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    What Exactly do you do with 1 Terabyte?

    By greg | August 23, 2009

    I recently was on the hunt for a bigger external hard drive, and I ended up bagging a 1 TB quad-interface (FireWire 400/800, USB, & eSATA) drive.  I had no intention of going this big, but I just couldn’t say no to the price or features. I got this SimpleTech Pro Drive for under $100 at a Best Buy – that’s less than $1 for 10 GB! I wanted a bus-powered drive, but I decided I didn’t really want to shell out $50 so I could work without a power supply. Reviews weren’t great for this drive, but I haven’t had any major problems after about a month of use.

    Now that I bought the drive, I had to stop and ask myself… what the heck do you do with 1 TB (1012 bytes or roughly 1,000 GB) of hard drive space??? Unless you pirate movies and TV shows like it’s your job or your job is to work with HD videos, music, images, etc. (perhaps of pirates?), this seems like overkill to mildly put it. While still a little excessive, there are a few ways to utilize this mass of hard drive space.

    Partition, partition, partition! Using Disk Utility, I divided my hard drive into the following 3 partitions:

    1. 350GB – Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
      • This is my Time Machine partition. My main hard drive – after Boot Camp partition – is 180GB, so with 350GB, I should never EVER have to worry about deleting files in Time Machine cyber space. It’s actually recommended that you have about double the hard drive space on your Time Machine backup disk than you actual hard drive. It’s important that you format your Time Machine partition to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
    2. 400 250GB – Mac OS Extended
      • I use this partition for predominantly two one thing: a full image backup of my hard drive and extra general storage for Mac. About 160GB of this space are immediately used by an incremental image backup of my local hard drive that I run every night using SuperDuper! The rest of The space is used for basic storage. I save some DVD’s, video files, installation files (disk images and bundles), and other files that I want to have access to but don’t need on my local drive at all times.
    3. 180GB – Full Disk Image of My Local Hard Drive
      • This is something I will be changing to shortly. I will have a separate partition that will be an exact bootable replica of my internal/local hard drive. This way if anything ever happens to my local drive, I’ll be able to boot from my external drive. I will have SuperDuper! scheduled to run this particular backup every night.
    4. 100GB – MS-DOS (FAT32)
      • This is used for *gasp* Windows. I may format this to NTFS+ later on, but for right now I’m using FAT. You never know when you might need to have some extra hard drive space for a Windows computer… whether it’s helping some unfortunate soul who’s having trouble with their PC (little joke :) ) or you utilize Boot Camp.

    For those of you who are math studs, you’ll realize that this doesn’t exactly add up to the full 1,000 GB. What exactly have I done with the extra space? I’ve left it unallocated. Since I purchased an eSATA express card to go with my new external drive, I have enough “speed” if you will to run an operating system off of my external drive. I may use this space for some Linux kernel or maybe even for messing around with Google’s future operating system… who knows. I like having the flexibility, and why not? I have a stinkin’ terabyte.

    Have any other ideas? How do you utilize your hard drive space? Leave me a comment below.

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