How much HD space, and why do you need it?

[Newfie]

im getting a 160 gig, dont need any bigger

edit: 120 i mean =P

 

[ixelion]

I have two 80GB SATAs in RAID 0, and frankly I would be happy with just the one 80GB, as I usually burn stuff to DVD and CD right away, I have 120GB of free space.

 

[JDCentral]

(poll added)

 

[Zepper]

54GB over 3 chunks of 10k SCSI goodness. Seems enough for me right now. "e-penis" - Gotta use it!

.bh.

 

[shoRunner]

THE PR0N!!!!11111

 

[Elcs]

200-350Gb.

1 120Gb and 1 200Gb HDD.

OS/Games/TV Recordings/Music mainly. Hardware encoding on a TV card leads to major HDD storage abuse when good programs come on.

 

[microAmp]

120 GB PATA
18 GB SCSI

Just order a 250 GB SATA to replace my PATA one.

 

[wesman6]

2 x 160 GB
1 X 60 GB
1 x 74 GB

 

[Dravic]

Currently at :

Gaming/photo editing rig = 220 (160 main + 60 photo/download backup)
Home PC = 60 main
Linux workstation/fileserver = 420 (60 main + 160 shared network data + 200gb ghost network backups)


700GB even

and as my photo's grow, and hard drives fill i'll upgrade the ghost drive to accomodate..

I like having 3 live(HD) backups of my photo's (main, backup, and network ghost)

just did this recently, so i'm only using maybe 150gb of the space. should last me a while.

 

[n7]

I currently have just over 1.2 TB spread over 7 HDDs in two PCs.

What do i use all that for?

Well...i have a little over 200 GB of music (192 kbps mp3 format mostly - a ton of electronica livesets & mixes, etc.)
A crapload of TV shows in .avi that i like to have on HDD even though many of them are on DVD
A lot of movies...i tend to rip, encode, & burn tons, which i forget to delete, or am saving for DL burning whenever the DL discs become cheaper.
A lot of acquired 4.38 GB .img & .iso files...
A lot of appz, etc.

Meh i dunno where all the space goes...but it does.

 

[Green Man]

240GB
Movies

 

[shiranai]

I'm running close to a TB total (internal+external), with plans to add another 600~800 GB by the end of the year. I like to keep all of my original discs mint and unused, and enjoy multiple redundancy, so I backup DVD and CD images to my HD in addition to burning copies to optical media. I've also got about 200GB worth of video encoding work I'm doing, and the rest of it is raw and fansubbed anime (another 300~400 GB).

Most of my HD space goes to image files though. It's particularly handy to have images of all of your installation CDs on your HDs so you can just mount them and go instead of hunting through old boxes like I always used to have to do (and wondering whether I perhaps threw the CD out by accident :/). Since I don't play that many games, it's also convenient to just set up half a dozen virtual drives and mount the CD images for all the games I play - never have to worry about swapping discs, or deal with drive read times (and the noise associated with optical drives).

In all honesty, TB-level disk space is just nice to have - it's not at all necessary by any means (for personal use, anyway).

 

[HamburgerBoy]

40GB, mostly for games.

 

[Texun]

For my primary computer I have 160 and find it more than enough. In my file box I have 600 for DVD's, patches, TrueImage backups and about 20,000 MP3's and still have way more than I need. I also have a P3 with 80g's because that's the drive I had when I put it together.

It sort of got out of hand. I bought at a price point. Whenever a drive could be had for around $100 it was upgrade time. I ended up with drives ranging from 80 to 200 gigs. All total I have 7 drives and would much rather have about half that many.