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I'm lucky if I use more than 40GB of hard drive space total, so I often think high capacity hard drives are pointless in my systems. I usually buy them anyway because it's cheaper these days to have more than less. How much storage are you actually using?
I filled up my 500GB drive, so I bought a 1TB WD Caviar Black.
I've got a 320GB drive with about 100GB free. Time to upgrade.
No exageration I have 1 250gb HD, 1 120gb, 1 80gb, 1 60gb and another 120gb all full. My 500gb external hardrive is almost full and my file servers is COMPLETELY full.
At home, I'm probably using about a total of 500 gb.
At work its a different story.
1.89tb server with only 14 gb free.
1.73tb server with only 392 mb free.
1.40tb server with only 238 gb free
and a wopping 3.78tb server with only 26.5 gb free.
This does not include all the projects backed up on massive tape drives.
i have 1.4tb here (400gb backup external) and i have about 600gig full
I'm currently eating up a newly installed 500 gig drive. I've got a lot of music in .flac form that I've been archiving on DVD due to hard drive constraints, and am putting all that on the 500 gig drive.
I can see already that 500 gigs won't be enough. There's going to be another newegg purchase in my future lol...
my laptop i am using about 40gb, all drives in the server and NAS box comes to a total of about 2.5TB
About 361 gigs, between all my partitions on two drives (250GB and 160GB). I've been getting a 750GB/1TB drive "Real Soon Now" for the last couple months.
EDIT: And forty-odd gigs used on the laptop.
Some of the 361 GB is duplicated between my two drives, too.
The shipping on that alone is the killer. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by FuzzyPlushroom