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Weekend Open Forum: Storage capacity in your main rig?

Discussion in 'TechSpot News and Comments' started by Jos, Apr 15, 2011.

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  1. Jos TechSpot Staff

    In the world of computer storage, solid-state drives have stolen the limelight when it comes to performance. It seems incredible to think that in a one year span manufacturers are almost doubling the performance of their drives, with some of them now reaching insane ~500MB/s read speeds. But SSDs are still far from becoming mainstream. If you are looking for raw capacity at a price that won't break the bank, you'll still need a good old hard disk drive.

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    Jos, Apr 15, 2011
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  2. Technochicken TechSpot Paladin

    I have 820 gigs internally, plus another 500 externally. I don't keep many movies or things like that on my HDD's so 3/4 of my storage drive is empty.
    Technochicken, Apr 15, 2011
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  3. Guest

    2 tb @ 7200 rpm
    Guest, Apr 15, 2011
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  4. TrekExpert Newcomer, in training

    I have a 500GB hard drive. My first was around 20 meg if i remember correctly.
    TrekExpert, Apr 15, 2011
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  5. Guest

    Main rig: 1TB WD Caviar Black + 2TB WD Caviar Green
    Guest, Apr 15, 2011
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  6. boybrushdred TechSpot Member

    i only have one internal storage. its a WD Caviar Black 640GB and it still has 286GB free. i also have a 1TB external drive for back-up.
    boybrushdred, Apr 15, 2011
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  7. gwailo247 TechSpot Chancellor

    I have a 90 GB OCZ Vertex 2 drive as my boot drive.
    Then a 300 GB Raptor to hold my Steam folder (which is now full)
    Another 300 GB Raptor for backups, downloads, etc.
    1.5 TB external drive in an enclosure for media, and then a hard drive dock for all the other drives.

    Bonus: I won't count the audio tapes I played Centipede on, so we'll go with a 20 MB drive on the first 'real' computer I had.
    gwailo247, Apr 15, 2011
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  8. cpsheb Newcomer, in training

    My best computer is a media center machine that has 3 TB. There is 5 computers in my house with a combined sotrage of about 8 TB.
    cpsheb, Apr 15, 2011
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  9. phillai Newcomer, in training

    I have one 100GB OCZ Limited Edition 'boot up only' drive and four Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA-II 64MB Cache.

    I believe my first Pentium II 333 PC which I owned back in 1997 only had a 6GB drive!!
    phillai, Apr 15, 2011
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  10. Matthew TechSpot Editor, Community Manager

    About 5TB inside of my PC, around 8TB factoring in other systems.
    Matthew, Apr 15, 2011
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  11. Cueto_99 Newcomer, in training

    Well, right now I'm using 2 WD 500gb Caviar Black HD Drives. I haven't jump into the SSD wagon because prices are still too high for my wallet, but I do know their speed is something out of the ordinary...

    A few months ago I bought a 500gb Seagate Momentus XT for my oldie Dell Laptop, and I was really surprised about the performance jump, I truly recommend them.

    As for my first pc storage capacity... I believe it was around 250 - 500 megabytes... so I had to use a ton of 1.44 diskettes for backup! LOL!
    Cueto_99, Apr 15, 2011
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  12. Lurker101 TechSpot Enthusiast

    We've already got a poll about this, but okay.

    Western Digital 300GB Velociraptor, 1TB Caviar Green (x2), 320GB Caviar Blue (x3 RAID 0)

    Think my first computer had something like 3.2GB and 128kb RAM
    Lurker101, Apr 15, 2011
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  13. Guest

    18 Crucial 256gb SSD's in RAID5. Using two separate Areca 1800 series raid cards. Not 'my' rig but I built it to be used as a SAN in a virtualization environment at work.
    Guest, Apr 15, 2011
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  14. thewind Newcomer, in training

    I have a 300Gb WD Raptor 3TB WD Green internal 1TB WD black interal and 160 GB WD Raptor. Also 2TB WD external. A total of 6.46TB!. I cant believe how 5 years ago i was excited to have a 250GB HDD. Thats 26X what I had 5 years ago... If I continue at the same rate I'll have 169TB 5 years from now...

    What you guys think in 2016 how many TB do you think you will have?
    thewind, Apr 15, 2011
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  15. Guest

    Currently 8.75tb (raw)...I'm upgrading two terabyte drives to three when they arrive in the mail!
    2 - WD 2TB
    1 - Hitachi 2TB
    2 - WD 1TB <--- RIP in a week
    1 - Seagate 750GB (OS drive)
    -------
    8.75tb
    Guest, Apr 15, 2011
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  16. Lurker101 TechSpot Enthusiast

    Probably around 20GB

    15% will be SSDs

    50% will be porn
    Lurker101, Apr 15, 2011
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  17. tragicallyhip Newcomer, in training

    My first PC was an IBM 386/SX33 with 500Mb HDD,it cost me $2300 back in the day and was considered to be a really hot **** piece of kit.
    tragicallyhip, Apr 15, 2011
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  18. R3DP3NGUIN TechSpot Enthusiast

    2 VelociRaptor 150's (RAID 0) FTW!!!
    R3DP3NGUIN, Apr 15, 2011
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  19. cardriverx Newcomer, in training

    I have a total of 2.2 TB in my computer. I could use more.
    cardriverx, Apr 15, 2011
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  20. Guest

    1TB internal and 1 TB external.
    Guest, Apr 15, 2011
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