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

[Percy1983]

Main PC (gaming + work)

256gb SSD - windows
4tb Raid 0 (2tb x2) + 64gb SSD Cache (video files + games)
2tb extra

Media PC

128gb SSD - windows
2tb storage

Second PC (work)
2tb raid 0 (1tb x2) + 32cb ssd cache

netbook
256gb ssd

router
1.5tb USB drive

dvd duplicator
1tb hd

Other
3tb USB3 drive
128gb USB3 pendrive

Never actually thought about it and listed it all before.
Thinking back to my first PC
8.4gb hd

[hpv9]

i have an 250 ssd a 2tb and 1tb hard drive

[enemys]

465GB SSD and 2861GB HDD. 2/3 of SSD capacity is currently used - and honestly, I could (and I did) live with the SSD alone. But I needed some backup and media storage, and the drive was dirt cheap, so I bought the 3TB version instead of just 1TB.

[The_Stalker]

1tb SSD Samsung Evo, 2x 2tb HDD's + 2x 1TB HDD's - less, is never more

[peterb]

My main PC is a server with 3Tb in a RAID 1 array, which stores all my data. The client machines have between 500Gb and 1Tb, but that is mainly for OS and transient files.

Yes, it is more than 5 years ago.

[hairyonion]

A little more than 8tb atm, I recently lost a 3tb so I would of said 11tb if that didn't happen. When I get the money I plan to get 4 8tb drives and put them in a raid so I wont lose any more data or at least reduce the risk.

I have a htpc which holds the bulk of the data.

[peterb]

A little more than 8tb atm, I recently lost a 3tb so I would of said 11tb if that didn't happen. When I get the money I plan to get 4 8tb drives and put them in a raid so I wont lose any more data or at least reduce the risk.

I have a htpc which holds the bulk of the data.

RAID is not a substitute for backing up data!

[QuorTek]

Currently around 2TB SSD power 500GB main, 1GB Games, 250GB backup games 750GB other.

[mojothejester]

120gb SSD for windows, 240gb SSD for steam, gog, origin, uplay, and a handful of games, 1tb HDD for the rest of the games, programmes, and media. Need a bigger HDD, and maybe a 500gb SSD for more games

[=assassin=]

My primary PC is from 2010, and has the 640Gb western digital drive that I used for OS, as well as a 2Tb Seagate drive that I added in early 2013. I have 95gb and 670gb remaining space on each drive, and that's without doing much tidying up, so I could clear alot more, so I don't need any extra space right now.

[Biscuit]

RAID is not a substitute for backing up data!

Yeah people need to remember that RAID is not a good data protection method, certainly if using consumer grade drives.

Buying 4 x 8TB drives and putting them in a RAID array might seem like you are adding a layer of protection, but unless its RAID 1, you have to remember that you are adding other elements than can cause failure.
When building an array, you have to remember the device which actually manages it, is a point of failure.
Sure RAIDZ on something like freenas obfuscates this somewhat, but at the end of the day this only protects against DRIVE failure. If you do have a drive failure and you rebuild using the parity calculation, you have to thrash all your other drives for long periods of time during the process, in which time you can easily encounter another drive failure and lose everything. When working with single parity drive across a 4 x 8TB drives... that's some clenchy bum time rebuilding.

My unRAID array thankfully is not an array in the traditional sense, it keeps files as files on a drive formatted normally. If the array fails then I can get the individual files back. It has parity to protect for a drive failure still but even then, its still a bit of a risk whenever you have to check the parity. Soon they will be introducing the ability for redundant parity... which will be well received if successful.

The best way to back up and protect your data is to have it in two separate locations/arrays/drives. 'Cold' storage is, as far as im concerned, the best way to backup vital data, even if it is inconvenient.

RAID has drifted into the consumer space in recent years and I understand why, unfortunately the mentality and understanding of purpose has not come with it.

[Plasmastorm]

240ssd for windows, 1tb for game, 2x2tb mirror for storage which really need upping to 2x 4tb as it's pretty full :-/

[Palidy]

128 GB SSD + 5,5 TB in PC + 8 TB in NAS

[kontoletasg]

Internal i have 1 SSD and 15 HDDs with 30TBs of storage
External i have many HDDs and extenal HDDs(USB 3.0, e-sata, USB 2.0) with about 90TBs of storage

[Agrippa]

I'm always astounded at people who have terabytes and terabytes of space and fill it? What with?

pr0n obvz.

Movies, TV series and documentaries take up a fair bit of space when they number in the thousands. The same is of course true for HD pr0n.

[samuraiweasel]

500gb ssd + 2tb Mechanical