Re: Storage overkill. How many gigs you got?
 

Ultimately I'd like to build a battery of servers with all my video content and music on them so I can stream everything anywhere I want. That'll take 100 gb or so jest to get started.
My next upgrade will only get me to about 7tb, but I'm ready for a platform upgrade soon. I'm going to have to start gathering cases and motherboards soon. :)

Re: Storage overkill. How many gigs you got?
 

;)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811219034

Just go with a rack and get it over with :D

16 drive bays should provide you with enough physical drive space.

Re: Storage overkill. How many gigs you got?
 

Currently 350 gb in my HP laptop, 285 in my wife's Acer laptop and 4 external 500gb Seagate external drives, 2 still in the box. I remember when my first HD was 40mb and it would have cost more to replace it than all of my current storage.

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Except Bill Gates never said that.
I'm not sure who originally said this nor why it's attributed to Gates, but he's gone on to say:

"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."

Anyways, once you start dealing with HD videos, TB is almost quaint in terms of storage space. I currently have about 6TB of disk space on my media center PC and it's running low now (down to about 12% free space). Even storing everything in just 720p (at 6Mbps using AVC/VC1), it's around 2.2GB per 1 hour show. Flip that to 1080p at 12Mbps, and it's 4.4 to 4.5GB per hour (and 12Mbps for 1080p is kind of on the low side--most of the time I'm seeing around 15 to 18Mbps).

I'm waiting for the big UEFI push before jumping onto the >2TB harddrives for my systems. I should be able to drop around 12TB into each of my file servers at that point.

Re: Storage overkill. How many gigs you got?
 

You can tell yourself that all you want ;)

Re: Storage overkill. How many gigs you got?
 

Mark knows stuff! :tu

Re: Storage overkill. How many gigs you got?
 

I got over 1TB total

Re: Storage overkill. How many gigs you got?
 

I don't have to.
My Google-fu is strong and doing a quick search shows it's correct.

Re: Storage overkill. How many gigs you got?
 

I'll put it to you this way. There's nothing out there credible that says he did say it, and nothing out there credible that says he didn't (other than him saying he didn't like 10+ years later). Leave it up to your imagination. Personally I'd like to think the richest man in the world is human and makes mistakes like the rest of us, even moronic ones.

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Hard to believe he's the richest man in the world, isn't it?
He doesn't seem to even much care, and he gives tons away. Pretty good dude, I think. :tu

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I agree. When I meant human, I meant from an intelligence point of view, not judging his character ;)

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I wasn't ragging you at all, Jordan. I made that comment cause I sensed you were like minded about him.
On that quote...
It's not the first time I've heard it, but when I heard it last he was supposedly talking about ram. I don't buy it, because it really doesn't make sense, especially since he's always had a vision that everyone's entire life, home, house and car would be networked. Gotta store all that crap somewhere, and he's always been waiting for hardware to catch up with his vision.
I'm not saying he didn't say it, but if I was a betting man, I'd put my five bucks on "didn't" cause it doesn't make sense. :)