What's your total HDD space in your household? [Archive]

Darius Wey

11-02-2003, 03:35 PM

Hi everyone...

Just out of curiousity...what is your total hard disk space in your household (this includes all desktop HDDs and laptop HDDd combined...not memory cards and CD/DVD media).

Hyperluminal

11-02-2003, 04:02 PM

Well, counting external USB hard drives, we have about 215 GB...

Not too bad, although while we have a lot of computers, they're all notebooks. If we had desktops, that number would probably be a lot higher... :D

Darius Wey

11-02-2003, 04:09 PM

Yeah...I've got about 360GB in total.

However, I have a friend who's got just over 1.5TB!!! :?

Johannes

11-02-2003, 06:23 PM

I'd like to have a few terabytes of storage for my notebook, but only if I can also have a terabyte of RAM to go with it. :D

petvas

11-02-2003, 06:25 PM

I have 210GB in total....

lonesniper

11-02-2003, 07:58 PM

I have 160Gb on my main PC. Then my laptops have 10Gb and 20Gb, then my parents PC's have 30Gb and 40GB. Then my US Server has about 70Gb. Not forgetting my 20Gb Firewire external drive. So in all about 250Gb.

Only got 50Gb left on main PC so looking for either another internal HDD or a larger external Firewire drive, maybe a 250Gb one.

Colin

KayMan2k

11-02-2003, 10:05 PM

In my household....

1.7 TeraBytes

Oliver Mitchell

11-02-2003, 10:34 PM

in total it's approximately equal to 2.3TB and i've nearly used all of it

ctmagnus

11-03-2003, 12:00 AM

HDDs? We don't need no stinkin' HDDs!

At least that would be the case if all computers were built like our beloved Pocket PCs. But unfortunately, we have ~180GB HDD storage in all, and a measly 1GB in flash storage.

JTWise

11-03-2003, 12:21 AM

Well, I had to add in the hard drives from my Xbox and my Replay TV to do it, but I managed to top out just over 300 gigs. Without them (20gig and Xbox 8gig) I am at 284gig.

Not a huge amount of space, but more than enough when you consider I am not into PC Gaming. At least for now. I just started getting into DV and that eats the memory quick.

maximus

11-04-2003, 09:47 AM

Only got one PC down here in Jakarta. 36G WD raptor as system drive, 2x160G Seagates for data. Already 80% full with games, divxs, mp3s, oggs, and raw images from my camera.

To think that 10 years ago I am already pleased with my IBM PS2 model 30 with 20 megs of harddrive. 8O

that_kid

11-04-2003, 01:13 PM

I have two households networked together, one household is about 600gigs and the other is about 400 but by the end of the year each household will be 1TB with raid 5.

ctmagnus

11-04-2003, 08:32 PM

I have two households networked together

:rock on dude!:

bdeli

11-04-2003, 08:56 PM

By the end of the year each household will be 1TB with raid 5.

That is a lot....though it is never enough!

Under my desk I have a 120GB drive in my pc + 2 200GB External Firewire Drives plugged in. Laptop has two HD's a 20GB + a 10GB. Testing Server has 2 10GB drives.

SO I guess it is a lot of space....but it will run out very quickly!

JustinGTP

11-04-2003, 10:08 PM

We have alot, we have 8pcs 2 laptops, my PC has 60 , my brothers pc 60gig, my dad 240gig, dads laptop, 80gig, sis's, 40gig, mums, 40gig, mums laptop, 60gig, spare 1, 20gig, server to be, 60gig. And we have 12 6gigs, and 3 or 4 2 gigs. And all of the external USB flash roms and hard drives, Ridiculous!

-Justin.

tmulli

11-04-2003, 11:29 PM

Justin-

You should open a store... :crazyeyes:

JustinGTP

11-05-2003, 04:50 PM

I know, we need to auction or something!

But my dad is in the Computer Industry so alls good. I hope.

-Justin.

maximus

11-07-2003, 01:46 AM

Oh no, you are the Justin W. Gates ?

dean_shan

11-09-2003, 07:31 AM

I have 400GB if you include my work computer along with my home ones.

Jason Dunn

11-11-2003, 12:27 AM

I have 1.09 TB in total on real PCs, not counting my Xbox, Flash cards, Pocket PCs, etc. What an insane number when you reall stop and think about it... 8O

dean_shan

11-11-2003, 12:39 AM

I have 1.09 TB in total on real PCs, not counting my Xbox, Flash cards, Pocket PCs, etc. What an insane number when you reall stop and think about it... 8O :werenotworthy:

Jason Dunn

11-11-2003, 12:48 AM

:werenotworthy:

I have 480 GB of storage in my new PC (160 GB SATA x 2, 160 GB external Firewire). Of course, that was by accident - I *thought* (and was told) that the motherboard I bought supported RAID 0, but it doesn't, so I ended up with twice as much storage as I thought...oh well. :lol:

JustinGTP

11-11-2003, 03:24 AM

ctmagnus

11-11-2003, 05:50 AM

Ah, but where are you going to back up those 480GB to? ;)

maximus

11-13-2003, 03:34 AM

Yup. RAID 0 without backup is ... scary. Even for a home PC. I once lost almost 40 gigs of data (mp3s, divxs, photos) because one of the HDD in the RAID array went 'click click whirrr ... whirrr ... click click' and after that incident, I swore my allegiance to the daily backup regime.

Jason Dunn

11-13-2003, 03:36 AM

Ah, but where are you going to back up those 480GB to? ;)

Thankfully, I don't have 480 GB worth of data to back up - more like 100 GB, so that's managable. :mrgreen: