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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. Because i sold the 320GB Hitachi drive and waiting for the F3 1TB like for a month, currently i'm on 6GB Seagate + 8GB Fujitsu for storage (LOL i know :D)
  2. Punkid TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 533

    1TB Caviar Black internal, 320gb hitachi deskstar internal....about to go for a 2tb, caviar green, also internal
  3. 1.5TB total in my system (1TB + 300GB + 200GB). All Seagate
  4. nismo91 TechSpot Maniac Posts: 969

    internal 320gb (notebook), external 1tb. more than plenty for me for at least this year.
  5. Seraphim401 Newcomer, in training Posts: 28

    1 TB internally + 250 GB ext.
    My first rig had a 4 GB hdd.
  6. Saintnsinner Newcomer, in training Posts: 26

    I have 750 gigs in my desktop rig. I can remember having a 20mb hdd on my old 386.
     
  7. haroonferoz Newcomer, in training

    my first pc is pentium 3 dell gx100 with 10 gb of hard drive now i have dual core with 160 gb and i am glade with that for a while you know............
  8. In my main rig I have a 30gb Vertex boot drive and 2 x 320gb samsung f4 in raid 0 (will add two more at some point). It's pretty empty because I have a 12 TB WHS v1 for storage.
  9. I currently have a 1TB Hitachi 7200 rpm for both boot and storage, and I'm perfectly happy with it. I also have a 1 TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 for back-up in an external rack, connected via e-sata.

    I haven't gone for an SSD because prices haven't dropped at all recently and moreover, the new 6 gb/s SSD's are even more expensive than the old ones. I'm waiting for another year at least to upgrade my mobo and get a decent 6 GB/s controller.

    My first rig had a Pentium 4 (just released !!) and a massive 80GB WD hard drive. That was pretty huge for me :))
  10. sMILEY4ever Newcomer, in training Posts: 153

    1TB now, my last rig had 250GB and my 1st one had 40GB.
  11. Per Hansson TS Server Guru Posts: 1,796   +66

    My first computer was an AST 100Mhz with 8MB RAM, it had a 1.3GB WD HDD.
    Through the years I've gone through pretty much all of the released WD Raptors...
    I was disappointed in the last released VelociRaptor series and decided to go for a Seagate Cheetah 15k.7 300GB SAS drive, it's really fast and quiet and I'm very happy with it...

    For storage I have 3x WD RE2-GP 1TB harddrives in a RAID5 array.
    All four drives are connected to a LSI 8704ELP PCIe RAID controller...
  12. dedparrot Newcomer, in training Posts: 67

    I have 500gb of 5200 rpm HDD but currently only using 85gb.

    I have no need for 500gb but nowadays, the prices are so low that it begs the question, why not?
  13. zillion Newcomer, in training Posts: 51

    ocz Revo X2 160gig main
    600gb Raptor as secondary
    and a 500gb lacie usb3 external

    Revo was expensive but considering the prices of the new Intel 510 and the ocz vertex3 its not far from.
  14. I have 128Gb Crucial C-300 as boot drive , 2TB 5400 WD as storage drive and a 1TB 7200 Samsung as games drive.

    Also have NAS with 3.5TB of space for storage of films ,video etc
  15. LDC Newcomer, in training

    now i have 2.2 TB and first was 40 GB
  16. spikester48661 TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 103

    in PC #1 300GB- PC#2 500GB- and my laptop 500GB alls good
  17. fpsgamerJR62 Newcomer, in training Posts: 489

    1 TB WD Caviar Black in my main Windows 7 PC plus a total of 2.32 TB in Western Digital and Buffalo external HDDs. My first PC was a 486DX2 66 Mhz with 4 MB RAM and a 420 MB Seagate HDD. It wasn't even a 5,400 RPM drive since those models came out a few years later.
  18. g4mer TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 340

    I'm starving here and you guys out there buying 5TB HDDs, lol.
  19. pcnthuziast Newcomer, in training Posts: 313

    Boot = 300gb velociraptor
    Storage = 1tb samsung f3
  20. Hi!

    I've got an Intel X25-V 40 GB for OS and a few apps (1-2 games from Steam), and a WD 1TB Caviar Green for media.
    I'm very satisfied with Intel SSD, Win7 boot is about 14-16 seconds wich is more than awesome. Also in-game loading times are shortened radically! As this SSD cost only $115 I'm planning to buy the second X25-v 40Gb to have it in RAID 0. 80 GBs should be enough for OS and games, unless you are a hardcore gamer college student.... :))

    Regards,
    Peter