Are you a storage freak?

Tril · May 15, 2007, 12:50 AM

I am a bit of a storage freak. I always want more storage but cash is the limiting factor. I only buy Seagate hard drives since they switched to 5 year warranty and I haven't got any problems with their hard drives so far.

I have 2 X 300 GB Seagate hard drives. I plan on getting a 750 GB hard drive soon as the prices are coming down. Seagate will soon release a 1 TB hard drive and that might get the prices of their smaller drives to go down even lower.

I would love to have a raid 5 array of Seagate 1 TB hard drives. I don't like the idea of using a 1 TB hard drive alone and having it fail.

H3X4D3C1M4L · May 15, 2007, 08:10 PM

I guessed between 1 and 5 but I'm damn near adding up to 5 FAST. Calculated in GB not GiB:

1x 750GB Seagate 7200.10
4x 320GB Seagate 7200.10
2x 300GB Maxtor DiMax 10's
1x 160GB Western Digital Caviar
1x 100GB Western Digital Caviar
1x 80GB Toshiba 2.5"
1x 36GB Quantum SCSI
1x 20GB Maxtor DiMax ??
1x 17GB Maxtor
1x 10GB Maxtor
2x 8GB Western Digital
1x 2GB Seagate SCSI
1x 250MB Maxtor SCSI
1x 220MB Western Digital

Never mind what I have in USB flash disks (1GB and a 256MB I believe)

Grand total of: 3069.47GB, 3070.736GB if you incluse the USB drives

Gaijin · May 18, 2007, 12:30 AM

Guess I'm bit of a storage freak, only have 610GB of total disk space though. A 250GB, 200GB and 160GB SATA drives. Thinking of switching to two 500GB or 750GB drives to free my motherboards third SATA-connector for a DVD-RW -drive and be free of PATA -devices.

Blazer · May 20, 2007, 04:34 AM

I am not a storage freek, but like allot of other DHr's I have more than 2 hard drives in my system. (4 to be exact),2X80 gig in raid for my OS/Programs, and 2X250 for storage (backups, movies, music, etc)

tastyweat · May 22, 2007, 12:56 PM

4x 400GB in Raid-0, 2x 500GB = internal drives. Plus a 1TB external

Total = 3.6TB (and I can fill it up - oops!)

SFOSOK · May 25, 2007, 09:14 PM

160, and HDs are not in my plans for upgrading. At least not anytime soon.

T3hn0 · May 30, 2007, 11:13 AM

i'm not storage freak either...but my music started to grow and i had to buy 2x250gb WD Caviars. Besides I'm still using older Hitachi 120gb and IBM-Hitachi 40gb

j11103 · Oct 17, 2007, 12:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zaim

2.1TB in my file server.... and 1TB in this pc..

this is my fileserver.... why delete anything when hard drives are so cheap?
.

:O geez hardcore i use a 250g7200prm for space and 150g 10,000rpm as a main

j11103 · Oct 17, 2007, 12:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tastyweat

4x 400GB in Raid-0, 2x 500GB = internal drives. Plus a 1TB external

Total = 3.6TB (and I can fill it up - oops!)

with what...nvm the internet is for P**N

May 18, 2007, 12:30 AM	#63
Gaijin DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Finland, Europe Posts: 101 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Guess I'm bit of a storage freak, only have 610GB of total disk space though. A 250GB, 200GB and 160GB SATA drives. Thinking of switching to two 500GB or 750GB drives to free my motherboards third SATA-connector for a DVD-RW -drive and be free of PATA -devices. __________________ [COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]In Vino Veritas ... [/COLOR]

May 20, 2007, 04:34 AM	#64
Blazer Tweeker Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Kitchener Posts: 612 Rep Power: 65 System Specs	I am not a storage freek, but like allot of other DHr's I have more than 2 hard drives in my system. (4 to be exact),2X80 gig in raid for my OS/Programs, and 2X250 for storage (backups, movies, music, etc) __________________

May 22, 2007, 12:56 PM	#65
tastyweat Lurking Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: The void Posts: 4,794 Rep Power: 75 System Specs	4x 400GB in Raid-0, 2x 500GB = internal drives. Plus a 1TB external Total = 3.6TB (and I can fill it up - oops!) __________________

May 25, 2007, 09:14 PM	#66
SFOSOK 939 Goin Strong Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 7,033 Rep Power: 90 System Specs	160, and HDs are not in my plans for upgrading. At least not anytime soon. __________________ Warning - Explicit Content Preceeding METAL!!

May 15, 2007, 12:50 AM	#61
Tril S-3D enthusiast Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 1,676 Rep Power: 64 System Specs	I am a bit of a storage freak. I always want more storage but cash is the limiting factor. I only buy Seagate hard drives since they switched to 5 year warranty and I haven't got any problems with their hard drives so far. I have 2 X 300 GB Seagate hard drives. I plan on getting a 750 GB hard drive soon as the prices are coming down. Seagate will soon release a 1 TB hard drive and that might get the prices of their smaller drives to go down even lower. I would love to have a raid 5 array of Seagate 1 TB hard drives. I don't like the idea of using a 1 TB hard drive alone and having it fail.

May 15, 2007, 08:10 PM	#62
H3X4D3C1M4L DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 6,794 Rep Power: 0	I guessed between 1 and 5 but I'm damn near adding up to 5 FAST. Calculated in GB not GiB: 1x 750GB Seagate 7200.10 4x 320GB Seagate 7200.10 2x 300GB Maxtor DiMax 10's 1x 160GB Western Digital Caviar 1x 100GB Western Digital Caviar 1x 80GB Toshiba 2.5" 1x 36GB Quantum SCSI 1x 20GB Maxtor DiMax ?? 1x 17GB Maxtor 1x 10GB Maxtor 2x 8GB Western Digital 1x 2GB Seagate SCSI 1x 250MB Maxtor SCSI 1x 220MB Western Digital Never mind what I have in USB flash disks (1GB and a 256MB I believe) Grand total of: 3069.47GB, 3070.736GB if you incluse the USB drives

May 30, 2007, 11:13 AM	#67
T3hn0 HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Slovenia Posts: 65 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	i'm not storage freak either...but my music started to grow and i had to buy 2x250gb WD Caviars. Besides I'm still using older Hitachi 120gb and IBM-Hitachi 40gb