I can back up all 6 of my PC's in the size area of 300GB tops, but lots of people have tons more. What do you have?
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I can back up all 6 of my PC's in the size area of 300GB tops, but lots of people have tons more. What do you have?
BTW, the most I have is one HD with 320GB. The others are far smaller.
I have one 500GB drive in my compy.
Well, lets see...
A 160GB primary and 200GB secondary on my desktop. 160GB in my laptop. A 120GB 2.5" external and 20GB 1.8" external drive. My server has a 80GB disk. Then comes the ton of drives sitting on the self (all are IDE except a 300GB velociraptor), I have 4 x 250GB drives, 3 x 120GB, 2 x 100GB, 6 x 80GB, 4 x 60GB, 7 x 40GB, 15 x 20GB, and various others. Most are 5400RPM, a handful are 7200RPM, they fill up a paper grocery bag (well a doubled up one as single one would rip due to the weight). For a grand total of way more storage than I'll ever use at the moment.
I used to have three externals, but my 200GB drive died on me. So now I have a 250GB WD My Book, a 60GB WD Passport and the drive in this laptop which is another 40gigs.
But I'm planning on buying at least another 250gig external, but its most likely going to be a 320GB WD Passport.
Then if I EVER finally decided to start rebuilding a desktop, it will have 750gig drive in it. Unless by that time the 1TB drives are more affordable, then I'll opt for that.
You can never have too much space! :)
Take your external drive apart, and you'll probably have a working internal drive.
I have an 80Gb and a 250GB in my tower,a 500GB external, and a 750GB external. The external drives are where I store my movies and TV shows (all legal thanks). Sadly, they are getting quite full. I'll be putting the external drives in my next build, since the computer I am using right now is my family's. In that build I'll get a 1.5TB drive, so I can keep all my media in one place. I'll then put the external drives in that tower and use them for games, other storage, and whatever.
Yes, you may.Quote:
Originally Posted by nevermind1534
My main desktop has a 120GB in it, my other desktop has a 320GB and an 80GB in it. The laptop has a 120GB in it.
I have a 250GB and a 400GB both SATA 3gbps... I would like to get a third HDD but that's out of the budget right now.
250 in here, along with a 160 from an old machine (need to put it back in)... 40 in the P4, the Tbird had a 30 before that box died, I'll be transferring that... got a 60 that needs a home (but I'm afraid it might be dead)...
I just put "Over 300". I could back everything I care about up on a 320, if I had to.
I have a 40GB and a 80GB. And an (previously external) internal 500 GB seagate barracuda 7200.11
I have a 8GB flash drive too :]
500GB in my desktop, 40GB X 2 in my file server, 40GB in my laptop. 40GB in the wifes desktop but only she uses that one. All in all about 620GB but pictures, documents and video would probably backup easily under 100GB.
I got 1x74gb raptor 2x250 wd sata 2x200 wd ide in the desktop
1x120 sata seagate in the wifes laptop
1x20 ibm deathstar in my laptop
2x200 and 1x60 in the storage box.
I have 500gb in my tower, 200gb in my laptop and a 250 WD passport.
I've got a 500GB and a 400GB in my main rig, the rig in progress with have a 40GB in it, almost 1TB :D
I have three disks. One 40GB (split 20/20 XP/linux) and two 80GB. I'm planning to get a 500 sometime soon.
Got a 160GB internal drive on my box, and a nice 250GB external drive (that I've half-filled already... o.o )
I hate having to choose what I need to back-up, and what I don't... *packrat mentality*
Simple and easy, 500gigs in my desktop, 1tb external, 250 in my notebook for a total of 1.75TB
I think you need more options ;) I have 2.5tb
Murphy's Law on HDD Capacity:
The amount you need is always directly proportional and almost equal to the amount you have.
In my main desktop I have two 160GB Hard Drives in RAID 0 for windows, and a 500GB for storage.
In my portable gaming pc I have a 250GB for windows and an extra 160GB for whatever.
I have Western Digital External 120GB.
The PC I made for my dad has 80GB.
My Frankenstein Compaq laptop has 30GB.
I have a 20GB and two 10GB Hard Drives that I don't use.
So that totals up to 1500GB Total Storage space in my household.
-Indybird
I have 2x250 WD Sata2 in my desktop and a 250 WD IDE and an 80 Samsung in the server I'm setting up (test drives for now).
i have a 250gb in my spare another 250gb in my emergency backup and two 500gb in my main
good lord how much of that 2.5TB is actually used? :? I've got 900 GB and still have plenty of space for almost anythingQuote:
Originally Posted by Cymae
I have 1580GB on my machine. Only 359GB are free. Bonk. That's a lot free still, but not that much in comparison.
300GB freeQuote:
Originally Posted by SXRguyinMA
over 1TB in every comp + external on server.....
That makes almost 10TB....
320 on my main.... wanna upgrade to 1tb..
80 on this pc (mums)
and a 4gig usb :)
in my main 2 rigs (one is a data server for programs and media)
2x2x150 raptors (raid, one set in each case) = 600 gig
3x1tb (in the server) = 3tb
2x750 (raid, main rig) = 1.5tb
1x320 (ghost drive) = 320
for a grand total of.... (yes i used calculator here) 5.42tb of wich i have 100 gig free on each except the raptor raids wich are always less then half full
One 200GB internal, one 250GB internal, one 500GB external. Decent enough.
Multimedia rig: 250gb, 160gb, 640gb, 640gb
Laptop: 250gb
External: 250gb
A ton of other HDs lying around or in spare systems ranging from 129mb (yes megabytes) to roughly around 20gb. Probably around 15 HDs in this range. I never throw away functioning HDs.
I answered over 1tb because I counted all of my systems;
Main rig: 2x 80gb, 2x 250gb
Gaming rig: 1x 500gb for XP, 1x 500gb for Vista, 1x 250gb for Server 2003
SO's rig: 1x 250gb
HTPC: 1x 250gb
Lappy: 1x 160gb
Of course most of the drives are not anywhere full so my actual data space is below 1TB but to backup everything would take over 1tb for overhead. I will be using the 1tb drive I won at the Intel conference for backups...
Main Rig: 2x 500Gb in raid-0
2nd Comp: 750Gb
3rd Comp: 160Gb
4th Comp: 60Gb
5th Comp:2x 40Gb
And a 400Gb drive i might use soon
Main: 150
Near Future Main: 500
Laptop: 65
Server I Manage: 4TB internal, plus 2x 1TB external drives for Virtual Machine backups and testing storage. Also, 2x 16GB flash and 1x 32GB flash drives from my former manager's bright idea of transporting VM's around the office... hah.
In one computer, I have 2x 1TB drives and 2x 320GB drives. I'm due to be getting another 1TB drive soonish.
I Run 4 500 Gb Hard drives in my gaming pc , and I also have 2 320 Gb externals.
I also have lots of servers that are all running 5 drive raids, some have 160 drives and some have 250 drives so it totals alot of space
150gb for me, ...laptops....
500gb on main system, 160gb on laptop. Hoping to get another 500gb drive to save recorded TV shows
hmmm
Main machine: 250 for xp/vista, 250 for games, 250 for music, 250 for misc.
Media machine: 250 for xp, 500 for movies
Misc:
drives that go in my hotswap sata enclosure: 160 for older games, 160 for anime, 250 for more music, 500 for movies
2x120gb 2.5"externals for mobility, and a 320 for all my ghost images for repairs and such