How many hard drives do you have?

[mast3r]

I have a 20mb Conner drive. My mate has a 8mb drive, which is something like 5 1/4" big.

Mates of mates or a brother from another mother dont count kind sir! lol.

 

[snowdog]

Windows drive: WD2500JB
Hitachi Dekstar 160 gb (Device Description HDS722516VLAT20 )
Maxtor dmax 10plus 300gbyte
2x 7200.10 sata raid 0 500gb total

total: 1.26 terrabytes...

No perticular hdd for thing 1 and hdd 2 for thing 2, all mixed games&data&films etc.

 

[photoshop]

C: 80Gb Maxtor ATA
D: 300Gb Maxtor SATA - Download
E: 400GB Lacie External - Archive

780Gb

 

[ken1307]

you guys have way too many HDDs


1x WD 500GB

C:\ Xp (15GB)
D:\ Vista (35GB)
E:\ Storage (415GB)

 

[semi-pro waster]

you guys have way too many HDDs

Maybe but when one coughs it I can just switch over to the next one easily with barely 15 minutes delay, with only one drive I think you'd struggle to do the same.

 

[naro]

System 1:
1 x 250gb Hitachi T7K250
1 x 320gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.10

System 2:
1 x 74gb Western Digital Raptor WD740GD
1 x 320gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.10

Laptop:
1 x 120gb Samsung Spinpoint HM120JC

External USB Hdd:
1 x 80gb Samsung Spinpoint MP0804H

Unused hdd:
1 x 18gb Fujitsu MAM 15k SCSI
1 x 146gb Seagate Cheetah 15k.4 SCSI

Server on the way:
4 x 18gb SCSI (not too sure abt the specs)

 

[rpstewart]

you guys have way too many HDDs

Why? I couldn't fit my photos from last couple of years, let alone the three previous years on your 500Gb drive...

 

[UKDTweak]

2x 80gb maxtors, both IDE.
2x 160 seagates, 1 IDE and 1 SATA (boot)

External.

1x 250gb Maxtor
1x 30gb 2.5"

760gb in total.

Laptop = 50gb.

Think its time though that i upgraded my 2x 80gb, as im running low on space for games and multimedia drives.

 

[davetherave2]

Main System

1x 74GB Raptor XP Install
1x 74GB Raptor Vista Install
1x 74GB Raptor Spare
2x 120GB Maxtor Raid 1
2x 500GB WD Raid 0
1x 120GB Maxtor External HDD

Media System

1x 40GB Media centre Install
2x 160GB Maxtor

 

[hp7909]

1x WD 80 GB
1x Maxtor 160 GB (Soon to be replaced, & not because of lack of space )



Plus lots of 30~40 GB HDs. 1's used to back-up MUSIC & VIDEOS partition once-in-a-while, others are in old PCs used for work/etc

 

[HeX]

I have a 20mb Conner drive. My mate has a 8mb drive, which is something like 5 1/4" big.

Bah, beat m8, was gonna post that I have an old 135Mb IBM drive, its 5 1/4" full bay height and weighs about 20 stone lol

Its also indestructable as its still working now, and believe me, i've tried to kill it on many occasions lol

 

[Trixxy]

Main PC

2x36GB Raptors (Raid 0)
C (25GB) - Vista
D (15GB) - XP
E (30GB) - Programs, Settings

2x250GB WD 2500KS (Raid 0)
F (465GB) - Games, Documents, Images, Media

WD 5000AAKS (500GB)
G (465GB) - Music, Media

3 External USB Caddies with 160, 120 & 120GB drives in them.

Server

2x160GB Samsung Spinpoints
C (20GB) - XP
D (280GB) - Programs, Settings, Videos, Software

 

[cavemanoc]

Main Rig:

• c: <Windows> - 1x36Gb 15k4 Seagate Cheetah (Raid 0 )
• d: <Games> - 3x18gb 15k3 Seagate Cheetahs (Raid 0)
• e: <Storage/Editing> - 2x72Gb 15k3 Seagate Cheetahs (Raid 0)
• f: <Backup> - 1x160Gb Maxtor
• g: <External Backup> - 160Gb Spinpoint 2½ Samsung
• x: <Still buying> - 4x72Gb 15k4 Seagate Cheetahs (Raid 0)

All running off a Dell Perc 4e/DC (LSI Megaraid 320 2e)

Yes - I like Seagate

 

[Kmodo]

250gb Main HD
160gb Back up and junk
160gb Music, Videos, EXE, ISO ect

 

[jbloggs]

Main Rig:

2 x 74GB Raptors in RAID0: C:\ - 10GB, D:\ - 64GB E:\ - 64GB for OS, My Documents, short term (unimportant storage) backup, games,

1 x 320GB SATA 7200.10: F:\ - storage

2 x 200GB SATA 7200.7: G:\ & H:\ - Storage & Backup.

Secondary Rig:

1 x 250GB Hitachi SATA Deskstar: C:\ - 10GB, D:\ - 114GB, & E:\ - 114GB - OS, My Documents etc

1 X WD 200GB PATA: F:\ - Backup & Storage.

1 Icy Box (with 320GB SATA 7200.10), connected to secondary rig via USB and shared over (simple) network with Main Rig, long term backups.

 

[iBot]

1, 2 partitions

2 optical drives

 

[Netvyper]

hmm; good question:

Main Rig;
150gb Raptor-X - System, Games etc;
80gb Seagate 7200.7 - Old-System (Has Docs/Settings etc)
80gb WD Sata - "slush disk" Downloads/Demos/media/work in progress etc.

Storage Box;
1x 100gb WD
1x 120gb WD
2x 200gb Seagate (No Raid)
1x 250gb Seagate

^^ All a mess of Media, TV Records etc.

 

[MeatLoaf]

Ive got 4 now :

74Gb Raptor - C - Windows 28Gb + D - Games 42Gb
250Gb Samsung - E - Programs + F - Work + Documents
120Gb Maxotr - I - Spare - mite try Vista on it
250Gb WD in an External Caddy - Backup and Backing Tracks

 

[afraser2k]

Main PC

Maxtor MaxLine Plus II 250Gb IDE hard disk
Maxtor OneTouch II 250Gb External Firewire hard disk (main PC backups)


Shuttle SB75G2 PVR

Maxtor 300Gb SATA hard disk

Epia M6000 Server

Western Digital 120Gb IDE hard disk
100 Mb /boot ext2
1024 Mb /swap Linux-Swap
20 Gb / ext3
<the rest> /dos fat32 (contains music/photos/other data)

Currently thinking about how best to consolidate data into one system and stream to the others.

 

[Bomag]

I have been running out of HDD space so I have added a couple more drives

2xPC and 2xServers

2x150GB raptors
2x74GB raptors
2*36gb raptors
2*60gb Deskstar
2*80GB Deskstar
2*200GB Deskstar (all working, just about )
8*250GB various
2*400GB WD
1*500GB Samsung
2*750GB Seagate

NAS
N5200 - 5*400GB Raid5
N2100 - 2*250GB Raid0

And finally my HTPC
1*120GB 2.5inch
3*160GB 2.5inch

Giving a total of 8.7TB of usable space. The usage is roughly split 10% normal usage, 40% Freeview media recordings and 50% DV/HDV