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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
I have 250gb in my desktop that has like 10gb spare and my server that I just built has a 1tb drive with only Debian on it at the moment.
I have alot of games, so about anywhere from 50-100gigs of HD space taken
i have:
250 gig in 2 partitions, one for xp (25 gb) and the rest for projekt files and important program installs total 5 gb free
250 gig for windows 7 testing 214 gb free
320 for games and game installs 4 gb free
1 tb drive for movie trailers 6 gigs free
1 tb drive for backup of important files and HD movie trailers - 500 gb free
on server i have 340 with 150 free maybe.
and an external on 250 that i cant remember whats on lol
so total i have 3410 gigs and aprox 900 gigs free. yeah.. im a sucker for space.
750gb External - Full
320gb External - Full
100gb Laptop Hdd - 80gb used
110gb desktop 1 - 90gb used (30gb + 80gb hdds)
400gb desktop 2 - 300gb used (320 + 80 hdds)
80gb desktop 3 - 60 gb used
60gb laptop - 30gb free
80gb Macmini - 20gb free
..I have too much stuff.
4x 1TB drives, just over 300GB free over all of them.
EDIT: I just found out that I'll be getting another 500GB drive when my father upgrades his server to a single 1TB drive.
Drive 0:
101/160 GB on C: (Win XP)
Drive 1:
38/50 GB on H: (Win 7)
33/40 GB D: (extra movies/music)
60 GB not yet partitioned (gonna add to D: soon)
Project LEXA:
1x WD 320GB SATAII drive (7200rpm) - 90% full
Upgrading to an SSD/Raptor and a 1TB drive
Laptop:
1x WD 320GB SATAII drive (5400rpm) - 40GB used, no music on it yet
External Drive:
1x Maxtor 250GB IDE drive (7200rpm) - full almost
I'm building a server that will take care of backing up data so this will be rolled onto my laptop.
New drive, WD Caviar Green 1TB (EADS): Seven gigs used out of 930 total. Now that it's made it a couple weeks I'm gonna start backing stuff up to it.
I was a little nervous about the idea of green caviar, but it's proven itself so far.
I think the main killer of space is video editing. You can have 30 minutes of raw video taking up a good 40gigs of space.
Hell, even some MMO's nowadays are 30gigs by themselves. Age of Conan is taking up 29gigs with 5500 files. Pirates of the Burning Sea is just as bad although I don't have it installed at the moment.
On my laptop I'm currently using 126gigs on my main and a whopping 47gigs on my slave :oP Probably another 200gigs on my external. Hard to say because I haven't had it connected in a long while.
Yeah I know what you mean Buzz. Taking a 30second vid in FRAPS at full res and 70FPS is around 950MB, that's a big file for 30secs for video.
SAMSUNG HD753LJ 750 Gig Drive:
Hitachi HDP725050GLA 500 Gig Drive ( just bought a month ago )
Seagate ST325082 0AS USB Device 500 Gig External ( for backups )
Info Below:
Drive Drive Type File System Total Size Used Space Free Space % Free Volume Serial
C: (Local Disk) Local Disk NTFS 99999 MB 71570 MB 28429 MB 28 % 2459-0DA8
D: Optical Drive
E: (SATA01) Local Disk NTFS 615400 MB 452828 MB 162572 MB 26 % B2C0-E49E
F: (SATA02) Local Disk NTFS 476936 MB 54482 MB 422454 MB 89 % 2618-25D4
G: Removable Disk
H: Removable Disk
I: Removable Disk
J: Removable Disk
K: (EXTERNAL) Local Disk NTFS 238472 MB 165131 MB 73340 MB 31 % 5CAE-0493
Im at 4 tb..Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGreatSatan
I just ordered my Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB :D.
i have the seagate 1tb
you must have a lot of movies. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by haha49
well i'm done with stupid crappy seagate drives... i've had 2 die on me (1 may have been my fault for not updating firmware) but i love the name so much...
4 drives with 1.5TB total
1. 250gb for windows xp only
2. 250gb for programs only
3. 500gb storage/backup
4. 500gb for winows vista(100gb), window 7(100gb), and storage(300gb)
i haven't yet installed vista or 7 as that was my latest drive to die on me.
Got some nice partitions there Spawn. Once I get my 1TB drive I will have a 320GB for Vista and utilities and the 1TB for games and data.
i might take the chance with 2x 250gb in raid, but i need a raid card as all my sata slots are filled.
I have 500gb and have only used like 100gb. I am good for a while yet :)
computer || space || used
router-computer (rack-mounted Dell, win svr 2003) || 135GB || 6GB
home server (300GB + 500GB + 1TB) || 1,64TB || 1TB
main computer || 500GB || 250GB
other computers || 140GB || 35GB
total space: about 2.5TB
total USED: about 1.25TB
Well, back when I was actually attending college full-time, I had a ...certain computer... with combined 4TB of storage space (a nasty web of directory-mapped partitions), and I think about 50GB or so free, but now, since I didn't have a use for that computer, and it's drives all got wiped...but that's another story... I have sworn to myself that I'll never again buy a hard drive smaller than 1TB, and never again will I have that much storage space without RAID5. I haven't started that build yet though, so atm I'm at:
1.5TB external with 58GB free (Rainbow Tables)
1.5TB internal with 403GB free (assorted)
500GB internal with 224GB free (OS/apps/etc) (will shortly be replaced by 2x60GB Vertex's in RAID0, hopefully tomorrow)
EDIT:
As a side note, does anyone have experience using WD EADS drives in RAID5?
Main Computer:
1 - WD 160 Gb (boot, windows) - 20 to 40 Gb free
2 - Seagate 500 Gb (storage) - 40 Gb free
3 - Seagate 1.5 Tb (storage) - 170 Gb free
and no pr0n!!!
^You're fired!
well right now i was downgraded to 20gbs for 6 week:dead::hurt::mad::twisted::facepalm::evil:
this is my hard drive Maxtor Fireball 3 20GB harddive ATA133 5400RPM 2MB Cache Hard Drive from a seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 3Gb/s 1-TB Hard Drive 32mb cache
Near 5.5 TB, and no pr0n.
Lots of that is CAD work or graphics arts, but we also back up all our movies in case of scratches-that's legit still, cause they're not on the network-and because the HTPC I'm designing is optical-free (most of my builds are headless these days) so I have copies of almost everything hosted somewhere.
Next move will be a networked LaCie Bigger Disk. Thinking 2.5TB.
What rainbow table/s do you have?Quote:
Originally Posted by x88x
All the ones put out by freerainbowtables.org, and the Church of WiFi's WPA tables. I got them all got a project I was working on at work, but have yet to actually use them much :facepalm: I had about 60% of my shared 10/2 FiOS line dedicated to the RT downloads, for about a month... But hey, on the other hand, now I have them :p I'm thinking of setting up a mirror for them once I get my own place and a 20/20 line. Also, once I get my fileserver up and running, I'm gonna be transferring all the tables onto that, pulling the 1.5TB into it, and throwing some other drive into that...honestly, how often do I need 1.5TB in a portable drive (well, except for those times I want more :P ).Quote:
Originally Posted by simon275
2.56TB free of 5.25TB altogether
i have a 640 gb hdd, and in down to my last 60gbs free.
i need to build a htpc, cause 450gbs of it are videos.
I have about 2tb worth of backed up photos, and important stuff and another 650gb or so worth of stuff on my file server which is also backed up on my gaming pc. So I have about 4tb in total. 2 are on external drives.
