Best way to fill up 100gb of harddisk space?

[Quad]

i have a 40gb hdd currently that's pretty much packed, so for christmas my sister is planning on buying me another 40gb (so i can put them in Raid 0). But it has come up that someone else would like to chip in for this gift, thus there is more money to spend and they'll probably get me a 60gb hdd. But the problem is: how the heck will i fill up 100gb? i only have about 17gb of music and about 8gb of movies. and i have more movies on cds.

so my question is: is it worth asking them to spend the extra money to get a 60gb? or should i just stick with 40

 

[WHipLAsh13]

depends on your needs. Between my workstation and server I have over 140 gigs and am getting a 40 gig hard drive for christmas since space is running low. I have alot of my cd collection on my harddrives and games, apps etc. ...

 

[AMDPwred]

Well one way is to download alot of porn

 

[guzik]

If you RAID two drives of different size they will be seen as multiplication of smaller one. If you RAID 40GB and 60GB in RAID0 you'll get 80GB of total space (or 40GB in RAID1).

 

[Snapster]

High res video files with sound, uncompressed stuff

 

[sharkeeper]

<< Best way to fill up 100gb of harddisk space? >>



Run IOMeter and abort the test, keeping the testfile!

Cheers!

 

[ByteMe]

<< Well one way is to download alot of porn >>




ditto

 

[Dormant]

DOWNLOAD MOVIES! I dont rent or pay for any games/movies/applications anymore with my 3 IBM 60gxp 40gig Raid 0 array and I have no problem filling the array. My cable connection is downloading 24/7, somedays I wake up with 5 or 6 gigs of Divx/games/music.

 

[sharkeeper]

<< DOWNLOAD MOVIES! I dont rent or pay for any games/movies/applications anymore with my 3 IBM 60gxp 40gig Raid 0 array and I have no problem filling the array. My cable connection is downloading 24/7, somedays I wake up with 5 or 6 gigs of Divx/games/music. >>



That's unlawful!

Cheers!

 

[Burnt]

Get a fast connection and get a good file sharing program. I have 160 gigs of total space, and I only have about 20 gigs left.

 

[CZroe]

A good private CD-Image FTP would be VERY useful for more than a few techs.
You'd also get the advantage in MPOGs by being the first in the level with DAEMON-TOOLS (The ONLY good Virtual CD-ROM)

 

[CZroe]

Oh yeah (For my 800th post!), D-T's can run copy-protected CD images (so you can burn the images to a CD as an image if your recorder doesn't support Safe-Disc, SecuROM, etc), can break protection on all CD inserted AND you can go ahead and burn those protected games imperfectly and Dameon-Tools copy-protection emulation works on your real drive's imperfect copy! So if you can't burn Safe-Disc games, burn 'em anyway & they'll work as long as D-Ts is running. It's a lifesaver for me and my HP8100i that can't burn squat other than file backups: I lost a CD case with around 200 original CDs.

 

[passign]

i got 300 gigs and i need more space runnin low....


then again .. i usually am downloading 100k 24/7 so it adds up quick

 

[KnickNut3]

When did a convo about a large HD become about warez, warez, and more warez?

I guess everything comes down to warez eventually (or was that sex?)

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Try E-donkey and fill that sucker up with movies



Mike

 

[tweakmm]

pr0n....

 

[CZroe]

KnickNut3: For the record, mine was nothing about warez, but backup plain and simple!

 

[FrustratedUser]

Make a huge textfile with random characters and duplicate it a few hundred thousand times. Should do the trick.

 

[Radboy]

1. video/movie
2. songs compressed with lossless codecs like Monkey's
3. mp3s
4. pr0n
5. filez

 

[Gunbuster]

Anime
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and more Anime

 

[KrispyKremer]

media, media, media

Just a couple uses:
With a tv capture card, your hard drive replaces a vcr.
Jukebox (mp3s)
Movies, Movie Trailers (courtesy of www.quicktime.com )
Game clips
Programs

In 2010, expect Microsoft to require 100GB of space just for their OS.

Regardless of hard drive size, you will never seem to have quite enough space. Eventually I see some kind of server stuck in the basement/attic/closet storing everything from news to the above, and some things not mentioned.

 

[CZroe]

I use a TV card in a 10GB PC for a PVR!

 

[arcenite]

Donate it to me

 

[Jhill]

What is E-donkey?

 

[Zenmervolt]

If you really just want to fill it up, I've got a batch file that will write an infinitely large text file. More helpful, you can never have too much HDD space, so I'd say go for the 60GB drive.

ZV