What pc storage do you'll have?

[GR63]

I just salvaged a sound 160Gb IDE from my aged parents aged Sky+ box (circa 2005, date code translates to 2005-12-01) and installed period correct XP on it but its now gonna get Win98SE and Win2000

 

[CvrPaddyCvr]

Was able to get a 1TB SN850 a few weeks ago for £120, already had a Sabrent Rocket 1TB which is now my 2nd drive, 2 250GB samsung ssd's from donkeys ago. Had 6/7 500GB drives from Sky+ boxes from over the years although only retained 1 in my new build. Might see if I can get a cheap NAS and stop paying for my dedicated server which runs my Plex lol

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

128 Gb Crucial M4 boot disk

2x2 Tb Adata Nvme Raid 0 (for single 4tb, the raid actually slows them a little)

2x16 Tb Seagate Exos for backups, music, media etc

And a few old drives used for external backups.

 

[tres_kun]

Windows and steam: 1tb samsung 970 pro
Pictures other games and files: 1TB Gigabyte aorus 1Tb ssd
Gopro storage and C images 3.2TB Huawei ssd
14Tb net capacity nas for back-up and extra small Chia mine on a VM

 

[Uncle_Gravy]

Any opinions on the Samsung 980 Non pro m.2 as a game storage drive? I know its dramless but is that going to be a problem for games? I can get one right now at a decent price is the reason I'm interested.

Sorry to go off topic, didn't want to make a separate thread for this.

 

[BananaDunka]

Tomorrow I will be moving away from mechanical storage drives to all solid state and whilst backups are still on external mechs, these will shift to SSD too later this year.

So as it stands:

OS: Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe 1TB
Storage: Samsung 870 QVO 8TB (replacing 4TB WD Red + 4TB Ironwolf)
As iIs Backups: 3TB WD Green HDD + 2TB WD Red HDD
To Be Backups: Samsung 870 QVO 8TB

I might consider cloud based backup if the prices are decent towards Xmas time though as reliability/redundancy is a world apart vs local backup storage.

Not sure what to do with the HDDs, will have 13TB of HDDs going spare... MM?

I suppose that lot would be perfect for a home NAS solution though so this could also be an option.

 

[TheRandomGuy7]

Any opinions on the Samsung 980 Non pro m.2 as a game storage drive? I know its dramless but is that going to be a problem for games? I can get one right now at a decent price is the reason I'm interested.

Sorry to go off topic, didn't want to make a separate thread for this.

Yes that drive will be amazing for gaming etc. You won't have any problems due to no DRAM and the speed is as good as any PCI 3 drive.

 

[pugheaven]

SSD & Storage:

· 1 x Sabrent 2TB Rocket NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 (3,500MB/s Read & Write, Windows OS/Applications)

· 1 x Sabrent 2TB Rocket NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 (3,500MB/s Read & Write, Games Drive)

· 2 x Samsung 840 Evo Pro SSD in RAID0 (Clone of main Windows OS/Application Drive)

· 1 x 10TB Seagate Barracuda Pro, 7,200RPM HDD (Backup Drive with downloads and archiving)

· 1 x 10TB Iron Wolf, 7,200RPM HDD (Backup Drive with downloads and archiving)

· 1 x 4TB Seagate ST4000DM001, 5,900RPM HDD (Backup Drive with downloads and archiving)

· 2 x Intel SSD in RAID0 (1,000MB/s – 500MB/s Read & Write, Windows OS/Applications)

· 1 x 4TB Seagate ST4000DM001, 5,900RPM HDD (Backup Drive with downloads and archiving)

 

[ianh]

I've 4 laptops of various ages from brand new to one nearly 20 years old, a home gaming PC/Media Centre and a dozen other HDD's in various forms (USB enclosure or internal) all laying about.

IIRC (maybe missing a couple),

1x 120GB SSD
1x 250GB HDD
1x 250GB M.2
1x 500GB SSD
1x 500GB HDD
5x 1TB HDD
1x 1TB SSD
2x 1TB M.2
1x 4TB SSD
4x 4TB HDD
1x 4TB M.2
1x 8TB HDD

In daily use are the 8TB (PC - media & backup), 4TB SSD (PC) & M.2 (Laptop) for Steam games and 2x 1TB M.2 (OS on both - PC and Laptop). I regularly use 2x 4TB External HDD's as back-ups for the 8TB media/back-up drive but other than that the rest are sat gathering dust, either in old laptops or sat in my hard-drive "spare box'o'bits".

 

[Malki]

Internal 17.5TB
A: Scratch SSD 500GB
B: Blank SSD 500Gb
C: Windows SSD 500GB
D: Media 6TB
E: Synology Drive 6TB
L: GoPro 2TB
T: Old Photos 2TB

Left DAS 5TB
U: Safe L2 1TB
V: Synology Pool Backup L1 1TB
W: BlankL4 2TB
X: Stuff - Old History L3 1TB

Middle DAS 28TB
R: TV Series M1 6TB
S: Classic - Gopro M2 6TB
Q: Archive 8TB
Y: Media 8TB

Right DAS 2TB
M: Old File History R1 500GB
N: Family Photos R2 500GB
O: Email Archive R3 500GB
P: Junk R4 500GB

XxXXNAS 40TB
8TB x 5
XxXXNAS2 12TB
6TB x 2
External Drives 16TB
8TB x 2
Portable Drives 4TB
2TBx2
Total 124.5TB Storage

 

[bagleyboy]

Just got a WD blue NVME 1tb and a 2TB Seagate Barracuda as a storage drive, but thinking of going purely SSD soon with the prices dropping.

 

[Graywolf]

I have 2 Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2

 

[hornetstinger]

You're all a bunch of girls, that's not a hard drive this is a hard drive

https://ibb.co/KXnDtF1

I reckon you lot should try playing Red Dead Redemption II from many of those hard drives, in JBOD array.

 

[MeatLoaf]

Internal :

OS - 250Gb NVME
Games - 480Gb SSD
Storage 1 - 4TB mechanical extracted from external box
Storage 2 - 2Tb mechanical

External :

2Tb External as backup not always on
1Tb External portable that the wife uses to back up her laptop files. - Cheap box off ebay and a 1Tb drive pulled from a sky or virgin box i forget which

Several 2Tb, 1Tb 500Gb drives in draws upstairs unused

 

[redkrptonite]

2x 1Tb samsung 970 evo in raid 0
1-1Tb Samsung ssd 860
Several 1Tb external ssd’s for video and photos

was thinking of getting a couple of pcie 4.0 nvme drives and running them in raid 0 on a x570 motherboard. Is there much speed improvement to be had? What with windows 11 supposedly taking advantage of high speed drives in supported games.

 

[hundred-and-one]

Gaming PC
1x 2TB SN750 NVME drive - Windows and Apps
2x 8TB Seagates for games
1x 2TB for Music
1x 8TB USB drive for archives (linux images, Raspberry PI images, app installers)

Debian home server
1x 250GB SSD - Boot drive
4x 4TB RAID5 WD drives - media storage

 

[kona786]

A lot

 

[GR63]

I predict they will be shucked (and warranty voided) v soon