Clutter and Space
by Barry on Oct.08, 2009, under General
Server rack would probably be useful
After taking inventory of the external hard drives connected to computers in the office I calculated that they total over five terabytes of disk space. More shocking was the realization that there was hardly any free space between the lot! Traversing the labyrinth of files and folders has become a chore so I decided once and for all to restructure everything. Shuffling over 5Tb of data has proven to be a tiresome task. Four days of transferring files, almost 3Tb of data sorted and I am finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. With the aim of having all data shared across the internal network I want the files to be as accessible as possible. It is amazing how much redundant data you can accumulate on eight separate drives. Once I get all the data sorted I’ll be looking into more suitable method of data storage along with backup system.
