How Much Hard Drive Space Are You Using?

Heehee, got a HDD back from Samsung (RMA) last week and after expanding my array (took about 48 hours, all told), my server is now at:
1x 4GB CF Card (OS)
5x 1.5TB HDD (mdadm RAID-5 array)

Total: 5.4TB
Used: 3.2TB
Available: 1.9TB (I know, I know...I'm working on it :D)

It's funny that some of us are to the point finally where the "lost" space from the binary-decimal disconnect is larger than a large number of HDDs on the market :P

Add another 689 GB to mine. Just completed the 2009 photo back up. That 750gb HDD I ordered last week got used up fast. It will allow me to free up a 500GB WD green series though once I figure out what photos on it are duplicated on the 750 and then I migrate the rest over. The 500 will be put to use in a HTPC

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Originally Posted by Oneslowz28

It will allow me to free up a 500GB WD green series though once I figure out what photos on it are duplicated on the 750 and then I migrate the rest over. The 500 will be put to use in a HTPC

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Nice. I love the Green series drives; they're great for HTPC's; so quiet...

I use a 80gb HD always running out of space. I'll be getting a 500gb end of this year.

I couldn't make it 1 week with 80gb during wedding season. I Currently have just over 2tb of photos.

Time for a redundant SAN I think. ;)

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Originally Posted by Oneslowz28

I couldn't make it 1 week with 80gb during wedding season. I Currently have just over 2tb of photos.

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What resolution are the photos you are taking? I used to have approximately 10,000 8 megapixel photo's and I don't think they even took 10 gigs of space.

I personally have a 320 gig drive for my OS and software, 80 gigabytes of which I have used, a 500 gigabyte WD green that has 400 gigabytes left on it, and a 500 gigabyte backup drive that's about half full.

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Originally Posted by Technochicken

What resolution are the photos you are taking? I used to have approximately 10,000 8 megapixel photo's and I don't think they even took 10 gigs of space.

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That doesnt sound right to me.. I had lass than that for sure @ 6mp, and mine was 15gb. The average wedding for me = 3 to 4 gb.

If he was using JPG90, it looks like that could be right:
http://web.forret.com/tools/megapixe...60&height=2528

Any lossless or uncompressed formats though, and it would be way over.

I don't know what format they were, as my camera is a piece of junk, but now that I come to think of it, a couple thousand of those were 1600x1200, which is probably why they took up so little space in total.