Think you have a lot of storage? Think again

[Pariah]

Look at this guy's setup. How's 2.3 terabytes sound? The guy must have one hell of an internet connection, considering all that storage is almost full.

http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=13487

 

[DAPUNISHER]

:Q

 

[RussianSensation]

Or you could just buy X number of 250gb 8mb WesternDigital Hard drives and not only save money but cut the number of drives in half.

I cant imagine what is being stored on there...Assuming 1 full game is 1gig in size you can store 110-115 games on 1 120gb hard drive alone. Then again no one needs 100+ games on their hard drive at ones, plus there its pretty hard to find 100 good games anyways.....esp that you play on a regular basis

Movies??? Divx only takes 700mb - 1gig on average...

His personal collection of stuff? videos?

Music? Unlikely, at 6mb per song on average, thats like 19000 song on one of his 120gb hard drives..

It would probably take years to download this much porn ..... so thats unrealistic .......

hmmmm.....Probably holds databases of everyone's identity in all of United States....lol

 

[helpme]

Just imagine how short those drives will last packed together like that Hot hot! Of course, if he's got massive cooling...

 

[Ionizer86]

That's crazy. I think he should try something: if you have hard drives from C-->Z, what would your optical drives and USB mass storage disks be called?

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
:Q

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
It would probably take years to download this much porn ..... so thats unrealistic .......

Face it, anyone with 2.3TB in their home machine (and most of it full) probably hasn't seen breasts since they were fed from them. He needs all the pr0n he can get.

- M4H

 

[Pariah]

Or you could just buy X number of 250gb 8mb WesternDigital Hard drives and not only save money but cut the number of drives in half.

120GB drives are cheaper on a per GB scale. 250GB drives would have been about $300 more.

I think he should try something: if you have hard drives from C-->Z, what would your optical drives and USB mass storage disks be called?

You can't go beyond Z. In WinXP, you can map drives as a folder on another drive. Considering how many drives the guy has, I don't see why he wouldn't have done that. Would have been much better organized.

 

[Hamilton]

Rip 300-400 DVD and you have more than 2TB. All it takes

 

[zephyrprime]

I seems like he's got a few drives dedicated to anime. Some of his drives are named "swesub" and they are a fan subbing group.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Originally posted by: helpme
Just imagine how short those drives will last packed together like that Hot hot! Of course, if he's got massive cooling...

They're all packed closely together. Heh,he's pretty screwed when one dies.

 

[Texun]

Screw that.... it would take an insane amount of time to format that cluster.

 

[Sid59]

too much upkeep. good to see 2.3 TBs.

 

[Markfw]

Well, I have .75 terrabytes storage at my house, and it is over half full. (400gig)

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Why in my day, a megabyte of disk space was $500, and we considered ourselves lucky!

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Why in my day, a megabyte of disk space was $500, and we considered ourselves lucky!

And you had to pedal a bicycle connected to a generator to power the computer! In the snow!

 

[EeyoreX]

Why in my day, a megabyte of disk space was $500, and we considered ourselves lucky!

LOL, I don't remember back that far, but my first hard drive was a massive 820MB drive for a mere $382 and some change. OEM. For storage I can buy a brand new retail 300GB drive for less than that.

\Dan

 

[ProviaFan]

Holy $#!7! That makes my 80GB drive look rather puny.

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Why in my day, a megabyte of disk space was $500, and we considered ourselves lucky!

My first computer, an IBM PS/1, had a 30MB drive, and I thought that was a huge upgrade over the 20MB drive in my dad's PS/2. :Q

 

[Jeff7181]

You can't go beyond Z. In WinXP, you can map drives as a folder on another drive. Considering how many drives the guy has, I don't see why he wouldn't have done that. Would have been much better organized.

If he was smart he'd convert them to dynamic disks to make volumes out of some of them so he didn't have 4 different drives for SVCD and 4 more for DVD-R etc.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: GoodRevrnd

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Why in my day, a megabyte of disk space was $500, and we considered ourselves lucky!

And you had to pedal a bicycle connected to a generator to power the computer! In the snow!

Bah. You think that was bad, I rode that bike 30 miles to the power station with 500 pounds of extension wire to get my 8086 working since I was 12.

And my parents couldn't afford to by me WHEELS for the bike untill I was 32! I rode on the god-damn sprockets and plowed fullows with the forks. (I got my first rubber tire for the front wheel last week, and in another 2 years I have enough money to by a tire for the back one. BTW innertubes are for pussies)

 

[Jeff7181]

BTW... it's not hard to use a lot of space on those 100 mbit connections the sweeds have over there. I suspect most of it is DVD he's done himself though.

 

[Terranboy]

Whats he doing for power on the rig?? No way one PSU can run all that.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Terranboy
Whats he doing for power on the rig?? No way one PSU can run all that.

Hard drives actually don't use THAT much power. I think even the Raptor's peak is under 10 watts except during startup. A 550 watt PSU with a low powered CPU and a low powered video card should be able to do it easily.

 

[Paulson]

That's crazy... in my house I have about 580 gigs worth of hard drives (all in machines that run 24/7)

 

[Overkiller]

:Q