My setup is similar. IMy iMac 24" has an internal 320 GB, and 8
external drives, total of 5.4 TB. All USB 2.0. 1 is used for iTunes. 1
for Time Machine backup (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly - falloffs in
each type), 1 for a retrospect BU weekly, 2 are partitioned x 2,
Images, Images workspace, Old Files from older computers. Older
backups from same, 1 actually file copy from my image originals, 2 1TB
drives that are going to be a RAID soon for all critical files and
Apps. And one more, a 400GB portable that I bring home and copy
imagery and documents to for off-site storage.
The ONLY time this setup is slow is when you are actually copying
large amounts of data from one drive to another, like 150 gigabytes.
Other than that, transparent. Doesn't slow the computer down much at
all, just the copying.
On Apr 2, 2009, at 17:10 , Paul Stenquist wrote:
I use an iMac 25 with six external drives plus the internal. I don't
see any noticeable performance difference. They all work just fine.
My total capacity is around 2.5 TB I believe. Haven't done the math
in a while:-).
Paul
On Apr 2, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:30:37PM -0400, Adam Maas wrote:
Oh, and I agree entirely on the external drive issue, love them and
other than the wall wart issue (they multiply) external drives are
much easier to deal with than adding internals. Currently running
2.7TB of drive space on a system with a 320GB boot drive with 1140GB
of that in external cases.
Do you not see performance disadvantages to external drives?
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