What's the total storage space you have available in your home?

[Charlie98]

2.756Tb in the Desktop (3 different drives + 2 externals)
4.560TB in the HTPC (4 different drives)
160GB in Laptop 1
120GB in Laptop 2
160GB in media/spare Desktop (2 drives)
500GB in video recorder
31GB in thumb drives (5)
2GB in SD cards (2)
48GB in iPhone memory (3 phones...)

8.177TB total.

I don't think I missed anything...

 

[stargazr]

About 12TB.

 

[beginner99]

About 6 TB and roughly double if you include the back-ups.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Rofl, glad to see I'm not an "outlier".

Yeah, I appear to be the outlier here. I'm surprised that on a tech forum we don't have more people who have as much or more storage than I have.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Yeah, I appear to be the outlier here. I'm surprised that on a tech forum we don't have more people who have as much or more storage than I have.

You'd have to go to AVS forums for that. If I remember correctly some people over there have close to 100TB... o_0

 

[Tsavo]

12 exabytes.

I'm living in a hidden room in an NSA data center.

 

[jkauff]

If I were running a home server, I'd have a lot more, but my standalone desktop has 16TB, mostly taken up by ripped Blu-ray movies and their backup. Yes, I know the original discs are "backup", but I don't want to rip them all again if I have a drive problem.

 

[dtgoodwin]

A somewhat related question, for those of you who are running SnapRAID/FlexRAID, what are you doing about pooling and monitoring the health of your hard drives? From what I understand SnapRAID pooling is just a bunch of symbolic links which will not work with non windows devices such as android tablets, and I've heard that FlexRAID pooling is not without problems and the development has grown kind of stale. Has anyone tried StableBit pooling software? Does it work well? What about monitoring health of the hard drives? Is StableBit Scanner good, or should I go for hdsentinel? Or some other freeware solution? And if so which ones support email/text notifications?

I'm using Stablebit Drivepool with Scanner in my WHS2011 server managing a pool of 10 drives 2x500GB, 1x1TB, 4x2TB, and 3x3TB. It manages them extremely well. The newest RC version allows you to duplicate not only shares, but individual folders on multiple drives. You can even specify it to duplicate it on more than 2 drives.

Scanner runs a monthly surface scan on each drive in addition to file system checks and also monitors SMART data and will alert you if any of these checks results in an error. The performance is really good. For data that's been duplicated, it acts like RAID0 on reads. For other data, there's not really any overhead so you get the speed of whatever drive it is reading from. Because it's not RAID, if you have a large pool of drives, they are allowed to spin down according to your power policy.

BTW, between my WHS and other machines, I have 22.5 TB spread across 22 HDD/SSDs.

 

[aigomorla]

If I were running a home server, I'd have a lot more, but my standalone desktop has 16TB, mostly taken up by ripped Blu-ray movies and their backup. Yes, I know the original discs are "backup", but I don't want to rip them all again if I have a drive problem.

I know that feeling of having to rerip them all again.
Whats even worse is when a new video format comes out which is vastly superior forcing u to re encode your entire collection.

:\

 

[cbrunny]

Roughly 12 TB.

 

[John Connor]

Lets see. One computer with three hard drives for a total of about 878 GB, One thin client at about 1 GB. Another computer at about 40 GB. Another computer at around 250 GB and extremal storage at about 375 GB. For a grand total of about 1.5 TB.

I'm not into huge disk capacity I guess...

 

[IronWing]

I'm curious to know how much storage space you people have in your home systems. I have somewhere around 27TB, mostly used for media. This is spread out amongst 2 NAS's, computers, one stand alone media server and several external enclosures.

That is sufficient space to have one porn image of every woman (or man) between the ages of 18 and 30 on earth.

 

[_Rick_]

Hmm, this is going to be tricky.

First, actual usable space, which is easier:
3TB R5, 1.2TB R5, 80GB R1, 40GB R1, two 8GB SSDs in the server, 1TB in a hot swap bay, and 256GB and 128 GB in SSDs in the desktop. Not counting flash chips/cards/keys and phone flash.
Sums up to around 5.7 TB

In actual disks, it's:
1x 2000 GB
6x 1000 GB
3x 400 GB
1x 256 GB
1x 128 GB
2x 80 GB
1x 40 GB
2x 8 GB
= 8820 GB

 

[benwood]

HTPC
--------
8 TB = (1 TB + 3 TB + 4 TB) internal.

7 TB = (4 TB + 1.5 TB + 1.5 TB) via 4 bay ESata external drive case with 3 bays filled connected to HTPC:

Media Server
--------------
15 TB internal = (2 TB + 2 TB + 2 TB) and (3 TB + 3 TB + 3 TB)

12 TB = Three 4 bay USB 2.0 external drive cases with 9 bays filled connected to media server:

Case 1 (2 TB + 2 TB + 2 TB + 2 TB)
Case 2 (2 TB + 2 TB + 2 TB + 3 TB)
Case 3 (3 TB)


Productivity/Web PC
--------------------
4 TB (500 GB + 500 GB + 1 TB + 2 TB)

--------------

= 46 TB in total (not counting 64 GB, 128 GB and 180 GB SSDs)

 

[dstevod]

About 4TB + the same again for backup. Not all full though - probably around 40-50%

S

 

[Golgatha]

Between all the PCs, Laptops, and external HDDs and SSDs in the house; I have roughly 22TB worth of useable storage space. I have a 3TB external at work that's mine, which I use for an offsite backup, so 25TB total storage capacity.

I'll add something here. Most of my used space is for backups of the backups. I currently have about 2.6TB of actual data to backup. Everything in my house gets sent to the fileserver I have setup in the house. From there, SyncToy is used periodically to sync that data with my HTPC. Roughly every Microsoft patch Tuesday the external 3TB gets an xcopy of everything and I swap it with a 2nd 3TB drive I keep offsite. In short, there are always 4 copies of the same month or less old data floating around on physically separate HDDs. The backup HDDs alone account for 14TB of the 25TB I have floating around in all my systems.

I've always had good luck with drives not failing, but I only buy discs that have 3-4 platters. Dunno if there is anything to that, but it seems to work for me. Here's to hoping 3-4 platter 4TB drives become more widely available and cheaper, because I'm running out of space on the 3TB ones I currently have.

 

[Golgatha]

ROFL!

Thank god im not the only one ...

even when i wipe the old drives i still keep thinking i missed something... or something got corrupted during transfer by some fluke solar activity... or something which i will regret later on...

You're not the only one. I torture new drives for a week or two (constantly write data, long format, check for errors, etc) in an external enclosure before I even attempt to put any data on them. I keep the old drives for at least 2 months before I'm satisfied the new ones are ok to trust. Filtered out a 1.5TB Seagate (the infamous 7200.11 drives) as bad using these methods. I've got a mix of drives, but most are Seagate or WD.

 

[IGemini]

About 6.8TB across all drives.

 

[CuriousMike]

My PC
1 TB spinner
80 GB SSD
120 GB SSD
= 1.2 TB

Sons PC
1 TB Spinner
120 GB SSD
= 1.1 TB

Daughters Mac
500GB
= .5 TB

Wifes PC
500 GB Spinner
64 GB SSD
= .55 TB

Media PC
1 TB spinner
2 TB USB spinner
1.5 TB USB spinner
= 4.5 TB

Other
1 TB USB 3.0 spinner - backup backup
750 TB USB 2.0 spinner - shelf backup
= 1.75 TB

Total = 1.2 + 1.1 + 0.5 + 0.55 + 4.5 + 1.75 = ~ 9.6 TB

 

[dave_the_nerd]

740GB in laptop 1, 250GB in laptop 2, 840GB in desktop, 4TB in NAS box and 500GB in laptop HD attached to router for convenience.

Not too much actually. Some of you guys are nuts.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Desktop: 1 TB

Netbook: 160 GB

File Server: 23 TB

Assorted external drives: 2.5 TB

 

[code65536]

About 28TB of total raw spinner capacity (minus some TB for resiliency, of course).

About 750GB of SSD capacity (all boot/OS drives).

I also have a couple TB worth of capacity in the form of recordable Blu-Ray discs (for the backup for really important data like photos and documents).

 

[Red Squirrel]

-bash-3.2$ df -hl
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 433G 12G 399G 3% /
/dev/sda1 190M 25M 156M 14% /boot
tmpfs 3.8G 48K 3.8G 1% /dev/shm
df: `/home/vmuser/.gvfs': Permission denied
/dev/md0 6.3T 5.1T 902G 86% /raid1
-bash-3.2$


6.3TB in my main server (raid 5). Got another 5 or so TB in my new file server which is not turned up yet. I'll be moving the drives from this server to the new file server when I get the chance. So about 11TB or so of available usable disk space. Wont count my backup drives as those are offline, but got maybe 6 or so 1TB drives I use for backups.