Upgrading Server - need about 5TB of temporary storage

[crazyfoo]

I have a Windows Home Server, and I want to upgrade to the new release. I currently have about 6 TB of info on my server - from pictures to backups to movies and CAD files. I have a few extra hard drives laying around to put some of the data on, but I need more.

Since I will be going from server 03 based to server 08 based, and 32 to 64 bit, I need to reformat all my hard drives. Does anyone know of someone in the Houston area who rents storage? I don't really want to spend a few hundred dollars on hard drives just to upgrade my server.

Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Justin

[crbeveri]

you could look into one of those site that does it but I dont know what their cap will be. carbonite or something... not sure.

[crazyfoo]

yeah that is not really practical, but thanks for the tip. It would probably take 4 months or more to upload that much data, and another 2 months to download it :-)

I got a quote from somewhere to rent 7 TB or RAID storage for a week, and it was $795!!! I would be better off spending about $200 on a few 2TB drives, and just piece together the last 1-2 TB with some drives I have laying around. That may be the route I end up going.

[picman]

Consider the drives as back-ups and move them off-site when you are finished upgrading the server.

[Coelus]

Depending on the age of your current drives, it may make sense to buy new ones anyway.

[Ricco]

i agree with Coelus, you need to take your the ages of your drives into consideration. Perhaps what you should consider doing is moving to a newer drive, maybe go SSD?

Currently, I have almost all my photos of the past decade located in two different places. As the price gets reasonable, and my various drives ages, I just move them to another location every couple of years. As SSD becomes more affordable, I'll slowly start transferring my data there. Since I just got a 2T mybook, I don't upgrading that for at least a year or so. The data is is also contained on my various other older drives will suffice for now as backups of my backups. :)