Storage overkill. How many gigs you got?

[kenstogie]

1TB

[GKitty]

When Target had 1TB external drives on the cheap on Black Friday, I thought to myself "I'm never going to need that much space" and "Who needs that kind of storage space?!?!"

Guess I know who now.

I'm at 150GB and only have about 1/3 of it full of music. I'm a happy girl.

[shilala]

I haven't had any issues whatsoever and the new platters work really well.
I was able to get tons of crap off of my boot drive, and that really helped.
I still have to set up Acronis cause I keep forgetting. Every time it gives me an error, I dismiss it cause I'm too busy. I need to get it done before I have a massive wreck. I just need to set it to do incrementals cause I did all the manual backups already.

[JE3146]

1x250GB Windows Drive
1x250GB Cache drive (downloads, disposable files)
2x1TB WD RE3 Enterprise drives in RAID 1
1x320GB External backup in a fire safe

1.5 TB's roughly when you eliminate redundancy.

[thebayratt]

Im old school with a 1998 Compaq 5000 Series.
900MHZ Pentium 2 AMD Athlon
Windows ME (simple and less crashing)
40Gig internal hard drive (my cell phone has almost as much memory)
but
I have a 500 gig external hard drive.
So I'm pretty content with it for now.

My Fiance has a laptop and had to out-do me and she got a 1-Terabyte external on hers. But her laptop is way newer than mine, but mine can run circles around hers as far a speed is concerned.

[colinb913]

I have...

1 tb external
1 500 gb external
1 250 gb external

2 500 gb internals on my rig

1 250 gb internal on my dads rig

60 gb on my macbook

and on my self made server I have another 2.5 TB so in total:

5.5 TB + 60 GB.. I dont think I will ever have to buy any more space.

[markem]

lightweights.

I have over 7TB of level 5 raid. That's just the backup server.


top that.

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by markem

lightweights.

I have over 7TB of level 5 raid. That's just the backup server.


top that.

pshh... showoff..

Lord knows I'd have at least that if the wife didn't already think I was nuts for having a simple redundant RAID 1TB setup

[BroncoHorvath]

2 TB on the pc and 500GB on the laptop....enough to last me a lifetime....

[LasciviousXXX]

Originally Posted by markem

lightweights.

I have over 7TB of level 5 raid. That's just the backup server.


top that.

Mark knows stuff!

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by colinb913

I have...

1 tb external
1 500 gb external
1 250 gb external

2 500 gb internals on my rig

1 250 gb internal on my dads rig

60 gb on my macbook

and on my self made server I have another 2.5 TB so in total:

5.5 TB + 60 GB.. I dont think I will ever have to buy any more space.

Sounds like Bill Gate's take on RAM in 1981

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates

When you factor in Moore's Law and relate it to hardware storage devices, you'll see how incredibly silly it sounds to think that ~5TB will be enough to suffice indefinitely

[Totemic]

Originally Posted by JE3146

Sounds like Bill Gate's take on RAM in 1981

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates

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.

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by Totemic

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."

You can tell yourself that all you want

[Totemic]

Originally Posted by JE3146

You can tell yourself that all you want

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

[shilala]

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.

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by shilala

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.

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

Just go with a rack and get it over with

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

[taltos]

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.

[King James]

I got over 1TB total