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What's your total storage capacity?

What is your total storage capacity?

  • < 1TB

  • 2TB to 4TB

  • 4TB to 8TB

  • > 8TB

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total capacity in my house is close to 20 TB and im planing to at least double that by this time next year
 
I'm at about 8TB total for my 2 external 4 bay enclosures and probably another 5TB in data drives in various computers.
 
Main PC: 120GB OCZ Vertex and 640GB WD Caviar Blue
Upstairs: 640GB Caviar Blue
Daughter: 320GB Seagate
Daughter #2: 320GB Seagate
Spare drive: 640GB Caviar Blue (Hey, I got them for $38.xx shipped from Amazon, lol).
Spare PC: 200GB Seagate
Daughter's laptop: 160GB
Daughter #2's laptop: Not sure - 30GB I think (it's old).
 
What's with the poor guys that have between 1 and 2TB? Well I just rounded up from 1.9 to 2 😉
 
pjkenned said:
Somewhere between 45TB and 50TB ATM. Will probably be adding more with the new WHS.
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just read part of your site. you are one loony soon of a bitch, and for that I salute you!

do you burn those drives in before tossing them in the raids?
 
My desktop has 2x500GB WD Caviar Blues, non-raid.
HTPC has 160GB
Ext HDDs: WD 1TB, WD 640GB, Seagate 500GB, Magicgate 320GB, ADS+WD 160GB

Fall just short of 4TB. Well that's the HDDs in use, I have a few spare PATA HDDs lying around. Not sure if those put me over 4TB.


taltamir said:
do we count space used for redundancy? for example, is a 2x1TB RAID1 array counted as 1TB or 2TB for this comparison.
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Technically, you only have 1TB for actual data storage, so I don't think it counts.... But heck, why not count it anyways?
 
fffblackmage said:
Technically, you only have 1TB for actual data storage, so I don't think it counts.... But heck, why not count it anyways?
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that was obvious. But the intent of the question seemed to me to be more about "how many TB of HDD space did you buy" not "how many TB of space did you buy modified by your redundancy preferences".
Because different people have different redundancy preferences. And a single person may use more than one form of raid / jbod
 
As far as my main production space, I have 1.8TB on my main storage array on my server and about 700GB on my PC. I have a couple removable 500GB drives drives I keep for backups (cheaper then using tapes!).

I plan to add more space later on though.

Here's what's sad, our brand new SAN at work only has like 6TB and that's without the raid overhead. We're already low on space. Whoever bought it decided it was smart to fill the whole thing with the smallest drives instead of using a few big drives. Oh well not my problem. 😛 Eventually my home server will be bigger their our san lol
 
for me, I have an 80GB intel SSD and a 640GB secondary drive on my primary system.
On my file server I have 5x750GB in Raid Z2 (2 drives are redundant). Also a 160Gb ancient IDE drive for OS (contains nothing but the OS)
 
Voo said:
What's with the poor guys that have between 1 and 2TB? Well I just rounded up from 1.9 to 2 😉
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Waiting for the 2TB drives to go down more in price, so I can buy 4. :biggrin:

That will be a nice additional 5-6TB after doing a raid 5. 😱
 
I probably have about 10 TB of drives available, but probably about 2/3 are used for backups or for redundancy. Mostly for backups, since redundancy is looking less and less appealing nowadays.
 
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Zargon said:
do you burn those drives in before tossing them in the raids?
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Yes. Minimum of two weeks before adding to an array. The WD Greens are going into my i3-530 test box. And just for the record, I've been testing raid controllers for the past 4 weeks:
Adaptec: 31605x2, 5805, 3085
Areca: 1680LP
HP: P410 512MB BBWC (This is a SAS 6.0gbps controller)
Dell: Perc 5/i 512MB

My new direction is probably going to be the Areca 1680LP or 5805 with the HP SAS Expanders. Really if I could get 1200MB/s + from the controller/ expander setup, I'd be happy. It isn't like capping the drives at a single SATA lane.

The plus side is that I expected the build to take 6-8 weeks between burn-in and testing. At the rate this thing is going Vail will be out (not that it isn't being tested ATM 😛)
 
About 2.3TB on my main pc. Then 640+40 externals. Plus another 300-400 GB on other pcs. So about 3.5TB

More than I thought actually.
 
LEts see:

raid 5 - 900GB
C drive - 1000GB
External HD: 160GB
Netbook HD: 160GB
DVR: 160GB
Phone: 16GB

I guess thats a lot of storage.
 
Desktop: 80GB X-25M G2 + 640GB Western Digital Blue (storage / backup) + 640GB Western Digital Black (games / media)

Notebook: 160GB X-25M G2 + 500GB external

SFF portable: 150GB Raptor-X

I'm hoping to throw in at least another 500GB external. I really need to start backing up my data. None of it is critical, but losing some of the pictures would suck. 🙁
 
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