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

[MrSquished]

Only those *nix ISOs! <shifty eyes>

I used to download movies as well as rent them but eventually I just started going legit. Although I did torrent the other day for the first time in some years. I could not find anywhere to rent the extended version of Almost Famous anywhere on the web, so that was that. Now I have it.

 

[Pohemi]

Atmospheric data take up a lot of space.

Topographical maps, too.

 

[Aikouka]

If I remember correctly...

My main desktop has 512GB for the OS, 2x 2TB for Games, and a 4TB HDD for other stuff.

My server... it's Unraid, so it just has a bunch of disks that are somewhere between 40TB-50TB in total. It has mostly 4TB disks with some 8TB disks now. I really need to consider transitioning to more 8TB drives. I think I have around 12-13TB left at the moment.

As an amusing side note, I upgraded some of my network to 10Gbps recently, and I was all dismayed how I was maybe seeing around 150MB/s-180MB/s. Then I realized... oh, I'm copying from a hard drive.

 

[sdifox]

If I remember correctly...

My main desktop has 512GB for the OS, 2x 2TB for Games, and a 4TB HDD for other stuff.

My server... it's Unraid, so it just has a bunch of disks that are somewhere between 40TB-50TB in total. It has mostly 4TB disks with some 8TB disks now. I really need to consider transitioning to more 8TB drives. I think I have around 12-13TB left at the moment.

As an amusing side note, I upgraded some of my network to 10Gbps recently, and I was all dismayed how I was maybe seeing around 150MB/s-180MB/s. Then I realized... oh, I'm copying from a hard drive.

Most of my traffic is within the vm host so gigabit is fine for me. Waiting for off lease epyc rome to replace my dual xeon l5640 xd

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have a 4 port gig nic I bought to put in my NAS. Problem is rebooting that box is a pretty big ordeal, and I'm not brave enough to do it live. (PCIe is technically hot swap)

I'm due to upgrade the OS on all my servers so when it comes time to do that one I'll just bite the bullet and go ahead and reboot everything again to do the upgrade. There's a fibre channel card in it that I no longer use. I had a fibre channel SAN and as cool as it was, it's too proprietary for my tastes . You can't just put regular drives in there. They are Maxtor desktop drives but they have a special flash code of sorts on them.

 

[sdifox]

I have a 4 port gig nic I bought to put in my NAS. Problem is rebooting that box is a pretty big ordeal, and I'm not brave enough to do it live. (PCIe is technically hot swap)

I'm due to upgrade the OS on all my servers so when it comes time to do that one I'll just bite the bullet and go ahead and reboot everything again to do the upgrade. There's a fibre channel card in it that I no longer use. I had a fibre channel SAN and as cool as it was, it's too proprietary for my tastes . You can't just put regular drives in there. They are Maxtor desktop drives but they have a special flash code of sorts on them.

Eh, no pcie is not hot swap. That depends on the motherboard vendor implementing it. Not a good idea to trial and error.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Eh, no pcie is not hot swap. That depends on the motherboard vendor inplementing it. Not a good idea to trial and error.

Hence why I'm not brave enough to try it. The issue is while it is hot swappable, the physical interface is not exactly meant for it, so it's possible to short out pins if the card does not go in straight.

 

[snoopy7548]

NAS:
2x 14TB (+1x 14TB parity - I use unRAID)
2x 12TB
1x 6TB

Offline backups:
5x 8TB
1x 6TB
1x 1.5TB

 

[ultimatebob]

My new gaming rig has a 512 GB NVMe SSD boot drive, and a second 1 TB NVMe SSD Data drive for games. I don't spend a lot of time waiting at loading screens anymore

I just picked up a 2 TB portable hard drive for backups, though, so I'm not totally converted over to SSD's anymore.

 

[ultimatebob]

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

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Dude, they have these things called RAID arrays now. You might want to build a couple of them

 

[sdifox]

Dude, they have these things called RAID arrays now. You might want to build a couple of them

Raid is passé

 

[Aikouka]

Most of my traffic is within the vm host so gigabit is fine for me. Waiting for off lease epyc rome to replace my dual xeon l5640 xd

Getting 10Gbps is kind of a pain these days. A few years back, motherboard manufacturers loved shoving the Aquantia controllers on boards, but these days, the best you get is 2.5Gbps... and the boards cost $500+! My main desktop uses an ASRock Z370 Professional Gaming i7, which has two 1Gbps and one 10Gbps ports. My server is using an ASUS X570 Workstation board (...with a 2nd-generation Ryzen ). I think the board isn't terribly popular, because I got it for $100 off. But the big deal is that it has multiple 16x slots and it has open-ended 1x slots. I use a SAS Expander, and it doesn't need PCI-E traffic, but it can use a PCI-E slot for power and as support. I've seen other boards in the past with open-ended slots, but I didn't see too many when I was looking. The workstation board only had 4/5 eggs on Newegg, so I was surprised given it has turned out to be a pretty good board so far!

Although, I could've saved some money by just buying an SFP+ card and using a DAC cable instead of buying an Intel X550 card.

 

[LikeLinus]

I know my NAS has over 100TB currently. Think my other Supermicro Server has 44TB (2x 10TB and 2x 12TB). But I have several other machines, laptops, external drives and such. So I'd venture to guess somewhere in the 175TB range for total home.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Nice, y'all.

I'vre got 2x 1TB NVMe in main workstation.

NAS units:
4x 5TB Seagate
4x 8TB WD Red CMR
4x 10TB WD Red CMR
2x 6TB Toshiba X300
A few larger external HDDs (8TB, 10TB) for cold backup storage copies of stuff from the NAS units.

total so far: 124TB

Ok @LikeLinus , you win.

 

[LikeLinus]

Nice, y'all.

I'vre got 2x 1TB NVMe in main workstation.

NAS units:
4x 5TB Seagate
4x 8TB WD Red CMR
4x 10TB WD Red CMR
2x 6TB Toshiba X300
A few larger external HDDs (8TB, 10TB) for cold backup storage copies of stuff from the NAS units.

total so far: 124TB

Ok @LikeLinus , you win.

I work with a lot of 4K footage and it eats storage. You should see some of the insane homelabs over at reddit. Mine pales in comparison.

 

[AdamK47]

Main PC:
1x Sabrent 1TB Rocket 4 NVMe
2x Sabrent 8TB Rocket Q NVMe in 16TB RAID-0

 

[ch33zw1z]

1TB samsung ssd as OS drive

4TB WD blue for data

4TB usb external for backups

Some other drives as well.

Have about 2.5TB of actual data.

 

[Muadib]

Main PC:
1TB Corsair MP600 NVMe
2TB Samsung 970 EVO NVMe

Main Laptop
1TB 970 EVO NVMe

Qnap NAS:
4x Seagate 16TB Exos X16 drives

Unraid NAS:
6x 6TB WD Red drives
9x 12TB Seagate IronWolf Pro drives

 

[compcons]

Main PC:
500 GB SSD Boot drive
2 x 3.2 TB NVME cards
1 TB NVMe (m.2)
500 GB NVMe (m.2)
2 x 500 GB SSD
750 GB SSD
4x 4TB 3.5" HDD

2x Synology NAS with 4x4 TB HDD
Xpenology NAS with 4x 3TB HDD

ESXi server
2x 60 GB SSD
5 x 1TB HDD
24 x 960GB SAS in a 3PAR DAS enclosure

 

[Red Squirrel]

[delete - wrong thread]

 

[aigomorla]

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.

sigh.... yes... which is why i have these in Raid-0 dedicated just for games.

with 4 SSD's in R0, the load times are pretty close to that of a single nVME.

 

[PlanetJosh]

Just a one tb hdd and I keep 100gb free in case.

 

[Red Squirrel]

sigh.... yes... which is why i have these in Raid-0 dedicated just for games.

with 4 SSD's in R0, the load times are pretty close to that of a single nVME.

Wow performance must be pretty awesome. Always wanted to play around with SSDs in raid but never really had a reason or budget to.

 

[Fritzo]

Last I measured it was around 7".


...oh....DISK space....

 

[Ken g6]

See my sig. Then add 17TB of drives that do backups.

I record a lot of TV shows. Then I can't compress them until I remove the commercials, which is semi-manual and takes time and effort.