FthrJACK Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 500 GB - RAID 0120 MASTER60GB SLAVE/BACKUPThats this PC, in the other theres a 160gb, and 60gb. And the old machine i rarely use has two 80gb disks in it too. so... 1060GB tho theres only really the two machines ever used, the drives on the old machine dont really have anything on them - its just a spare box.I do a lot of image, web, movie work. a DVD takes up almost 5GB - more if its dual layer. Im also a total game freak as anyone round here that knows me will tell u a few games installed on the pc soon swallows up about 20gb these days - never mind save files and screenshots etc increasing the size more -- ever played an MMOG? starts off around 5GB on your disk and gradually grows the more you play online.i also use my machine as a media PC - it has every CD and DVD i own on it, no more playing DJ for me, Imon is a lazy mans best friend, hence the raid array - its a media bin, but also gets other stuff thrown on it - very handy to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 I know it's been said already but those of us who capture audio/video from our TVs and transfer DV from our camcorders and do encodings that produce several large-sized temp files, this takes up harddrive space very quickly. That's why we use such big HDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralMandible Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 (edited) my girlfriend told me its not the size of the HD its how you use it <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I think you might have misunderstood her! <{POST_SNAPBACK}>HD stands for Hard DISK I have 2 120 GB in RAID 0, which gives me about 230 GB.I stay about 10-50 GB free.40+ GB in games.6 GB of installed programs.35 GB in profiles, virtual machines, and application install packages/patches.5 GB in music.The rest in vid and misc. Edited August 4, 2005 by GeneralMandible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoNoise Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 (edited) HD stands for Hard DISKWow... you just ruined the joke Edit:Just 2gig of ram thats all, and its running fedora core 4 << avid linux user alert Edited August 4, 2005 by undeadsoldier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 HD stands for Hard DISKWow... you just ruined the joke <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hmm, no, see the underlined DISK and you'll know the joke wasnt ruined... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted August 5, 2005 Author Share Posted August 5, 2005 so this thread turned from the size of our hard drives and into the size of our HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralMandible Posted August 6, 2005 Share Posted August 6, 2005 At least we didn't get into the size of our CD and FD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoNoise Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 My FD is 5'25LOL !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 My FD is 5'25LOL !!!!! FOFLMAOis that 5.25 empty or full LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoNoise Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 Wouldn't you like to know!!LOL!!off topic alert!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted August 8, 2005 Author Share Posted August 8, 2005 its been off topic the whole page, lolnow what about zip drives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 I don't have a zip drive... on-topic or off-topic. My girlfriend doesn't complain about either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rnielsen151 Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 nothing wrong with more than a TeraByte74GB Raptor - Main System320GB - Media Center80 - Storage Server 2002x200 RAID1 (200GB)3x250 RAID5 (500GB)32040 - Laptop40 - App Server2x250 RAID1 (250GB)60 - Wife CPU60 External250 External2x250 External (500GB)40 - Replacement for App Server4x250 RAID5 (750GB) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted August 8, 2005 Author Share Posted August 8, 2005 WOW, 3684gigs of usable space, 4634 if u didnt have ur raid1 and raid5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benyahuda0 Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 (edited) I have 5 HDD's for 330 G. One, a 40 G drive holds my four OS's. XP Pro, Whatever LH is current, Server 2003 and Linux (UBUNTU).The second is 74 G and holds all my backups plus archived programs so that when I do a reformat/reinstall of XP I don't have to spend hours and hours scouring the internet to replace all my favorite applications. Especially those which are older, but in my opinion better, versions.The third is 80 G and is used like a common Program Files folder where all my installed Windows applications live (I use nLite to export my Program files folder to this drive) as many of them only require one installation but can be called from any Windows install (I export shortcuts to the various Windows installs). Of course this doesn't work with applications that use the registry, but it does for almost everything else.The other two totaling 140 G's are for data which for one reason or another hasn't been burned to a CD or DVD.I've been into computers since the '70s and can quite well remember when there were no hard drives. And I remember sitting in darkened rooms with a small flourescent light (for the 60 Hertz flicker) carefully timing floppy drive motors so as to squeeze DS/DD out of DS/SD drives. There is never enough storage. Edited August 8, 2005 by benyahuda0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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