With Seagate announcing a 1.5 TB 3.5" drive today (http://www.hothardware.com/News/Seagates_Latest_Desktop_HDD_Has_15TB_Capacity/) I began to wonder about how much data people are keeping around on live disks.

Right now my active archive of photos, music, video, documents and such is around 300 GB.

How much data are you archiving? I actually have relatively little video but I imagine it makes up the biggest part of a lot of peoples archives. How big would yours be without video?

7/10/2008 10:02:08 PM

all the data that i really care about? that can not be downloaded again? maybe 25 GB

very few pictures and no video

mainly work and school stuff that is stored on two drives for a bit of redundancy

7/10/2008 10:07:34 PM

I have about 120gb of real data. I've got 4 live disk backups. 2 internal, 2 external.

7/10/2008 10:10:57 PM

300 gb

7/10/2008 10:16:59 PM

Quote :

"all the data that i really care about? that can not be downloaded again? "

That is a better way of putting it.

7/10/2008 10:20:43 PM

I've got about 250GB backed up on Mozy

all of my research, and some pictures and music

7/10/2008 10:25:11 PM

300GB, backed up on external USB drive, and backed up on my WHS server that has a 640GB hdd in it, also backup about 2GB of personal, financial, document data that i upload to mozy & my personal web server

7/10/2008 10:28:41 PM

oh lawd

i'm one of those people that never deletes ANYTHING

i've got around 1.5tb total split up amongst my computers at home mounted via iscsi from an openfiler box w/ all the drives in raid5 (they're u320)

plus the external drive on my windows desktop, 500gb

internal 300gb and 160gb drives in my mac desktop

the external drive on my tivo, 500gb

i'll just stop there before i make myself sound any geekier

7/10/2008 10:31:45 PM

I've got 4TB but haven't used them all yet ... will get back to you.

7/10/2008 10:35:54 PM

^^it doesn't make you sound geekier, it just makes you seem like a horder

although 1.5TB these days isn't much.

[Edited on July 10, 2008 at 10:58 PM. Reason : .]

7/10/2008 10:52:20 PM

Yeah I'm not including music or video. If you include those and downloads its several hundred GB on live discs and much much more on CD/DVD backups.

7/10/2008 11:15:03 PM

If I count my research data I keep just north of 30TB across various RAID volumes.

7/11/2008 1:13:56 AM

paging bous...

7/11/2008 1:38:56 AM

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"all the data that i really care about? that can not be downloaded again or recreated (papers, research data, home movies, RAW-format pictures, etc.?"

about 2TB...after that, another 2-3TB for about 5TB total

i just nabbed 3 of those 1TB seagate .11 32mb-cache drives for $175 each that i'm psyched about

7/11/2008 9:05:44 AM

I'd say maybe 5gb of stuff I care about not including video and replaceable music. I keep about 1.5tb though

7/11/2008 9:10:54 AM

300gb'ish. the vast majority are pictures and movies dating back to around 2002.. I backup resized version of the pics and movies to mozy, not sure how much space it's using right now but not a whole lot really

i lost almost a tb of "movies" some personal some public, when i moved after being done with school. one of my external drives failed

7/11/2008 9:22:43 AM

1tb so far

7/11/2008 9:32:07 AM