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

    Since early last year I've had a three tier setup with an SSD for OS and games, then a HDD for media (scratch copies of videos while editing and converting), then a NAS for long term protected storage (backed up to crashplan, raid 6 array).

    Recently I've moved from a couple of laptops to a single workstation and have combined all the spare drives so I now have two 240GB SSDs in RAID 0, then misc HDDs using windows storage spaces for spanned storage, think that's about 800GB across 3 drives. Finally the NAS is 13TB actual, 7TB effective (one 3TB is being used as a 2TB, then two drives of parity lost, then a little extra for all the ZFS gubbins).

    So, about a terabyte of which 400GB is SSD. For more I go to the network.

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

    At the moment just a 120gb ssd. Top tip of the day, don't buy Toshiba HDDs. On my 3rd one (1 DOA, 1 dead 10 months later and the 3rd one dead after 15 months after purchase) oh and their UK warranty sucks

    Still have the NAS with important stuff on it, and with gibabit connections round the house it's less of a problem these days

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

    640GB hitachi for C drive and games,
    1TB hitachi for 'stuff' like music and general drivers and stuff like that,
    2TB hitachi for movie and tv series collection

    WD 1TB external for backups
    touro 1TB for more backups
    240GB crucial SSD for plugging in amp and tv for movie watching and things.

    would be using the SSD for c drive, which I was until sata port broke, or the sata cable, or even the SSD or mobo (cant tell which) but the SSD keeps disconnecting if I plug it in internally.

    would get bigger drives but mobo only supports 2TB max. it is 7 years old.


    so. internal storage has shrunk due to sata ports breaking. externals grown due to more backups and using internal drives as external.

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

    At present, a single 1TB HDD. However I'm right in the middle of organising an upgrade, which will include a 500GB SSD and a 2nd 1TB HDD bringing me up to 2.5TB. I also have 3TB total in WD Passports, 2TB for media and currently 1TB for steam game backups, however since I'm now on faster internet I may delete all of those and repurpose it for more media storage or backups of important info.

    I would like to move over completely to SSDs for the speed as aside from browsing and light work, the pc is primarily used for gaming and currently media consumption, but I'd like to get a nice big tablet for that so I'm not confined to the desk. They're still too expensive for me to consider though, so for now hard drives it is. It may be I eventually convert to all SSDs on the PC, and get a NAS box to load up with HDDs to store all my media and access it remotely from the tablet when I like. Gotta be able to afford it first though.

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

    Easily over 14tb.
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    Re: QOTW: How much storage do you have inside your main PC?

    250GB SSD - OS and Programs
    120GB SSD - Scratch/Temp Folder/Page File Drive for things like Photoshop (older left over drive from old pc)
    1TB HD - Document/work assets storage
    1.5TB HD - Media storage

    I do need more storage though.

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

    6 tb hdd + 128 gb ssd

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

    8 Years ago I built my last PC and installed 4x750GB drives in RAID10, but as drives were replaced by bigger ones after failure and I eventually added an SSD it changed. I've just built a new one (the old Q6700 has been replaced by an i7 6700K!) and now have a 250GB Samsung 850 SSD for OS and programs and a 2TB WD Red for data plus an extra 1.5TB which I occasionally back things up on, so not actually got that much more than 8 years ago. I will move to a NAS eventually as I am running our of data space. Probably go for 4TB useable in RAID1.

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

    1240 ssd
    4tb hdd

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

    120 ssd for windows
    120 ssd for steam
    1tb for backups
    1tb for media
    500gb for misc.

    I did have another 640gb but i gave that to my Mrs for her first PC build.


    Planning on getting a couple of 2tbs as my drives are getting old.
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    Re: QOTW: How much storage do you have inside your main PC?

    Not enough.

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

    2.5TB (mirrored) HDD, soon to be 5TB mirrored
    256GB SSD - OS and ZFS cache

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

    Quote Originally Posted by iranu View Post
    I'm always astounded at people who have terabytes and terabytes of space and fill it? What with?
    I think I've got about 12TB of NAS storage, only ~ 3TB in my Mac. I've got a fairly large media library - uncompressed bluray rips run to about 30GB, and I don't want the kids scratching the physical disks. I keep local copies of software ISOs for rapid spinning up of VMs.

    I also mount my NAS as an iSCSI device to have my steam collection on, a time machine backup device (using AFP), and a document storage repo as I need to keep company records for 7 years. Even so though, I've only used ~ 10TB. To be honest, I'm more surprised about the number of people running RAID-0 in this thread, and I would wager probably software RAID-0 rather than hardware.

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

    Main PC Local storage:
    120GB x2 OCZ agility 3 SSD raid 0 (boot drive: programs, games)
    4TB SSHD Seagate (games, programs and files)
    1TB Samsung 840 EVO (games)

    Win 10 Media Storage Server/Game Stream:
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    Re: QOTW: How much storage do you have inside your main PC?

    256GB Samsung SSD
    512GB Samsung SSD
    bunch of 250GB + HDD

    to be replaced with
    256GB Samsung 950 Pro M2 drive
    keep the 512Gb SSD
    and get two Toshiba X300 4TB HDD and put them in RAID 1
    the 256GB SSD will go in an external enclosure

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