Out of Harddrive Space!!!

[Jynks]

Man I keep running out of Hdrive space andfinding that I've lost a nights worth of downloading!!!

Is tehre a way to set mule to "reserve" the space gfor the files it will downlaod as you add them. So when you try to start a file it will make a temp file of the correct size.. if there isn't room it will say so and leave the file unresumed?

[dinky]

delete some of that shit from masterpiece.

[spudthedestroyer]

Under extended "Create new part files as 'sparse' (NTFS only)", reserves space for all of them.

I've bought hotswappable hdds:

[Jynks]

sweet thanks... . I find that I can only take about 24-30ish gig dvdr back up in a single go with out getting board... . . .this might solve my out of sapce downlaoding problem

[spudthedestroyer]

yeah buy some seagate hard drives, and pop one of them in then keep them in storage somewhere.

It took me ages to find them in the uk though and for the price i get a new carrier with the caddy.

Carrier and Caddy should be ablout £20, probably £5+ less in the states, and then you just buy a new caddy when you get another hard drive.

[dinky]

I had something similar a couple years ago for ata66/100 drives. can't for the life of me recall that it was hot swapable though. looked exactly alike. used it cold for swapping OSs.

[maxpayne2409]

yeah i used to have hdd caddys before, hated them, this was back in 2001 thought when they were utter shit and the hilarious moment while drunk on vodka both me and a mate of mine decided then would be the perfect time to try and sort out my computer... "it wont come out.... yes its unlocked... CRACK..... oops.... HAHAHHAHHAHHA"

[spudthedestroyer]

I had something similar a couple years ago for ata66/100 drives. can't for the life of me recall that it was hot swapable though. looked exactly alike. used it cold for swapping OSs.

hotswap = SATA or SCSI only, if you swapped pata drives out they are liable to mess up and your os to crash.

@ max,
I'm sure they have retarded mate insurance on some models. However, these are f*ckin awesome, sounds like you cheaped out and got one up the ass for it

Best and most viable backup solution atm imo.
Overhead is a little over the cost of a hdd, and these days GB/£ is rather cheap on hdd.

[TeKHeD]

I have a 8 bay firewire standalone drive with 8 300 gb drives in which i picked up around 70 quid each over a period of a few months from ebay now never have space problems again

[maxpayne2409]

but you bought them from ebay, we are all onw expecting to see in the news you getting arrested for kiddy pron from those hdds lol

[TeKHeD]

scary though more likely classified police reports info which i found on 2 200gb drives i bought second hand - thats more scary