After having bought a pair of 1TB drives for my new Linux box, I now have a set of three 1.5TB drives on the way to me. Damn, that’s a lot of storage.
I was actually waiting for 2TB drives to come down in price, but two 1.5TB drives together are still cheaper than a single 2TB drive. These ones will be used to complete the rest of my backup plan — right now I only have a 500GB external drive for my Linux box’s backups, and it’s 95% full. And that’s doing a straight mirror, without any room for daily differentials and rotating sets. Two drives will be used for that so I can keep one offsite, and the third drive will be for the Windows box’s backups.
Then, I can take the current backup drives and swap them into the gaming PC at the same time I upgrade to Windows 7, which should take me from 480GB to 1.2TB on there. Then I’ll never have to uninstall anything ever again…for a couple years, at least…