Just wondering how many Gigs you guys are packing?

WJC05 · Post by **WJC05** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:06 am

I just installed my second 160GB HD..

That makes
2- 160GB
1- 120GB
1- 80GB

Just wondering how many gigs you guys have all together...

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:06 am

I've got a 120GB, and 2x 36GB Raptors going.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:17 am

Due to one of my 80 gb's recent visit to hard drive heaven...I'm only on my 2 x 36 gb scsi's. Shopping around now and will at least get 3 x 250 gb SATA's and a nice new shiny Hardware based SATA raid card that supports RAID 5.

AceFireball · Post by **AceFireball** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:23 am

Dang yall must have ALOT of porn or sumtin.

Im running one 80 Gig drive partitioned down the middle 40-40 each. Ive got all my games, plus patches for games, computer utilitys, chat apps, and MP3s and Im hardly using half

64bit · Post by **64bit** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:49 am

120x2
80x2
80x2

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:00 am

AceFireball wrote:Dang yall must have ALOT of porn or sumtin.

Im running one 80 Gig drive partitioned down the middle 40-40 each. Ive got all my games, plus patches for games, computer utilitys, chat apps, and MP3s and Im hardly using half

Actually I'm only using about 20 gigs of my total 192 gigabytes. Most of which is Windows + Games + Music + Saved Game Patches.

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:44 am

1x120
1x40

don't really need all that much anyways..

aagiants · Post by **aagiants** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:02 am

AceFireball wrote:Dang yall must have ALOT of porn or sumtin.

Im running one 80 Gig drive partitioned down the middle 40-40 each. Ive got all my games, plus patches for games, computer utilitys, chat apps, and MP3s and Im hardly using half

yeah seriously... i have one 80gb drive, and i have about 60gb filled, that is with an image file of EVERY game i own on one partition.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:08 am

WJC05 wrote:I just installed my second 160GB HD..

That makes
2- 160GB
1- 120GB
1- 80GB

Just wondering how many gigs you guys have all together...

small in comparison,but I don't store any music or videos,
80gig partitioned into 2 40 gig dual boot XP/WIN2K
40 gig storage/backup
20 gig backup
128 mb thumb driver daily small backups

I have 7 pc's here,so there is a few more drives I use for various storage and backup use as well.

which is small really too,
3 20 gig
1 10 gig
and a couple tiny drives for folding boxes.

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:31 am

AceFireball wrote:Dang yall must have ALOT of porn or sumtin.

I've got over 50 gigs of mp3s alone..

drdoug99 · Post by **drdoug99** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:50 am

2 - 160 GB's (1 is external)
1 - 40 GB
1 - 6.4 GB

the 40 GB is for music production...then one of the 160's has all my mp3 and couple games, plus winXP, still has like 30 GB free...then the external 160 is still new...so it's slowly filling up with more MP3's and now some movies, plus whatever else

then the 6.4 is my boot drive for my old IBM computer.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:50 am

geeze!

18gig cheetah
120gig sata
160gig ata
200gig ata

160gig external firewire
40gig external laptop

I'm currently in the market for another 18gig scsi. something cheap, just to run games off of. I'm expecting to pay less then $30 for a 10k 68pin scsi HD.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:31 am

250
80
80
40
40
40
37
37
37
37

678 gigs among 5 PCs

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 6:08 am

Main gaming rig....only a 36 gig WD Raptor drive. Partitioned 60/40 split, plenty of room for me.

SBS Server, pair of 40 gig drives...and that's it for my storage needs. A few other rigs on the home LAN, but none sharing out for storage.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 8:06 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Main gaming rig....only a 36 gig WD Raptor drive. Partitioned 60/40 split, plenty of room for me.

SBS Server, pair of 40 gig drives...and that's it for my storage needs. A few other rigs on the home LAN, but none sharing out for storage.

you make up for it in the areas that really matter though.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 8:08 am

^^^

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 8:15 am

just got an 80GB drive and have more then 40GB free...

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:15 pm

Not much just the bare essentials

mine 80 gig
splash 80 gig
HTPC 80 + 120 + 120
Kid 1 80 gig
kid 2 20 gig
on the floor beside me 20 gig + 2 gig + 4 gig

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:57 pm

Seagate 300 GB

gieslel · Post by **gieslel** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:23 pm

2x36 raptors
300 gig maxtor

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:32 pm

see signature, but i am eyeballing one of them 400GB drives, not sure how long this old 40GB IBM is going to last.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:28 pm

hmm 120gigs... I've got 7full out of that... I hardly think I'll even get it to 40!! I just don't see the need for anything more less your a hardcore music,movie or porn downloader! LOL

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 9:38 pm

Sava700 wrote:I just don't see the need for anything more less your a hardcore music,movie or porn downloader! LOL

Well, there you go.

Joel · Post by **Joel** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:02 pm

On my computer
160GB
20GB

In the rest of the house
120GB
80GB
80GB
30GB
5GB
3GB

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 7:53 am

80 in my PC... 250 in my Xbox.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:05 am

out of my 70 gb's or so that i currently run, im constantly running out of room and having to burn and delete to make room for other stuff.

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:45 pm

loop... I just bought a 250GB WD 7200rpm 8mb cache EIDE HDD from Sams Club for $130. Bite the bullet and buy a bigger HD. LOL

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:53 pm

Server:

5x 80GB Hard Drives

Primary System:

1x 74GB Raptor
1x 200GB Hard Drive

LANNING Machine

1x 120GB Hard Drive
1x 200GB Hard Drive

Total In Use = 994GB

My Upgrade Plans:

Server:

5x 400GB Hard Drives

LANNING Machine:

2x 400GB Hard Drives (at least)

Projected Totals = 3.074 TB

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:36 pm

mountainman wrote:loop... I just bought a 250GB WD 7200rpm 8mb cache EIDE HDD from Sams Club for $130. Bite the bullet and buy a bigger HD. LOL

he runs 10k disks

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:36 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:he runs 10k disks

actually these are 15k disks

nah, i think 3 x 250's will work for me just fine for Raid 5 ...newegg has the hitachi's on sale for like $125.49 right now.

AceFireball · Post by **AceFireball** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:43 am

Brent wrote:Server:

5x 80GB Hard Drives

Primary System:

1x 74GB Raptor
1x 200GB Hard Drive

LANNING Machine

1x 120GB Hard Drive
1x 200GB Hard Drive

Total In Use = 994GB

My Upgrade Plans:

Server:

5x 400GB Hard Drives

LANNING Machine:

2x 400GB Hard Drives (at least)

Projected Totals = 3.074 TB

Dare I ask WHYY!!!!!!!???????

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:04 am

993 gb = porn and 1 gb has windows

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:49 am

loop2kil wrote:993 gb = porn and 1 gb has windows

900 gigs porn, 93 gigs of doom3, hl2 far cry, painkiller, ut2004 and others.

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 12:03 pm

AceFireball wrote:Dare I ask WHYY!!!!!!!???????

I'll Break it down, this is what I Have Now:

Server:

Primary Drive = 40GB = OS and Applications for the Server
Review Drive = 80GB = All the stuff I use for Reviews (almost full)
Junk Drive = 80GB = Basically anything here, applications, pictures, anything (about 10GB left)
Audio Drive = 80GB = All Things Audio (almost full)
Video Drive = 80GB = All Things Video (over full, had to spill stuff over to another drive)
Extra Space Drive = 80GB = Spill Over for Video Stuff as well as all my Ghost Images I use for Reviews

Primary System:

Primary Drive = 74GB Raptor = OS and System Files
Secondary Drive = 200GB = Applications and Games Installations

LANNING System:

Primary Drive = 120GB = OS and Games / Applications Installed as well as space for stuff downloaded at LAN's
Secondary Drive = 200GB = Space for stuff downloaded at LAN's

What I want ultimately:

Server:

Primary Drive = 74GB Raptor = OS and Applications
Secondary Drive = 74GB Raptor = All my Ghost Images
Review Drive = 400GB = All my stuff for Reviews (plenty of space to expand)
Junk Drive = 400GB = Anything Else (plenty of room)
Audio Drive = 400GB = All Audio (plenty of room)
Video Drive = 400GB = All Video (plenty of room for now)
(Maybe another Extra Space 400GB Drive if I need it)

LANNING Computer:

Primary Drive = 400GB = OS / Games / Applications and space for stuff at LAN's
Secondary Drive = 400GB = Stuff at LAN's

I think that would do nicely

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 1:17 am

Brent wrote:I'll Break it down, this is what I Have Now:

Server:

Primary Drive = 40GB = OS and Applications for the Server
Review Drive = 80GB = All the stuff I use for Reviews (almost full)
Junk Drive = 80GB = Basically anything here, applications, pictures, anything (about 10GB left)
Audio Drive = 80GB = All Things Audio (almost full)
Video Drive = 80GB = All Things Video (over full, had to spill stuff over to another drive)
Extra Space Drive = 80GB = Spill Over for Video Stuff as well as all my Ghost Images I use for Reviews

Primary System:

Primary Drive = 74GB Raptor = OS and System Files
Secondary Drive = 200GB = Applications and Games Installations

LANNING System:

Primary Drive = 120GB = OS and Games / Applications Installed as well as space for stuff downloaded at LAN's
Secondary Drive = 200GB = Space for stuff downloaded at LAN's

What I want ultimately:

Server:

Primary Drive = 74GB Raptor = OS and Applications
Secondary Drive = 74GB Raptor = All my Ghost Images
Review Drive = 400GB = All my stuff for Reviews (plenty of space to expand)
Junk Drive = 400GB = Anything Else (plenty of room)
Audio Drive = 400GB = All Audio (plenty of room)
Video Drive = 400GB = All Video (plenty of room for now)
(Maybe another Extra Space 400GB Drive if I need it)

LANNING Computer:

Primary Drive = 400GB = OS / Games / Applications and space for stuff at LAN's
Secondary Drive = 400GB = Stuff at LAN's

I think that would do nicely

very nice.

just curious why you'd use the raptor for ghosted images though? wouldn't that be overkill?

why do people assume that large amounts of HD space must be for questionable activities? I'm running over 750gigs myself. It's amazing how fast that'll fill up with video and archiving data.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:59 am

zooner wrote:why do people assume that large amounts of HD space must be for questionable activities? I'm running over 750gigs myself. It's amazing how fast that'll fill up with video and archiving data.

Because it's Brent, and it's fun to rag on him a bit.

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:31 am

zooner wrote:very nice.

just curious why you'd use the raptor for ghosted images though? wouldn't that be overkill?

why do people assume that large amounts of HD space must be for questionable activities? I'm running over 750gigs myself. It's amazing how fast that'll fill up with video and archiving data.

my ghost images i use are large, 30-40GB for one, i have 2 of those and then another smaller one that is a bare OS install

it use to take over an hour when i had a 100mbps network, now that i have a 1gbps network it takes 40 minutes, i'm limited simply by the speed at which the hard drives can sustain a transfer, my review system has a raptor, but my server doesn't, it's slowing the sustainable transfer speed down, so i'll put a raptor on it just for the ghost images so i can get the highest sustainable transfer rates, thus faster ghosting

yes, SCSI would be faster, obviously, however, its out of my price range, and i don't have a 64bit PCI slot to take full advantage of it anyways, so a SATA150 Raptor will do

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:49 pm

10 GB with not much space left. :-/

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 2:14 am

1x80
1x20
1x160
1x200

and adding additional 2x160gb in next 2 months

all in one PC