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

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Doomer

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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.
 
8TB online and 4TB in backup for me. I am always thinking about upgrading this, but then I remind myself that I should try to save money and not be an eHoarder.
 
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Akihime - NAS - 6 x 4TB drives in Raid Z for 20TB storage.. (all media.... my entire DVD/BL library which the originals sit inside a box in the basement.)
KuroHime - Wannabe SAN - ARC 1680ix controller - 4 x 1TB drives in R0 + 4 x 320gig SAS drives in R0 = 5.6TB of storage...
YukiHime - 2 x 4TB R1 - Pure Backup just for the PC on top. =4TB

total.... 29.6TB in storage potential... however if u cancel out Yukihime who is purely redundant... i have 25.6TB of fresh data storage

My Dektops all have either a 240gig SSD or 120gig SSD, and they all use Kurohime as a very fast map'd network drive.

My main PC has probably has about 1-2TB of pure SSD storage....
Nadeshiko - 2 x 240gig Corsair Force GT (main OS) + 2 x 512 Samsung 840 (non evo) (Steam Drive) + X-25E for cache / junk / Temp file

All my Hime's are setup on a 16 port netgear prosafe managed switch with both lans attached for LAGG interface.
I wish i had 10GB ethernet... :\
Kuro Max's out my GB ethernet...

birthdaymonkey said:
but then I remind myself that I shouldn't be an eHoarder and try to save money.
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i am such a packrat when it comes to data...
i cant delete... its like a big no no no sign for me....
Id rather archieve it... and then let it sit...

The last time i did a batch deletion was on files dating pre 2000!
I realized if i didnt look at them for that long, i wouldnt require them anymore...

Its wierd going though your files and seeing essays you wrote in college...
Then you realize how much u BS'd and procrastinated on it... and yet managed to pass... :\

Im curious on if anyone in this forum has a 1PB array to himself at home.
 
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2TB RAID1, Backed up to 2 more 2TB drives, non-RAID. Have more misc drives from 500-750GB drives for additional critical backups. 1 off-site critical backup.

OS drives are small.
 
Main PC:
2 x 256GB Toshiba SSD's in RAID 0: 512GB
1 x 3TB WD Red

Upstairs PC:
1 x 180GB Corsair Force GT SSD
2 x 2TB Hitachi drives

Daughter's PC:
500GB drive

Daughter #2's PC:
300GB drive

Laptop 1:
120GB SSD

Laptop 2:
500GB drive

External:
300GB drive

Spare:
120GB Intel SSD
1TB WD Black HD

10.532 TB total that I can remember.
 
I got a few 8 inch floppy disks laying around, assuming they work. Let's see that's 1MB per disk so 3MB.

What do I win?
 
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.
 
MrWizzard said:
I got a few 8 inch floppy disks laying around, assuming they work. Let's see that's 1MB per disk so 3MB.

What do I win?
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lies... arent those 1.44MB each?

So that would mean 4.2MB!
And arent most of those dual sided??
i remember punching one of the sides out with a hole puncher and flipping it to use the other side from a single sided floppy... lolol...
 
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aigomorla said:
lies... arent those 1.44MB each?

So that would mean 4.2MB!
And arent most of those dual sided??
i remember punching one of the sides out with a hole puncher and flipping it to use the other side from a single sided floppy... lolol...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#8-inch_floppy_disk claims ~1MB.

Commodore floppies were ~170kB, and those definitely doubled up with hole puncher or scissors. I think I have the Ultima III and IV install floppies around.
 
My total raw storage is just a little north of 50 TB. Discounting RAID overhead and stuff like that, somewhere in the 40 TB range currently.
 
4 computer with around 1.5TB each, NAS with 12TB, 2x2TB backup enclosures and a number of unused 1TB drives.
 
Right around 1TB total. I'm not a digital pack rat or a gamer so I don't really see the need for more.
 
No games - just apps and data and original media. A conservative WAG of 7.5TB
 
9TB usable in a FlexRAID (3x3TB + 2+1TB parity)
3TB scratch disks (2x1.5TB)
280GB in SSDs (160+80+32+8GB)
2.5" drives (500+160+80GB)
Plus about 150GB in memory cards and USB keys...and a 120GB PS3...
 
Rofl, glad to see I'm not an "outlier". I have ~16TB (not counting boot drives, HTPC, laptops, and non essential desktops) spread across two fileservers not all of which is redundant. I'm currently in the process of unifying it all on a single fileserver running SnapRAID on 5+ 4TB drives. I'm really giddy about it, the new drives are already in the box and are currently being formatted. When I get home from work I'll start transferring data over and start setting up SnapRAID. After I'm done I'll have 14 1-1.5TB hard drives to sell on FS forums. Wonder how long it will take me to sell them.

A couple of days ago I was at FRY's checking out hard drives and overheard a guy lamenting to his GF that no one can ever possibly need as much as 4TB drive. I had to do a mental eye roll... roflmao...

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?
 
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@fleshconsumed I do regular full verifys on my flexraid. It takes several hours and awhile ago, some bad sectors caused the verify to fail so I had to remap the bad sectors, rebuild the array, and now it's OK. I don't really have a better solution, but this satisfies me.

Flexraid can send sms and emails when a routine succeeds/fails.

At the very least, one of the best features of flexraid is that in the event you lose data, it is only that on the drives which failed, leaving the healthy drives' data intact (as opposed to when you stripe, meaning you lose a fraction of every file, which renders them useless).
 
16TB + 16TB mirror (Seagate 4TB NAS drives RAID-10 in two 8-disc arrays)...
At the rate I use Handbrake, this will probably be enough for me for several years.

2x3TB for a Ceton tuner, a 3TB for new disc storage, a 3TB for downloads.
Two Plextor M5P 512GB "RAID"-0 for Photoshop etc. scratch, a Samsung 840 pro 256GB for OS, an Intel S3700 400GB for a database, A Plextor M5P 512GB in a laptop, a Crucial 960GB shared for music and new TV/Movies to watch on HTPC/Pad. Twelve 1.5 to 3TB discs offline in swap caddies in my trunk.

A 300GB SATA-II Intel SSD full of games I never play, and couldn't at decent settings anyway.
 
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dac7nco said:
Not long. I need cheap discs; the amount I spent this year is impacting what I can do now.
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You do realize I said those are 1 to 1.5TB disks? In any case, even if I manage to transfer everything to the new hard drives and set up SnapRAID by the end of the week it will take at least a couple of weeks of everything running smoothly before I feel safe dismantling and wiping out older hard drives.
 
fleshconsumed said:
You do realize I said those are 1 to 1.5TB disks? In any case, even if I manage to transfer everything to the new hard drives and set up SnapRAID by the end of the week it will take at least a couple of weeks of everything running smoothly before I feel safe dismantling and wiping out older hard drives.
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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...
 
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