Originally posted by: JBT
If you do any sort of video work you'll see why. Also if you start storing CD images etc you'll need space too. I mean I have a TV tuner and when I want to record something I like the quality to still be pretty decent. So ussually and hour long show ends up being about 4GB's. If I want to save that show for later it adds up pretty fast... Either way your statement is pretty stupid. Maybe YOU don't need that much because you just write documents and play a few games. But some of us do other things.
Agreed - video can suck up hard drive space incredibly fast. Editing video will also eat it up, as you'll need space to store the new video, as well as temp space for the editing program to use.
And oddly enough, hard drives seem to have a longer lifespan than CD/DVD-R discs - at least the cheap things. I've had a few CD-R and RW discs that had the top layer start to peel off after only about a year - so much for their 100 year shelf life, or whatever they were quoted as being. I hear that Ritek is a decent brand though, so I'm trying to use their discs instead.
Either way though - CD's are out in the cruel world, exposed to things like careless morons like me, who drop them and then step on them in the process of trying to pick them up. The CD image is much safer on 4 hard drives in RAID 5. And any time I need one of those CD's, I get an RW, burn the image to it, and use it, instead of trying to figure out where I put the original disc.
So there. That's part of why I like having 4 160GB hard drives in RAID 5, plus one extra 160GB for the PVR-350 to store video on.
It's also handy to have a fileserver to which you can make nightly automated backups of your important data which resides across a network.
So the general idea here is you need all that extra space for any illegal stuff you may want on your computer...got it.
I have the original CD's for nearly every single MP3 on my computer.
And as far as I know, recording TV shows for personal viewing is also legal.
DVD/CD ISO's - also should be fine under Fair Use laws, as long as you already own the discs.
10GB for OS and programs - sounds about right. I've got a 5GB partition on my fileserver for Windows, Documents and Settings, and Program Files, and it's nearly full. There aren't that many programs on there though; it's a fairly basic system - it just happens to have a lot of disk space.
So yeah, I can imagine having a large disk would be helpful, but I STILL think 3x160GB or more is just rediculous. Guess it's the new guy in me!
Spend enough time on these forums, and soon you'll be looking at a dual-CPU system with a 6-disk RAID 5 array and 2 GB of RAM.
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