6TB here, but that's RAW, not usable....

1/14/2008 10:08:25 PM

1.9TB

1/14/2008 10:10:46 PM

I've got 4 of these:

1/14/2008 10:14:48 PM

please motherfuckers. I'm in petabytes.

1/14/2008 10:25:48 PM

1 250GB sata drive for OS/programs
4 250GB sata drives in raid5 for data

1/14/2008 10:27:19 PM

1.78TB

1/14/2008 10:30:55 PM

1 400GB IDE drive

1/14/2008 10:33:42 PM

wow...u guys!

i got 60gb hdd on my laptop + 1gb usb drive

1/14/2008 10:35:32 PM

^^^^^^ PHOTOSHOP!!!!

1/14/2008 10:45:38 PM

Nope. They had them on display at CES. Now they're fake, but they're the real handmade old-fashioned kind of fake.

1/14/2008 10:55:33 PM

as if you assholes will ever need that much fucking space

1/14/2008 11:06:54 PM

1/14/2008 11:15:49 PM

Laptop : 250gig
Dvr: 1tb
Desktop: 180gig
file server:3tb
so 4.43 tb?

1/14/2008 11:17:46 PM

^^^ thats not the point.

everybody knows its compensation for small penis size, similar to buying a ridiculously priced car when you're 40, except cheaper and you can do it when you're younger.

1/15/2008 12:27:06 AM

i have two 80 GB drives, mirrored with RAID.

They're not even half full, and I'm hardly judicious with HD space.

I have no idea how you could possibly fill any modern hard drive unless you just like to keep lots of full length movies and TV shows on your HD.

1/15/2008 2:52:33 AM

I just downloaded 37.5 gigs today...

1/15/2008 3:51:15 AM

2x500gb in the desktop
1x200gb in laptop
4x500gb in 3.5" external enclosures
200gb in a 2.5" enclosure

so...3.4tb

1/15/2008 9:56:07 AM

Quote :

"I have no idea how you could possibly fill any modern hard drive unless you just like to keep lots of full length movies and TV shows on your HD."

porn.

1/15/2008 10:04:12 AM

Quote :

"unless you just like to keep lots of full length movies and TV shows on your HD."

that, various applications, and music
sucks up space in a hurry

1/15/2008 10:10:27 AM

well, if you're particular, 720p videos using xvid and (i think) 192kbps mp3 audio are roughly 750mb/hour...shoot, your average DVD rip is 700mb per movie

and if you're choosy about your music (but not a FLAC fanatic), a 320kbps song (assuming 3:30 average length) would be almost 12.5mb per song

at these numbers, it doesn't take much to fill a few terabytes

1/15/2008 10:17:00 AM

10 MB

1/15/2008 10:22:14 AM

I love the whole "well since I haven't come close to filling my drives, then nobody can!" attitude. That's like a quadriplegic saying they can't imagine why anyone would want gel-inserts in their shoes.

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1/15/2008 10:48:46 AM

Centos5 has 2 drives:
20gb
250 gb

Slackware has 2 drives
40gb
60gb

Laptop
20gb

1gb usb thumbdrive
256mb usb thumbdrive

1/15/2008 10:55:54 AM

I have a TB but I have had that forever since back when 200gig drives were as big as you could buy lol

1/15/2008 10:58:29 AM

My hd-dvr needs every bit of its tera.
my file server was purchased on e-bay when someone was upgrading theres or had a foreclosure or something so i got it dirt cheap...its not that fast but ohh well.

1/15/2008 11:42:08 AM

I just SSH into my work machines were I have a pool of 64TB.

1/15/2008 11:48:59 AM

640 k ought to be enough for anyone

1/15/2008 12:41:48 PM

Damn, I ain't got shit.

"Old" (i.e. currently in use) system:
40 GB system drive
160 GB storage drive

New system:
80 GB system drive

Work Laptop:
80 GB system drive

Only 360 GB, and I don't even own the laptop. :-/

1/15/2008 1:00:30 PM

I only have 1.2 Tbytes on my desktop. Hopefully getting 2 more Tbyte drives when i get my tax returns. I mean in this day in age it's easy to fill up a Tbyte with all the HD content out now. With 720p and 1080p movies it's rather easy to run out of space. Plus games are getting to the 6-8 gig mark and those fill up space quickly.

Plus, i'm not even mentioning HD video editing working with uncompressed video which takes up crazy space.

1/15/2008 5:04:51 PM

i guess i just don't get the whole thing about watching shit on your computer screen. i mean sure you might have a nice 22" lcd hd monitor, but with the money you spent on that and your rig, you could buy a nice 50" lcd hdtv. JMO

1/15/2008 6:47:34 PM

^It's called a HTPC (Home Theater PC)

You hook it up to whatever you want (150 inch plasma if you so desire) and watch everything on the computer.

Just because someone mentions watching movies on a computer DOES NOT mean they're watching it on a small computer lcd. You're able to hook a computer up to any TV out there, just like you can hook up a blueray player to a HDTV.

[Edited on January 15, 2008 at 6:55 PM. Reason : ,]

1/15/2008 6:54:13 PM

now see thats an answer. where do i find these wonderful devices?

1/15/2008 7:12:32 PM

almost any high end graphics card has hdmi now so its pretty easy


i mean my laptop + my 40" 1080p lcd is perfect for me

1/15/2008 7:36:49 PM

Hell, with apple tv and other device's ability to stream content you don't even need something as expensive as that. Either option plus a good amount of storage means having a giant library of content at your command. While using a gaming console means slightly more work (since you can't store purchased drm'd video content on your computer in a straight forward way) you could still rip your entire DVD collection, download torrents of every tv show and movie you like, and store you entire music collection on a networked computer. With an Apple TV or xbox 360 this content can play on your HD TV in your living room with a click (or more... for the xbox) of your remote.

Whether HTPC, a cable+your laptop, an Apple TV, Xbox 360, or PS3 is the right way to do this for you depends on what content you own, how you feel about purchasing and/or renting content, and how the stuff you already have is distributed on your network. Also, the ammount of work or money you want to put in obviously comes into play. If you've got a decent but underused desktop pc- then you're a small chunk of change away from an HTPC.

Regardless of how you want to get that content to your TV- it means 1-2TB of media storage is not insane at all. Hell, that's what I'd call "comfortable for now." As HD content grows, 10TB media servers won't seem crazy. If bandwidth limitations become trivial though, that won't hold true.

1/15/2008 7:48:10 PM

2x76 gig WD's running on SATA 0.

1X 300gig USB drive for backup.

1/16/2008 6:51:25 AM

Video editing takes up ton of space for me too. ESPECIALLY uncompressed in After Effects or Vegas... crazy amounts indeed!!!

1/16/2008 7:54:35 AM