Anyone here have 500GB of storage?

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Anubis

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YES

2x 160 GB = 320
2x 80GB = 160
1x 40GB = 40

320 + 160 + 40 = 520gb, when its all fformatted its les obviously but close enough
thsi is all in my main comp

other ones has a 20gb and a 40gb the one dowstairs has a 60gb

ths comp was compleatly full till last week, when i whent on a DVD burning mission, went through a whole 50 DVD spindle, now its mostly free
 

ArmchairAthlete

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200GB total HDD storage right now, most stuff I know I'm probably never going to use again I delete though.
 

Mo0o

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80 gigs, maybe 33% is used right now. I never keep anything I watch (movies etc)
 

johnjbruin

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You guys are insane. I have one 120gb(60/60 partition, one for windows/programs and the other data) that i use for normal stuff and one 60 gb for backups. Both of those are about ~60% free.
 

RossMAN

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Originally posted by: SKORPI0
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Thanks for the break down but you forgot the pron part, or is that the DVD backups? :)

My prOn is on a 120GB removable/mobile rack, just in case. :laugh:
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New product: pr0n on the go.

Real pr0n fiends use a 1GB USB flash drive, because you never know when you gotta have it :p
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: brigden
If you need more than 40GB of storage you don't go outside enough.


i have almost 40GB of digital pictures and 30gb of MP3s

98% of pics taken outside, while listning to music on 30gb MP3 player
 

Storm

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Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: SKORPI0
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Thanks for the break down but you forgot the pron part, or is that the DVD backups? :)

My prOn is on a 120GB removable/mobile rack, just in case. :laugh:

New product: pr0n on the go.

Real pr0n fiends use a 1GB USB flash drive, because you never know when you gotta have it :p[/quote]

What does the wifey say about that Rossman? :p:beer:

As long as you look but dont touch?
 

trmiv

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Man, how do you people use all this storage? I have one 80 GB hard drive, and still have like 20 GB free, which is more than enough for me.
 

Gurck

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Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: brigden
If you need more than 40GB of storage you don't go outside enough.


i have almost 40GB of digital pictures and 30gb of MP3s

98% of pics taken outside, while listning to music on 30gb MP3 player

<bridgen> but does the camera and mp3 player match your shoes? </bridgen> :laugh:
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: trmiv
Man, how do you people use all this storage? I have one 80 GB hard drive, and still have like 20 GB free, which is more than enough for me.

it really isnt hard, at one point i thought id never fill 40GB

6000 mp3s ~ 30 GB
34 GB of digital pics 10s of thousands
OS and programs ~ 15 GB
backup for pics and mp3s
and then 300 GB or so of videos
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: Gurck
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: brigden
If you need more than 40GB of storage you don't go outside enough.


i have almost 40GB of digital pictures and 30gb of MP3s

98% of pics taken outside, while listning to music on 30gb MP3 player

<bridgen> but does the camera and mp3 player match your shoes? </bridgen> :laugh:

hahaha
 

Boogak

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Holy crap, I just realized I have 1 TB of hard drive storage with my recent Dell 400SC purchase:

Main PC:
74gb Raptor
160gb (2x80) RAID1 array

Gaming PC:
160gb (2x80) RAID1 array

HTPC1:
120gb
200gb

HTPC2:
40gb
120gb

SFF PC:
60gb

Bedroom PC:
20gb

USB2 Drive:
60gb
 

tm37

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Originally posted by: Captain_Howdy
only using 170 GB of 320 GB here. I remember when an 8.4 GB drive was HUGE.

The 2.5GB maxtor that I paid $269 for was just rtetired last year. I remember thinging this is more space than I will ever need!
 

Mo0o

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Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: Gurck
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: brigden
If you need more than 40GB of storage you don't go outside enough.


i have almost 40GB of digital pictures and 30gb of MP3s

98% of pics taken outside, while listning to music on 30gb MP3 player

<bridgen> but does the camera and mp3 player match your shoes? </bridgen> :laugh:

hahaha

lol. my stuff dont match my shoes but i try to keep all my electornic stuff silver. ANubis you try to get everything in black right?
 

brigden

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Originally posted by: Gurck
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: brigden
If you need more than 40GB of storage you don't go outside enough.


i have almost 40GB of digital pictures and 30gb of MP3s

98% of pics taken outside, while listning to music on 30gb MP3 player

<bridgen> but does the camera and mp3 player match your shoes? </bridgen> :laugh:

;)
 

MSCoder610

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I only have 120GB right now... around 30GB free. I have something like 0.7GB in photos, 7GB MP3s, 11GB random downloads (anyone else keep most things they've ever downloaded? lol... i.e. mostly files under 10MB)... maybe 20-25GB games, 1.5GB website (including albums in Gallery)... and the rest random programs and such. Oh, and I have ~7GB reserved for MandrakeLinux and its partitions, plus a FAT partition to share files between the OSes.

Anyway, since I "only" have 25% free, I was considering buying some Seagate 200GB hard drives soon, 2 or 3... so I'd have 520GB or 720GB then.
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: Gurck
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: brigden
If you need more than 40GB of storage you don't go outside enough.


i have almost 40GB of digital pictures and 30gb of MP3s

98% of pics taken outside, while listning to music on 30gb MP3 player

<bridgen> but does the camera and mp3 player match your shoes? </bridgen> :laugh:

hahaha

lol. my stuff dont match my shoes but i try to keep all my electornic stuff silver. ANubis you try to get everything in black right?

yes but black mp3 players are hard to come by, i have a creative Zen Xtra, but its always in my posket
 

y2kc

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Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I just picked up two Maxtor MaxLine II 250GB SATA drives for storage. I currently ONLY have one 74GB Raptor and it isn't cutting it as far as storage goes. How big is your HDD collection and how much of it is used?

:cookie:



<--40 Gigs, 23 free

;)
 

BigFatCow

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3x160 in raid 5 with an 80gig boot drive in my server. = 400GB Currently completely full.
36gig cheetah and 40gig maxtor in my main comp = 80GB
So thats 480GB just in my room

Inside theres a 120 in my moms comp, 40 in my little sisters comp and 80 in my dads laptop. So 240 GB in the house. Not including the 2 tivos.
 

Evadman

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I have almost a TB, but spread all over a bunch of machines. I am in process of building a 1tb array, but I need more $.