{"id":99,"date":"2015-12-31T20:05:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T20:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/?p=99"},"modified":"2015-12-31T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T20:05:31","slug":"upgrade-to-external-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/2015\/12\/31\/upgrade-to-external-hard-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade to external hard drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I built an external hard drive by getting a Rosewill external hard drive enclosure, along with a 640GB Western Digital hard drive to go inside it. \u00c2\u00a0Combined, they gave me an external hard drive to use for monthly backups (in addition to the real-time cloud backups I get with CrashPlan).<\/p>\n<p>Over time, the amount of data I have has grown immensely, especially since having children and starting to take more photos and videos. \u00c2\u00a0So, the 640GB, which seemed huge at the time, has become very tight as a backup destination.<\/p>\n<p>So, I decided to upgrade the hard drive, keeping the Rosewill enclosure since it&#8217;s worked well over the years. \u00c2\u00a0I decided on a 2TB Toshiba hard drive. \u00c2\u00a02TB matches my primary data drive at the moment, and gives me a good amount of breathing room before I should need to upgrade either the primary drive or this backup drive, since my data amounts to just about 600GB.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I built an external hard drive by getting a Rosewill external hard drive enclosure, along with a 640GB Western Digital hard drive to go inside it. \u00c2\u00a0Combined, they gave me an external hard drive to use for monthly backups (in addition to the real-time cloud backups I get with CrashPlan). Over time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shared-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}