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jeez y'all have a lot of stuff. Here's mine:
internal 120GB SSD - using about 64GB, so about 56GB free (mostly games)
external 500GB HD - using about 120GB, so around 360GB free (storage and backup for photos, music, scanned pics, old 3D modeling projects from school, some backed up programs)
2 80gb hard drives, one for OS and one for cr*pola....one external 120gb maxtor one-touch
these r old stuff....don't really care for new unless the old is dead!
oh....cr*pola drive has 1% free space left
Got a 500gb that is almost empty, except my OS, due to a "blue screen of death" and a 250gb external HD with about 10gb free.
On the shelf there is 2*40gb, 1*80gb.
I know someone that has a 1.5TB drive dedicated JUST TO FRAPS recording....
Thats all thats on it. 1-3GB fraps videos (sometimes theres a cluster of 3.9GB videos that'll total out over 100) and its almost always more then half / Three quarters full.
I've noticed most of them larger drives seem to operate a hell of alot slower then the sub 1.0TB models.
The two reasons you may have seen this (driver/etc issues aside) have to do with platter density and rotational speed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Twigsoffury
I forget if it was the same when the first 1TB drives came out, but all of the early 1.5TB drives were low rotational speed (5400 or 5900 RPM) drives, so obviously, all other factors being equal, if one drive is spinning slower than the other, the heads are moving over the data points at a slower speed, and thus the performance is gonna be slower.
The second possible reason is that for a long time manufacturers were making 1TB drives with four 250GB platters. Most have since stepped up to 333GB platters, and at least one has stepped up to 500GB platters (Samsung F3 series). So, if you were comparing a 1TB drive with 250GB platters with a sub-1TB drive with 333GB platters, then again, all other things being equal, the sub-1TB drive will perform better, because as the platters spin, even though they are spinning at the same rate, the heads reading/writing the higher density platter pass over more data in the same arc length as the platters reading/writing the lower density platter.
However, to my knowledge there are no drives on the market larger than 1TB with anything smaller than 500GB platters. Additionally, with many manufacturers coming out with 7200RPM 1.5TB and 2TB drives, hopefully soon both of these issues will no longer be a problem.
My 1TB Samsung F1 is over half full so I purchased a 1TB WD Caviar Green to replace a dead 500GB drive in a Seagate FreeAgent and to act as a backup for my main machine. I am really happy with the WD, 64MB cache and variable speed from 54,000rpm to 72,000 rpm and dead quiet even at full spin. It is now also about half full lol.
Oooh, I hadn't realized WD was pushing the 64MB cache down further into their drive lineup :D
You're all a bunch of data addicts! I just formatted over 700+ GB only because I didn't feel like sorting it...I control the data, the data doesn't control me! Unless you do a lot of multimedia editing or have uncompressed music, you should all be ashamed of yourselves!:D
I try to keep it <1TB. If it starts getting close I backup what I need and write zeros over the rest of it.
I used to be stingy with my storage but considering 1TB drives are so cheap I don't care anymore. I used to play games then uninstall them, now I just keep them. I would have about 25-30 games installed on my HDD now, and that's not including Steam games. Not to mention the amount of media and files I keep just for the hell of it lol.
Main PC:
160GB- OS (130 Free, recent wipe)
250GB- Storage (232 Free, recent wipe)
250GB- Backup (198 Free, recent wipe)
HP Mini:
16GB- OS (1.7 Free, Win7 takes a lot of space)
HP Laptop:
120GB- OS (120 Free, currently down due to Laptop failure)
Spare PC:
20GB- OS/Storage (5-10 Free?, just used for Internet browsing)
Other Spare PC:
120GB- OS/Storage (Just restored, 105ish Free)
HTPC if you want to call it that:
80GB- Movies are streamed from Main PC which has external hooked up. (70 Free?, only has OS and Media Player)
External:
8GB- Flash Drive (3GB Free)
500GB- 2.5" portable used with Mini HP (probably 450 Free. Bought because it was cheap)
750GB- Media Storage (72GB Free)
1TB- Backup to 750GB
Total: 3.274TB