuff on it or do i need to do something special here?

YOu need to move it yourself, however dont move things like the windows folder.. just your images, music, films etc..

ok since i seem to be doing this all wrong... do i just like cut and paste? or what?

Nuno

Nikon D700

08/15/2008 07:32:40 PM · #45

I didn't wait untill my disk was full to get an external hard drive. About 3 years ago I had a virus problem and I almout had to format my hard drive. In top of this during a tempest a electricity peack burned my hard drive. I was starting to get pro, I had all my files in DVDs, but all the time to have a new hard drive and put everything back toghether is just too much pain.

Now I have everything in external hard drives, and I only keep in the laptop and desktop the programs itself. I now that this slows things a bit, but I prefer this way and to be complete safe.

My settings are:

A UPS where I have connected the desktop, the hard drives and the monitor and usb HUB devices. 1 TB Lacie harddrive as main storage drive. From this drive I back thing up to 3 diferent hard drives, 2x 320GB and 1x360GB, one for weddings, other for other commercial work and one for private stuff.

08/15/2008 07:44:46 PM · #46

my question still stands...

Simms

08/15/2008 07:48:03 PM · #47

Originally posted by JDubsgirl:

Originally posted by Simms:

Originally posted by JDubsgirl:
ok i have the hard drive hooked up and everything but im still being told i have low disk space. is it supposed to automatically bput stuff on it or do i need to do something special here?

YOu need to move it yourself, however dont move things like the windows folder.. just your images, music, films etc..

ok since i seem to be doing this all wrong... do i just like cut and paste? or what?

Pretty much, yeah.. the best way is to highlight the folders you want to move, right click on them, then selct COPY, on the new HDD, right click, select PASTE and let it work its magic, once its copied successfully (go in and test out some files), then you can delete the original from the C: drive. just please be careful you dont f**k it up.

08/15/2008 07:52:55 PM · #48

Originally posted by Simms:

Originally posted by JDubsgirl:

Originally posted by Simms:

Originally posted by JDubsgirl:
ok i have the hard drive hooked up and everything but im still being told i have low disk space. is it supposed to automatically bput stuff on it or do i need to do something special here?

YOu need to move it yourself, however dont move things like the windows folder.. just your images, music, films etc..

ok since i seem to be doing this all wrong... do i just like cut and paste? or what?

Pretty much, yeah.. the best way is to highlight the folders you want to move, right click on them, then selct COPY, on the new HDD, right click, select PASTE and let it work its magic, once its copied successfully (go in and test out some files), then you can delete the original from the C: drive. just please be careful you dont f**k it up.

ok i shall try not to:)

Sam94720

08/15/2008 07:59:41 PM · #49

Cleaning up your disk is a first step. But in a few weeks you'll have the same problem again.

I would recommend getting an external harddrive. Western Digital ones are good quality.

Choose according to budget:

320 GB: $85

500 GB: $100

1 TB: $176

They also have small, portable ones:

160 GB: $77

(I'm a happy customer, I have several of them.)

EDIT: And always keep backups of everything that is important to you...

Message edited by author 2008-08-15 20:00:47.