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How much hard drive storage do you have?

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  • 03-04-2014 6:14pm
    #1
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,497 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Curious really,

    How much hard drive storage do people have at home? (work servers don't count :)

    How much harddrive storage do you have? (amounts in terbytes) 120 votes

    1TB or lower
    0% 0 votes
    2-3TB
    23% 28 votes
    3-4TB
    25% 30 votes
    4-5TB
    15% 19 votes
    5-7TB
    15% 19 votes
    7-8TB
    15% 18 votes
    8-9TB
    0% 1 vote
    10TB or higher (post the number
    4% 5 votes


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    #2
    the.red.baron
    Registered Users Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭the.red.baron


    5 TB mirrored for every now and then, so 10 really.

    You don't want to lose all the HD Porn


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    #3
    jjpep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 658 ✭✭✭jjpep


    Does cloud storage count or just physical boxes in your house?


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    #4
    brianwalshcork
    Registered Users Posts: 607 ✭✭✭brianwalshcork


    Less than 1 tb

    I'd say that most SMEs have less primary storage (so excluding back up to disk storage) then you are suggesting... After the initial acquisition cost, the problem with lots of storage is that it all needs to be backed up and inevitably, if disk space is provided it'll be used, once it's used, and once it's used rarely recovered.


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    #5
    Jaden
    Registered Users Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Jaden


    66 TB at home, 1.5 PB at work. No cloud or off site counted in either.


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    brianwalshcork
    Registered Users Posts: 607 ✭✭✭brianwalshcork


    Jaden wrote: »
    66 TB at home, 1.5 PB at work. No cloud or off site counted in either.

    Dafuq!

    You must work in EMC!


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    #7
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    4 TB at home and looking into getting another 4 this weekend


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    #8
    ronkmonster
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭ronkmonster


    5x3TB in raid5 giving 12TB(10.8TB real size) in my home server.
    1 nas with 2x2TB for backups of the important stuff.
    Another with 2 x 500gb.

    2TB as second drive in main PC. plus a few 1tb drives retired from server lying around.


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    #9
    TheHamster
    Registered Users Posts: 352 ✭✭TheHamster


    Not enough
    2tb on board plus 1tb external, and rapidly running out
    More is better, right?


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    #10
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    3.5tb. 1gb of it is in a raid so that's two 1tb hard drives, a 2tb hard drive, an old 500gb drive that I'll replace at some stage and a 80gb SSD for OS.


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    #11
    Baked.noodle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭Baked.noodle


    Internal 500 GB plater drive and a 120 GB SSD. Plenty of space for me as I back up all my data on external drives (2 x 1 TB and 500 GB).


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    #12
    practice
    Registered Users Posts: 304 ✭✭practice


    8 TB For music and films
    2x 1.4mb Floppy Discs for work.


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    Greenmachine
    Registered Users Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    750GB HD on laptop. Formatted size 627GB. Free Space 409GB.
    External HD 1TB. Formatted size? Used for backup.


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    EoghanIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    ronkmonster wrote: »
    5x3TB in raid5 giving 12TB(10.8TB real size) in my home server.
    1 nas with 2x2TB for backups of the important stuff.
    Another with 2 x 500gb.

    2TB as second drive in main PC. plus a few 1tb drives retired from server lying around.

    That's a lot of porn :P

    At home we have 1.5 tb. It's almost full now though so i say we will need another 1tb soon .


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    #15
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,497 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Since i never posted it in my opening post,

    I got 10.5TB at home. Bulk of it is connected to a MacBook which sits under my TV and serves it out to my computer and my Ouya running XBMC. Rest is used as a backup drive for my computer.


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    #16
    crazygeryy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    Jeez i thought i was brilliant with my 2.5tb.


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    #17
    same ol sh1te
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    I have a Hp Proiant micro server with 10TB (2x 3TB + 2x 2TB) and am continuously mass deleting to make room for new downloads. I'm a HD snob, have even re downloaded some shows and movies in HD.


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    #18
    Deliverance XXV
    Registered Users Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭Deliverance XXV


    10-12TB...

    Computer
    • 1x 1TB
    • 1x 500GB

    Home Media Server
    • 1x 3TB
    • 1x 2TB
    • 1x 1TB

    2x Backup NAS kits (NSA320)
    • 3x 500GB
    • 1x 320GB

    External HDDs
    • 1x 1TB
    • 1x 500GB

    This is the culmination of various computer builds. I never get rid of hard drives so I have a few 160GB/250GB HDDs lying around too.


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    #19
    theteal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    I've a bunch of hdds and a couple of ssds sitting around that I keep threatening to put into a media centre build but who has the time? So somewhere between 3-4tb


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    #20
    markad1
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭markad1


    PC
    240GB SSD
    4 X 3TB

    Buffalo NAS
    4 x 3TB Raid 5

    The PC was set for raid 5 but the raid kept failing so scraped the raid and went with copying files for backup.


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    #21
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,398 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    16TB of media + 16TB backup (Held off site) so 32TB

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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    #22
    whomitconcerns
    Registered Users Posts: 4,367 ✭✭✭whomitconcerns


    6tb in my media centre. 3 external 1.5tb drives. and about 3/4 drives with 160gb.......and a 40gb :D..OOOOoo and a 60gb SSD..and a new 360gb in my playstation

    about 12Tb it seems.....wow...

    One of my 160gbs is back from when you couldnt really get external drives, you could buy an enclosure and a drive and put it in it yourself. :P


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    #23
    Steviemoyne
    Registered Users Posts: 649 ✭✭✭Steviemoyne


    2TB internal hdd, 128gb samsung SSD and a 128gb corsair ssd (damn bargain alerts) in my pc at home.


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    #24
    davo2001
    Registered Users Posts: 3,318 ✭✭✭davo2001


    Home User.

    Server: 2 X 2TB (RAID1)
    Server backup: 2TB
    Main NAS: 4 X 4TB (RAID5)
    USB backup for Main NAS: 4 X 4TB (RAID5)

    Media Server NAS: 2 X 2TB (RAID1)
    Media server NAS backup: 2TB

    Spare NASs: 4 X 2TB (RAID5), 1TB and 4 X 500GB (RAID5)

    Laptop: 500GB

    Total:
    56.5TB available if i want but since mostly RAIDed devices your looking around 30TB.


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    #25
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    So much data. :o


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    #26
    Dude111
    Registered Users Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    Cabaal wrote:
    How much hard drive storage do people have at home?
    I have about 13,000 Megs (12.7GB it says) but I only have about 700 Megs or so used......


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    #27
    KAGY
    Registered Users Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭KAGY


    Greenmachine wrote: »
    So much data. :o

    So much downloading!
    Me 5tb in media centre plus 128gb. All recordings of course. Prob another 1.5 tb split up over other machines and ext HD.
    .
    Edit; not HD storage but there's probably 10tb of backup DVDs floating around too


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    #28
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Old School - 190 GB.


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    #29
    Skerries
    Registered Users Posts: 12,460 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    Dude111 wrote: »
    I have about 13,000 Megs (12.7GB it says) but I only have about 700 Megs or so used......

    that was my first HD back in 1999
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    #30
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    200TB at home :D


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    #31
    same ol sh1te
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    KTRIC wrote: »
    200TB at home :D

    WTF???? Explain


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