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Weekend Open Forum: Storage capacity in your main rig?

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  1. LinkedKube TechSpot Project Baby Posts: 4,180   +23

    About 1 TB in ssd's and 4 TB in hdd
  2. Jurassic4096 Banned Posts: 158

    64GB SSD + 1TB HDD
    250GB external
  3. grvalderrama TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 188

    My main computer has a 320GB Samsung and 1TB WD Black Caviar. I also have 2 500GB external Samsung hard drives. I'm looking forward to buying another external drive of my own.
  4. 32K in my first computer ! That went up to 512K with the large floppies...and then that went up to a staggering 1.4MB. Yes Mb !

    Now I have my desktop with a 500GB and 2TB HDD in it, an external twin 2x 2TB, and a NAS of 1TB. Why ? I have a large collection of bluray movies, photos and uncompressed music.

    I couldn't live without USB3.0
  5. ihaveaname TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 127

    320 gig standard 7200 rpm HDD internally and 500 gig external. Never really had a need for too much more; I tend to want to spend more money on other parts.
  6. ShiftedReality TechSpot Member

    Current drives are a ocz agility 2 60gb and a Samsung spinpoint f3 1tb..had to change other drives because of all the steam sales lol.
     
  7. Julio Franco TechSpot Editor Posts: 6,055   +121

    I have a 160GB first-gen Intel SSD, a Raptor 150GB secondary HDD and two other internal drives for storage, one 500GB (it used to be so big) and a newer 2TB drive. I have another 2TB external hard drive for storage but I don't use it that often to be honest.

    Vertex 3 is tempting, perhaps I can graduate the Intel SSD to my laptop or something.
  8. 120 GB OCZ Vertex 2, 1 x 74 GB Raptor (pagefile and temp folders), 2 x internal 1TB, 1 x external 1TB, and 2 external 2TB... (oh, and a 320 GB external for my laptop that has a 250 GB internal).
  9. Archean TechSpot Paladin Posts: 5,735   +27

    Storage capacity of my PCs when compared to others is bit meager but sufficient enough for my needs:

    1x 200GB Barracuda + 500 GB WD CB = 700GB

    Plus 320GB external passport drive.
  10. Superpeter TechSpot Member Posts: 49

    Samsung 1tb + Samsung 2tb + Mushkin 120g SSD = 3tb The SSd takes place of the unusable parts of the platter drives and it works out to about three exact terabytes. My first computer had like 50 or 80 gigs
  11. Internal, 4 x 1Tb in raid 10 configuration for data storage, 1 120Gb SSD for Program, 1 60Gb for Win and cs5 swapfailes.

    External. 1 4Tb WD Sharespace in raid 5 configuration, 2 x Seagate 1.5 Tb USB for for rotating offsite backup.
    My first drive was a mighty WD 420mb drive when the usual was around 40 - 80 Mb. How would I ever fill it?
  12. Nima304 TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 202   +13

    I have a 400GB (5,400RPM) hard drive in my laptop, with 1TB (7,200RPM) of external storage. I often use my 16GB flash drives to move stuff around, and the dual 73GB SCSI drives (15,000RPM) in my servers whenever I'm downloading.
  13. cptmds Newcomer, in training

    Current PC is 500GB + 250GB; 500 is the main one for Windows + Program (separate partition). 250 is for everything else.

    First PC? Much more recent than most: 13GB ATA 91360U4 Maxtor, still in use as a linux boot drive (on a backup PC; the original 80GB is used for storage). It's been on for 1.6 years, with 5143 power cycles. Still works fine.
  14. EXCellR8 The Conservative Posts: 2,273

    roughly 2TB not including the 80GB SSD drive with my OS
  15. Kibaruk TechSpot Paladin Posts: 816   +16

    1.25 tb, and 80gb for mobility.

    Don't need any more than that.
  16. Archean TechSpot Paladin Posts: 5,735   +27

    @Super
    My first PC didn't had any 'internal' storage', and first ever HDD was a massive 30MB drive.
  17. Yeah I remember all about my computers...

    First was a NEC V30 8086 compatible @ 4.7MHz with only a 20MB HDD,
    antd then...
    2. AMD K5 @ 100 MHz 2GB HDD,
    3. AMD K6-2 @ 550 MHz 20GB HDD,
    4. AMD Sempron (K7) @ 1.66 GHz 160 GB HDD
    5. AMD Sempron (K8) @ 1.8 GHz 160 GB HDD too,
    6. (Upgrade from 5) AMD Athlon 64 X2 @ 2.5 Ghz 2x160 GB HDDs, and
    7. AMD Phenom II X3 @ 3.2 GHz 2x160 and 2x500 GB HDDs.
  18. i hav 6 WD caviar green 3 tb drivs in raid 0
    and use a 960 gb revodrivex2 as my primary drive
  19. ET3D TechSpot Paladin Posts: 787   +10

    1TB internal (2 x 500GB), 1TB external.
  20. Valimere Newcomer, in training

    1. 2x 128GB Gskill SSD Drives for programs and games (256GB)
    2. 2x 150GB WD 10k Raptor Drives For programs and games before my SSD's(300GB) I Can't seem to get rid of these, Just in case the ssd's dont work out/ now used as extra fast storage (movies, torrents, etc)
    3. Drobo 4 bay with 3x 2TB WD Green Drives , and 1TB WD Green Drive, for a total of 6.4 TB RAW data and (4.5TB) Available for "beyond RAID" storage. not the fastest, but stupidly easy, reliable, and upgradeable.