Upgraded Storage

Hard Drive Enclosures

I have had external hard drives in enclosures until recently.  They worked fine except I had the reach in between the cables to turn them on/off.  The cables worked their way out and eventually unplugged causing computer, Larry Last, to look for them and cease all other activity.  I had to slide out my monitor to reach them causing problems of the monitor unplugging periodically

Larry Last

I had to install an interface card so that my new array could connect to the computer.  It was very similar to the cards I had previously installed for the individual enclosures.  I found one position available when I looked inside.  I should tell you that I built Larry Last several years ago.  It is antiquated in that it can only run DDR2 memory.  It has a processor about as fast as an i5.  I upgraded to Windows 7 Professional, 64bit last July and found 8 gigs of memory in DDR2 to use.  I wish I had gotten 16 gigs of memory but I can get along with this.

I am sure that I have lost many of you by now.  I had problems installing the interface.  Windows would not boot after a "successful install."  I had to remove the old interfaces before I could get everything "happy."

Hard Drive and Bay Mount

  I bought a three terabyte hard drive and copied three one terabyte drives onto it.  This gave head room for 2014.  Last year, I accumulated about a terabyte of images.

Hard Drive Ready to Install

Once I secured the drive in the mount I was ready to install it in the array which is "hot" swappable.

Drive Installed

I then mounted my other previous one terabyte drives into the array in similar fashion and copied their contents onto the three terabyte drive.  That freed up three one terabyte drives for 2014, one for image files, one for backup and one for system backup.

Tower Array

The tower array has eight bays, giving me room to expand in the future.  I have one power switch to hit instead of four or six and I don't have to move my monitor.  I have room for backups which can run while I work.  Life is good!

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