Weekend Open Forum: Storage capacity in your main rig?

300 GB @ 7200 rpm

2x WD250GB BLUE RAID 0 + 2x WD1TB BLACK + WD1TB RE3 + WD500GB RE3

My boot drive is a 74gb Raptor (1st gen), and I have another 640gb internal drive. That one started filling up with DVD rips and HD home videos, so I added a 1tb external drive to my network via a WD FreeAgent DockStar (with 2 more available USB ports).

I'm thinking about building a headless home frankenserver from spare parts lying around.

Wow, what do you need that for? Massive ammounts of porn!? LOL... jk...

I have two 320GB drives, use to be in RAID0 (striping) but that seemed to be a little troublesome for my OS partition. Now they are just storage along with two 500 GB RAID1. Finally a 120GB (or 100GB, cant remember exactly) OCZ SSD for my OS. These are all internal. I have a 500GB external storage, and a 32GB flash.

Sometimes it's embarassing to say but my main system currently has 11 Tb. and external support space clocks in at 11.5 Tb. My original system back in the day was a Packard Bell 12mhz 80286 w/80287 and had a 30 meg. HD

500 gig sata as main, 2,000 gig sata as media storage

6 TB on my main machine .. and some 300 GB in my laptop ..

need more drives though :/

i still haven't upgraded to the holy grail that is an SSD , Im setting on a WD caviar black 1Tb drive and a 500 GB Samsung drive internally . i have around 1tb in external drives and am just waiting to get a new SSD when prices fall. my first computer was an IMB 486 i think it had like a 20MB hard drive kinda crazy the difference now and then.

I remember my Atari 800XL had a whopping 10MB hard drive on it.

Got two WD Caviar Blacks 500GB/640GB in my main system, followed by two WD Caviar Greens 500GB/750GB for external/backup. All my other systems combined probably give me another ~700GB for a total of 3TB of storage.

Now for my first computer, I can't even recall as it was a hand-me-down in the early 90's and if I had to guess probably in the low MBs. My first PC I outright owned had a 30GB HDD, which still works to this day after ~12 years .

c300 60gb + 2tb wd green on rig. 3tb, 1tb and 500gb and other drives external

C: 60 GB OCZ Vertex 2
D: 640 GB WD Black
E: 2 TB WD Green

2 USB 2.0 External Backups
1.5 GB Seagate
1 GB WD

3x 600gb velociraptors in raid 0 and one 80gb intel SSD as a boot drive

1TB + 1TB + 640GB[OS]

2 x 1GB in RAID 1 in main rig
2 X 1GB + 2 x 2GB in Drobo

i have wd 256 gb, but i think i need 320 gb . and i dream to ssd.

In my rig: 60GB SSD for OS and games, 320GB RAID0 for any local files

On my NAS: 1TB RAID1 for all of my files (photos, videos, music, etc.)

I don't think I'll ever build another box with much local storage, since it makes way more sense to have storage-consuming media on a NAS where my other devices can access them, and where they are automatically backed up. In my next box, I'll probably just get a single 120GB SSD and be all set.

2x 1TB RAID1 @ home. But @ work, ~240TB single file system or 400TB single array...no it doesn't fit under my desk

Right now I have two 500gb samsung f3's in RAID0
I also have two old seagate 160gb drives just for extra storage of files not accessed regularly.

I really don't think I will ever fill a whole TB of data.

main rig = Thinkpad T61p retrofitted with 250gig SSD. ~7TB on the LAN at home (8X1TB RAID6 + 9x160GB RAID6)