Congratulations on your purchases, Harrison. You do for sure have a lot of HD space now. :D
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Congratulations on your purchases, Harrison. You do for sure have a lot of HD space now. :D
It was just in time too as I was just running out of HD space across most of my systems and I was starting to have to shuffle files around to make room on some of the drives. Starts to become a bit of a nightmare when that happens.
This also means I've now broken though the 3TB total HD space across all my systems. :D
You could fit a lot of Prawn on that, if your into that sort of thing...:rolleyes:
He does support the pr0n market and therefore only buys originals ;):lol:Quote:
You could fit a lot of Prawn on that, if your into that sort of thing...
Smell-o-vision...... fishy....... Think you can join the dots up and be suitably a bit grossed out.Quote:
Originally Posted by toomanymikes
(Some of the younger or more inexperienced viewers may not get that)
I always support quality directing. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Demon Cleaner
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lol fishy! Ha. You do have an odd knack for weird comments J T. :thumbs:
Well, as I said before, I had 1TB at one stage...but now back to a 750 GB....but I already have a 250 GB external HD...so in all I have about 1.06 TB of storage! :)
Why did I have to discover the #GameMP3s torrent collection. Now my external NAS drive I use for my MP3 collection is completely full! Bugger!
Whoops! Who led you to torrent?
Sadly I have no one to blame but myself! :lol:
Tsk. Tsk...:nono:
So, how's the HD situation out there?
My big HD has 680MB remaining.Quote:
Originally Posted by P G
My HD situation is very nice at the moment.. about 7TB in total! ;)
When I built my new PC in March I decided to take all my older PCs and build 2 really good second and third systems from all of their parts to use as new emulation and download systems, as the current ones were getting older.
Once I had built the 2 systems I configured the oldest of them as my new download and test server and as that is the only one of my new main 3 systems now using PATA drives it got all the best ones I had.
And then for the other PC, that is used for emulation, I had a spare 120GB SATA drive for the boot drive, and then I purchased 4 new 1TB Samsung SATA drives. 3 for the emulation system and one for the main system to go with the 2 500GB HDD and another 120GB drive.
So my 3 main system setups now have the following drives:
Download/Test Server (Jade):
200GB + 200GB + 160GB = 560GB
Emulation system (Soprano):
120GB (boot drive) + 3x 1TB = 3.12TB
Main System (Tsunami):
120GB (boot drive) + 2x 500GB + 1TB = 2.12TB
External USB2 HDD:
500GB
NAS (Arc1):
500GB
That leaves me with 3 further PCs that are not used much.
Backup spare PC (Yuna) (if one of the others goes wrong):
120GB + 60GB = 180GB
Linux PC (Aeris):
60GB
DOSBox PC
12GB
Giving me 7.05TB :D
ATM, main laptop: 60 GB
music laptop: 300 GB
externals: 250 GB + 500 GB + 750 GB = 1.5 TB
TOTAL: 1.96 TB
I feel I am lagging behind. I have 1.5 + 6 + 21 + 45 + 146 = 219.5GB free in my machine and only 500 + 160 = 660GB free on my externals. That's not even 1TB :(
I am ashamed to have so little free space :unsure:
Man, you data whores! That's some serious storage! I tend to only download and keep what I use.
For data storage, I have two SATA 500GB hard drives on my media PC and one 250GB external eSATA. I basically have only about 100GB of files that are mirrored on the two 500 gig'ers (not RAID) and the 250GB eSATA. That's three copies, although the external only gets updated about once a month. I also do DVD-R and DVD-RW backups once a year or so when I can be arsed (ie hardly ever!)
That 100GB includes full ROM sets (but not huge CHD files or CD images) of my favourite retro machines, MP3 album collection, software, drivers, pictures, personal files etc. Like I said, I just keep what I use and don't hoard stuff up.
I think another reason I don't have a huge data stockpile is I never keep xvid or HD movies on my hard drives, only music and short video clips. Since I tend to watch a movie once every five years or so, I'd just rather buy it and store it on the DVD/bluray it comes on. Can't be arsed to mess on encoding or having it stored on the hard drive only for it to be accessed once in a blue moon. Same with CD images - just burn them to disk then delete unless they're important.
I also tend to watch a film then burn it to disc and delete the copy from the HDD. Don't think I have any movies on my HDs at the moment.
Most of mine is taken up with rom sets and cd sets on my emulation system, stuff I'm seeding and downloading on the download system, and design work and installed games on my main system. I currently have quite a lot of space free across the three systems as I recently backed everything up to DVD and tidied everything up. That took some time.
To be truthful, I'm glad you all collect and store these complete emulation sets and images. It's what makes torrents so awesome! Also means there is interesting stuff backed up all around the world for future generations! :D
Yes I agree Harrision, backing up data is such a pain when using DVDs even at 16x speed. I tend to rely quite heavily on the external hard drive now. Bring on the Blueray burners!
Very true. HDs are now so cheap you can justify using one for backing up these days. I have an external 500GB drive just for that purpose, mainly to mirror my MP3 collection as I could never be bothered to back that up to DVD or CD any more.
Got myself a new SCSI HD-controller for the Amiga 500. It did originally come with a whopping 20MB HD. :lol: Guess I'll have to get a bigger one.
Which A500 controller did you get? And what is the max size of SCSI HDD it can support? You can get 4GB SCSI drives in ebay for under £5, but it seems smaller than that are harder to find, or the sellers are asking more. I've seen a 1.05GB drive for about £10, but most that size or slightly more are going for £25-50 which is mad.
I got hold of an Commodore A590 HD. For more information about the controller, see here.
It includes one of the latest versions of the ROM, so it has been reported that it can handle HD's up to 9GB.
I'm thinking of getting an HD for it that is about 500MB to 1GB in size. That's more than enough, since the A1200 is my main machine.
The next items on the list is a ROM-switcher and an extra set of ROM's. Do you have any lefterover A500 items by the way?
I've never really done much upgrading of A500's beyond the trapdoor expansions and kickstart roms, so don't have much in ther way of upgrades, and no side bus expansions at all. I've concentrated on the A600, A1200 and A4000 the most over the years.
I might have some old SCSI drives but not sure. I will have a look.
I can't remember how it was like to run out of HD-space. Now I got more space than I need! What I run out of now is space in the home. ;)
:lol: so true with children. They take up so much space.
I still run out of hdd space though. My 2TB drive for Steam games was full last week, and it's becoming a problem with new games now taking up over 40GB each in some cases.
How much HDD storage do you have now Harrison?
I'm still on the 500GB drive I got in early 2010 and it still has quite a bit of free space.
Rough guess is somewhere around 40TB.
ROFL! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrison
What is everyone else's totals these days?
I've just been reading back through this thread and it's amazing that only 5 years ago storage spaces were so much lower. With the takeover of streaming media and download content over physical media we are needing hdd storage more these days.
Compared to 2009 I now store all my films on my server's hdds and stream it to my smart tv. I hardly every play a DVD or BD any more. And I can't remember the last time I played a CD.
Although I'm finding the opposite is true for my tablet.. which only needs storage for apps. Years ago it was a struggle to store content on mobile devices, but now with streaming services like Spotify, youtube and Play you really don't need to store content. Obviously you need an internet connection or this approach makes the device next to useless, but I tend to only use mine at home via wifi.
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I never understand why people keep so many information in HDs.
I have a total of 1,5 GB and that's more then enough for anything i need. But, i do not keep films or MP3.
I just keep my documents and photos.
If i want to see a film, i go to cinema, rent it in my TV supply of just download it...
the same with games, after play it i don't keep it.
So, sure, anything below 5 GB is not enough to keep films, mp3 etc.... but my question is why keep all that stuff?? :huh2:
Once you get the collecting "fever", you can't stop anymore, hoarding would be a good word to use here :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiago
With media is the ability to have an instantly accessible collection of your whole library.
Until recently this wasn't as practical for film, but being able to instantly access a film and steam it to the tv is so much nicer than using discs.
I do however only keep films I will watch again, not everything I've seen. I have Sky On demand for all other films.
I delete most of the movies I watched, really good ones, I put in my movie archive.
Same with series, once watched, I delete them.
I guess I should've mentioned 40Mb was a large hard drive in the good old days & you're packing 40TB with todays standards.... :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kin HellROFL! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrison
Answering your following question, I have nearly 20TB around the home & Blu Ray movies fill it faster than u can spit. :eyebrow:
So true. It is amazing how much affordable storage has expanded over the last 20 years.
I still remember getting a 300MB drive for my A600 in the day and wondering how I would ever fill it.
Did you fill it? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Harrison
Nope. Whdload didn't exist then so even installing all of the games that allowed HD install, plus all the applications, and still had over 150MB free.
My first A600 had a HD of 40mb, later i replace it by a new one, can't remember how much, but around 200mb... i never fill it with games, but i have a sound digitizer, and i recorded a lot sound in stereo 8 bits, so my HD was always on the limit. :D
@Tiago
It was fun sampling back then. Remember we sampled sounds from movies (VHS), especially the one with Weird Al Yankovic, UHF or something.
I'm pleased to say that that 1TB drive I bought a while back is still only half full :). I reckon it'll take a while for me to fill it up completely.
My PowerBook on the other hand only has a 4GB drive which is a bit on the small side, and all the spare laptop drives I had were equally small. Fortunately someone on IRC offered me a spare 40GB drive to use in it :).
Bouncing off the storage capacity limit is never fun, and yet both myself and Lady T seem to always be doing it on our phones and our computers. Google photos has helped me out a lot in this regard, the integration with Android works rather well. Less so on Lady T's iphone, but whatever
Smartphones are the current worst device for storage issues. I'm forever having to manage the storage space on my phone and tablets.
It's amazing that Android devices can eat over 1GB of storage space in a couple of days just for cached files in apps. i have to manually use an app manager to see which apps have large caches and clear them. Google's own app store service likes to create a large one every time it updates apps, which goes against the need for more space to download and update apps. However the worst offenders are easily Facebook and Chrome, which combined can easily take up 1GB in cache space. Why can't Android force apps to flush their cache files on exit? And it isn't like they need to keep the cached files because things like logins are stored in a different data storage.
Another very annoying Android issue is using SD cards to expand space. You can move many apps to the SD card to free internal space, but when Android updates each app it reinstalls it on the internal storage, meaning you have to move it again! Very very annoying!!!
I do however only have a 16GB Samsung S5 with a 32GB SD card. When I'm due an upgrade this year I will ensure the new one has at least 32GB.