How many Gigs you got?

[labrat25]

I'm just curious how computers compare considering how cheap drives are it'd be easy to get a Terabyte system.

this is acessable drive space
so that means if you got 2 100Gig drives in Raid 1 then that counts as 100 Gigs

 

[labrat25]

and I should have i have a laptop w/ 40 gigs and a desktop with 38.9 (soon to be increased)

 

[Corporate Thug]

25 free gigs

 

[NokiaDude]

4 WD Drivezilla's for $500 after MiR's and you've got a Terrabyte. That's alot of "stuff" you can store.

 

[Sid59]

250 WD
200 WD
120 Maxtor
120 WD
--- main PC = 690 gigs
backup drive is 160 Maxtor

doing some testing so i took the 250 off for some testing.

 

[vshah]

660

2x80gb raid 0
2 external 250gb

 

[DaveSimmons]

My lossless FLAC music server has 650 GB online, plus another 450 GB I keep separately and attach for backups.

My desktop has 280 GB.

My old desktops have a combined 195 GB spread out over 7 drives (60,60,43,20,8.4,2,1.6).

 

[labrat25]

NokiaDude exactly...

especially when you consider the #5 supercomputer in the world has only 44 Terabytes of disk space

 

[Ronstang]

I don't know the exact number but last time I counted it was somewhere between 900 gigs and a terabyte.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

280 GB plugged in, 180 in six or seven drives sitting on the shelf.

 

[labrat25]

ok then.. to all you people with half a terabyte of memory...

what do you do with all of it?

edit videos?
rip all your DVDs to Divx?
have 2 years worth of mp3s?

 

[DaveSimmons]

FLAC lossless audio compression is 100% CD quality, but requires 300 MB per CD. I own about 1,200-1,300 CDs (after 16 years of collecting) of which I've ripped about 800 so far. By the time I'm done I'll have used at least 406 GB for them plus another 406 GB as offline backup.

Besides OS, the other space on the music server I'll be using for MP3 or AAC versions of the CDs for use with my flash MP3 player and/or an ipod.

On my desktop machine much of the space is empty so far, but just loading OS, office, Visual Studio and VS.Net has used 14 GB, and some of the games I've loaded use 1 - 4 GB apiece.

 

[biostud]

40+
250GB external

 

[petery83]

60GB

 

[0roo0roo]

main system, 460gb over 4 drives.

 

[Abhi]

60 gb .... on my laptop

 

[JimRaynor]

36, one raptor ^^;

 

[Atlantean]

Right now I only have 360 gbs, but I still have 100 free gigs so no need to add more atm.

 

[Maximilian]

I got 2x160 GB=360 gig which i will never fill. I struggled to fill up the 40 gig drive on the old comp.

 

[Davegod]

one 40gb barracuda IV. Just under 18gb free.

Would fill it easy if I didnt make a habit of uninstalling games once I'm done with them, but TBH I've no idea how so many people fill up these huge drives unless they use it for "work", have huge collections of music/DVD rips, or approach Kazaa with the mindset that "if it's there, it's to be downloaded".

 

[SniperWulf]

410GB in my main PC (160GB+250GB)
706GB in my Server (6.4GB+80GB+100GB+200GB+160GB+160GB)
250GB in my Xbox
160GB in my Tivo (80GB+80GB)

thats just over 1.5TB if I'm counting correctly

 

[sharkeeper]

Over 45,000 TB and it is finally all backed up.

Cheers!

 

[Budmantom]

60 gb now but tonight I should get my 160gb maxtor from Staples.

 

[CraigRT]

200... way more than I need... well, i am using about 60% of it, but apparently it's more than I need still 😛

 

[Viper GTS]

Well over 1 TB total, I don't know the exact amount.

Roughly 750 GB between just my system & one of our servers.

Viper GTS