Those of you with >= 1 TB of HD space, what do you do with all that space?

[irishScott]

Games are around 20 GB a piece tops, DVDs are 8GB uncompressed, so the only real application I can see (for home users) is holding hundreds of uncompressed DVDs or tens of uncompressed blu-rays (50 GB a piece) for an HTPC or something. Just curious.

 

[TridenT]

It's easy if you don't delete shit. If you have lots of games then it can be easy too. Same for having seasons of shows on your computer. If I had every episode of MST3K on my computer in full DVD quality then it would be over like 500GB right there.

 

[nakedfrog]

You're forgetting FLAC.

 

[RESmonkey]

I know a lot of people need space for editing video (uncompressed video takes lots of space).
Others could use it to archive things (aquaman's magazine gig lol)

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
You're forgetting FLAC.

Touche, but even then it'd have to be uncompressed. FLAC has lossless compression IIRC, which can get down to < 20MB/song.

 

[EvilYoda]

Originally posted by: irishScott

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
You're forgetting FLAC.

Touche, but even then it'd have to be uncompressed. FLAC has lossless compression IIRC (don't ask me how that works), which can get down to < 20MB/song.

Lots and lots of FLAC files, plus MP3s, plus movies, plus pics, plus porn.

 

[nageov3t]

storage is so cheap, it's like why not?

I've got 2 TB drives in a raid1 where I store all my mp3's, movies, porn, etc and a 500GB that I just had lying around with all my operating systems on it.

 

[TridenT]

Originally posted by: irishScott

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
You're forgetting FLAC.

Touche, but even then it'd have to be uncompressed. FLAC has lossless compression IIRC (don't ask me how that works), which can get down to < 20MB/song.

Uh... It's more like 30-40MB a song in my experience.

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: TridenT

Originally posted by: irishScott

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
You're forgetting FLAC.

Touche, but even then it'd have to be uncompressed. FLAC has lossless compression IIRC (don't ask me how that works), which can get down to < 20MB/song.

Uh... It's more like 30-40MB a song in my experience.

With max compression? Guess it depends on the music. Even so, 40 MB/song spread over a TB is 25000 songs. :Q

 

[silverpig]

x264 rips of bluray movies and entire seasons of tv shows, some in hd, some x264 dvdrips.

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: RESmonkey
I know a lot of people need space for editing video (uncompressed video takes lots of space).
Others could use it to archive things (aquaman's magazine gig lol)

Yup, video editing can take up A LOT of space.

For most people, though, it's probably used for downloading and stuff. Blu-Ray ISOs are going to be like 25GB/50GB a pop, much more storage intensive than DVD.

I get by with 160GB lol, but I don't really download much. And if I do I'm not going to download a Blu-Ray ISO or something like that, just a waste of bandwidth IMO.

 

[Sumguy]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda

Originally posted by: irishScott

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
You're forgetting FLAC.

Touche, but even then it'd have to be uncompressed. FLAC has lossless compression IIRC (don't ask me how that works), which can get down to < 20MB/song.

Lots and lots of FLAC files, plus MP3s, plus movies, plus pics, plus porn.

Redundant.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: irishScott

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
You're forgetting FLAC.

Touche, but even then it'd have to be uncompressed. FLAC has lossless compression IIRC (don't ask me how that works), which can get down to < 20MB/song.

Huffman trees? Run length encoding? I'm just guessing, I don't know much about FLAC but there are a number of ways to do lossless compression.

 

[shortylickens]

Rip DVD's and burn them. But once I know the burn is good I delete the ISO. Ditto fro Linux ISO's.
When I was file-sharing like mad I almost filled up my drive. Then I realized I didnt give a crap about all the junk I had found and deleted most of it. Stopped file-sharing too.
Now its mostly empty, even though I ripped all my CD's to 320K mp3's.

I have another 1TB on my gaming system and that will never get filled either. Unless perhaps Blu-ray drives come down in price quickly and it becomes the new format for PC games, which I doubt.

 

[Bateluer]

I have 2 1TB Caviar Blacks, and 2 Seagate 500GB drives. One of the Caviars is devoted entirely to Movies and Videos, and has 155GB of free space. The other Caviar is devoted to Misc, with a little spill over Movies and Videos that won't fit on the other Caviar. One 500GB drive is partitioned between my OS and Apps, the other is general storage.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
Rip DVD's and burn them. But once I know the burn is good I delete the ISO. Ditto fro Linux ISO's.
When I was file-sharing like mad I almost filled up my drive. Then I realized I didnt give a crap about all the junk I had found and deleted most of it. Stopped file-sharing too.
Now its mostly empty, even though I ripped all my CD's to 320K mp3's.

I have another 1TB on my gaming system and that will never get filled either. Unless perhaps Blu-ray drives come down in price quickly and it becomes the new format for PC games, which I doubt.

This is the same for me.

I have 2x500 GB HDDs.. I keep everything on the first.. and then just make a backup image to the second every few weeks in case of failure. Honestly, I've been thinking of RAIDing them just for giggles. Of the 500 gigs that I essentially have for storage, I only use around 250 gigs of it. Honestly, I'm not sure what else I'd want to keep. I don't really like clutter so I delete things I don't foresee myself using.

 

[deadlyapp]

i have a touch over 2.5 tb at this point. About 40 of which is music, and essentially the rest is HD movies. Many of my bluray movies that are straight bdmv are close to 40 gigs each.

 

[sdifox]

1TB??? I have 10...

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: sdifox
1TB??? I have 10...

I have 50!



Seriously, I have just over 1tb. I used to always have the largest but I guess I'm just getting old.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Bigger HDD's are like bigger tacos, except tacos taste better.

 

[Kirby64]

Originally posted by: silverpig
x264 rips of bluray movies and entire seasons of tv shows, some in hd, some x264 dvdrips.

This.

 

[Caecus Veritas]

i'm already maxing out on 1.5tb. 100tb would be nice... as it is, i have to be selective about d/ling.
ah... i remember thinking about how big 40mb was compared to my old 20mb hd.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I have 7.5TB (will be 10.5TB this weekend). Backups of machines, lots of music (FLAC), lots of movies (ripped from DVD @ full quality), pictures, etc, etc.

 

[pontifex]

i didn't know there was any other use besides porn????

 

[TheVrolok]

So you guys that are storing full DVD/HD quality movies, do you have your PCs hooked up to sizable HDTVs for mock-HTPC use as well?