Hard drives are bigger and cheaper.. how do people fill them legally?

Hedge · 16 Feb 2011 at 19:39

750gb of legit I tunes... wow how the hell

rypt · 16 Feb 2011 at 19:48

Legal? What is this legal stuff you speak of

I'm starting TB number 7 I think soon

d_brennen · 16 Feb 2011 at 19:50

Terabytes... Pfft

steve-h · 16 Feb 2011 at 19:51

Films, music, video, photos, porn

rpstewart · 16 Feb 2011 at 19:54

Hedge said:
Is there actually legitimate uses for a 1tb external hard drive beyond carrying movies about?

My photo backup drives are 2Tb each and almost full.

Trifid · 16 Feb 2011 at 19:56

rpstewart said:
My photo backup drives are 2Tb each and almost full.

RAW photos do take up a lot of space, especially when I can barely bring myself to delete any. Doesn't help if you wish to have at least 1 backup either.

Hedge · 16 Feb 2011 at 19:57

So it looks like its just accepted that the majority of people filling 1tb + are probably doing so with downloaded dvds or music.

Someone made a good point about connections. 50mb is only of use if you are hammering Usenet

Fenris · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:01

Lotta porn out there.

Lotta porn.

Rroff · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:01

Hedge said:
750gb of legit I tunes... wow how the hell

That includes movies and TV shows - TV shows especially can easily be 10+gigs each... I haven't spent nearly 90 grand on music heh.

Deleted member 77746 · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:05

I would say 90% of people with 1TB or over fill them with illigal materials. For example, music, applications and movies. 10% legally fill it with personal photos, music, movies, applications, documents and system restores.

I only have a 250GB laptop, this has an OS on, purchased applications and purchased music, Not even 40GB full.

Macky · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:06

Rroff said:
That includes movies and TV shows - TV shows especially can easily be 10+gigs each... I haven't spent nearly 90 grand on music heh.

How much have you spent do you reckon? £5k?

Rroff · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:06

Easily :S probably not much shy of 10 grand.

mattyfez · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:11

My music collection alone is quickly approaching 500gb, i have a 500gb and a 640, so do not have space to keep a back up. I'm thinking of relegating my 500gb to a mobile caddy and buying one or two massive drives for storage, if I suffer a drive fail right now, i would be very upset.

d_brennen · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:12

mattyfez said:
My music collection alone is quickly approaching 500gb, i have a 500gb and a 640, so do not have space to keep a back up. I'm thinking of relegating my 500gb to a mobile caddy and buying one or two massive drives for storage, if I suffer a drive fail right now, i would be very upset.

You're begging for it really! Sort a backup out

Begbie · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:24

They don't.

mattyfez · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:26

d_brennen said:
You're begging for it really! Sort a backup out

Don't I know it! Especially when you can get a massive drives for about 50 quid... I've got a lot of rare, random unknown stuff that I really can't loose.

Infact sid it, you just convinced me.. I've been meaning to upgrade my storage for ages.

Hotwired · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:29

How to fill TB drives?

Buy Fraps and record games on high resolution at high frame rates.

Hell, my Fraps storage is almost as big as my illegal downloads stash.

Stumble Bum · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:30

LOTS OF HD 3D POV Pornnnnnnn!!!!!!!

D.P. · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:33

simulatorman said:
Don't forget images and video. Not the funny stuff but photography.

i have hundreds of gigs of photos, and i shoot about 1% of the time i would want to and most of my photos are only 6mp.

Freefaller · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:36

I rip a lot of my music and videos so that I can store them on a media server. Uncompressed so it does take up a lot of space. Saying that I've only got a few TBs of data.