Hard drive space

Discussion in 'Storage Devices' started by Big B, Apr 23, 2006.

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Storage capacity

  1. Under 40GB

    3 vote(s)
    17.6%
  2. 41-100GB

    1 vote(s)
    5.9%
  3. 101-200GB

    6 vote(s)
    35.3%
  4. 201-300GB

    3 vote(s)
    17.6%
  5. 301-400GB

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    5.9%
  6. 401-500GB

    1 vote(s)
    5.9%
  7. 500GB-1TB

    1 vote(s)
    5.9%
  8. Over 1TB

    1 vote(s)
    5.9%
  1. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    Well, I'm finally making the jump to SATA since BB had a 160GB Seagate HDD on sale this week. I've more than doubled my original capacity. I'm just seeing how much storage capacity people have in their rigs these days with retail capacity. If you have something like 2 x 200GB in RAID 1, you'd only have 200GB, not 400GB.
     
  2. pelvis_3

    pelvis_3 HWF Member For Life

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    I've got me a Seagate 80GB SATA2 and a WD 40GB IDE.
    In total, i've got about 40GB of that free.
    Soon to buying another SATA drive at around 160GB or so.
     
  3. Karanislove

    Karanislove It's D Grav80 Of Luv

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    Just 20GB with external USB40GB
     
  4. megamaced

    megamaced Geek Geek Geek!

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    If I were to count all of my hard drives, disregarding the fact that they are in different computers, i'd have a lot of hard drive space:

    Computer 1: 80GB Seagate
    Computer 2: 80GB Maxtor; 20GB Western Digital
    Computer 3: 20GB Maxtor

    Spare hard drive: 3GB Seagate

    They are all IDE drives. I haven't made the jump to SATA yet
     
  5. sabashuali

    sabashuali Ani Ma'amin

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    1. Samsung, SATA - 120GB - it is so quiet!!!!
    I have no way of actualy testing speeds but I am sure it is quicker than the IDEs
    2. Quantum Fireball, IDE - 15GB
    3. Western Digital, IDE - 20GB

    Please santa - a 300GB SATA would suffice..... :confused:
     
  6. Karanislove

    Karanislove It's D Grav80 Of Luv

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    what do you do with three computers? Is it just for practicing network or for fun that put all the computers on lan and use the same data in any room on any computer?
     
  7. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

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    2 x Samsung 200GB
    1 x Samsung 120GB
     
  8. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    Western Digital 80GB SATA x1
    Seagate 80GB SATA x1
    WD PATA 120GB x2 (RAID 1 = 120GB)
    Western Digital 8gb x1
    Quantam 8GB x1
    ___________________________________

    Total: 296GB
     
  9. Fred

    Fred Moderator

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    aww dang. Seems that you guys are couting all of your computer put together. I put 200gb in the poll, but if you add em all up, I have about 360gb between two desktops and a laptop (not couting my firewall).
     
  10. pelvis_3

    pelvis_3 HWF Member For Life

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    My first post included only my main rig, but if i combined all my HDD's, it'd be a few more GB's for sure. Iv'e also got another WD 40GB IDE, a 20GB Seagate IDE, a WD 10GB IDE and a few other assorted small drives. So all up, about 200GB.
     
  11. Matt555

    Matt555 iMod

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    I have a single Seagate HDD in my main pile of crap. It's a 120GB Drive and is fine for me :)
     
  12. megamaced

    megamaced Geek Geek Geek!

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    As you guessed, I use 3 computers to practice real-life networking and file sharing. I also use them for different Linux distributions as well. Namely, one for SuSE, one for Ubuntu and one for VectorLinux.... Oh and I've got that dreaded Windows Server 2003 free trial installed on one of them :confused:
     
  13. Karanislove

    Karanislove It's D Grav80 Of Luv

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    Are they very different from each other? I mean is it like having win98 or Me. Are there some softwares who does work with one OS not with other. Which one do you perefer more, in case of GUI?I've never used Linux on my personal computer and not have lot of knowledge about it.

    Sometimes I think if I download the Linux over the internet but my data limit comes into mind. I've just a limit of 3GB/month and this installation will eat the whole bandwidth.
     
  14. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    I've got 260GB in my main box, not including a 20GB drive for review purposes. I've got 2 40GB in my other one and a 20GB in my laptop. I've got a few others ranging 20-40GB. If you want to count total's, I've probably got close to 500GB available to me.
     
  15. ambellina

    ambellina Geek Trainee

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    i have a simple thirty five or forty gig. i don't need big space or anything, i don't do much but browse. except the other day i realized that with all the music i had, i had gotten down to having four percent of my space left. . . but after a deleting spree, its back up to about twenty four. more is soon to come off as well, w00t.
     
  16. Nic

    Nic Sleepy Head

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    Adding up everything would be difficult. Ive got 1 x Maxtor 40gb, 1 x Western Digital 300gb those are internal on my pc. Then Ive got a 500gb external but I cant find that :S Downstairs desktop has 1 x Samsung 60gb got multiple laptops ranging from 20gb to 80gb and the spare pc has two western digitail 40gbs in...you do the maths :)
     
  17. megamaced

    megamaced Geek Geek Geek!

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    [ot]
    They are similar in some respects and different as well. Some commands work universally, while others are specific to a distribution. They are all running different GUIs, so they don't look alike.

    Personally I think KDE is the superior GUI, although GNOME is pretty good too. Generally speaking, KDE is more powerful whilst GNOME is simpler and therefore easier to use. XFCE is a lighter desktop GUI - great for older computers.

    SuSE is probably my favourite distribution (I can hear AT screaming :p ) but I am really warming to Ubuntu. Vector is OK, but don't expect it to work straight away. I have learned more about Linux using Vector then I have using SuSE or Ubuntu.

    Did you know that you can order free CDs from Ubuntu's website? Completely free of charge and no postage costs either! You have to register before they will send you the CDs (no charge). Delivery takes about a month. Order some! You never know, you might actually like it :) [/ot]
     

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