Regarding hard disk space....

[Hyperblaze]

What would you consider ideal size for you?

and what type of stuff do you generally keep on your hard disks?

edit: I'd say 600 gigs would be ideal for me

3 200 sata drives with 8 meg cache

 

[dabuddha]

Nothing but text files.

 

[quakefiend420]

are we talking about single drives or arrays?

and pretty much anything you can get in a digital form has been on my hdd at one point in time or another...but mainly whts stored is music, video, and games...

 

[yoda291]

at any given time, I could get by with like 100G, but that's cuz I back stuff up to dvd.

having said that, dvd is starting to feel a little constraining and I might start storing stuff on tape. Stuff I don't see myself accessing in foreseeable future.

 

[SWScorch]

ideal for me? 250Gigs maybe. I have 200 right now (120 + 80) and it's about 60% full. I have 21GB of music, 14GB of music videos, 20GB of games maybe, plus a few gigs of random things I've downloaded and programs/apps.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

However big it gets ... there's a lotta pr0n out there ... :evil:

- M4H

 

[WannaFly]

I have about 20 gig free of my 80 gig.

 

[BigJ]

I figure a TB at least.

DVD Images (no way in hell am I brining my original DVDs to college) at 4GBs a pop take up a lot
Anime (for HQ releases that are easily 250mb/ep, this ads up to well over 200gigs)
MP3s
Games

 

[CraigRT]

thinking of getting a 74gb raptor and keeping a 120gig 7200.7 drive
that would work fine.

 

[quakefiend420]

if i had it my way for storage i'd want a TB or two...that way i don't have to delete all the video i get after i watch it...too lazy to back it all up...

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
ideal for me? 250Gigs maybe. I have 200 right now (120 + 80) and it's about 60% full. I have 21GB of music, 14GB of music videos, 20GB of games maybe, plus a few gigs of random things I've downloaded and programs/apps.

60% of 200 = 120.
Your totals ~ 70.
________________

=50 GB of Pr0n?

 

[SWScorch]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: SWScorch
ideal for me? 250Gigs maybe. I have 200 right now (120 + 80) and it's about 60% full. I have 21GB of music, 14GB of music videos, 20GB of games maybe, plus a few gigs of random things I've downloaded and programs/apps.

60% of 200 = 120.
Your totals ~ 70.
________________

=50 GB of Pr0n?

haha, no, I'm probably just stupid. I estimated the 60% and the numbers and didn't bother checking them

 

[mugs]

If I didn't use my computer for video editing, 40 GB would be fine. I don't download movies/tv shows/porn/etc on my computer... not sure what else I'd use that much disk space for.

 

[SparkyJJO]

I got a 120GB 8MB cache drive, plenty huge. I'm only using a little less than half of it (but then, I'm sure that'll change as I use more and more.... )

 

[HardcoreRobot]

i want a 6 disk (one hot swappable) raid 5 array of 300 gb hdds for 1.2 TB space, and a 36 15k U320 boot drive

 

[jjones]

More is better.

 

[KyjL]

A lot.

I'm extremely stingy with my sole 80GB drive and I'm down to less than a Gig left of space. However, I've got a 250GB drive coming today, so 'sall gooood

 

[Koing]

At least 400Gb due to video editing.

3mins ~ 750mb!

Koing

 

[radioouman]

My OS and my programs are installed on my 20 gig drive. I have an 80 gig drive for temp storage before writing to DVD, and video editing.

 

[funggorgor]

1000 gigs is ideal for me

 

[raildogg]

600GB? thats absurd

maybe you do things I dont

but I have trouble even filling up a 80GB hd

 

[jspeicher]

Two 80gb HDs. One loaded with OS and system programs, the other houses all other applications and games.

 

[Phoenix86]

640K ought to be enough...

 

[Bateluer]

I've got one 250GB External drive right now, and its full. I reckon I'd need two of them 400GB Seagate drives. That'd hold me over for a few months.

 

[spaceman]

tons 0' rars and pars!
800gb!