ddrueding
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How much do you have, how's it set up, and how much of it do you use?
How much "online" storage do you have?
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ddrueding
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10x750GB in RAID 5, I'm at 85% full.
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
PC #1 = 2/WD raptors in RAID 1 on a 3Ware 8006-2LP card. 1/WD 120GB hard drive.
PC #2 = 1/WD 160 GB hard drive.
I have an assortment of other hard drives in removable carriers for either PC.
Bozo :joker:
PC #2 = 1/WD 160 GB hard drive.
I have an assortment of other hard drives in removable carriers for either PC.
Bozo :joker:
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
Laptop = 40G I think. Half full maybe.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Are we counting drives in or out of arrays? I have a lot in RAID10 configurations, so it makes a difference.
ddrueding
Fixture
In and out. Total drive actively used for storage at your place (not business).
I could have included the 120GB drive in the laptop, and the 40GB drive in the other laptop, and even the 2x74GB Raptor RAID-0 in the desktop; but it didn't seem significant compared to the rest.
I could have included the 120GB drive in the laptop, and the 40GB drive in the other laptop, and even the 2x74GB Raptor RAID-0 in the desktop; but it didn't seem significant compared to the rest.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
My total disk space is 24TB; effectively 8TB of actual storage. I just bought some 1TB drives this morning, but that's so I can decommission several 500GB units.
ddrueding
Fixture
I wasn't sure how to count redundancy. I know several members use multiple copies managed independently. Counting without redundancy is tricky sometimes.
jtr1962
Storage? I am Storage!
200 GB in my main machine, 180 GB in second machine, but I'm probably going to move the 100 GB to the main machine. Other than that, an assortment of mostly small (20 GB or less, mostly way less) drives in several spare machines I found by the curb and refurbished. Total is definitely under 500GB. Even downloading tons of train sim add-ons my 200 GB is barely half full.
Now that I wet my beak playing with video I think the total will be a lot larger soon. Come to think of it, if you don't count the ones for my mom's and brother's computers, it's been 3 years since I bought a hard drive. Maybe I'll go for a 1 TB when the price drops to ~$100 (should happen once we have 500 GB platters). In theory I can put 5TB in my main machine as the case holds 5 drives. Somehow I don't see how I could possibly use even half of that.
Now that I wet my beak playing with video I think the total will be a lot larger soon. Come to think of it, if you don't count the ones for my mom's and brother's computers, it's been 3 years since I bought a hard drive. Maybe I'll go for a 1 TB when the price drops to ~$100 (should happen once we have 500 GB platters). In theory I can put 5TB in my main machine as the case holds 5 drives. Somehow I don't see how I could possibly use even half of that.
Gilbo
Storage is cool
I'm at 4.1 TB without considering redundancy. I have two fileservers, one for video, the other for music & photos. The first has 5x250GB + 1x300GB all in a RAID 5 (except for the extra 50GB on the 300GB which is the boot partition), and the second has 5x200GB + 1x 300GB in the same arrangement.
Then I have a 250GB boot drive and 2 spanned 500GB in my desktop. There's actually a couple other drives lying around as boot drives in music playing machines and stuff too, but I forget their capacity.
My video fileserver is long full and the DVDs are overflowing onto the spanned disks on my desktop so I need to build a new one fileserver. This one will just use software JBOD and I'll add capacity as needed in whatever capacity has the best $/GB ratio.
Then I have a 250GB boot drive and 2 spanned 500GB in my desktop. There's actually a couple other drives lying around as boot drives in music playing machines and stuff too, but I forget their capacity.
My video fileserver is long full and the DVDs are overflowing onto the spanned disks on my desktop so I need to build a new one fileserver. This one will just use software JBOD and I'll add capacity as needed in whatever capacity has the best $/GB ratio.
paugie
Storage is cool
1x250Gb Seagate 7200.10 SATA (6 months old) storage
1x80Gb Maxtor PATA (3+ years old) system
looking to retire the Maxtor and acquire a Samsung 250Gb drive
1x80Gb Maxtor PATA (3+ years old) system
looking to retire the Maxtor and acquire a Samsung 250Gb drive
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
I must be going brain dead...The two Raptors are RAID 0.
Bozo :joker:
Bozo :joker:
Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
2x Samsung 1TB (one live and one for backup)
Only about 200GB is used.
Only about 200GB is used.
- 820GB (250+ 250 + 320) In a WHS Box (Creates backups with duplication every night about 1/2 full)
- 250GB Samsung + 160GB Hitachi in my desktop PC
- 250GB SimpleTech NAS (redundant backups and acts as a websever as required)
- 250GB External Firewire Drive (Samsung Spinpoint) (important offline backups - only turn it on to perform a backup)
- 160 External Seagate USB/Firewire (turned off & mostly unused but I throw extra backups on there once in a while)
- 100GB Seagate in my P3 850 Laptop (Compaq M700)
- 500GB External 16MB cache WD in an Antec MX-1 enclosure attached to my Explorer 3200 DVR (for addded recording capacity)
I don't even know anymore, but it muct be close to 15TB. More interestingly, I wonder what percentage of peoples drives are filled with material they own the copyright to or have legal right to, as compared to how much material is illegal audio, videos, etc.
Tannin
Storage? I am Storage!
I think in the armed forces, Lunar, they say "don't ask, don't tell".
But as for me, the vast bulk of my stuff is things I do indeed own the copyright to, together with a much smaller but still significant collection of licenced stuff, and very little else. I have enough trouble managing the stuff I legitamately own, never mind adding more!
Storage ... well, enough not to be sure how much I have - about 5TB, I think.
Let's see, on-line in the home desktop I have:
2 x 500GB
3 x 400GB
1 x 300GB
Plus a motley assortment of external drives, not sure how many, about 6 I think, mostly 300GB with a few other odd ones. Oh, and another 500GB unit brand new still-in-box waiting till I get some spare time to bolt it into the system as a replacement for one of the other drives, presumably the 300.
Then there is the laptop:
1 x 80GB (boot)
1 x 160GB (internal)
1 x 120GB (external)
1 x 160GB (external)
1 x 250GB (external)
And then there are some backup drives that I keep at the office, three or four of them, all 300s and 400s, I think.
So, to be precise and calculate to the nearest 0.001% .... er .... 4 or 5 TB, I imagine.
How many cornflakes do you have in your kitchen?
If you can count them, it's probably time you went out and bought another box or two before you run out.
But as for me, the vast bulk of my stuff is things I do indeed own the copyright to, together with a much smaller but still significant collection of licenced stuff, and very little else. I have enough trouble managing the stuff I legitamately own, never mind adding more!
Storage ... well, enough not to be sure how much I have - about 5TB, I think.
Let's see, on-line in the home desktop I have:
2 x 500GB
3 x 400GB
1 x 300GB
Plus a motley assortment of external drives, not sure how many, about 6 I think, mostly 300GB with a few other odd ones. Oh, and another 500GB unit brand new still-in-box waiting till I get some spare time to bolt it into the system as a replacement for one of the other drives, presumably the 300.
Then there is the laptop:
1 x 80GB (boot)
1 x 160GB (internal)
1 x 120GB (external)
1 x 160GB (external)
1 x 250GB (external)
And then there are some backup drives that I keep at the office, three or four of them, all 300s and 400s, I think.
So, to be precise and calculate to the nearest 0.001% .... er .... 4 or 5 TB, I imagine.
How many cornflakes do you have in your kitchen?
If you can count them, it's probably time you went out and bought another box or two before you run out.
Gilbo
Storage is cool
I just hate clutter, so I rip my CDs and my DVDs. It's mostly from store-bought physical media. The downloaded music I have, of which I have a great deal, is all stuff the artists have licensed for free distribution (concert bootlegs of taper-friendly artists, promotional singles released to blogs like Aurgasm, etc.). The DVDs are real space killers because I don't recompress them at all.
I do believe that free, P2P, digital distribution is the most sensible choice moving forward, and I think that governments need to (un)legislate this ridiculous copyright idiocy that has taken over our economy. But that's a whole other mess.
EDIT: I also believe that different art forms need to be considered differently. Music, movies, television, and photography are all examples of art with distinct economics and market forms. I don't believe any one-size-fits-all system can be the product of a rational, cogent thought process, respecting this obervable reality. The existing one, though, is particularly perverse.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
3x 36GB Seagate 10K.6 in RAID5 (OS/Apps/Data)
1x 400GB Seagate 7200.10 internal (Archive Storage, MP3s, DVD rips)
1x 500GB Seagate 7200.10 external w/firewire800 (Archive Storage - copy of 400GB drive and data off the RAID5 Array)
= 1008GB or just under 1TB. (without redundancy in HDDs)
The array has about 30GB free, and the archive data drive has about 100GB free.
Plus about 720GB in tape storage for backups.
1x 400GB Seagate 7200.10 internal (Archive Storage, MP3s, DVD rips)
1x 500GB Seagate 7200.10 external w/firewire800 (Archive Storage - copy of 400GB drive and data off the RAID5 Array)
= 1008GB or just under 1TB. (without redundancy in HDDs)
The array has about 30GB free, and the archive data drive has about 100GB free.
Plus about 720GB in tape storage for backups.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
We can count tapes?
ddrueding
Fixture
Online storage please. Not counting tapes or hard drives that sit in your safe.
ddrueding
Fixture
That would be great. I have a box full of 80-320GB drives in the closet that I didn't count either.
blakerwry
Storage? I am Storage!
I've had my file server w/ RAID 5 array shutdown for almost 3 years now... quickly showing its age (4x 160GB 3ware 7500-4LP + 80GB OS drive). So I really shouldn't count it, even though I still have some data on it I wouldn't want to lose.
For my current online systems I have:
1x 80GB, 1x 500GB (Main PC)
1x 160GB (HTPC)
1x 160GB (Wife's)
1x 40GB (Laptop)
1x 40GB (Wife's lappy)
Adds up to barely 1 TB in online storage. The file server would account for another 720GB (500GB redundant + 80GB non) should I power it up. I probably have about 300GB used on the file server (mostly backups and ISO's) and another 300GB used across the rest of the systems.
For my current online systems I have:
1x 80GB, 1x 500GB (Main PC)
1x 160GB (HTPC)
1x 160GB (Wife's)
1x 40GB (Laptop)
1x 40GB (Wife's lappy)
Adds up to barely 1 TB in online storage. The file server would account for another 720GB (500GB redundant + 80GB non) should I power it up. I probably have about 300GB used on the file server (mostly backups and ISO's) and another 300GB used across the rest of the systems.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
Just out of interest, how much in tapes?
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
Tapes = 0
Bozo :joker:
Bozo :joker:
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
I continue to be amazed by the amount of porn that Merc has. If he has 15TB, then there's six times that out there.
We need a special tax on production.
We need a special tax on production.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Most of what I put on tape was VHS rips. Not just porn (that was about 4TB) but also miscellaneous movie and TV shows, most of which has since been released on DVD.
For what it's worth, about 10,000 porn titles are released every year, plus countless thousands of web-only video clips. The most reliable estimates of the annual gross for the industry are about $2 - 4 billion worldwide- a far cry from the "It's bigger than sports and movies combined!" BS that the industry itself puts out. Playboy and Larry Flynt's magazine publishing are probably the biggest players, and they're both under $250 million in annual revenue apiece (and the Flynt Empire includes a lot of non-porn stuff, believe it or not). Hotels and Cable companies each manage to rake in a decent chunk from porn (pay per view), and almost everything else is nickel and dime production from fly by night companies. A typical porn DVD might have 2000 copies duplicated for US distribution - meaning that the gross on a single film will probably end up on the order of $25,000 since some copies will never be sold. A smash hit might be 50,000 copies (e.g. Vivid's recent "Pirates"), something that's much more likely if the movie gets any kind of mainstream distribution such as placement in the "adult" section of an fye at your local mall.
What's happening right now in porn is that all the crappy production companies that have sprung up in the last 10 years, the ones that use "Gonzo" filming instead of a professional crew, are having their asses handed to them from piracy (EVERYTHING is pirated instantly, usually before it's actually available on physical media) and the even-more-amateur stuff that regular folks can do with a DV camcorder and sites like Youporn and Porntube. The only people buying porn these days are older and/or technically inept folks who can't work the internet.
The amazing and interesting thing about this is that as much as RIAA and the MPAA worry about what electronic distribution might do to their business, porn is at the point of getting it figured out right, or completely disintegrating. Anyone with a digital camera and a willing participant can make porn. I strongly suspect that the model we'll end up having for movies, TV and music is going to come from the porners. There might be some hope on the high end in HD, but since most performers don't look all that good in normal lighting at 1080p, there's probably going to be some overall improvement in the technical aspects of that sort of filming that not everyone will have access to.
And for what it's worth, ftvgirls.com and ddgirls.com both have 720p clips available right now, even if you can't just go by HD porn on a disc today.
Having typed all that, I must apply my usual disclaimer: I'm more interested in porn on a strange academic level and my own tastes run to things that a lot of people would barely call porn. I gave ddrueding a chunk of my collection about a year ago. He can probably vouch for this.
For what it's worth, about 10,000 porn titles are released every year, plus countless thousands of web-only video clips. The most reliable estimates of the annual gross for the industry are about $2 - 4 billion worldwide- a far cry from the "It's bigger than sports and movies combined!" BS that the industry itself puts out. Playboy and Larry Flynt's magazine publishing are probably the biggest players, and they're both under $250 million in annual revenue apiece (and the Flynt Empire includes a lot of non-porn stuff, believe it or not). Hotels and Cable companies each manage to rake in a decent chunk from porn (pay per view), and almost everything else is nickel and dime production from fly by night companies. A typical porn DVD might have 2000 copies duplicated for US distribution - meaning that the gross on a single film will probably end up on the order of $25,000 since some copies will never be sold. A smash hit might be 50,000 copies (e.g. Vivid's recent "Pirates"), something that's much more likely if the movie gets any kind of mainstream distribution such as placement in the "adult" section of an fye at your local mall.
What's happening right now in porn is that all the crappy production companies that have sprung up in the last 10 years, the ones that use "Gonzo" filming instead of a professional crew, are having their asses handed to them from piracy (EVERYTHING is pirated instantly, usually before it's actually available on physical media) and the even-more-amateur stuff that regular folks can do with a DV camcorder and sites like Youporn and Porntube. The only people buying porn these days are older and/or technically inept folks who can't work the internet.
The amazing and interesting thing about this is that as much as RIAA and the MPAA worry about what electronic distribution might do to their business, porn is at the point of getting it figured out right, or completely disintegrating. Anyone with a digital camera and a willing participant can make porn. I strongly suspect that the model we'll end up having for movies, TV and music is going to come from the porners. There might be some hope on the high end in HD, but since most performers don't look all that good in normal lighting at 1080p, there's probably going to be some overall improvement in the technical aspects of that sort of filming that not everyone will have access to.
And for what it's worth, ftvgirls.com and ddgirls.com both have 720p clips available right now, even if you can't just go by HD porn on a disc today.
Having typed all that, I must apply my usual disclaimer: I'm more interested in porn on a strange academic level and my own tastes run to things that a lot of people would barely call porn. I gave ddrueding a chunk of my collection about a year ago. He can probably vouch for this.
Maybe you should write a book about porn?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
No one would buy it. I understand it's pretty easy to get involved with that industry if you work in the San Fernando valley, but mostly I think people are far more interested in the fantasy than the reality.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
Did he just use "porn" and "academic" in the same sentence?
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
Harvard, perhaps... some school where you pay for your degree.
ddrueding
Fixture
Why do they have to be "online?" Not everyone likes to run up the electric bill and leave computers on 24x7.I can have 11TB up and running in 2 minutes. Is that close enough?
Yeah, that counts. Mine is all in my workstation, and it's not on all the time.