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How much HDD space do you use?

Poll Results: How much space do you use?

 
  • 0% (0)
    <5 GBs
  • 8% (4)
    5-15 GBs
  • 17% (8)
    15-25 GBs
  • 13% (6)
    25-40 GBs
  • 13% (6)
    40-60 GBs
  • 6% (3)
    60-80 GBs
  • 13% (6)
    80-120 GBs
  • 2% (1)
    120-200 GBs
  • 2% (1)
    200-320 GBs
  • 22% (10)
    >320 GBs
45 Total Votes  
post #1 of 18
5/6/05 at 5:29pm
Thread Starter 
How much HDD space do you tend to use with all your apps/programs/music/movies/OSes/etc?
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post #2 of 18
5/6/05 at 5:33pm
Right now using 20gb of my 40gb 7200rpm Hitatchi drive.
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post #3 of 18
5/6/05 at 5:50pm
Thread Starter 
Whoa, who selected more than 320 GBs!!!!!!
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post #4 of 18
5/6/05 at 6:05pm
Well, if I considered my 4 desktops in the house plus my two laptops, it would then be well over 500gb.
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post #5 of 18
5/6/05 at 6:13pm
I have well over 2TB of storage across my various Machines.

My Main Rig has
2x74GB Raptors
4x250GB Hitachi

My Encoding Rig has
4x160 Hitachis

My Wifes Computer has
2x160GB Maxtors

Then my old FileServer/Folding Server has
3x80GB (Various)
1x40GB

Oh and 60GB in my I9300

So all told
2.448 TB

I have every CD/Game/Movie I own stored on one of my HDDs. I am a storage freak, and I constantly Add Storage to my systems.

I think right now, I have around 400GB available.
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post #6 of 18
5/6/05 at 6:15pm
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You have all of those drives filled up?
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post #7 of 18
5/6/05 at 6:19pm
Most of them Yes. I do a lot of movie Encoding etc.

I think I have almost 700GB of just Game/Program CD Images.
I rip Every DVD Down to a single Disc, and I also encode them all in Divx. That right there takes up a ton of space. Probally 5GB+ /DVD.

I am a Digital Packrat :P
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post #8 of 18
5/6/05 at 6:28pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Spazilton
Most of them Yes. I do a lot of movie Encoding etc.

I think I have almost 700GB of just Game/Program CD Images.
I rip Every DVD Down to a single Disc, and I also encode them all in Divx. That right there takes up a ton of space. Probally 5GB+ /DVD.

I am a Digital Packrat :P
LOL, divx. Been a while since I've dabbled with that. I have over 300 divx/xvid movie collecting dust over here. I got into DVDs in the last year and a half. I have over 175 DVDs, for 752GB. Constantly growing too.
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post #9 of 18
5/6/05 at 6:31pm
If you count removable media (ie CDs, DVDs, Flash Dives, Ext. HDDs, HDD MP3 players) im sure the average tech guru could have a colossal amount of used file space.
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post #10 of 18
5/6/05 at 7:01pm
Thread Starter 
I mean just HDD storage
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post #11 of 18
5/6/05 at 7:15pm
i usually have less than 10gb of my 60gb drive... i download a lot, i keep my laptop on all the time and i store my data on my firewire 400 external 500gb (120gb free left).
funny topic - just yesterday i was lookin for prices of external hdd cause im gonna buy one more 500 gb id like to get the 1,5tb or 2tb drive but cant afford it :P
u may ask = what the hell r u downloading? well i got mainly movies... most of my friends were recording all the data on the cds or dvds and keeping those somewhere in their room, so many many all around the place but i thought its better to get one big drive and thats it
im more than happy with my external drive :-)
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post #12 of 18
5/6/05 at 7:23pm
For the notebook I use all of it. Right now the top notebook drive is 100gb. I have probably a base for programs of about 40 gigs and databases, VMs, games and movie files will fill up the rest and constantly need to be cleaned up to keep me under 100gb. I also regularly use external harddrives.

On my desktop I have about 750 gigs of space which is mostly used for PVR.
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post #13 of 18
5/6/05 at 8:02pm
Over 1TB of storage. Video editing takes up a lot of space
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post #14 of 18
5/6/05 at 8:30pm
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Originally Posted by MichaelX30
Whoa, who selected more than 320 GBs!!!!!!
Currently have about 30 gigs of stuff on the laptop drive, and two 200 gig firewire drives.
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post #15 of 18
5/6/05 at 9:04pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by DriveEuro
LOL, divx. Been a while since I've dabbled with that. I have over 300 divx/xvid movie collecting dust over here. I got into DVDs in the last year and a half. I have over 175 DVDs, for 752GB. Constantly growing too.
Same here I have most of my DVD's ripped directly to the HardDrive.

The main reason I still use Divx is because I have a lot of TV episodes that I xfer back and forth to my Laptop. When I can get 2 1hr Epsiodes of Something on 1CD its worth it.
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post #16 of 18
5/6/05 at 9:10pm
xevious root # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 184G 184G 292M 100% /
/dev/hde1 110G 110G 21M 100% /drive2
/dev/hdf1 111G 108G 2.8G 98% /drive3
/dev/hdb1 147G 147G 145M 100% /drive4
/dev/hdg1 76G 75G 440M 100% /drive5
1.1.1.1:/storage 28G 28G 6.6M 100% /box2
1.1.1.40:/tv 824G 812G 13G 99% /myth
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post #17 of 18
5/6/05 at 9:18pm
110gb desktop + 45gb laptop
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post #18 of 18
5/6/05 at 9:22pm
I thought my 60GB drive would be a little slim, but since I keep this laptop super clean compared to my desktop, I'm only using 36.6GB of space for all of my stuff. I do make home DVDs during the summer, and I would get a massive external drive if I didn't have a desktop to store stuff on.
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