Number of Hard Drives in Your Case

[strep3241]

2x 500gb WD Black
1x 320gb WD external for backup

 

[RockinZ28]

Once my 120gb Intel SSD shows up I'll be using the following, instead of 5 hdds in one pc like it is now, with one of them resting on top of some water tubing in a 5.25" bay.

Desk PC:

1x Intel X25-M G2 120GB
2x 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 in RAID 0

HDTV PC:

1x Intel X25-M G2 80GB
2x 2TB Samsung Spinpoint F4 in RAID 1
1x 320GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10

 

[Makaveli]

Current Setup

1x Intel X25-M G2 160GB - OS/Applications/Steam
1x Western Digital 1TB Black - Storage / Pagefile / Music / FTP
1x Western Digital 640GB Blue - Games / Temp Storage

1x Western Digital 2TB Green ESATA - Backup

 

[toosober]

2x Intel 80g G2 SSDs in RAID 0

3x Seagate 7200.11 1tb drives short stroked in RAID 0 for video editing, and RAID 5 for backups.

 

[Leyawiin]

One.

 

[ViviTheMage]

main : 1 120GB OCZ SOLID2 SSD
1 TB WD BLACK for backups

server : 1 30GB OCZ AGILITY2 SSD
5x2TB RAID 5

 

[BoomerD]

"There can be only one."

I've never had a need for more than one hard drive in the past.
I'm in the process of building a new rig, and I had considered tossing my old IDE WD 80 gig in with my "new" Seagate 250 gig SATA...BUT, I'm not really sure that there'd really be any benefit of doing so...and I can't afford one of the new SSD units.

 

[Imp]

x1 250Gb or 500 Gb

This was the absolute least important component when I built my machine last year. I just chose the cheapest piece of shit I could find from Western Digital.

An SSD would probably do me great since I barely use 100 Gb on my system. And this is with 5 Steam games I don't plan on playing again.

 

[daw123]

Quite a few (over 10TB worth).

From memory I have:
One in the laptop (320 GB)
One in a 3.5" hot swap bay in the main computer (1x WD Caviar Black 2TB)
A 2.5" hot swap bay for the SSD (60GB as a boot drive)
Four external hard drives (1x Seagate Barracuda 2TB, 1x WD Caviar Green 2TB, 1x WD Caviar Green 1.5TB and 1x WD My Book 1TB)

And I bought another Seagate Barracuda 2TB hard drive last weekend.

I've not been having much luck with Western Digital HDDs lately (I've had two fail in the last four months), so I've decided to give Seagate a go.

I'm not that bothered about having the HDDs housed within the case since most of mine are in external enclosures. I only wished there was an easy way of getting more eSATA connections (I've got two on a PCI backplate, but I don't have any free slots available for more).

 

[pmv]

Two. But one is dying (click...click...click). Am about to remove it. Plenty of space on the other, newer, one (2Tb) even with everything moved across.

Just have to work out how to keep installed programs working now that the installed partition letter will be different (must be possible without uninstalling and reinstalling, no?).

 

[Zargon]

3 in one, 2 in 2, 4 in the last one....

 

[OVerLoRDI]

1x 160gb seagate (Boot drive... my computer stays on for days on end so slow booting isn't an issue)
1x 500gb WD Black for games
2x 1tb Samsung for media storage
1x 1tb WD Green for media and temporary storage
1x 250gb WD music and isos.

I really want to replace the Green drive. It is a horrible drive, way too slow and when using bt. The number of io commands seem to max out the drive and my whole system just waits for the drive to catch up a few minutes later.

 

[RandomSanity]

Just have one SSD and two HDDs. I used to have a lot more, but retired everything <500GB recently and replaced with 2TB while they were on sale for $64.99 lol

 

[aigomorla]

lulz.. my days when io speed was manditory.

I was one of those whores who always grab'd the copter at the spawn in BF2.

It helped having map loadup times faster then the server.

 

[Rubycon]

lulz.. my days when io speed was manditory.


I was one of those whores who always grab'd the copter at the spawn in BF2.

It helped having map loadup times faster then the server.

In the days? I/O is more important than ever! That's why you need to replace those paperweights with at least some inexpensive SSDs! :biggrin:

Of course it would be all a waste to put them on the motherboard (most peter out over 3 anyways) so you need to pick up a real host!

 

[aigomorla]

lulz... as long as i beat the server i was golden.

 

[Rubycon]

Of course raiding ssds does little to improve gaming.

 

[grajasekar]

Wish I could afford those smooth SSDs.

Oh well, all I have in my Coolermaster Ammo cabinet is:
2 x 250gb Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm SATA drives
and
1 x 500gb Western Digital 7200rpm SATA

Yup, that's it


Outside of the PC though, my backup drive is an external 1TB Seagate Freeagent Desk.

 

[aigomorla]

Of course raiding ssds does little to improve gaming.

ruby u know when it comes to a pissing contest with you and pc's the only area i can ever win in is the CPU department.

And thats if i cheat and get it 4-6 months earily. ()

 

[AsusGuy]

Silverstone FT01

3 400GB WD Caviar Blue (2 in RAID 0)
1 2TB Hitachi 7200RPM 32MB
1 750GB WD Caviar Black (boot drive)
1 320GB Seagate 7200.10

 

[Rubycon]

ruby u know when it comes to a pissing contest with you and pc's the only area i can ever win in is the CPU department.

And thats if i cheat and get it 4-6 months earily. ()

You sure about that? Sheer numbers wins over a single box with higher clockspeed. Also if I recall chessbase numbers were better here due to better memory latency. Remember highest clock speed is not everything.

Oh and most importantly - all on air! :awe:

 

[Ayah]

I've got 6 drives in my desktop.

1 X Intel 80GB X-25M SSD
1 X 1TB WD Black
1 X 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11
3 X 2TB Samsung F4s with a Perc 6/i

My storage computer/server has 8 drives, 160-300GB that I haven't yet upgraded.

 

[Billb2]

3 drives.
2 x Raptors (74GB ea) RAID0
1 x 1TB

Why would anyone need more?

 

[mv2devnull]

ruby u know when it comes to a pissing contest

Oh and most importantly - all on air! :awe:

What a relief. I've heard about cooling over-heated machine-guns with the above-mentioned liquid, but it was naturally detrimental to the metal. :\


Simple fakeRAID-1 arrays here. Carved out of two 320 GB and two 500 GB Seagates. Could upgrade the data array, but SSD's would be sweet too.

 

[conorvansmack]

One 1TB and one 400GB in my main PC, one 300GB external eSATA and two 1GB WD Greens in RAID1 in my NAS.