Does A Person Really Use Over 1TB Of Storage

[Carson Dyle]

Far from massive, this is what I have (not my photo, but it's identical). Cooler Master CM-590 case fitted with three Supermicro 5-in-3 hotswap drive cages. Currently with 32 TB of storage. It's remarkably quiet, as I've replaced all of the Supermicro cage fans, as well as the CPU fan and single case fan.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have just about 1TB on my laptop and add to it at 50MB per image from my D800E's. I kept waiting for the Samsung Spinpoint M9T in 2TB to be available so I could replace the 1TB drive I had. That finally happened a couple months ago and by the time I'm looking to replace this laptop I'm hoping there will be 4TB drives in 2.5 available.

Yeah, there are one set of folks that simply can't imagine needing more than, well let's start this 30 years ago and remind ourselves that there were folks that couldn't imagine needing more than 640KB RAM. Today, the typical Win7 PC/laptop will boot up with over 1000X that just to get Windows running...


Brian

Every time I install windows 7 or use a windows 7 computer I just can't believe how much of a pig it really is in terms of disk usage.

It's actually incredible how they even managed to make it so big. I remember windows 98 used about 300MB of ram. An OS is just there to run your programs, really not sure why they keep growing so much in size. In 10 years from now windows is going to be several TB lol.

 

[poohbear]

One 3 min 1080 HD video off my phone is almost 500mb, & i have to take 2~3 videos a week for work. Then i game alot, have tons of High res pics over the last 10 years....and i do video editing. So my 2tb hdd only has 250gb left.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Nothing fancy. Duplicate fileservers separated by 1,000 miles (exact same hardware down to the cables - only thing different are the cases).
Older one is a CoolerMaster Stacker STC-T01, newer is a Stacker 832.

 

[Soundmanred]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=154932
I bought this monster years ago and use it horizontally in my AV rack. Modded to hold 12 drives.

 

[boed]

My current system is a cooler master CM690 II with only 27TB of storage (RAID 5). On my old system I'm using an LSI 9271 controller with 6 Seagate 6TB drives and one Samsung SSD bootup drive.

but my new system will old about 60TB of storage (RAID 5) in a coolermaster Cosmos II.

I may have to go Adaptec on the next controller as there are no modern 16i controllers from LSI. I'll have a dozen 6TB Seagate drives in the new system.

 

[master_shake_]

For those of you with massive storage what kind of setup do you all have? This is mine: (24-bay one in the middle)



3 slots empty, recently added 8x 2TB drives in raid 10 but I ran into an issue with that array so it's not live yet. Oh, I don't really use the IBM ones below that. Those are "only" 400GB drives and 250GB ones. I might actually pull those out to make room for bitcoin mining rigs or something. Here is a full pic, it looks cool but those enclosures are so old and proprietary I don't feel they're worth leaving on or depending on them:





Once I get the raid 10 array working properly I'll have about 19TB or so. More than enough for my needs but if I need more I can upsize the raid 5 array to bigger drives as it's all 1TB drives right now and that array is actually what takes up the most slots.

I've actually been debating on playing around with btrfs, but I don't know if it's mature enough yet. Currently using md raid but I learned the hard way that raid 10's actually can't be expanded, only raid 5/6 it seems. There's 2 empty slots that I specifically left so I can add 2 more 3TB drives to my 4 disk raid 10, but it seems I wont be able to do that.

saw your setup on hard forum i think its awesome.

i really like that you made it look built in not just some rack in the middle of a room.

 

[Red Squirrel]

saw your setup on hard forum i think its awesome.

i really like that you made it look built in not just some rack in the middle of a room.

Yeah I think it turned out pretty nice myself. I needed some way to manage cables so those horizontal slats work nicely, and finger ducts are way too expensive and hard to find. Only thing is the 2x6's were somewhat twisted so it made it really hard to do everything straight. The back does not line up very well with the rack, but it gets the job done.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Yeah I think it turned out pretty nice myself. I needed some way to manage cables so those horizontal slats work nicely, and finger ducts are way too expensive and hard to find. Only thing is the 2x6's were somewhat twisted so it made it really hard to do everything straight. The back does not line up very well with the rack, but it gets the job done.

I want to do a full-on rack setup like that someday when I get more permanent digs.