how much gigs on your PC

[Rottie]

Just bought new Seagate 400GB on sale last week and I was thinking about buying another 400GB just for games and video/pictures/arts. Right now I have 480GB total


I am curious about what you got on your PC

 

[EdfromCocoa]

Rottie-

I have a 200 GB Internal Drive but am using a 250GB External FirewireWD Less than $250); Costco sells 300GB With rebate for a little over $200 now. Store everything offline that I don't need-rebates that I scan in, photos, songs, movies, etc.

Ed

 

[Rottie]

If I want to store everything offline I use DVD.

Originally posted by: EdfromCocoa
Rottie-

I have a 200 GB Internal Drive but am using a 250GB External FirewireWD Less than $250); Costco sells 300GB With rebate for a little over $200 now. Store everything offline that I don't need-rebates that I scan in, photos, songs, movies, etc.

Ed

 

[ForumMaster]

am using two 80gb drives now. not in raid

 

[BW86]

1 160gb HDD

 

[narutofan36]

u dont have a option for 1-20 gigs


grrrrr

 

[Rottie]

Yeah I add it cu I assumed you are using laptop right?

Originally posted by: narutofan36
u dont have a option for 1-20 gigs


grrrrr

 

[n7]

Err...this poll has been done eleventy billion times.

I have roughly 1.4 TB in my two PCs.

I need to pick up another 400 GB though for backing up music, etc.

 

[PurdueRy]

420 GB

 

[modedepe]

I have 2x160GB in my main PC now...and it's getting cramped. Probably going to get 2x250GB in a few months when I get my new PC.

 

[Looney]

I've got about 1.2TB (4x400GB in RAID5). You're really trusting 400GB of data without any backup/safety system whatsoever? And you're thinking on adding another 400GB?

That's crazy to lose that much data. Even if it's just downloaded TV shows, that's hundreds of hours of content. I once lost like 100GB of stuff due to a drive failure, and i was pissed (reason why i went RAID5). I can't imagine losing like 400GB.

 

[essasin]

I think i have around 500gigs. I usually just burn what i want to keep and delete whatever i dont want anymore

 

[BlueWeasel]

Internal drives: 250GB and 160GB
External: 80GB

I'm extremely anal about losing data, so the 160GB is pretty much used only as backup or storage until I have enough of similar data to fit on a DVD.

 

[n7]

 

[Rottie]

To prevent from data loss is to back up to DVD/CD than using RAID.

 

[InlineFour]

1 160gb on my everyday rig.
3 160gb in raid 5 on my server.

 

[Raduque]

169.4 over 3 drives (40, 60, 80gbs, actual is 55.9, 37.2, 76.3) in my main rig
HTPC has 522.1 across 3 (40[38.2], 200[186], 320[298])
Server has a single 80(76) and my laptop has a 60(57)

Hey, I almost have a Terabyte across all my rigs! :thumbsup:

 

[Rottie]

what brand name of HDD is good? I think Seagate?

 

[erwos]

1x 120gb (IDE - Linux drive)
1x 80gb (IDE - Windows drive - soon to be USB, since I'm getting rid of Windows)
4x 160gb in RAID 5 = 480gb (IEEE1394 - media storage for HTPC-kinda stuff)
1x 160gb (wife's computer)
1x 60gb (laptop hard drive)

Interpret that as you will. My next RAID will probably be 4x 250gb USB drives. Finding the right enclosure is hard/expensive, though. Performance is not terribly relevant for media files, IMHO - even a "big" bitrate like 24mbit/s is a whole 3 mbyte/s. That's hardly a problem on USB2 or IEEE1394, even in software RAID.

I generally agree with the comments that buying a single drive for your data is asking to lose it. Sometimes this is OK (your OS, apps, and games can always be reloaded), but for tons of media content, even if you do own the original media like we do, RAID 1 or 5 is the only way to go. It is my own personal experience that people are just not fastidious enough about backing stuff up to do without it. Anecdotally, I've killed 3-4 drives in the past five years. I don't really trust hard drives at all any more.

Finally, don't get hung up in the whole "terabyte" craze. It means absolutely nothing. Buy what you need.

-Erwos

 

[imported_rod]

You have 480GB - why do you need more?

My PC has a single Western Digital 200GB HDD.

RoD

 

[EliteXen]

5x160gb
1x300gb
=1100gb (exactly 1024gb formatted)

 

[Rottie]

Originally posted by: rod
You have 480GB - why do you need more?

My PC has a single Western Digital 200GB HDD.

RoD

For video editing purpose and games.

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: Looney
I've got about 1.2TB (4x400GB in RAID5). You're really trusting 400GB of data without any backup/safety system whatsoever? And you're thinking on adding another 400GB?

That's crazy to lose that much data. Even if it's just downloaded TV shows, that's hundreds of hours of content. I once lost like 100GB of stuff due to a drive failure, and i was pissed (reason why i went RAID5). I can't imagine losing like 400GB.

I'm thinking of setting getting a couple 250GB+ drives in RAID 5 in a NAS.

 

[Indred]

I have a 200g for my OS and 4 250g hdds in RAID0 I have it set up as 2 different arrarys right now but i was wandering if any one knew if there was much of a performance increase if i went to 1 array? O yeah plus i have 2 80g hdds on my other comptuer.

 

[iamaelephant]

45gb total