How much can you store?

Computer Storage

March 12, 2008 4:14 PM from

I'm talking about my home computer............

I'm currently adding another internal hard drive to bring me to 1.25 TB and I was curious what everyone else gets by with and how. My internal storage is 750 gb and I've got another 500gb external for backups. That doesn't include all those other flash drives, DVDs, CDs etc. but just my "necessary" storage.

Most of the space is either pictures (current camera uses 10+mb per pic) or music. I tend to rip at 320 CBR so most songs run 10-20 mb. The balance is programs (of course) wallpapers, Stardock stuff and even a couple games..........I like the Call of Duty series and I have a couple racing games. For some reason.....my Outlook file is over 1gb and my MS Money file is approaching that size......Talk about bloat!

Anyway, I'm wondering if I'm keeping too much crap or if I'm at least semi-normal

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Reply #1 March 12, 2008 4:41 PM from

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I get by with a 120 GB main hard drive that's about half full. My Linux system runs on a 20 GB hard drive. I have all my pics, music and videos on my drive yet I'm still only half full.

Reply #2 March 12, 2008 4:42 PM from

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I run about 910GB at home at the moment. I'm a full 1TB here at the office on my desktop machine.

Reply #3 March 12, 2008 5:03 PM from

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I'm at 440gb. Two internal hdd (one is 80gb used solely for MS programs and OS; the other is 180gb that stores all my other proggies and of course my SD software) and one external hdd that I use for pics, music, and movies (it's also 180gb and is about 60% full- 1200 mp3's, 53 episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender (I know...kids show, but at least it ain't Spongebob), and about 40 movies....)....

Out of 440gb, I've only managed to use somewhere between 100 - 115gb of space.....

Reply #4 March 12, 2008 5:04 PM from

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300 internal, 300 external and a 500 external in the drive slot. I save pictures, music, videos, DVD movies, any programs that I download, any skins I download.

Yes it is all crap but I keep it anyway.

Reply #5 March 12, 2008 5:31 PM from

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Makes you wonder how we survived with that really cool 20mb hard drive in the 8mhz 286 ATs

Reply #6 March 13, 2008 1:51 PM from

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bump

Reply #7 March 13, 2008 2:10 PM from

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I get by with a 80GB HDD with 64% free, am I not doing something?

Reply #8 March 13, 2008 2:11 PM from

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I know this may surprise but I m surviving at only 80GB, out of which only 3GB is free so I will add 80GB more in a few days.

Reply #9 March 13, 2008 2:12 PM from

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I know this may surprise but I m surviving at only 80GB, out of which only 3GB is free. I will add 80GB more in a few weeks.

Reply #10 March 13, 2008 2:18 PM from

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OOps double post and one more for the silly mistake.

Reply #11 March 13, 2008 2:33 PM from

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I've got three internal hard drives, 800GB (2x 400GB @ raid0) HD space for XP Pro and media files, and another 500gGB HD for vista ultimate and a backup of media files. I also have two externals one that's 500GB that serves as a backup for my media files incase my system were to crash, and another 200GB that I keep attached to my system all the time that serves as a constant backup until the files are emptied onto my 500GB External.
I keep the 200 gig just in case my system should fail and my 500GB external is not attached, you can never have too many backups.
In the near future I plan to scrap my three internal hard drive setup for 2 1TB hard drives.

Reply #12 March 13, 2008 2:48 PM from

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160 gb hard drive and 250 gb backup drive along with a few 2 and 4 gb flash drives.

Reply #13 March 13, 2008 2:51 PM from

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HD Free: [C:Enigma] 92.25/111.78 GB [D:Marvel] 78.97/465.76 GB

Total Free: 171.22 GB/577.54 GB

Reply #14 March 13, 2008 2:56 PM from

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Home: 250Gb(Vista) + 500Gb(external on network) +80 Gb(XP) + 500Gb(external not connected right now)

Reply #15 March 13, 2008 3:01 PM from

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Oh...forgot the lappy (Vista), it has a 120gb hd.

Reply #16 March 13, 2008 3:39 PM from

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Primary machine
C:200 GB internal, 80 GB free
D:200 GB internal, 100 GB free
E:1 TB external, 540 GB free

File Server
C:120 GB internal, 50 GB free
D:120 GB internal, 60 GB free
E:1 TB external, 800 GB free

Laptop
C:80 GB internal, 50 GB free
D:500 GB external, 300 GB free

My systems are set to back up to the external drives at 1 am daily.

Reply #17 March 15, 2008 7:37 PM from

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Do the math

Reply #18 March 15, 2008 8:00 PM from

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More than I need.

Reply #19 March 16, 2008 2:18 AM from

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1 x 250gb Seagate
1 x 200gb Samsung
2 x 160gb Western Digital
1 x 250gb Western Digital...

+ 1 x 250gb Seagate external

Reply #20 March 16, 2008 2:57 AM from

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2 x 250 Gb Samsung internal (Vista and Ubuntu)
1 x 1 TB Seagate internal (backup1)
1 x 1 TB Western Digital external (backup2)

I just did another complete system-backup yesterday, as my C:\ -drive (one of the Samsungs)started to sound as if my neighbour was scraping her rake across her driveway.

Reply #21 March 20, 2008 7:55 PM from

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2TB (4x500GB about 400gb free.. )

Reply #22 March 20, 2008 8:05 PM from

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Ok, so.. who has the biggest?

Reply #23 March 27, 2008 5:36 PM from

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Comp 1
presario s5020an nov 2003
1 x 200gb- xp prof,ubuntu 8.04 beta,kubuntu 8.04 beta
1 x 320-imaged drive with xp prof & data backup partition
ext x 1 500gb data backup inc PS2 & xbox game iso backups (yes i own the games i copied):p
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in storage original 40gb of xp home (original hdd)

comp 2 in case comp 1 blows up
presario s5020an mid 2004
1 x 200 gb xp home with extended data partition
1 x 320 gb image of hdd above
ext x 1 500gb-copy of comp 1's hdd
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in storage original 40gb xp home

comp 3
dell gx110 - got from customer who was going to throw it out two weeks ago,no i don't fix comps but i do like mucking around with em
1 x 3,2gb- unbuntu 8.04 beta
1 x 10gb win 98se original hdd
ext 2.5gb
.................................
in storage 6gb image of 10gb

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2 x 40gb just bought yesterday to upgrade comp 3

xbox 1/2
1 x 10 gb original hdd
2 x 320gb fitted to extender kit

xbox 2/2
1 x 10 gb original hdd
2 x 320gb fitted to extender kit

ok that'll do for now i'm still in the process of having a go at adding ext hdd's to my two slimline ps2's

i have two imac G3's i could'a added but i figured that'd just be over the top & showing off

1 x imac that was give'n for free in 07 is in the kitchen & is used for recipes & listening to goon show radio while cooking,the other which i bought in 07 is for gaming walkthru's when i get stuck on a level & is on a mobile trolly so i can also wheel it to the conservatory or wherever.

Reply #24 March 27, 2008 6:14 PM from

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1 x 80Gb
1 x 40Gb
1 x 160Gb

total 280Gb, more than enough for now.
but i still have 3 SATA ports spare so who knows

Reply #25 April 3, 2008 8:38 AM from

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1.3 TB in 4 physical drives + 2x DVDRWs and a floppy...;)

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