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Anyone have more HDD space at their disposal?
I win?
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I think our Xserve raid retrospect backup here at work only has a TB or two.
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28 terabytes?
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Originally Posted by SSharon
and that's just what's available.
But unless those three items on the disc are HUGE the size of the disc is about 28 TB.
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work server or what?
It's my server at school (MIT) - I'm sure that I have to share that space, but at least I can put as much on there as I want. I'm sure that I'd get in a bit of trouble if I used it _all_... but heck. maybe PirateBay needs a mirror? ;-)
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But unless those three items on the disc are HUGE the size of the disc is about 28 TB.
I imagine he has an OS somewhere as well. I sure can't get OS X down to 3 files.
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I imagine that would hole a lot of porn.
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Originally Posted by SSharon
I imagine he has an OS somewhere as well. I sure can't get OS X down to 3 files.
System, Library, Users, what else? That technically doesn't have to be the boot disk, or the root volume for that matter.
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Originally Posted by davesimondotcom
I imagine that would hole a lot of porn.
It's not the size that counts. It's how you use it.
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You should the rent the space out on eBay.
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Oh, you had an O2, cool
Yah, I loves my SGI 02. I learned how to use UNIX on that thing before I got my hands on OS X. great machine. I used Blender on it and whatnot... made a webcam out of it as well... but now it;s dead - at least the HD is dead.
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Between all my servers and XServe RAIDs at work, I've got close to 20 TB of storage available. Not all on one volume, sure, but if you add 'em all up, it's probably in the ballpark.
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Between all my servers and XServe RAIDs at work, I've got close to 20 TB of storage available. Not all on one volume, sure, but if you add 'em all up, it's probably in the ballpark.
I'm still winning! Unless someone else from the Media Lab posts to this thread
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My 2TB is faster than your 28TB.
4X500GB in two pairs of striped (RAID 0) arrays.
Arranged into a 'software-striped' single disk.
Bus saturation. Done right.
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Until a single disk dies and takes all your data with it. "RAID" 0 (it's in no way redundant, quite the contrary) is highly hazardous to the health of your data.
Hope you've got backups.
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I've got a 40 gig 4200 RPM HD ... that said I've also got a 160 gig external and a 60 gig in my old iMac.
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I don't have any data I can't live without.
Probably 98% of computer users have a single hard drive and no backups.
I've been doing the 'striped' thing for six years and haven't lost any more data than I have using a single disk.
Moving data at 4X the speed of most other folks is worth the risk.
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Reminds me of a friend of mine who told me in all serious that he had just gotten a new "hard dick." Didn't even realize what he had said until I pointed it out to him. Talk about about Freudian slits... I mean slips.
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Originally Posted by Spliffdaddy
I don't have any data I can't live without.
Probably 98% of computer users have a single hard drive and no backups.
I've been doing the 'striped' thing for six years and haven't lost any more data than I have using a single disk.
Moving data at 4X the speed of most other folks is worth the risk.
Consider yourself lucky, then. The question isn't if a drive will fail, but when.
And of course, there are ways to have speed and reliability. They aren't mutually exclusive.
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heh, i've seen a petabyte, but only have 40 GB as my highest... peta = 1000 tera
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Consider yourself lucky, then. The question isn't if a drive will fail, but when.
And of course, there are ways to have speed and reliability. They aren't mutually exclusive.
tooki
They're mutually exclusive if you don't want to buy disk space you cannot use.
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They're mutually exclusive if you don't want to buy disk space you cannot use.
Depends on your definition of "use."
I consider a valid use of a disk's worth of space being "storing redundancy information to save my data in case another disk dies."
...But maybe that's just me.
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Originally Posted by ApplCmptrDood
peta = 1024 tera
Fixed.
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I have eleventy billion petabytes just for my iTunes collection.
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Ok, who do you work with at the Media Lab. I worked there (on various projects) for several years.
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I still think the 4 TB on our server at work is impressive.
We bought an external SATA enclosure with 2 TB and hotswappabale drives at a fraction of the price of an Xraid. Major thumbs up. It's awesome.
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Darn... and I was feeling good with my 600 Gigs of space...
and I need more...
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I need about 500GB in two volumes...
250GB for data, and 250GB to back up the data.
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Originally Posted by hadocon
It's my server at school (MIT) - I'm sure that I have to share that space, but at least I can put as much on there as I want. I'm sure that I'd get in a bit of trouble if I used it _all_... but heck. maybe PirateBay needs a mirror? ;-)
Hey, if you don't own it (all the space), it doesn't count.
I have access to a 50TB server of radiologic imaging, but it ain't mine, so it doesn't count.
(50TB, with about 20TB of RAID and the rest as a StorageTek digital tape device with the robotic arm loader thingies).
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Originally Posted by Cadaver
Hey, if you don't own it (all the space), it doesn't count.
I have access to a 50TB server of radiologic imaging, but it ain't mine, so it doesn't count.
(50TB, with about 20TB of RAID and the rest as a StorageTek digital tape device with the robotic arm loader thingies).
The difference is that this is free space that I am fully allowed to exploit. Sure I don't own it, but I can pwn it if I so choose - so to speak... BTW DeathToWindows: I am in the Context-Aware Group with Professor Ted Selker.
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petabytes? robotic arm loader thingies??
lucky ducks!
I've got 240GB on my machine, and a total of 440GB in the house.
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Reminds me of a friend of mine who told me in all serious that he had just gotten a new "hard dick." Didn't even realize what he had said until I pointed it out to him. Talk about about Freudian slits... I mean slips.
That's funny!
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I've yet to fill my 30 Gig HDD in my Windows box........ and still haven't filled up my 4.5 Gig HDD in my PowerMac 6100.
I like to keep my machines mean and lean.
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Originally Posted by ©öñFü$íóÑ
I've yet to fill my 30 Gig HDD in my Windows box........ and still haven't filled up my 4.5 Gig HDD in my PowerMac 6100.
I like to keep my machines mean and lean.
my outlook profile on my work computer is bigger than 4.5GB
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I've got less than 10gigs free on my 60 gig iBook drive, my B&W G3 has 3x13GB, with 2 OSs there's about 20 gigs free there, I really need a backup drive, but I just don't have the money.
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The University I work for is in the process of building what I believe will be the most powerful supercomputer in the country, for the time being. It has somewhere between 500-600 terabytes of storage. We also have a storage system for researchers with even more capacity than that, but it's a robot driven tape solution, so I guess it doesn't count here since we're talking about disk.
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Originally Posted by ©öñFü$íóÑ
I've yet to fill my 30 Gig HDD in my Windows box........ and still haven't filled up my 4.5 Gig HDD in my PowerMac 6100.
I like to keep my machines mean and lean.
What's the point of not using the space you have available? Unused disk space is wasted disk space. Just get a larger HD when you run out, they are dirt cheap.
What are you saving it for?
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What's the point of not using the space you have available? Unused disk space is wasted disk space. Just get a larger HD when you run out, they are dirt cheap.
What are you saving it for?
On my 6100, i use the extra space for scratch for Photoshop 5.0 and working with large, LARGE scanned pics. But once i'm finished with them, i transfer them over to my PC, which has a CD burner and i back things up on that.
On my PC, i actually plan on using the extra space for Kubuntu Linux (when i get the disc in the mail)......(sure, i'd download the iso and burn it, but hey, they're giving it away on CD for free....shipping's free too!).
I also don't download MP3's or buy songs from iTunes as much as the next guy unless the songs are really, REALLY good. I mean, i only have 88 songs in my iTunes library....... only 372 MB...... and even 15 of the songs i have are ripped from a CD.
For backing stuff up, here's my scheme: Photos, movies, music, ....... burn to DVD. Text, software updates, shareware, freeware,............ burn to CD-RW/DVD-RW.
Sure i play large games and stuff....... but once i get tired of it, i uninstall/delete it and make room for something else... it's that simple.
Having a lean drive makes defragging a very very quick chore.... especially on 800mhz. The less stuff to defrag, the shorter the process.
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Originally Posted by ©öñFü$íóÑ
On my 6100, i use the extra space for scratch for Photoshop 5.0 and working with large, LARGE scanned pics. But once i'm finished with them, i transfer them over to my PC, which has a CD burner and i back things up on that.
On my PC, i actually plan on using the extra space for Kubuntu Linux (when i get the disc in the mail)......(sure, i'd download the iso and burn it, but hey, they're giving it away on CD for free....shipping's free too!).
I also don't download MP3's or buy songs from iTunes as much as the next guy unless the songs are really, REALLY good. I mean, i only have 88 songs in my iTunes library....... only 372 MB...... and even 15 of the songs i have are ripped from a CD.
For backing stuff up, here's my scheme: Photos, movies, music, ....... burn to DVD. Text, software updates, shareware, freeware,............ burn to CD-RW/DVD-RW.
Sure i play large games and stuff....... but once i get tired of it, i uninstall/delete it and make room for something else... it's that simple.
Having a lean drive makes defragging a very very quick chore.... especially on 800mhz. The less stuff to defrag, the shorter the process.
You're still using a 6100, like, for real stuff?? A beige G3 would do all the same things, except eleventy billion times better.
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Originally Posted by ©öñFü$íóÑ
On my 6100, i use the extra space for scratch for Photoshop 5.0 and working with large, LARGE scanned pics. But once i'm finished with them, i transfer them over to my PC, which has a CD burner and i back things up on that.
On my PC, i actually plan on using the extra space for Kubuntu Linux (when i get the disc in the mail)......(sure, i'd download the iso and burn it, but hey, they're giving it away on CD for free....shipping's free too!).
I also don't download MP3's or buy songs from iTunes as much as the next guy unless the songs are really, REALLY good. I mean, i only have 88 songs in my iTunes library....... only 372 MB...... and even 15 of the songs i have are ripped from a CD.
For backing stuff up, here's my scheme: Photos, movies, music, ....... burn to DVD. Text, software updates, shareware, freeware,............ burn to CD-RW/DVD-RW.
Sure i play large games and stuff....... but once i get tired of it, i uninstall/delete it and make room for something else... it's that simple.
Having a lean drive makes defragging a very very quick chore.... especially on 800mhz. The less stuff to defrag, the shorter the process.
Defragging? Welcome to last century my man...
free CD for Unbuntu - Free shipping? Welcome to last century my man... (Psst. downloading is also free, and it's faster!)
Another simple thing is to spend $75 on a 200GB HDD and never have to delete anything. How much time do you waste installing and deleting various apps and whatnot? How long would it take you to make $75 at work? Do you not value your time?
I have a hunch; Are you over 40?
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i dont' think it is yours or anyone elses business to tell someone how to use their disk space. your opionion is fine, but let it go.
i keep my systems clean too (windows, os9, osX, openvms, etc). just cause disk space is cheap, doesn't mean you have to be a garbage collector.
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i dont' think it is yours or anyone elses business to tell someone how to use their disk space. your opionion is fine, but let it go.
i keep my systems clean too (windows, os9, osX, openvms, etc). just cause disk space is cheap, doesn't mean you have to be a garbage collector.
Thank you, residentEvil!
{To hadocon: }
No, i'm not over 40, i'm actually 24.
And since when was this a "flame the oldie" thread?
No, i'm not gonna spend over 30$ on any upgrades on my 6100 or my 800mhz PC because it isn't worth it anyway because i -don't- collect stuff from the internet, like most people. And since i'm a gamer, i can only play games that are 4 years old...... 3 years old at best on the fastest machine i currently have.... my PC.
As for downloading linux isos..... yeah, i've done it before, but i'm not gonna leave my computer on over night to do it. I've got dial-up -now- ok. And i'm not ashamed that i don't have broadband like the rest of you. Heck, i don't even have cable tv.
If you're wondering, yes i have a decent paying job to afford such luxuries, but i've learned a long time ago that if i don't need it, i don't bother with it. My two machines handle today's media and information decently and i couldn't ask any more of them. The only thing that matters to me right now is that i be able to open and work with the major file-types that are floating around right now: .sit, .doc, .zip, .nes (yeah), .txt, .jpg, .mpg, .mp3, .wav, .xls, .ppt, and whatever else. And if i get bored with any of those files, or if they're old and out of date, i just delete them. Plain and simple. {and yeah, i'm okay with it}
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