QOTW: How much storage do you have inside your main PC?

[lumireleon]

360GB mechanical

[SRPlus]

1TB Samsung 850 Pro for Professional software, Games and App's

512GB Samsung 850 Pro for Project files

2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD for media and Batch files.

1TB WD My Passport Ultra for Projects backup.

I'm definitely using more storage space than a few years back, the old system had a 150GB O/S / App's drive, 300GB projects/Media/batch file drive, and a 70gb scratch drive, all velociraptor HDD's.

I say old system, but my current system is getting on a bit now.

I Will probably build a new rig late next year based on a dual socket Purely-P Mobo, and hopefully the fully loaded GP100 Pascal's. The old system will become a render node.

As its mostly for professional use, I don't see my storage needs in the future getting smaller.

[lodore]

two 120gb sandisk SSD
one 500gb hdd
one 2tb hdd

I will be replacing the 500gb hdd with a 500gb ssd later in the year.

[Percy1983]

I dont think you understand the term, 'point of failure' in context. If you have 24TB of data all running through a single RAID card, a failure in the RAID card can result in total 24TB of data loss. It's a single point in the system that can result in total data loss.
If you have another set of drives with duplicated data from the RAID array (whether the second set of drives is an array or not is irrelevant) then if the RAID card dies, you still have a copy of the data. This does not add an addition point of failure, it protects you from the existing one. This is a backup and is the only way to properly protect your data.

As Peter said, RAID Is not a replacement for backup. It does not protect your data, it offers a level of protection for a drive failure but has risks associated with it, especially when using a striped array (such as 5 or 6).

There is no 'cost effective' alternative solutions. This is simply the cost of proper data management.

I would agree with the above, I don't use raid for backups due to this. My raid arrays are raid 0 for performance which of course increases the odds on a failure, my backup is a external hard drive. It doesn't get much better for backups as you can store them elsewhere too.

[bluepumpkin]

Less space actually, i removed all my HDDs and now just have 2 x 250GB SSD and 1 x 120GB SSD with cloud storage for everything else

[Biscuit]

I would agree with the above, I don't use raid for backups due to this. My raid arrays are raid 0 for performance which of course increases the odds on a failure, my backup is a external hard drive. It doesn't get much better for backups as you can store them elsewhere too.

The further the high impedance oxygen gap is, the better

[kammak743]

128GB SSD and 1TB HDD. This system is just over a year old and the only external storage I have is for backup. I just don't find I need much. Most of my media is streamed so not much media space is needed. My previous computer had a 320GB HDD.

[wazzickle]

500GB ssd in my workstation and 260GB M.2 in my HTPC, 3TB external HDD plugged into HTPC. Might consider a NAS build down the line (years not months)

[lamdt]

128GB SSD of boot; 2TB HDD storage; 4x500GB of caching for browser, temp and other stuff

[Hoonigan]

4x500GB of caching for browser

Before reading the rest, I was genuinely intrigued.....

[fend_oblivion]

I'm still using a 1TB HDD. I'd like to buy another HDD or maybe even an SSD some time in the future.

[lamdt]

4x500GB of caching for browser

Before reading the rest, I was genuinely intrigued.....

Hehe, all of them are used by my friends and customers, i replace newwer hdd for them and collect small hdd for use.

[ET3D]

My "main PC" is a little hard to define. In my HTPC there's a 60GB SSD + 2TB HDD (which is quite full so might be upgraded this year). In the family laptop there's 1TB SSHD. For the secondary laptop I recently moved from a 250GB HDD to a 240GB SSD (which I bought for my desktop almost two years ago but was never installed since I haven't used the desktop for almost two years).

My personal "main PC" is my tablet which has 16GB + 64GB microSD. Unfortunately Android (before 6) is really bad when it comes to using the microSD.

[Queelis]

240GB SSD, 640 GB HDD and a 1TB HDD. Borderline sufficient

[genkifd]

256GB SSD and a 2 TB HDD - plenty for now. may upgrade in a year or two to a 512gb SSD mainly due to speed.

[UKnoble]

250GB primary SSD, 120GB secondary SSD and a 2TB HDD.