I am still busy with file storage. Undecided between an external hard disk case for one of the old disks and a new external hard disk I came home today with a 500 GB LaCie Big Disk. I went to 3 stores in town but I has been impossible to get a good external case with USB2 and Firewire and also the new LaCie only has USB 2.0. I will use this disk for the media archive, where a few bytes more or less per second are less important. I will use the fast FW800 disk for the digital images (growing fast in size!), documents and other regular data. This way, no sensitive data is on the old internal notebook disk of the PowerBook. The 400 GB disk which I will soon get out of the LinkStation should be enough for regular backups of email, sql databases and and everything else (except for the media archive). So in total I will now have more than one terabyte of disk space in the server. Hard too believe, that just 10 years ago I hardly had 100 MB, but on the other hand with HD video, megapixel images, digital music downloads (netlabels, emusic,…) etc. the demand grows fast and prices are falling constantly.
Update [2007]:
The old internal hard disk of the PowerBook died in December 2006. I noticed it early enough and was able to rescue the data and replace it with a new and larger disk. For a notebook of that age it had to happen sooner or later.
The LaCie Big Disk has been a disappointment. In contrast to my external Firewire disk it does not spin down when it is not being used for a while and since the cooling of the enclosure is not very effective, the disk tends to heat up quiet a bit in the summer.
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