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petermillard
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:01 pm Posts: 234 Location: West London
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My son has 250Gb in his iMac and 1Tb in his gaming PC, and a 250Gb external for his iTunes library -though he's getting close to the limit on that; there's 160Gb in the old kitchen iMac, otherwise we're all laptop-based, so other storage is all on external drives. There's a 200Gb firewire external with a clone of my laptop HD, and a 500Gb Time Capsule for general backup with an extra 500Gb USB attached for general 'house' storage, movies etc... My wife's iTunes Library is on another 500Gb external, and there's a couple of older 320Gb and 250Gb external drives that have previous libraries on them for general off-site backup. I have a couple of older small drives - 20Gb firewire and 60Gb USB - that are used for one-off backups or 'sneakernet' transfers of bigger files, and a 'ruggedised' 250Gb LaCie Cinema drive for taking movies away on hols.
So, ~4Tb or so, all spread around in what seems like far too many places. I like the idea of a full-on, all-in-one-place NAS, but so far what we have seems to work OK.
Pete
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saspro
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:53 pm Posts: 8603 Location: location, location
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HD-DVD & bluray rips take up 25GB each (at least). DVD rips can be 9GB. It's easy to use up a lot of space when you're ripping 300 DVD's & 50 HD-DVD/bluray's. Add in recorded TV @ 1GB an hour & a few hundred CD's and you're starting to need a lot of space. My storage is attached to the gigabit network that goes to every room in the house (bar toilets but you can use wi-fi in there) with a PC in every room connected to the storage & streaming TV tuners across the LAN from the media server. It's nice being able to watch something you recorded downstairs on the TV in the bedroom, or watching a movie in HD without needing to get the disc from the shelf in the lounge etc
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Sun Jun 06, 2010 11:55 am |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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This PC has one 1TB and 2 500GB drives My NAS is 2 500GB drives My media centre has 120GB OS and 500GB USB drive My old media server has 250GB internal and 250GB USB drive My two backup PCs have 250GB each My laptop has 120GB, soon to be swapped for a 64GB SSD.
There's also miscelaneous 40GB ish drives knocking around.
So, errr, nearly 5TB and they're pretty much all full of porn.
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Sun Jun 06, 2010 12:21 pm |
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm Posts: 5150 Location: /dev/tty0
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My setups have: 250GB in the MacBook 1.65TB in the Mac Pro (650GB for Time Machine, 500GB for OS and general document stuff, 500GB "extra" storage, big stuff gets stuffed here) Technically 3TB in the server, but thats 2x1TB disks in a mirror and 2x500GB disks in a mirror, so only 1.5TB in there (500GB for OS and personal documents, 1TB for "shares" - media including video, images, music, and other shared things such as ISO files)
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Sun Jun 06, 2010 1:16 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Sun Jun 06, 2010 2:13 pm |
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm Posts: 5048
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Knowing JJ, probably not. Good work Sir! 
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Sun Jun 06, 2010 2:20 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Only 5Tb of Porn. You are hardly trying. 
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Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:59 pm |
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Nick
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:36 pm Posts: 3527 Location: Portsmouth
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200GB in the Mac Mini 80GB in the MacBook 2 TB in the Time Capsule 8GB in the iPhone 2 TB (RAID 1 so only really 1TB) external drive for photos 200 GB drive in the Linux machine 500 GB FAT drive that I use to take round mates houses to share files with them 60 GB 2.5" drive which I don't use (came out of the MacBook) 500 GB 3.4" drive which I don't use (came out of the Time Capsule)
Add a few gig for flash keys, memory cards etc and I'm getting close to 7TB.
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Sun Jun 06, 2010 7:50 pm |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm Posts: 5836
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200GB OS & Data 30GB Emergency disk
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Sun Jun 06, 2010 7:53 pm |
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:10 pm Posts: 5490 Location: just behind you!
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1TB NAS drive 2* 200GB HDD 1*80GB HDD 1*250GB HDD 1*320GB HDD I think! There may be more 
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Sun Jun 06, 2010 8:01 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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OK, let me add it up... Mac Pro: 320GB main drive 320GB internal 'mirror' drive 240GB windows bootcamp drive External: 320GB Mac Pro backup drive 500GB Time capsule (NAS) 1TB external time machine drive (FW800 for speed) 1TB external 'archive' drive 250GB external backup drive for netbook (now spare) That's roughly about 4TB, right? I'm also thinking of upgrading the MacPro by swapping the main and mirror for 1TB drives. I'm also sure I've got a couple more external USB drives in the 100-200GB range somewhere. And that's not counting iPods or the storage in my PS3 
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Nick
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:36 pm Posts: 3527 Location: Portsmouth
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Oh yes! Add another 120GB for my Xbox 360.
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Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:17 pm |
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soddit112
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:12 pm Posts: 2020 Location: Mute City
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i have a 1TB drive with Win7 on it, a 0.5TB with Ubuntu on it, and a 0.5TB in the NAS  the last two are largely unused though 
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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I've got about 2GB, but I would say 35GB is mirrored across all machine and my iMac has the most stored on it, at the moment, which has around 120GB use - which includes several virtual machines.
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Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:15 am |
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veato
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:17 am Posts: 5550 Location: Nottingham
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Main PC has a measley 160GB HDD and an 80GB backup HDD Nicola's laptop has 160GB iPods are 4GB and 8GB Cameras are 2 x 8GB SD 2 x 2GB SD USB memory is 2 x 8GB and a 4GB Xbox is 120GB and an 8GB Micro SD in the phone (BT Vision has a 160GB HDD but I've disconnected that now)
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Mon Jun 07, 2010 7:47 am |
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