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who here has the most HDs

QueBert

QueBert

Lifer
I know I'm not close to worst, but I was totaling up my HDs today I need to consolidate lol.

2 x 500GB

1 x 250GB

1 x 200GB

2 x 120GB

I was on Newegg and saw they had a 2TB WD that would hold all my drives with almost 500 gigs to spare. I'm figuring somebody on here has like 20 80 gig drives or something crazy.


 
I have some really small ones sitting on the shelf, my smallest is 4GB... But I am not using them for data storage...

My gaming PC has one 640GB WD.
My fileserver has an old IDE 160GB Drive as the os drive (solaris), and 5x750GB WD greenwhatever drives in raid6

I sold all the IDE drives bigger than the 160GB on ebay, 160GB and below is simply not worth my time (or impossible) to sell, so I kept them, and I use it because its the fastest (the OS is only 8GB).

I use an IDE drive because I ran out of SATA ports on the mobo.
 
HEhehe.

I have 4x500GB and 3x1TB in my WHS box serving to all computers. In my MCE box I have a 160 and a 500. The 500 serves as storage for rips, recordings and encodes I haven't sorted yet as well as a third backup source for my music collection.

On my #1 machine, I have a 640GB Caviar Black. In my #2 work machine I have an older Seagate 320GB, mostly empty since it's just a work/writing machine. I have 80GB in a cheap Compaq laptop, 320GB in a new thinkpad, a 160GB 2.5 inch SATA drive pulled from the new thinkpad in storage and a 40GB 2.5 inch PATA drive from a now-retired Dell Inspiron 1100 from 2003. I use the 40GB in a small external enclosure for moving stuff around and fixing crap, moving PSTs from old Outlook to new, etc.

SO yea, I have a bit of storage. Hehe.

Oh, I also have 2x36 GB raptors sitting in a drawer. Not sure if I'll ever use them again -- they're not so fast compared to newer drives these days and they're loud as hell.
 
I've got:

1 x 13 GB
1 x 30 GB
2 x 120 GB
1 x 160 GB
2 x 250 GB
4 x 400 GB
4 x 500 GB
2 x 640 GB
1 x 750 GB
5 x 1000 GB

That's what I have currently in use. The 13, 30 and one of the 120's are about to be put out to pasture.
 
My Athlon 4200+ system

1 x 20GB IDE
1 x 60GB IDE
1 x 200GB IDE
1 x 320GB IDE
1 x 500GB IDE
1 x 36GB Raptor
1 x 74GB Raptor

7 drives for 1300GB of space
 
Main system:

1 x 300GB VR
6 x 320 ES (RAID5)

7 drives for 1900GB of space

Home Server:

2 x 250 ES.2 RAID1 system disk
2 x 250 ES.2 RAID1 data disk
2 x 1000 RAID1 backup space

6 drives for 1500GB of usable space
 
LOL, I keep thinking the OP asked who here has the biggest weener.
Certainly, I do!

Well, what do you do with all that porn?
 
10 x 36gb 15k scsi hitachi
5 x 160gb WD YS Sata
4 x 147gb 15k SAS hitachi
2 x 160gb Samsung Sata
2 x 640gb seagate Sata
2 x 250gb WD KS Sata
5 x 1TB WD green
2 x 500gb Seagate 7200.11
 
Main box
3x1TB

Backup Server (I know need more space 🙂 )
1x80Gig
1x500Gig

Old Backup
2x50Gig
2x80Gig
1x120Gig
1x250Gig

 
Originally posted by: ochadd
10 x 36gb 15k scsi hitachi
5 x 160gb WD YS Sata
4 x 147gb 15k SAS hitachi
2 x 160gb Samsung Sata
2 x 640gb seagate Sata
2 x 250gb WD KS Sata
5 x 1TB WD green
2 x 500gb Seagate 7200.11
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How many computers do you have, lol.
 
Originally posted by: Astrallite
Originally posted by: ochadd
10 x 36gb 15k scsi hitachi
5 x 160gb WD YS Sata
4 x 147gb 15k SAS hitachi
2 x 160gb Samsung Sata
2 x 640gb seagate Sata
2 x 250gb WD KS Sata
5 x 1TB WD green
2 x 500gb Seagate 7200.11
Click to expand...

How many computers do you have, lol.
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That is 5 computers worth of spindles and all I cared to count 🙂
 
This is a funny thread. Somebody should be computing the no. of drives / total TB storage ratio for each poster. Highest ratio and you win!
:laugh:

I'll give an example: ochadd has 32 drives and 9.848TB total storage.
That's 32 / 9.848 = 3.25.

Can anyone beat 3.25? (Minimum of 5 drives to enter -- don't tell me you have one computer with a 250GB drive so you have a 4.0 😉)
 
Originally posted by: nerpOh, I also have 2x36 GB raptors sitting in a drawer. Not sure if I'll ever use them again -- they're not so fast compared to newer drives these days and they're loud as hell.
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Oh, ditto. I don't know if I should bother trying to sell them, they are so loud and slow and hot and small compared to modern drive, they are completely worthless now, if someone does buy it he will probably start raising a stink wanting his money back...
 
I sell all my older ones, so the smallest i presently have is 400 GB.

I had a bunch of 250s, but those all moved on to new owners.

I have a few 400s & a lot of 500s that eventually i will need to move away from, but they work for me for now.

Edit: I'm not counting the notebook or the SSD/Raptor, as i don't care about the notebook, & the SSD/Raptor are OS, etc. use only.
 
I tend to move up in size, except for my Raptors/VelociRaptors. In my garage I have a BUNCH of smaller drives. Besides ones that I'm not sure are still functional, I have working drives from 1.6GB on up. I think if I cap it at 160GB maximum, I probably have around 15 drives.

On the opposite end of the spectrum I have around six 1.5TB drives and four 1TB drives.
 
IIRC......

1x74g
3x80g
2x120g
1x160g
1x250
3x320
1x500
2x640
1x1Tb

15 Total, spread across 4 desktops and 1 laptop.

 
Hmm,

4x250G SATAII
3x73G SAS 15k.6
1x36G SAS SAVVIO 15k.1
3x73G SCSI U320
4x18G SCSI U320
3xSeagate Barracuda ST15150WD
1x850.5MB Seagate ST3850A
1x42MB Mitsubishi MR535-U00

That's enough for now as I have more and tired of thining, lol

Thanks, JASTECH
1x36G SCSI U320
 
I might still have a 240MB drive at my parents. (If I remember the size correctly.)
Was my first HDD.

Man. A 486DLC 40MHz. I think 1MB of RAM.
Came with DOS 6.22?
I will have to look if that CPU is still around somewhere.

 
I have 1x 120GB IDE Maxtor and 1x 160GB SATA WD. I would've wanted to use my 80GB IDE Maxtor drive as well but it didn't work properly anymore so I had to give up on it. 🙁

Wasn't this about who has the least amount of storage on as many drives as possible?

Originally posted by: magreen
This is a funny thread. Somebody should be computing the no. of drives / total TB storage ratio for each poster. Highest ratio and you win!
:laugh:

I'll give an example: ochadd has 32 drives and 9.848TB total storage.
That's 32 / 9.848 = 3.25.

Can anyone beat 3.25? (Minimum of 5 drives to enter -- don't tell me you have one computer with a 250GB drive so you have a 4.0 😉)
Click to expand...

Flip them around and it makes sense instead of a random number. 9.848TB /32 drives = 307.75 GB / drive.
 
4 80GB
1 40GB
1 10GB

(2 computers)
370/6 = 61.6667 GB/HDD
6/370 = 0.0162 HDD/GB... or random number as Scoop calls it

Never thought I'd be in the lead in any AT hardware thread. WOOT!

 
1x 0.24GB
2x 80GB (1 HDD, 1 SSD)
1x 30GB
1x 40GB
1x 100GB
1x 200GB
1x 400GB
1x 750GB

For a total of:
9x 1,600.24GB

=> 177.80GB/HDD

 
Main PC:
8x 36GB Seagate 2.5" Savvio 15k's (Raid 5)
3x 300gb Seagate 15k.5's (Raid 5)
2x 1TB 7200.11's (Raid 1)

Home Server
4x 500GB WD's (Raid 5)
13x 1.5TB 7200.11's (Raid 6)

Other PC's:
Dell Mini 9: 4GB (Linux) or 16GB (OSX)
Notebook (Personal): 250GB / 320GB
Notebook (Work): 160GB
Desktops for trying Solaris/BSD/Linux distros: Various 80GB, 160GB, 320GB, and 500GB drives
 
I really didn't want to do this math. This actually scares me, thanks a lot OP. I added leading zeros to make this line up nice and neat. This counts hard drives that are currently powered on or in something that gets turned on often. I know I have more that are not, but I am not counting them.

02 x 0005 GB IDE (Seriously)
04 x 0030 GB IDE
02 x 0040 GB IDE
01 x 0040 GB SATA
01 x 0080 GB SSD
03 x 0080 GB SATA
01 x 0160 GB SATA
01 x 0160 GB IDE
01 x 0250 GB SATA
16 x 0750 GB SATA
10 x 1500 GB SATA


42 drives total storage 28,140 GB. Average per disk is 670 GB. Even worse: If we assume 10 watts per hard drive and 14 cents a KWH, that means I am spending 42 * 10 * 24 * 365 / 1000 = 3679 * $0.14 = $515 bucks a year on power alone for my hard drives. Crap.

<edit> spelling & put in numerical order by GB.
 
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