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Weekend Open Forum: Storage capacity in your main rig?
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.
Thankfully these platter-based devices have come a long way in terms of areal density and cost per GB, enough to satisfy our always-growing storage needs. Just head to your favorite retailer and you'll be able to score a 3.5-inch desktop hard disk drive with 2TB capacity for around $80 and a 3TB model starting at $140.
In this Weekend Open Forum we want to ask you: How much storage capacity is in your primary PC? You can elaborate on any external storage solution you have in place to support your main rig. Also, as a bonus for those of you who have been in this for a while, do you remember how much storage capacity was in your first computer?
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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?
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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.
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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
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now i have 2.2 TB and first was 40 GB
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spikester48661 said:
in PC #1 300GB- PC#2 500GB- and my laptop 500GB alls good
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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.
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I'm starving here and you guys out there buying 5TB HDDs, lol.
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Boot = 300gb velociraptor
Storage = 1tb samsung f3
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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
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0192837465 said:
300 GB @ 7200 rpm
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2x WD250GB BLUE RAID 0 + 2x WD1TB BLACK + WD1TB RE3 + WD500GB RE3
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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.
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Trillionsin said:
Matthew said:About 5TB inside of my PC, around 8TB factoring in other systems.
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.
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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
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500 gig sata as main, 2,000 gig sata as media storage
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6 TB on my main machine .. and some 300 GB in my laptop ..
need more drives though :/
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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.
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I remember my Atari 800XL had a whopping 10MB hard drive on it.
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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
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c300 60gb + 2tb wd green on rig. 3tb, 1tb and 500gb and other drives external
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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
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3x 600gb velociraptors in raid 0 and one 80gb intel SSD as a boot drive
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1TB + 1TB + 640GB[OS]
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2 x 1GB in RAID 1 in main rig
2 X 1GB + 2 x 2GB in Drobo
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i have wd 256 gb, but i think i need 320 gb .
and i dream to ssd.
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