How much HD space do you have and what do you use it for?

SlackerSlacker CA, USA
edited June 2004 in Hardware
Of course if you have 20 gigs or so most of it will go towards the OS, apps and whatnot, but what are people with 80+ gigabyte HDs using it for?

I have a 100gb and use it to store mp3s, movies, keeping CD swapping down and Virtual PC HD images.
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  • SlackerSlacker CA, USA
    edited August 2003
    damn.. my high school algebra II teacher would flunk me on the spot if she could only see this poll. Could someone change the choices so they read correctly. For example 30 <= x < 40. Thanks
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    250gb to store movies and music.
  • StalkerStalker
    edited August 2003
    right now i have 120 with only 1 in use for my os and all the rest free space
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited August 2003
    120GB WD Special Edition
    100GB WD Special Edition

    220GB Total (on main rig)

    Use it for all sorts of stuff.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited August 2003
    I have two hard drives:

    60GB Maxtor ATA133 7200RPM
    120GB Maxtor ATA133 7200RPM 8MB cache.

    My 120GB drive is used to store things I downloaded of the net.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2003
    Desktop 1:
    2 80GB Maxtor DiamondMax 9 ATA-133/7200rpm/8MB, 160GB total

    Desktop 2:
    4 160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 9 ATA-133/7200rpm/8MB, 640GB total

    Laptop:
    1 Toshiba 40GB 2.5"/9.5mm 4200rpm, 40GB total

    What do I use it for? Teh usual- games, programs, images, etc.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    200GB

    1x 40GB in 4 partitions (XP, programs for xp, 2k3 and programs for 2k3)

    1x 80GB in 2 partitions (games and "stuff")

    1x 80GB which is for movies, cd images and bible music :D
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    I am running a dual boot with lots of storage.

    Recently I added a second RAID 0 with (2) WD 600JB's , it was too good of a deal to pass up since I got both drive for $50.00. I primarily got the other drives because I always wanted to try having my swap file on another RAID 0, I now have a 4G partition on the begiining of each array for my swap files. Each swap is on the alternate OS's drive. It really made a big difference in performance over my previous set up with my spare single drive holding my swap file. Even though I don't use all my space I still needed to compress everything on that is on my backup drive.
  • LIQuidLIQuid Raleigh, NC
    edited August 2003
    a 40, 80, and 100gig WD drives,

    100 is for music (66 gig), 80 is for movies (55gig), 40 is for windows installation and all installed games, etc
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited August 2003
    About 3/4's of a terrabyte on the home network between IDE and scsi.

    Tex
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited August 2003
    (2) 30GB in raid0 (primary OS and apps)

    (1) 80GB for mp3s, movies, and music project files
  • zenusic5zenusic5 Metro Atlanta
    edited August 2003
    250 gig (one raid five, five raid zeros)
    Proliant server, + one external rack array.
  • BriltBrilt brooklyn
    edited August 2003
    1 80gig games, os- win2000, vids, bible music, music
    1 20gig os- winxp, same as above

    i usually burn things to cds so i don't need more space

    i have about 200+ cds with progs vids music etc..
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    300GB, 85% full
    descending order of how much space each takes up (estimate):

    - CD Images (both downloaded and homemade)
    - Installed games
    - Movies
    - General programs for work and tweaking
    - Music
    - OSes
    - Documents

    Never thought I'd be able to use so much space but here I am...
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2003
    Well, I MAY add another 160-480GB of space here in the next couple days- I can get Maxtor DiamondMax 9s for $119 each, $90 each after rebates, and I have a print server to set up (1 drive), plus possibly a backup drive for each of the desktops...
  • ChrysalisChrysalis
    edited September 2003
    movies cd images and lots of crap that needs to be sorted.
    also 3 installations of windows
  • drowddrowd Texas
    edited September 2003
    about a half a terrabyte . . .

    --2 x 60GB Maxtor ATA133/7200rpm/2MB in raid0
    --120GB Maxtor ATA133/7200rpm/8MB
    --120GB WD 9 ATA100/7200rpm/8MB
    --80GB WD ATA100/7200rpm/8MB
    --40GB WD ATA100/5400rpm/2MB
  • LiLbRoLiLbRo Troy, Michigan
    edited September 2003
    i have a 80 did wd 7200 rpm 8 meg catch.. its jsut right, the cloeset iv gottan to filling it up was a while back, 15 megs left.. i had somthing like 15 movies on it or somthing, it was crazy..
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited September 2003
    Right now I just have a 80gb in my main rig for - OS,programs,music,movies,bible music

    I also have a 60gb that isn't even formatted in my main rig.

    backup rig has a 30gb with just xp on it for now
  • JPPJPP Stuttgart Germany
    edited September 2003
    1. Server 200 Gig used to store Homepage mp3´s and moovies.
    2. PC 1. Raid 0 120 Gig + IDE 30 Gig my workhorse.
    3. PC 2. 60 Gig dual boot win XP and Linux testbench for open source software. Music creating machine.
    JPP
  • XerXesXerXes Norway
    edited September 2003
    well, i'm gonna post here just to see if anyone else has a bigger penis than me...

    2x 30 gig IBM 75GXP
    1x 60 gig IBM 60GXP
    1x 120 gig Maxtor Diamondmax + 9, 8mb
    2x 120 gig Seagate 7200.7, 2mb
    2x 160 gig Maxtor Diamondmax + 9, 8mb
    2x 200 gig Maxtor Diamondmax + 9, 8mb

    Should give me about 1200 gigs "on-paper", while the total I estimate to roughly 1100 gigs "actual".

    TV-Series, Movies, MP3, Porn, Games... the usual.

    Got my 120 gig Seagates in external firewire chassies, so I'm gonna use harddrives instead of cds from now on...
  • overheatedoverheated
    edited November 2003
    i think your penis is in my back pocket....

    i think i have currently have eclipsed the 4tb mark.

    to list all the drives is difficult but i will highlight the bad boys.

    1*1.9 tb array broken down by 12 160gb seagate ide's in a hotswap chassis. raid 5

    252gb using a eurologic chassis and 7 seagate 36gb 15k fiber channel drives. raid 0

    3*36 gb ibm 15k piranah 68 pin scsi's raid 0 in video box.

    three arrays internal in a compaq proliant server
    various sized and all are raid 5

    if i can count correct i think i am up to 12 deskstar 120 gxp's

    4*120gb seagate sata

    and many misc drives on the shelf.

    i use it for video, and various collections of the usual.

    i have to say that scsi is by far my perferred drive format and if you take a little time and closely watch ebay you can find some halicious deals but you had better be ready for the added noise and heat.
  • XerXesXerXes Norway
    edited November 2003
    omg, i just got pwned
  • XerXesXerXes Norway
    edited November 2003
    topsite owners shouldn't be allowed to post here :P
  • overheatedoverheated
    edited November 2003
    (topsite owner) nope... just a lowley home user.

    to the dismay of my wife all of this resides within the confines of my house. it does help save on the heating bills during the winter months....
  • drowddrowd Texas
    edited November 2003
    man, that is a delicious amount of hard drive space . . .
    for us boys that are under the 1 terabyte mark, what all do you folks know about the relatively new 300 gig drives. I have been thinking about picking up one of these bad boys. any problems, too pricey?

    EDIT:\\ I just checked on newegg, and they seem to have a maxtor 300 gb for 288. however, its 5400 rpm and has 10 ms seek time with a 2 mb cache. is this one of the new drives? are all 300+ hard drives expected to have specs this low?
  • XerXesXerXes Norway
    edited November 2003
    they'll probably get bigger and faster with the s-ata standard. I'm not sure, but I think that's the new focus area for drive production and improvement. I find that 120-200 gigs are the best when you think about price as of today. That is if you have room for them. You want to cram a terrabyte of divx into one computer you might as well go for the large drives, as you don't need too fast drives for basic storage. I got a couple of emagic external usb2/firewire chassies for harddrives, and my plan is just to get 120 gigs on sale and use them as cds :)
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited November 2003
    I only have 40 gigs and right now im useing 20 gigs for a film about my gameing clan. Since i only have 20 gigs to spare on it now it's going to be only 4 minutes instead of the 10 I wanted to do. 100 gig's would be a dream come true. That'll have to wait till nextyear.
  • NYCDrewNYCDrew NYC(duh)
    edited November 2003
    I have 200gb. Which choice do I make? Is that considered more than 200, or less than 200gig?
  • antthisantthis Bowling Green ky
    edited December 2003
    ok i thought my server was fat total in paper in my house on 4 comps about 1100GB or so
    390.jpg
    http://home.insightbb.com/~koxen/network.htm
    This patty server house dual AMD 2400 mp on a TYAN Thunder k7x PRO (s2469), cool by Voc 1, HAS 1GB Kingston DDR pc2100 register ram, Promise RAID TX4000,A 80 7200rpms 8mb buffer for the os ,6 120GB hd 7200rps 8mb buffer all on Hotswaps, GB nic , 52x cd-rw, with 2 10/100 Nic, Firewire and usb 2.0 for mass external storage

    I useing about 86% of the space for DVD rips,divx,games,software,music all kinds of shit

    on my main rig I have 120GB and have like 26mb free another 40gb in their and 6gb for mandrank linux
    30gb in my labtop external 120GB firewire/usb2.0 hd
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