Poll: What's your PC's storage capacity?

Author: Phil Cogar
Published: 15th September 2007
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How much storage do you have to satisfy your porn/music/movies/TV show cravings?

How much storage do you have to satisfy your porn/music/movies/TV show cravings?

32MB. That's how big my very first HDD was and I didn't think that I was ever going to fill it up.

With today's programs, multimedia files, and random assortment of other documents however, you can fill up several gigabytes in a matter of minutes. Hard drives are coming in larger sizes and cost far less than they ever have, making storage space not so much a premium but more of an affordable and easy upgrade.

With many people showing off music collections that are greater than 100GB over in the forums, it brought up an interesting question.

Just how much storage space do you have in your computer? You can combine the amount of storage space from all of your computers for a grand total.

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Quote Croc 15th September 2007, 06:50
I've got 4x400GB (soon to be raid 5) and a 74GB Raptor
Quote Woodstock 15th September 2007, 06:56
470gb all up thou ive stolen space on mums pc, gonna order a 500gb soon
Quote Mankz. 15th September 2007, 07:05
400Gb on this one

(2x 400 GB Maxtors running in RAID 1)
Quote oaso 15th September 2007, 07:06
320 GB + 40 GB + 13 GB
Quote Breach 15th September 2007, 07:38
I have 2x 160s + a 250gb on my gaming rig. Then 3x250gb in a RAID 5 on my backup server, which is about 500gb usuable.
Quote DougEdey 15th September 2007, 07:42
2x500 + 1x200 on my main rig
40GB on here
Quote sk8ter646 15th September 2007, 08:11
:Dhehe 10 x 500gb drives and a 200gb boot in my server:D
then theres 3 300gbs in my gaming pc
3 200gbs in the work pc
a 500gb in each media centre of which there are 3
and 2 80gbs in the laptops

total of 8.36 tb hehe
Quote oasked 15th September 2007, 08:12
Theoretically I have 320Gb + 200Gb + 80Gb + 80Gb = 680Gb on my main rig, but as you know that's actually less.
Quote mannafig 15th September 2007, 08:26
At the minute I have in my rig 5x250gb HDD but this will be up for a major upgrade soon:D
Quote HellRazor 15th September 2007, 08:32
My Desktop rig has 250+80+80.... and only 4 GB free...
though not for long, I think HL2:episode 2 is going to require I build a new gaming rig....
Quote Mister_Tad 15th September 2007, 08:52
8x250 + 74GB in main rig
750 + 400 in the htpc
4x320 in the server
100 in a laptop
60 in tuther laptop
320 3.5" external
60 2.5" external

I voted 1-5TB, but just adding that lot up, it appears I've voted incorrectly :o

edit: actually, depends on whether we're talking TB or TiB
Quote Aankhen 15th September 2007, 09:03
Desktop: 300 GB × 2 = 600 GB
Laptop: ~110 GB
External disks: 2 × 279 GB + 750 GB

Total: 600 + 110 + 558 + 750 = 2,018 GB

Oops. Looks like I don't fit in the 400 GB–1 TB category after all. :o
Quote BioSniper 15th September 2007, 09:06
400 and something gigamabytes for me.
Quote Sh0ckwave 15th September 2007, 09:10
At least 2TB spread over about 8 computers in the house.
Quote fwalm 15th September 2007, 09:20
Hmm, I need more space, at the moment only got a 160gb in my computer which is practically gone while trying to save space plus my 250gb WD external which is full, getting 2 500gb hd's so at moment only got 390gb.
Quote LinMan 15th September 2007, 09:25
At the moment only 60gb
Quote Neoki 15th September 2007, 09:33
In my PC
250 x 3
160
120
20

In my Sisters
200

Office
80

Laptop
80

External
100
Quote Laitainion 15th September 2007, 09:42
I've got 320gig in my main system (2x160 in RAID 0) plus 80gig in each of the family machines as well as a couple of spare 80gig SATA drives. Most of my storage though is in a file server, a 40gig for the OS plus 5x320gigs in RAID 3 (using the XFX revo thingyme).

That makes about 1.8TB not including the discs not in use, and the 320gig lost in a RAID 3.
Quote woodshop 15th September 2007, 09:45
120GB in the MBP
80GB in the Tower.
also included the 500GB Lacie NAS drive in my total
Quote Pimp Daddy 15th September 2007, 09:45
I've chosen the 100-400Gb option because although my tower has two 250Gb drives, they're configured for mirrored RAID.

My laptop (which I'm using at the moment) has an 80Gb HDD.
Quote rowpie 15th September 2007, 09:49
1-5TB for me.

Main Rig: 2 x 150 GB Raptors

File Server: 6 x 250 GB WD (soon to be 8 in RAID 5)

Spare: 2 x 80 GB

Office 1 x 60 GB

Laptop 1 x 60 GB

Probably about another 100 GB in old my old systems in the loft. (Really need to do something with those)
Quote HourBeforeDawn 15th September 2007, 10:15
my daily use rig has a little more than a Tera byte of storage, 750gb + 500gb + 250gb (bunch of crap on all drives lol).
my gaming rig has almost a Tera byte of storage, 750gb (music and lightly used games) and 150gb Raptor (OS and Heavy used games)
my HTPC rig has 4 Terabyte of storage, 4 Hitachi Tera Drives (Movies and Music), 1 74gb Raptor (OS and Applications)

I will be building a file server after I complete my two projects so that I can run my BTs and web design stuff off of it, it will have 2 Tera bytes.
Quote bowmore 15th September 2007, 10:19
500 +250 internal seagates and just got a me a 250 Freeagent from seagate also ^^
Quote TTmodder 15th September 2007, 10:20
1 500 gig external, 1 200 gig external and a 100 gig internl in my lappy :P
Quote Edenalig 15th September 2007, 10:21
Alot of space is used for my photos, but I still have the usual stuff ;)
MCE PC 2 x 400Gb + 2 x 60Gb + 250Gb external
Media PC 2 x 80Gb + 4 x 120Gb + 60Gb
Laptop 1 x 60Gb
Quote Lakeuk 15th September 2007, 10:22
Main PC has 980Gb consisting of:-

250Gb partitioned as 40Gb for OS/Programs and 210Gb for data files (video,photos,music,games)
160Gb recording live tv (SD+HD quality)
250Gb location for all the tv I've recorded but not managed to watch yet - BBCHD takes up alot of space, plus used for my video editing
320Gb External - was mainly another archive device for tv progs, photos before they got backed up to dvd, but also use it to backup my important files/emails with a simple dos script

Generally I'm ok with space, but xmas is abit touch and go

My old pc has a 80Gb and 40Gb harddisk plus I have various <10Gb disks lieing around to experiment with

plus in the loft I have an old Amstrad which has a hard disk with the grand total of 20Mb !!!
Quote DarkReaper 15th September 2007, 10:25
2x250Gb in the only PC I've brought with me to student house.
Quote Bogie 15th September 2007, 10:29
I got 3 x 500gb, 1 x 320gb, 1 x 150gb, so that equals 1970gb! Wow!
Quote GRiDlock 15th September 2007, 10:32
2x 250Gb Maxtor's (Raid0) + 2x 500Gb Samsung's in the main PC
2x 160Gb Seagate's (Raid0) in the games PC (will soon be 4x 160Gb - Raid5)
2x 250Gb WD's in the Server
Quote alextwo 15th September 2007, 10:33
5 x 320GB in RAID 5 + 200GB Linux only drive on my main PC
100GB Laptop + 160GB external drive.
Quote roryok 15th September 2007, 10:34
Laptop has 120gb

Main Rig has 2x250 + 140, so 640GB overall.

And about 20GB free.... oh dear...

Interesting thing is, my main rig has an athlon64,a powered ATI x800XL,three HDs (and occasionally a fourth), and a DVD Drive, all running off a single 350W PSU, without problems!

I'm sure once I get my 8800 it'll be a different strory tho =/
Quote bubsterboo 15th September 2007, 10:35
Roughly 1.7tb in 2 x 500s in raid0 and some misc hdds.
Quote mulberrycrush 15th September 2007, 10:46
Main Drive 320Gb Sata II
Back up 400Gb Sata II

(just sold a 320Gb)
Quote specofdust 15th September 2007, 10:47
Tim, are you after raw numbers e.g. 3x300 = 900GB, or real numbers in XP e.g. 3x300 = 837GB?
Quote Blademrk 15th September 2007, 10:49
Main Rig
2x80Gb PATA
2x120Gb SATA
1x300Gb SATA

2nd Rig
2x10Gb PATA
1x120Gb SATA
Quote mikeuk2004 15th September 2007, 10:50
Mine are

PC 3 x 120GB 1 x 80GB.
Laptop 80GB
Laptop 60 GB
Portable/External 1 x 40Gb & 1 x 320GB
PSP 1 x 4GB
Sony MP3 1 x 8GB
XBOX 360 1 x 20GB
Flash Pen 1 x 1GB
Quote mikeuk2004 15th September 2007, 10:50
Quote:
Originally Posted by specofdust
Tim, are you after raw numbers e.g. 3x300 = 900GB, or real numbers in XP e.g. 3x300 = 837GB?

oh dont go and confuse things :p
Quote yakyb 15th September 2007, 10:53
at my desk right now 2TB but with my new machine coming shortly that will bump to 3tb with a reshuffle
Quote radziecki 15th September 2007, 10:57
200GB + 160GB

When I think that my first HDD was 2 GB...
Quote FvD 15th September 2007, 11:01
74GB ADFD Raptor
1x120GB Seagate P-ATA
2x200GB Seagate S-ATA
rounds to 553GiB on main
- soon to be upgraded, as those drives are pretty old, probably 2x500 or 2x750GB in Raid 1

120GB/111GiB Seagate P-ATA on my Pundit
80GB/74,5GiB WD Passport II
Quote proxess 15th September 2007, 11:04
Look at the sig.
Also got some random disks thrown around like a 1gb disk, and a portable with 6gb.
Quote Fophillips 15th September 2007, 11:07
80GB + 160GB in my desktop
10GB in my laptop
3x500GB not quite in my server yet
Quote bloodcar 15th September 2007, 11:07
Quote:
Originally Posted by specofdust
Tim, are you after raw numbers e.g. 3x300 = 900GB, or real numbers in XP e.g. 3x300 = 837GB?
Raw numbers are fine mate. No need to confuse a bunch of people. ;)
Quote Silver Shamrock 15th September 2007, 11:08
I have 173gb free on my main drive (the one in my sig) and just over 22gb free on my 120gb maxtor.
Quote identikit 15th September 2007, 11:14
If I include the SCSIs that aren't plugged into anything...too much storage.
Quote [WP@]WOLVERINE 15th September 2007, 11:18
ive got 2,6TB spread over 12 drives if theres one thing you cant get too much of its storage space :)
Quote StephenK 15th September 2007, 11:32
Main box has 320, Powerbook has 80 and i've a portable 20gb so just over 400 :)

Never really need that much storage space tbh
Quote GiGo 15th September 2007, 11:38
Just added a couple more to my collection so it now stands at:

2x200GB Seagates
4x500GB Seagates (the new ones I picked up 2 weeks ago)
6x250GB Maxtors

so unformatted space is 3.9TB or 3900GB

Um... lots of space for music and stuff :D

Regards
GiGo
Quote specofdust 15th September 2007, 11:53
Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeuk2004
oh dont go and confuse things :p

I'm not. I'm just asking for clarification. The two totals are vastly different numbers.

edit: Ah well, turns out I fit where I fit regardless of loss.
Quote Veles 15th September 2007, 12:10
Almost 1TB now, a 150Gb raptor, a 320Gb 7200.10 and a 250Gb Caviar
Quote DougEdey 15th September 2007, 12:12
You're 280GB off! Must try harder.
Quote Phil Rhodes 15th September 2007, 12:18
Six 750s in a RAID-0, plus a boot disk.

Well, I am editing HD video here :)

Phil
Quote zerolock 15th September 2007, 12:19
160 GB on my desktop + 250 GB on external hard drive
Quote Eraflo 15th September 2007, 12:20
250+ 80+ 80+ 40+ 20+ 250+ random small boot drives

720+
Soon to add a 500gb to the server though so over a TB :)
Quote DougEdey 15th September 2007, 12:22
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil Rhodes
Six 750s in a RAID-0, plus a boot disk.

Well, I am editing HD video here :)

Phil

Ewwww, RAID-0!
Quote specofdust 15th September 2007, 12:24
Quote:
Originally Posted by DougEdey
Ewwww, RAID-0!

For someone editing HD video that's a perfect storage setup to have. Assuming he has backups of course.
Quote DougEdey 15th September 2007, 12:28
Quote:
Originally Posted by specofdust
For someone editing HD video that's a perfect storage setup to have. Assuming he has backups of course.

Well he hasn't counted any hard drive backup space ;)
Quote bcuk 15th September 2007, 12:29
2 x 120GB Maxtors Raid
1 x 250Gb WD storage/downloads

adding a 500GB soon for images/movies/ever expanding music collection
Quote specofdust 15th September 2007, 12:29
Quote:
Originally Posted by DougEdey
Well he hasn't counted any hard drive backup space ;)

So?
Quote cyrilthefish 15th September 2007, 12:30
1.5TB on this PC (3x 500GB)
sat on top of the PC i have a 120, 160 and 200GB IDE drives from my old PC, which will be going into my server PC when i stop being lazy and actually move them there :P

server PC has 160GB (2x80GB)

laptop has 60GB

brother's PC has 160GB

parent's PC has 80GB

grand total nearly 2.5TB
Quote wuyanxu 15th September 2007, 12:35
total or on my computer?

just bought a 500GB for my new build.

and have a 500GB external for backup, 250GB on my old computer with 30GB + 40GB on my very old computer. total: 1.3TB.

why would people need so much storage anyway? 500GB for games + a bit of video editing + music is more than enough.
Quote MR BUNGLE 15th September 2007, 12:56
240gb
3x fecking noisy WD 80gb JB IDE drives here..
- 2 on a cheap and nasty IDE raid card.

JOY
Quote Phil Rhodes 15th September 2007, 12:56
> For someone editing HD video that's a perfect storage setup to have. Assuming he has backups of course.

What I have is the EDLs and the ability to recapture it all from video tape.

Otherwise yes. Uncompressed 1080p requires quite silly amounts of space.

Phil
Quote CraZy 15th September 2007, 13:08
80gb + 3x 120gb = 440gb :)
Soon to buy a 500gb external
Quote Lex 15th September 2007, 13:09
200+200+120
Quote naokaji 15th September 2007, 13:11
main computer = 2x 36 GB Raptors in raid 0 + 1x 400 GB (part of the 400 GB is a backup partition for the raptors though)
2nd computer = 1x 160 GB
3rd computer = 1x 750 GB (recently bought hdd and no where near full yet)
Quote drift 15th September 2007, 13:11
Only 250Gb atm though once i get more money might some more 250Gb drives. Not sure about RAID yet...
Quote Hells_Bliss 15th September 2007, 13:15
250gb x2 SATA drives + 320GB removable drive + 2GB thumbdrive + 2 60GB IDE drives = 942GB
Quote casey_cole 15th September 2007, 14:08
I feel inadequte :p

200GB for OS + main storage
10GB for important backup files "just in case" as it's no good for anything else.

CC
Quote Ramble 15th September 2007, 14:12
A paltry 500GB.
I need more, far more.
Quote Ryu_ookami 15th September 2007, 14:14
I have not got enough :( anyone got any hdds going cheap (mine tend to go whirl whirl bang crack rattle rattle screech....then silence forever)....... :)
Quote wharrad 15th September 2007, 14:48
Oh good game :)

File Server
2 x 120GB
8 x 300GB (RAID 5)
1 x 300GB

Main Desktop
1 x 150GB (Raptor)
1 x 74GB (Raptor)
1 x 32GB (Raptor)

HTPC 1
1 x 20GB
1 x 80GB

HTPC 2
1 x 150GB (Raptor)

Laptop
1 x 30GB

External
1 x 300GB


(Those are just the drives in use... forget dead laptops, ipods or computers in cupboards)
Quote PhillyB 15th September 2007, 15:15
Ooh let me try.


Main - 2 x raptor 150's in R-0, considering upgrade to 15k sas scsi after seeing a workstation at work boot up with one.
Second - 1 x raptor 36, two 320 in R-0
Third - 1 x raptor 36, 120gb ide
Fourth - 120 gb
8 x 320 gb usb external (not all connected)
1 x 1TB networked mybook
two 120gb notebook externals

Considering another 1tb, or even the new 1.5 tb network mybooks, and converting it to R-1.
Quote automagsrock 15th September 2007, 15:16
I have a 500gb storage drive and I just ordered a 74gb Raptor for windows. Soon to be getting another 500gb drive as well and RAID them.
Quote IAmATeaf 15th September 2007, 15:18
1 500gb and 1 250gb Seagate drives for me.
Quote mp3manager 15th September 2007, 15:26
About the 6 TB mark.

Got 5 TB in the HTPC...High-Def movies take up a *lot* of space and a modest 2 x 500Gb in this PC.


My first HD was 20MB, way back in the AMiGA days...had a A590 controller with a 20Mb Conner drive. :D
Quote careyd 15th September 2007, 15:58
Wow, even I don't know (until I add below)...but it's a lot

Quad G5
400GB
1500GB RAID

Dual G4
160GB
160GB

MBPro
80GB

Mac Mini
80GB
1500GB RAID (NAS)
1500GB RAID (backups)

Athlon X2 4400+
500GB RAID

P4 2.4
80GB
20GB

P4 2.53
120GB

P4 1.4
120GB

P4 2.6
160GB

External
75GB
120GB
160GB
320GB
750GB

Loose (archives/backups)
120GB WD
250GB (14 Maxtor + 8 Hitachi)=5500GB
300GB (2 Maxtor + 10 Seagate)=3600GB


Grand total
17025GB (17.025Terabytes)

Holy smokes! That shocks even me!

Careyd

Addendum:
What if we include storage in other devices such as digital cameras, iPods, phones, USB sticks, etc? If so I'd have another 100GB or so.
Quote Major 15th September 2007, 16:01
I have 3x 300GB in my machine, 40GB in the spare, and 2 laptops with 40GB HD's in. So that 1.2TB.
Quote AClark 15th September 2007, 17:11
I have 1x 80gig and 1x20gig in this pc! WOoot yes!
Quote Gravemind123 15th September 2007, 17:16
I have a 60GB external(used to be in secondary computer which isn't in use at the moment) and a 250GB for my main computer. Not a lot of storage compared to most of you, but I don't have a lot of video stored on my computer, so really the space is for games, music and pictures, and it's enough for that task.
Quote dragontail 15th September 2007, 17:38
2x 250GB Sammys internally. 1x 400GB sammy in Icybox externally. Total = 0.9TB.
Quote metarinka 15th September 2007, 17:51
73 gig raptor, +120 gig older wD for a grand tota of:

193 gigs

400gig HDD's are cheap though and I should upgrade as I'm slowly running out of space
Quote Ghys 15th September 2007, 17:54
37 (raptor)
80
80
80
120

:)
Quote Cheapskate 15th September 2007, 17:56
play rig: 40 gig for system/200 for storage
work rig: 150 gig system/300 storage

a half dozen pissant drives in other systems, and I burn through 100 cds a month.
Quote TGH-odin 15th September 2007, 18:15
Main Computer: 250 GB
Secondary, HTPC/FoF PC: 80 GB
Laptop: 80GB

Makes about 410 GB, and i tihnk ill buy another 160 GB to my Secondary.
Quote C-Sniper 15th September 2007, 18:20
i only have 120gb in this one and 160gb in my gaming rig :(
Quote Faulk_Wulf 15th September 2007, 18:52
80gb on my desktop rig, 20 free.
30gb on my iPod, 15 free.

May I ask, what do you people use >1TB for?!

If I install every game I have, and even every game I want, and put all my music on my computer, I would still only be using I bet around 200gb.
Even if I ripped all my DVD's, assuming 2gb a DVD (Just the main feature) we'd only be talking about 114gb (57 feature films).
And hell, even if I ripped my 5 seasons of Buffy, season