Just curious how much hard disk space everyone has...

[spacejamz]

I had 3 SATA II drives which were probably around 8-10 years old (two 2TB drives and a 1TB drive - had about 12 partitions so my stuff was over the place) that I replaced yesterday with an 8TB (another SATA II 7200 rpm) drive since one of the drives started sounding a bit funny. In about 20 years, I have about 1.2 TB of stuff (but most of that was probably in the past few years)...I went ahead and reformatted both of the old 2TB drives and copied everything to both drives for backup...

Already had a 2TB Samsung 860 NVMe drive I was using to work with my camera files so that brings me to 10TB total disk space (9TB actual space though) plus a 500GB SSD boot drive...probably gonna get another 8TB drive soon to raid my storage space...

Definitely a far cry from the 8GB Staples Maxtor hot deals back in the day...LOL

 

[Pohemi]

1TB nvme (in laptop) and 21TB between 4x HDDs in the NAS (3tb HGST Ultrastar, (2) 5tb Toshiba x300, and an 8tb WD Ultrastar). The 21TB works out to ~18.5TB formatted and useable space.

 

[shortylickens]

14 + 14 + 12 + 2 + 1
= 43.
I have 43 space.

One is not hooked up, I'm in the middle of transfers.

 

[pete6032]

256 GB in my laptop. 350 GB on desktop.

 

[repoman0]

1 TB nvme OS drive
4 TB SSD data drive

That’s it. Data drive gets backed up to idrive so I don’t have to deal with local backups. I’ll add a 2 TB PCIe 4.0 drive once prices come down and move the 1 TB to Linux duty.

 

[aigomorla]

are you talking NAS or Main Desktop?

NAS has 16x10TB drives in Raid-Z2 + 8 x 8TB drives in Raid-Z2 (i can't seem to delete anything, i have a phobia of deleting something)

My Desktop has 2TB Samsung 960 Pro + 4TB Samsung P983 (these are my nVME's) + 4 x 4TB Raid-0 Sandisk Extreme (Sata) as my root game drive.

 

[IronWing]

Installed drives
2 x 1TB nvme drives
1 x 4TB HHD (spinning rust)

Backup drives
1 x 6TB HHD
1 x 4TB HHD
2 x 1TB HHD

 

[Captante]

Primary DT: 2x WD Black 500gb NVME, 1x Sandisk 3D Ultra 1tb SATA SSD

Second DT: 1x Samsung 850 EVO 500gb SATA, 1x Sandisk 1tb 3D Ultra SATA SSD, 1x Hitachi Deskstar 5.25in HD 2tb, 1x Toshiba 3.5in HD 1tb

Third DT/NAS: 1x PNY CS900 240gb SATA SSD (boot) 4x2tb WD Black HD's (RAID5)

Laptop: 1x Samsung 256gb 840 Pro SATA SSD

External: Belkin USB2 enclosure w/600gb HD, Seagate USB3 Ext 1tb, A-Data Firewire 800 enclosure w/256gb Samsung 830 SSD

 

[biostud]

0,5+2TB sata Ssd, 5x1TB online storage through Microsoft 365 family.
3TB USB hard drive for backup.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Probably not a lot by today's standards, but it's fully redundant!

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0              5.4T  3.9T  1.3T  77% /volumes/raid1
/dev/md1              7.2T  5.9T  935G  87% /volumes/raid2
/dev/md3              7.2T  6.3T  519G  93% /volumes/raid3

That's split between 20ish drives from 1TB to 3TB. Eventually I want to start upgrading to larger drives.

On my actual workstation I have a 500GB SSD only. Most of my systems have 1TB or less actually. Everything goes on the file server.

 

[MrSquished]

more than I need.

 

[iCyborg]

Main PC
256 GB SSD OS drive
1 TB SSD
1 TB HDD

Laptop
256 GB SSD

NAS
2x10 TB in RAID1, so effectively 10TB

Laptop is 5yrs old, and for desktop PC I was incrementally adding stuff over 10 years, it started with HDD only.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

A question like that on a forum like this only has one answer: Not enough.

 

[sdifox]

Screen capped for the lulz. Need to integrate a couple of 14TB still. Running out of drive letters.

 

[Captante]

A question like that on a forum like this only has one answer: Not enough.

Obviously ... because it's NEVER enough!

 

[lxskllr]

I have a 2TB spinner, and a 300GB ssd in my desktop. I won't outgrow them for a good while, maybe ever.

 

[MrSquished]

Screen capped for the lulz. Need to integrate a couple of 14TB still. Running out of drive letters.

View attachment 39470

Torrent much?

 

[deadlyapp]

I fail to understand why anyone needs this much drive space these days. Unless ya'll making music or videos or a lot of heavy photo editing, it just seems ridiculous.

My surface is about 11GB free of 113GB, my laptop has about 100GB used (honestly surprised by that number) and my 1TB jump drive probably has about 200GB used.

 

[lxskllr]

I have 300GB just in audio. A little of this, a little of that, and it adds up.

 

[Murloc]

I have 512 (newer M2 SSD) + 128 (old sata SSD, mostly used for trash).
Right now I have 110 GB free but usually I have lots more free, it's a temporary situation.

 

[Pohemi]

I fail to understand why anyone needs this much drive space these days. Unless ya'll making music or videos or a lot of heavy photo editing, it just seems ridiculous.

Newer games can take up well over 100GB per install after updates and texture packs etc. UHD (4K) uncompressed movies can as well, or close to it. It can add up quickly, depending on personal uses.

Before I switched to a laptop, I had a 256GB nvme for my OS drive and another 1TB nvme as a games install drive to run them off of. I couldn't actually fit that many on the 1TB, and stuff like emulators and rom files went on a spinner for overflow games.

 

[Captante]

Newer games can take up well over 100GB per install after updates and texture packs etc. UHD (4K) uncompressed movies can as well, or close to it. It can add up quickly, depending on personal uses.

Also multiple physical backups of my irreplaceable data (along with one online) helps me sleep at night.





*(remember this ... if your data doesn't exist in at least 3 different physical locations, it doesn't exist AT ALL)

 

[sdifox]

Torrent much?

Never <shifty eyes>

 

[Pohemi]

Torrent much?

Only those *nix ISOs! <shifty eyes>

 

[sdifox]

Only those *nix ISOs! <shifty eyes>

Atmospheric data take up a lot of space.