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Old Apr 10, 2009, 01:46 PM   #1
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Storage freaks clubhouse

So this ones kinda obvious. A post i made in the anime nation thread made me realise my storage needs go above and beyond the average user, so that means a clubhouse is in order!

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i have 6320GB at my disposal, my first housemate has 7540GB and my second housemate has 720GB for a combined total of 14,580GB in my house. Its a rather nerdy house.
(thats drives in use, theres another 850GB in unused drives lying around, such as the raptor i'm trying to sell)
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DVD's are too small and slow. it would take 3,256 DVD's to back up all the data in my house. at 20 minutes each thats 65,120 minutes, 1085 hours or 45 days of non stop burning.
(dual layer would be half as many disks, but as most DL disks are 4x vs the normal disks 16x, that would end up slower)



as far as clubhouses go this one aint too serious... i just want to hear of other people with as many hard drives as i do, and help out people thinking of following this path
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Well i only have 640gb in my main machine ant 1.5tb in my fileserver, But i do support enterprise SANs up to 950TB for a living
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Old Apr 10, 2009, 01:53 PM   #3
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While I don't have as many HDD's as you I have a complicated network of storage.

There is my stuff and my friend mike's
Each of us have 1tb worth of HDD space making 2TB
I have two internal 500gb's and he has 1 internal and 1 external both 500gb

His external holds important stuff that is irreplaceable and one of my drives holds all our games ripped into .iso with the serial code in a text document. We pretty much share hardware and software so pretty much mines is his and vice versa. All my music is stored seperately on my phone and ipod both 8gb and I have lots of CD's with windows xp to windows 7 both x32 and x64.

We did find a way to transfer stuff over hamachi but one of my HDD's got messed up and I lost everything.
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I'm poor so I dont have lots of space only 494Gb on my pc, 140Gb on my sister's and 120Gb on my dad's
in total: 754Gb
but the amount of DVDs is huge approx 4Tbs of stuff I think...
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Old Apr 10, 2009, 01:57 PM   #6
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my e-sata cage solves most of my problems. even if my PC goes down, i know my datas safe in another box, and unlike NAS its totally safe cause its off 99% of the time - virus and mechanical failure cant hit a drive thats off

h3llb3nd4: thats a lot of DVD's... a LOT. You ran into the issues with them degrading over time? i've had CD's die after 2-3 years in storage.
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I want an e-sata cage like yours.
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I'm trying to get my hands on another pc I might use it as a data backup machine
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I'm trying to get my hands on another pc I might use it as a data backup machine
I did that for a while. I never found a good OS to use it on - XP lacked any good search features, and vista has the audio bug (play audio and you cant transfer files past 15MB/s) which screwed me over, as i used it as a media PC as well. Never tried linux, 7, or windows home server.

DR pepper: key is "port multiplier" i can get a 8 bay these days for $500 au.
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Old Apr 10, 2009, 06:35 PM   #10
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Can I join this club ?

I have this 4U chassis,

though it's empty now.

At the moment, I am trying to move everything to my new NAS unit, NAS-Apathy (Linked in my signature). The NAS has only one 1TB disk at the moment.

My the other rig, E5410-Mammoth, has 4 storage HDDs consisted of one 1TB, two 500GB, and one 320GB.

Once I add more 1TB drives to NAS-Apathy, I will relocate stuff on Mammoth to there.
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Old Apr 11, 2009, 02:33 AM   #11
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Can I join this club ?

I have this 4U chassis, http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/1903/img1019mc4.jpg

though it's empty now.
How about you just give it to me.... it looks tasty
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I have rig with..
AMD Semperon 1.6ghz
Biostar 740G
2gb DDR2-533
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all in a cheap rosewill case
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Old Apr 11, 2009, 02:38 AM   #13
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shadow is a junior storage freak. One day his data will grow up big and strong!
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My main Rig only has a 160GB, 320GB and a 640GB

My Media center only has a 320GB and my file server has 2x1TB with another 320gb for the OS and extra storage.

The 640GB and the 2x1TB area completely full with my movie collection.
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Old Apr 11, 2009, 04:16 AM   #15
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jesus christ guys lol

i have a 120gb and a 640gb in my main rig..
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jesus christ guys lol

i have a 120gb and a 640gb in my main rig..
a heretic! catch him!
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i have the following.
320gb media - desktop
750gb more media - desktop
500gb os - desktop
32ssd - desktop
32ssd - desktop
320 macbook - internal
200 macbook - external

500gb - dads
320 - moms lappy
160 - backup for moms in server
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(soon to be 1tb for server)
250gb xbox (has movies)

making a grand total of 3394gb
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How about you just give it to me.... it looks tasty
No way for me to ship this thing at any cheap rate. Its size of twice of a mid tower and weights 60 lbs when everything is empty inside.

UPS once gave me an estimate, 120 dollars for standard shipping.
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No way for me to ship this thing at any cheap rate. Its size of twice of a mid tower and weights 60 lbs when everything is empty inside.

UPS once gave me an estimate, 120 dollars for standard shipping.
i'll trade you


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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2098/...78faab3044.jpg

ok how about that one then?
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2.2TB in main.
400GB in laptop.
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2.85TB... I need more
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updating

1.5tb in popcorn hour
2 x 750's + 2 x 32gb ssd
320 mbp 200 external for mbp
320 moms
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500+320+250+160 in server
250 in xbox
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total 6.4tb
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here is pretty outdated pic
http://www.codisha.com/images/pc%20pics/SNV12031.JPG
inside:
2x 36Gb - WD Raptor
4x 750Gb - Samsung F1
1x 1000Gb - Samsung F1
1x 1500Gb - Seagate
2x 250Gb - Maxtor MaxLine III

6Tb total just here
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