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Originally posted by: 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?
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Here is what you do with storage:

1. Convert your games to ISOs (or whatever image file you like). Now whenever you want to reinstall a game, just mount it using Daemon Tools. All the games will be readily available and alphabetized so you don't have to go look for your CD.

2. Rip your DVDs to ISO. Whenever you want to watch a movie, just mount it using Daemon Tool and use your favorite DVD player to watch your movie.

3. MP3 storage.

4. Store all your applications. You don't need to look for your CD everytime you want to install a program.

5. If you want, you can also encode your DVDs to Divx for when you go out of town. I look as Divx more as a portable movie. Just dump a few on your laptop and you're ready to go.


You can ALWAYS use the storage you presently have. You just need a little imagination. 😉

P.S. I don't even know how much storage I have. But it's an ass load.
 
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Here is what you do with storage:

1. Convert your games to ISOs (or whatever image file you like). Now whenever you want to reinstall a game, just mount it using Daemon Tools. All the games will be readily available and alphabetized so you don't have to go look for your CD.
2. Rip your DVDs to ISO. Whenever you want to watch a movie, just mount it using Daemon Tool and use your favorite DVD player to watch your movie.
3. MP3 storage.
4. Store all your applications. You don't need to look for your CD everytime you want to install a program.
5. If you want, you can also encode your DVDs to Divx for when you go out of town. I look as Divx more as a portable movie. Just dump a few on your laptop and you're ready to go.

You can ALWAYS use the storage you presently have. You just need a little imagination. 😉
P.S. I don't even know how much storage I have. But it's an ass load.
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In other words you spend $500-$1000 on drives so you don't have to walk 3 feet to get the CD or DVD you want.
 
Main PC:
200GB
60GB

Secondary PC
160GB (2 drives, RAID 0)
120GB
100GB

Laptop:
30GB

Scanner-PC (pointless project, in the works) :
40GB

Spare, sitting nearby, just upgraded out of a system:
40GB
 
40 + 8 on my Desktop and 40 in my laptop. In March im either gonna pick up one 36 GB Raptor or RAID 0 two 80GB 7K250 Hitchi's though, Not sure though.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Here is what you do with storage:

1. Convert your games to ISOs (or whatever image file you like). Now whenever you want to reinstall a game, just mount it using Daemon Tools. All the games will be readily available and alphabetized so you don't have to go look for your CD.
2. Rip your DVDs to ISO. Whenever you want to watch a movie, just mount it using Daemon Tool and use your favorite DVD player to watch your movie.
3. MP3 storage.
4. Store all your applications. You don't need to look for your CD everytime you want to install a program.
5. If you want, you can also encode your DVDs to Divx for when you go out of town. I look as Divx more as a portable movie. Just dump a few on your laptop and you're ready to go.

You can ALWAYS use the storage you presently have. You just need a little imagination. 😉
P.S. I don't even know how much storage I have. But it's an ass load.
Click to expand...
In other words you spend $500-$1000 on drives so you don't have to walk 3 feet to get the CD or DVD you want.
Click to expand...
In other words, I spend money on drive space so EVERYTHING is always at my finger tips. This is a centralized location were every machine on the network has access to everything on the server...well everything I want people to have access to. 😉 If you are in the living room, you can pick a movie you want to watch on the TV through the HTPC, which receives the DVD stream from the server. If you're outside on a nice day in your hammock, you can watch a movie on your wireless enabled laptop from a list of movies on the server. It's more of a matter of organization than "walking 3 feet." I have ALOT of software like I'm sure alot of people here do. I don't like to go looking around all over the place for a particular game or app I need to install. And having a movie at your finger tips is just plain awesome. And not to mention I don't have an ugly CD or DVD rack in my living room taking up space. I just throw all my DVDs and CDs in a box in the closet after I'm done ripping them. 😉
 
74 GB (RAID 0 Raptors) (NTFS) - Windows XP
80 GB (FAT32) - Storage - backup and media
30 GB (Linux) - Gentoo Linux

Keeping the storage FAT32 allows me to read/write from both Windows and Linux. Linux doesn't support writing to NTFS very well yet, and Windows doesn't recognize the Linux partitions at all.
 
36.7 GB Raptor and 250 GB Maxtor in my desktop.

I sync my 250 to a spanned volume in my backup server consisting of a 40, 60, and 120. I also have a 4.5 gig scsi drive that I use for very critical stuff (also gets backed up to cd). I am paranoid, but safe. 🙂
 
Gaming Rig:

2x36GB Raptors (RAID0)
200GB WD 8MB (backup and mp3s)

Server:

60GB (data and FTP)

SETI Comp:

8.6GB (just enough to get it crunching)
 
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Here is what you do with storage:

1. Convert your games to ISOs (or whatever image file you like). Now whenever you want to reinstall a game, just mount it using Daemon Tools. All the games will be readily available and alphabetized so you don't have to go look for your CD.
2. Rip your DVDs to ISO. Whenever you want to watch a movie, just mount it using Daemon Tool and use your favorite DVD player to watch your movie.
3. MP3 storage.
4. Store all your applications. You don't need to look for your CD everytime you want to install a program.
5. If you want, you can also encode your DVDs to Divx for when you go out of town. I look as Divx more as a portable movie. Just dump a few on your laptop and you're ready to go.

You can ALWAYS use the storage you presently have. You just need a little imagination. 😉
P.S. I don't even know how much storage I have. But it's an ass load.
Click to expand...
In other words you spend $500-$1000 on drives so you don't have to walk 3 feet to get the CD or DVD you want.
Click to expand...
In other words, I spend money on drive space so EVERYTHING is always at my finger tips. This is a centralized location were every machine on the network has access to everything on the server...well everything I want people to have access to. 😉 If you are in the living room, you can pick a movie you want to watch on the TV through the HTPC, which receives the DVD stream from the server. If you're outside on a nice day in your hammock, you can watch a movie on your wireless enabled laptop from a list of movies on the server. It's more of a matter of organization than "walking 3 feet." I have ALOT of software like I'm sure alot of people here do. I don't like to go looking around all over the place for a particular game or app I need to install. And having a movie at your finger tips is just plain awesome. And not to mention I don't have an ugly CD or DVD rack in my living room taking up space. I just throw all my DVDs and CDs in a box in the closet after I'm done ripping them. 😉
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so in other words you spend $500-$1000 on drives so you don't have to walk 3 feet to get the CD or DVD you want 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Pistolero
Damn, more than 20% of people have more than 500 gigs, and more than 50% of people have more than 200 gigs.
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He didn;t specify in the house or on one PC. The most I have on one PC is 250 gig, but I have over a terrabyte in the house. About 400 gig used, and most of it is games replicated over 6 PC's.

 
I just meant in general...

I kinda assumed, besides OS and major programs, people weren't storing the same file on multiple computers...

any way you slice it, a terabyte divided between 6 computers is still a lot of room!
 
This PC has 3 250GB HDs... 2nd PC has 160GB... ReplayTV which I guess really doesnt count but anyways it has 160GB.
 
Main rig: 120GB
Audio/video station: 120GB
Guest machine (So they don't kill mine with spyware and viruses), 40GB
Server: 800GB (woo!)

 
I got dual maxtor 30gb 7200rpms ata 133 drives inside my system. Then I have a removable bay that i will eather have my seagate drive in 6.5gb with linux on it or my hard for school that is a 40 gb maxtor 7200rpm ata 133.
 
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