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I was just curious how much total HDD space the "average user" had in their rig (if you can call anyone on TPU "average" ;)). What I mean is, how many gigs, across how many drives, what manufacturer/speed, and in what configuration. And include how much of that space is free space.

Here is mine:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATAII 500GB "System Drive" (145GB Free)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATAII 500GB "Media Files" (76GB Free)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATAII 320GB "Games Backup" (122GB Free)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATAII 320GB "Backup Drive" (142GB Free)

Total: 1640GB, Free: 485GB :eek:
 
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haha well I only have 1 HDD atm I dont see how you can use so much space??

Hitachi 7200 RPM 500GB SATA
soon I will have a WC VelociRaptor 300GB (OS)
 

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i only have a 250GB drive. but i've never had it full, most i've gotten it was around 210GB out of 232GB available, then i realized i didn't play half my games and deleted em, brought me to 145GB free from only having 20GB. I don't get how you guys can fill up massive harddrives lol
 

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I have in my main machine two seagte drives one 320GB and another 500GB and 150GB Raptor in the mail ;)

I just did a ghost of a OS on a computer im fixing so that took 80GB up on my main drive so i think i have just over 100GB left on it, and for my 500GB about half is used, full of games.
 
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I don't get how you guys can fill up massive harddrives lol

Pr0n on demand.:roll:

Mine's just my WD 750gb, partitioned for OS/Everytrhing else. Not even half full.
 
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I had 4 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 last month so that's 6TB + another 1TB Seagate and what ever's in my specs...so a total of 8.5TB but I sold 3 of the 1.5TB drives so now uh 4TB?
 
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Pr0n on demand.:roll:

You caught me. :D

I had 4 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 last month so that's 6TB + another 1TB Seagate and what ever's in my specs...so a total of 8.5TB but I sold 3 of the 1.5TB drives so now uh 4TB?


WOW!! Very Impressive :toast: How much of that 4TB is free??:respect:
 

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lol, I have 74gigs with 37.1 free....
 
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This is what I have been waiting to see. Totally full. LOL :rockout:

lol, I have 74gigs with 37.1 free....

LOL. 74gigs total. :twitch: Is that a Raptor though??
 
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This is what I have been waiting to see. Totally full. LOL :rockout:

:laugh:It was my old backup drive that I had put in her machine and setup to automatically back-up the important things on my main rig. Once I moved to the 1.5TB drives, I quickly out-grew my backup drive. I really need to replace it.
 
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About 870 gigs of the 1.8 TB is free. Most of that is from the backup drive (640gig) which is basically empty atm. Had to re-do my backup schedule/policy so cleared out the old backups (please don't hack me within the next 12 hours). :cool:
 

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Does it take up alot of electricity to use multiple hard drives? I mean, only the primary drive is constantly used, does the backup drive take up alot of electricity while idling?

I have a 640GB, 320GB and 250GB hard drive. Thinking of getting another 1TB drive!
 

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I included the Compaq because I'm playing Myst, Myst II: Riven, and Escape from Monkey Island on it. Usually it is just collecting dust. That isn't all the computers--just the ones plugged into my KVM and powered on. XD


Of all that HDD space, only the RAID1 array concerns me (the user store) because that is all the data that persists from computer to computer, from format to format. All the other space is installed apps/other crap that really isn't that important (can be reinstalled/copied from original source). I need to format the server and make the RAID5 the user store and the RAID1 the OS volume. I just haven't gotten around to it yet...
 
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