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Main Rig Total Hard Disk Drive Storage

  • 40GB or less

    Votes: 6 4.9%
  • 80GB or less

    Votes: 21 17.1%
  • 120GB or less

    Votes: 18 14.6%
  • 160GB or less

    Votes: 16 13.0%
  • 200GB or less

    Votes: 9 7.3%
  • 240GB or less

    Votes: 15 12.2%
  • 300GB or less

    Votes: 7 5.7%
  • 360GB or less

    Votes: 12 9.8%
  • 420GB or less

    Votes: 5 4.1%
  • 500GB+

    Votes: 14 11.4%

  • Total voters
    123
  • Poll closed .
Right now I'm at a grand total of 1040gb (based on manufacturer size, not true formatted space). Upgrading my case to get some better cooling at the moment, but I'm running 3x200gb Seagate, 160gb Samsung, 160gb Western Digital, 120gb Western Digital. Going to get a 74gb Raptor and replace the three smaller drives with two or three 200gb Seagates.

On a sidenote, any recommendations on 5.25 HDD cooling combo panels (i.e. Vantec Vortex). Doesn't have to be 5.25, just planning on filling in some of my bays.
 
1x200gb WD SATA
2x250gb WD EIDE
3x160GB Maxtor EIDE
2x120GB Maxtor SATA
1x80GB IBM EIDE
1x80gb WD EIDE
1x80GB Hitachi EIDE
2x36GB WD Raptor SATA
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1732GB
 
15Gb, less than 1/2 full with a lot of software I never use, and all the pics and video clips taken since my son's birth 3 years ago. Besides the latest HDs being marginally faster, I can't justify a purchase of yet more empty space.

I don't believe the typical user requires a private library, unless stocking up for when the internet collapses.

A public library is another matter. :thup:
 
I get the hint, Lindie, but I have over 500gb of movies, 200gb of music, 350gb of ISO's, etc etc. It's all probabley 75% full
 
120 gig Seagate 8mb 7200 rpm drive. Got a 80 gig maxtor 5400 rpm and two 20 gigs sitting around somewhere...
 
neonblingbling said:
120 gig Seagate 8mb 7200 rpm drive. Got a 80 gig maxtor 5400 rpm and two 20 gigs sitting around somewhere...

Maxtor? I'm so sorry man.

As for me, I have 400 gig

200 gig WD 8 meg cache
80 gig WD 8 meg cache
40 gig WD 8 meg cache (in my server)
80 gig Maxtor 2 meg cache (I had to buy it for school

:bang head )
About... 80% of that is taken up
 
main rig holds:
1x200
3x120
2x80

currently with a god handful of problems too, trying to get stuff worked out nad move to a RAID 5 with 120gig drives, need some more good deals on 120s tho. And need to get damn DVD burners working so Ican backup! blah!

subsequent rigs and unused drives waiting to install (see raid comment). is a work machine with a 40gig. 2 other 40gigs sitting around and another 120 for the RAID. they are all maxtor or WD, the spare 120 is seagate.

*edit* oh and the main computer is like 75-85% full or around there.
 
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Hmmmm..
2x200gig WD. 1 for movies and TV shows and 1 for music, downloaded stuff ect.
74gig Raptor for my OS, games, and apps.
 
74GB Total

(3) Seagate 15K Cheetahs RAID 5

C: OS = 4.3GB
D: Games = 36 GB
E: Data = 10GB
F: Temp = 20GB

And I hardly need any more space (then again I dont store movies or crap on these drives anyways :D )
 
The poll is far from fitting with the space I have :\

2272GB (2.17TB) total in my main rig:

Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 160GB sata
Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 200Gb pata
Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 200GB pata
Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 200GB pata
Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 200GB pata
Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 200GB pata
Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 200GB pata
Maxtor MaxLineII+ 250GB pata
Maxtor MaxLineII 250GB sata
Seagate Barracuda V 120GB pata
Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB pata
Maxtor 3000LE 120GB external

11 internal drives, one external. Yes, this is only my main rig, only one pc, no drives via network sharing etc.
 
Egrimm said:
The poll is far from fitting with the space I have :\

2272GB (2.17TB) total in my main rig:

Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 160GB sata
Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 200Gb pata
Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 200GB pata
Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 200GB pata
Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 200GB pata
Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 200GB pata
Maxtor DiamondMAX9+ 200GB pata
Maxtor MaxLineII+ 250GB pata
Maxtor MaxLineII 250GB sata
Seagate Barracuda V 120GB pata
Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB pata
Maxtor 3000LE 120GB external

11 internal drives, one external. Yes, this is only my main rig, only one pc, no drives via network sharing etc.

One.... Two... Three.... How many PSUs do you have? (or pr0n for that matter :p )
 
neonblingbling said:
One.... Two... Three.... How many PSUs do you have? (or pr0n for that matter :p )
Two psus, my trusty 431w Enermax driving the cpu+mobo+gfx+5 hd's and a 200w mAtx HighPower running 7hds, fans and three cold cathodes. Never given me any problems, all voltages on the Enermax above spec and nice stable.

I don't collect porn, doesn't even have a single such movie actually. As my avatar might betray I'm a huge anime fan though, and having practically all fansubs released, that aren't yet licensed, from the last several years do take up quite a bit of space =)
Actually massive amounts compared to people here aren't unusual in those circles, many of my friends run 500+GB systems :eek:

That and me being stubborn when people tell me it's imposible to have so much space in a single rig :p I just want to prove that there can never be too much hd-space in a single machine or something.
 
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