Back when the Earth was young . . . there was Osborne and KayPRO, IBM PC was still a year away. My KayPRO running the CP/M operating system had a five (5) MB hard drive as a $5,000 USD option. But since I spent $5,000 USD to get the unit and an impact printer (Diablo 630, could punch through nine part carbons at 10 CPS!) I decided to wait. Now my home Linux server has 4.1 TB of storage and my Mac Mini has just under 1 TB of storage. We have saved every file from 1987 forward. Both in original file format (SideKick, WordStar, QA Write, WordPerfect, MS Word and OpenOffice) and now converted to Open Standards XML. The largest user of space is video files. Home movies from the '60-70s on Super8 converted, VHS from the '80-90s converted and more stuff from iTunes than I can count. There is no longer any Microsoft anything running in our home. It's either Linux or Mac on Unix. We haven't had a virus problem in over two years. MacMan-Mini
well iv got 2x maxtor 160GB SATA and 1x IBM 160GB IDE soon to be on a IDE to SATA convertor.. 60GB in laptop and 80GB in my backup machine. total 620GB maybe soon to order in the future a pair of HDD maybe 500GB drives as they got a good price. i doudt i will ever need a full 1TB, but what the hell! SSD's are way to pricey to even take an interest in them!
My PC: 150gb raptor 250gb Seagate Server1: 500gb x2 (unsure of brand) Server2: 250gb IBM 150gb raptor Other PC's equate to around 800gb, so that's roughly 2.6tb in the house altogether, although this PC only has 400gb... Sam.
Wood Computer: WD 500 GB WD 1 TB x2 raid Seagate 120 Maxtor 160 WD 150 GB Raptor (Solo its partner fried) Which Brings me to a grand total of 2.9 Terabytes. System is @ 76% full. Video Editing takes quite the chunk of HDD's. BTW the WD 1 TB x2 Raid, run extremely cool and are not excessively loud as I presumed. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
stationary/network storage: 320+200+120+40+(18x6-1 - RAID 5) Portable storage: 500(USB)+120+80+80+80+80+80+80+80+60 Total: About 1,9TB I also have 250GB in the mail. (smallest disk i could find...)
not sure if I replied to this before ... main PC : 37gb , 80gb, 80gb, 80gb, 120gb laptop : 80gb 1gb corsair voyager 2gb kingston something i also have a 250gb i use for a class on ActiveDiretory
2 x 500GB RAID 0 Technically not yet, but christmas is soon. 8 DAYS!!! I'm as excited as a policeman in a... this is going nowhere
9.25TB Main system = 2 x 750gb Secondary system = 2 x 750gb File Server = 4 x 500gb Music server = 2 x 750gb + 500gb Picture/ video server = 3 x 750gb Thats just my systems and don't count the other 4 systems in the house. Soon to add 2 HP NetServers with 6 x 500 each. http://www.prowebdesignent.com/my-office.htm
2 x 300GB SATA internal and 1 x Lacie 1TB Bigger Disk. But really, one 300GB is for the OS's, so it cannot be considered storage. Muffins17, I would say you have 0 storage. Two HDD's in RAID 0 spells trouble. If one goes out, you have nothing. I would only set one up for the OS (OS's) and one for storage. It would be a shame if you couldn't recover any data if the RAID or one of your drives fails.
Whilst RAID 0 offers very little advantage to the average home user now - given the speed of today's drives... it only really "spells trouble" (IMO), if you don't have a proper backup solution in place as well And if 'push came to shove', there are also data recovery programs which support RAID setups. But even the best of them don't guarantee to recover everything of course, so up-to-date backups are vitally important, if you're running RAID 0
Yer, i'm thinking of going just JBOD now, as i've heard much the same from other people, but that's annoying to me as i want 3 partitions which wouldn't scale well over two drives, oh well time for number 3 i guess Cheers, Neil
