<![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough? - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough? - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I'm not familiar with this "enough" concept that you're bandying about when it comes to storage.

I've got a 500GB drive for Windows and software installation. I've got a 750 for media and installers, and it's already more than half-full.

No such thing as enough, too much, etc.

Sqube

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> when will we have 1tb flash drives?

kayrose

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> i would just continue ripping music and movies to mp3 and mp4, because those are very portable. i don't think you can carry a terabyte in a shirt pocket. this may sound crazy, but if you need easy dvd movie access, you could buy the Imation Disc Stakka, which holds 100 CDs/DVDs via a usb port, it costs under $100

kayrose

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> some of you may laugh at me,as i currently have a measly 20gb in my pentium 4 18ghz desktop{512 ram, lol} , and 2gb ipod nano. i'm planning on upgrading with an 80gb hard drive, plus a 4gb or 8gb nano, and that should serve me for quite a while. i'd like to have terabytes of storage, but that guy who talked about the vicious cycle is right, but maybe someday we'll have terabytes of solid-state drives that are less likely to fail.

kayrose

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> So...apparently I have less hard drive space than all of Gizmodo. That is...disheartening :(

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Terabytes are for wusses, give me a Petabyte or else. Then I can skip MP3 and MP4 and just use the raw audio and DVD rips from my server.

Nyle

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I've been downloading content off of, Xboxlive.. those GB disappear quickly (You would think some of those videos could be smaller in size)

Anyways, I would say with the way more video content, and broadband are increasing.. that 1 Tb at least in computers will start to become a standard practice.

I have about 1 TB +/- in HardDrives right now, which surprisingly enough is almost filled up! So really, the more the merrier!

Me personally I do not like on demand services.. so more space for me will always be a must.I like having control over my content..

-Core-

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I will adjust my expectations and learn to live with as little as 500Gb if it can just be made 100% reliable.

I just want storage that can survive physical degradation up to 50%, like holographic crystals or something.

Forget capacity for a minute, companies - DEAL WITH THE RELIABILITY PROBLEM ONCE AND FOR ALL.

leMel

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I do sound design for theater, and each play takes up roughly 10-20 gigs, saving each edit, material I don't actually end up using plus all the levels of multitracking.

Virtual synths..another50 gigs.

My sound effects library, both acquired and created, is just over 300 gigs.. all of this at 16-bit 44.1 or better resolution...none of that mp3 crap for me...this stuff is played in big theaters....

Video has now started to really chew through space...

I need 30 TB, then I can do some serious work. Oh, and then I'll need an additonal 30 TB for backup... I don't trust compression.

I know...picky picky picky.

Azogue

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> " Ever notice all these libraries have demos that sound too....perfect."

Agreed. "Perfect" in all the worst meanings of the word! It seems like it would be so easy just not to quantize so much. Even if they must correct every little error, giving the timing a little breathing space would make it sound more life like. Plus, when real pianists play, the slight sound of accidently tapped neighbor notes is one of those things that make it sound real (or good!). I mean, imagine Ray Charles without on-purposely missed notes!

It's like the mistake of early piano simulations that underestimated the importance of the initial percussive element to its identifying sound. It's interesting to ferret out early examples and see how all the emphasis was on the piano tone, no emphasis was on the initial thwack. And as a result, super unrealistic.

But... yeah. I've always been amazed at the overwhelming cheesiness of music instrument demos! It's like there's some kind of universal expectation that demos have to be as cheesy and "notey" as possible...

As for Melodyne 2.0: also salivating as well. Of course, by the time it ships, 1 TB will only cost $99 from Newegg, so Melodyne's voracious appetite for storage won't seem quite so onerous.

frigg

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @frigg: Totally agree with you. Sympathetic vibration is probably the most complex interaction that is missing. I bookmarked that piano link. Ever notice all these libraries have demos that sound too....perfect. The sequencing has no human error in it, which is a bit of a turn-off. I have Melodyne right now and can't wait for 2.0. It's going to be sick! The only thing that sucks about Melodyne is that it eats up disk space fast. I wish it could store data without having to record the actual audio again.

johnnyabnormal

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> We have a SAN at work with 6.4TB on it, and it's going pretty fast, mostly just Word and PDF docs...

cmsjustin

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> More! More! More! I can never have enough.

Meursault

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I'm still under 2TB, but my next gadget purchase will most likely be a NAS of some sort.
I want backups of all my DVD's, and to be able to back up all my info on desktop and laptop.

I'll probably be jumping from 2TB to 6TB, sigh...

SomeAudioGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I love making lists.

200GB in my shiny new Macbook Pro
17GB in asorted USB flash drives
8GB in micro-SD cards for my phone/DS
1TB in my desktop
500GB Time Capsule
1TB mirrored to 500GB for movies/music
480GB in assorted 3.5" drives sitting around unused

Most of them see nearly daily use. I loves me some media.

Decaye

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> It doesn't matter how much storage you have it's what percentage is actually in use for storage and also to some extent not duplicated.

The more you have stored away the smaller the percentage you will actually use as what is stored grows.

The rest is just bits gone to waste.

I could grab 500 gigs of MP3 and put them on a drive but I would only use a very small part of that day to day to listen to..the rest is gathering dust on the drive.

JustADude

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I recently bought a ps3 and have been using its media server ability a lot and I could see my self in the futuren building a media center PC to stream ripped movies and music from. This could easily eat up a few Tb worth of storage.

Metropolis

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @johnnyabnormal:

One of the difficulties with sampled pianos is that every sample is discrete. There's no interaction. On a real piano, notes interact. The sound of a 3 note chord is not the same as the sound of three notes simply added together. Velocities, shades of pedaling (pedals aren't either all on or off), harmonic interactions, sympathetic vibrations all contribute to -literally- millions of sounds beyond a collection of individual notes. A true piano sample library would either have to be smart enough to intelligently add these variables, which are pretty complex, or have huge reserves of samples to take into account note combinations and playing styles.

I don't mean to sound like a piano snob! Like any good Giz reader, I love manipulating piano samples in MIDI just as much as the next guy. It's just interesting how such a common instrument is actually so difficult to replicate in a test tube. Some instruments seem so easy to sample, others require super computers.

As far as piano sample libraries go, you're probably familiar with Ivory. While no more a real piano than Rupaul is a real female, I think it's got a little more life to it than Sampletekk:

[www.ilio.com]

Also, I think the most "danceable" development in the near future is melodyne's new "direct note access." It lets you record a real piano, polyphony and everything, and then manipulate individual notes as easily as moving around MIDI data. (Of course, you'd have to have a good piano well miced to begin with, but imagine what Glenn Gould could have done with this!). Check out the mad scientist in the vid:

[www.celemony.com]

frigg

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Let's see....

250GB in Vista desktop
250GB in Vista laptop
5TB in MacPro (incl externals)
250GB in PowerMac G4
250GB in MacBookPro
160GB in MacBook
120GB in Mac Mini
80GB in Mac Mini
80GB in iBook
1.1TB in PowerBook (work, incl externals)
600GB in various external drives

So about 8.1TB

Brian

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> With everything, I'm just under 0.02Pb running (about 40 drives).

ogre1

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> It seemed like enough at first, but I have quickly run out of hard drive space. 300 is simply NOT ENOUGH. I MUST BUY MORE. Probably a TB this time, but for some reason I feel a TB would be dangerous by itself, and I'd probably have to RAID two of them. What a waste, huh? Not only that, but if you've got the space you don't have to sacrifice quality when ripping movies. You can do a straight rip and not have to worry about fillin' up yer GBs. Plus, it's faster to write a disc image, rather than rip and encode with, say, Handbrake. However, things like the Ps3 I don't think accept ISO, and have no hard drive space anyway ... so you may want to balance that against quality.

MastaFalse

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> For everything I'm probably running on about 2tb, nearly full as well. I loves dems Animes.

Narfmaster

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> the way i see it is really, you need a mirrored raid - this is the best use of large hdd space, and solves the problem of loosing 500GB-1TB of data with a hdd crash.

So if im reasonable...

8TB please!

Jakus

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Being a photography and a music nut. I'm going to need mo' space. Photos are on a 1 TB drive (1/2 full). Music is on another 1 TB drive (20 GB free) :(

Don't even get me started on movies, software, romz, and work....

Kareem King

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> My WHS is at 2 TB and it's full. H264 HD movies are anywhere from 5.5 to 12 GB so those can add up pretty fast, but better that than shelf after shelf of optical media. Why browse lame ass shelves when you can browse the DVD covers on XBMC and just click on them? Inserting disks is for cavemen.

BombrMan

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @frigg: I have some other sampltekk pianos that I was sorely disappointed with, but this one was the best one I could find (and damn cheap too). There certainly is something more visceral and dynamic with a live piano recording that hasn't been duplicated with sampled ones. I'm not ruling it out though. Just think when might be kicking around in 5-10 years. There might be some pretty "danceable" libraries coming out then.

That said, maybe my bass note velocities weren't loud enough on that second clip...haha. You can easily overlook that stuff when mousing in notes and parameters. I'll also be the first to admit that on a scale of 1-10 I'm a 5 in the mix dept!

johnnyabnormal

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I've actually been storing less and less data locally; everything can be accessed online these days (high res pics on Flickr, video-on-demand through YouTube & Hulu, docs on Google Docs).

In fact, I recently got rid of my external 300gb hard drive.

axonhammer

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Only a lousy 500gb total. The 320gb external is almost completely full of photos.

2tb would be nice...

photophile

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Got a 48 TB Sun X4500 that to play with....it's filling up....

goat_with_mange

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I work off of a 100 gig laptop hard drive. That's on a mac, with a windows partition. I have to delete stuff alot. Eventually i'll buy an external, or a new computer.

Ryanraven

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> We're gonna need a bigger poll -- I'm already over 4.5GB...

Chuck Lawson

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @johnnyabnormal: "Probably one of the most convincing ones I've used is this one: [www.sampletekk.com] "

Ummmm.... I'm actually not a big fan of the Sampletekk! I find it a bit flat. However, in some mixes it may be just the right thing, just as, say, (exaggerating to make the point) an SPX90 type reverb sometimes works well in a complex mix by virtue of its relative anemia. In fact, in some mixes, I'll even crave an over-the-top fake piano cause it's perfect in context. I mean, imagine Salt N Pepa using a Bosendorfer instead of a Casio! Yuck.

Not that the Sampletekk doesn't sound real-ish. I mean, sure, a lot of people wouldn't question it in a short spot, but if I listen to the Sampletekk on your second demo, with no other instrument.... Ideally, that's the kind of cue I'd want to record on a real piano. If you moused that in, that's impressive! But on a real piano, you'd just sink into the bass notes with more weight and volume... it would just be more viscerally satisfying, less sequency, more nuanced and 3-dimensional. And I swear, there's not a Pear audio cable in sight!

I like the first demo a lot better. The piano writing itself sounds more pianistic. Kind of French, actually! And the string part works really well with it.... beautiful counterpoint, well mixed, a perfect little thing! Also, the addition of the extra instrument helps make the piano sample seem less canned. Less exposed, more believable. Plus, it just feels right in combination with the animation. It's like the hybrid styles of animation and music are kindred spirits.

But as a genuine replacement for a flesh and blood piano, when you figure on how many actual variables there are spilling out a real piano, if you wanted to genuinely replicate them all, that would be some serious hard drivage. Sampletekk version 2025.

frigg

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 100 petabytes aren't enough : )

Arsenal6

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I have to say. If you do any video editing at all, you need all the space you can get. Not exactly related to home use, I was just touring a post-production house. For their one color-correction suite by itself, there are over 24 hard drives RAIDed together. Each was 500GB. There were pleanty more of those RAID-type bunches for all the other suites too. That is a lot of space and that was a small Production house in comparison to others.

pliSkiNAKE

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Long way from the 20 Mb hardcard in my old Tandy 100TX

Kingteddybear

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 1x20GB
1x30 Gb
2x80 GB
1x120GB
2x160 GB
1x250 GB
1x500 Gb
1x1 TB

= 2.4 TB (no porn), all in use, more space please.

Kingteddybear

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Well as different formats require more space (HD movies, larger pictures...) in 10 years we will wonder how we survived with only 1TB

ab3

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 3195 days of music? Don't think so. I don't know many people who listen to music compressed to (by my calculations) 62.24 kbit/s.

More storage enables the user to store better quality media, i.e. less compression.

apitel

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> lets see im planing on getting an xserve with 16 tb and once i get the funds i want another for backups

exobite

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> this is the sad day that gizmodo repeated itself with a similar question from about half a year ago

exobite

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> In Use:
1x750GB
8x300GB (RAID6, 1800GB)
2x300GB
1x250GB
1x200GB
1x160GB
2x80GB
1x60GB
2x40GB
1x6GB
= 4066GB (weee! just over the limit)

Not In Use (reliability not trusted):
1x200GB
1x160GB
1x120GB
4x80GB
2x74GB
= 968GB

wagnerrp

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> All together I crack the 1.5Tb barrier I think with my PCs and extra drives soon to live in a new server, minus the 500Gb I just ordered.

If all you do is surf the internet and use Word occasionally you can get away with an 80gb easy.

For me I have all of my game and OS cds in ISO format, DVD rips, large music file, massive programs with massive installed space ( I checked my Steam file, its 12gb alone).

Depends on what you do I suppose, I like everything digital, luckily storage is at a golden age of cheap, the 500gb I ordered is about $.20 a gig

Interl0per

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I have 3TB of hard drive space on 4 x 750GB hard drives. Only about 70GB of that is porn.....

leviathangod

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 750GB + 300GB + 74GB + 74GB in main computer
300GB + 120GB in 2nd computer
60GB external 2.5"
Tivo Series2 with 300GB
TivoHD with 300GB + 500GB external
60GB iPod Video
100GB + 100GB + 36GB + 36GB sitting in the garage not being used

Grand total of 3110GB, damn, i had more than I thought!

FrancesTheMute

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I'm obviously an exception as I work with HD video and shoot only in RAW at 10+ megapixels. Currently I have about 8TBs, and looking to get another 4TB eSata Raid enclosure.

spaceman37

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @frigg: Funny you should mention piano libraries, since I'm obsessed with collecting them. Probably one of the most convincing ones I've used is this one:

[www.sampletekk.com]

I've used it on a few demos lately:

[www.johnnyrandom.com]
[www.johnnyrandom.com]

Of course, no matter how nice sounding the library it is, it always hinges upon your ability to play or program everything. I'm a mediocre piano player, so I programmed both of those using a mouse.

Most people can't tell the difference between programmed and live, except for those who listen through Pear Cables and scream "FAKE!!!"

johnnyabnormal

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @werk: I think you added a Tb in there somewhere because I'm getting a lot less than you are. In other news I total only 640GB, and that's working fine for me. I prefer to stream anyway.

luagh45

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I have under 1tb, that includes my mac (60g), my time capsule (500g), my shitty pc(im guessing there is 30g on that thing, and my xbox (120g)

Jamaces

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Adding in my PS3 and my XBox 360's, I have 1.2 TB.

robinandtami

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I have a Gmail accont!
6Gb!

alter

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I'll buy the old ibook.

Wess

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @johnnyabnormal: Besides, you musician type person you, show me one sample library that doesn't truly pale (i.e. suck) in comparison to the real thing. A truly convincing piano sample library is going to have to be larger on orders of magnitude than anything that currently exists - Ivory, Vienna Instruments, whatever. When you add up all the sympathetic vibrations, harmonics, the nuances of human performance, pedaling... as impressive as things are (as impressive as they always are), forget about replicating the human brain, show me a piano sample that can pass for wood, steel, and felt. That easily exceeds a terabyte right there.

frigg

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I have 6 desktops/laptops with various amounts of disk space. I currently have a 1.5TB on the network in which 90% of that is my ripped DVD collection. I also have a huge collection of laserdiscs - about 1/3 of which hasn't been released on DVD - which I plan on ripping (because, dammit, Han Solo shot first).

So it really comes down to video or work related items... if you are into having everything online and instantly available then many TBs will be required. Otherwise you get can buy with a few hundred gig easily.

I plan on building a 4 TB farm for my video and dedicate the 1.5TB to work related items.

regexp

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @johnnyabnormal: True that! Although by the same token, some computer scientists believe it won't be until a genuine "chaos-based" system is deployed that a human brain can be replicated. Some of the same chaotic structures that make the human brain suck, are also at the core of its massively parallel ability to grok patterns out of diffuse data clouds, and choose just the right handbag to go with that perfect summer blouse.

frigg

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I just bought a 1 TB drive recently and it's been doing me good but I'm already filling it up a little too fast. The old 500 GB that I previously used now act as the backup. Areca is ran every other week to incrementally backup data. If there was a faster solution, I would have opted for it but Areca is the best freeware I can find for backup purposes.

What we all need is a centralized storage. Maybe when Internet hit SATA speeds (3 Gbps). I'm sure most of us have duplicate data such as music and HD movie collections. I'd rather have a subscription based service that allows you unlimited access to anything on the common centralized storage any time you wish, than storing these things myself and hopefully the drive doesn't crash.

You can have a personal storage space at home for your personal things. Such as photos, docs, etc.

strang

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @frigg: Plus, speed and capacity aren't worth crap when your hard drive mutates and corrupts data as much as the human brain does.

johnnyabnormal

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @Salinger: "The only time i will ever be content is when hardrives reach the speed and approxiamte capacity of a human brain."

I dsagree (implying I know more about what makes you content than you do...). Reaching the capacity of the human brain is a milestone, but not an endpoint. If anything, it's a tipping point beyond which computers will exceed - and augment - human cognition.

Every era has the same conversation: are these many bytes, gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, zebibytes, whateverbytes, enough? The conversation is always in the context of current systems ["this amount is "OK" but I wish I had a little more"], but current standards are and will always be surpassed, and with accelerating speed.

As computational systems accelerate exponentially, there will never be "enough." Achieving a virtual brain on a circuit will only feed the demand for radically surpassing it. As a result, humans will increasingly harvest all available matter and energy on Earth and beyond for computation.

A rock, for example, with all its electrons potentially available as storage, probably has more latent capacity than all the hard drives existing today. To the rock, add the mountain, the planet, the solar system, the galaxy, and anything else that can be computationally exploited, each milestone making it possible to reach out and consume the next.

frigg

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> In 1986 when I ran Diversi-Dial Station #4, my Apple IIe had 128K. I had seven 300-baud modems stuffed into it so I had to load the program through the cassette port. I didn't have a spare expansion slot for a drive. You made due with what was available. Ahh..the good (bad) old days...

Now I have 2 machines with 1TB each. It seems enough space for now...

OneEyedJack

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 2TB in my Drobo (3x750GB + 1 1TB)
1.2TB in Sage under Raid 5
2TB in Windows Home Server (grows often)

5.2TBs

jrog

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> My family computer has a 75% full 80GB drive, my computer has dual 30GB drives, which are basically both empty, so I'm well under a tenth of a TB. If I had high-speed internet at home, though, it would probably be a different story.

tylerrampton

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @DeCerbo:COTD plz!

SirNirian

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Used to have 2TBs of space in a tower plus another 2TB for backup when I still did professional work. After I got rid of all the equipment, I have a small server with 500GB of HD, plus a 200GB MBP and a 200GB Time Machine drive for the MBP....

1TB is plenty.

NeoXY

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> your counting isnt really right. i have a couple computers+80gb ipod to sore things on. but all my songs and movies are on my ipod (obviously) and also on both computers. so i have a lot of the same data on diffrent hard drives. so i really only need less that a TB. but it doesnt work that way.

jewsrock

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 500gb iMac
100gb PowerBook
500gb WD External Media Drive
500gb Time Machine Drive
320gb WD Passport Drive
4GB Flash Drive
120gb Miscellaneous Drive
60gb iPod Photo aka Portable Drive
-----
2.1TB, and I'm still running out of room.

Oh to have the funds to by a new 2TB drive to attach to the airport extreme :)

cloudnine

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @Bash_: Nobody will ever need more than 640k in memory.

My media collection takes up over 2 TB already, my total space available at home is 7TB.

Data storage needs will always go up. I would be happy to downsize in exchange for affordable SSD - for my use systems. Storage could still be on the old drives. But storage is really dependent on what you store, what you make, and why.

maztec

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Hate to say it, but I'm old enough to remember booting into CPM-80 with 2 8-inch floppy disks on my DECMATE (I).

That said, there is never enough space. Currently, I hav 80+40+40+80+200+250+500+1+2+2+4 GB in use, not counting spare/defunct/suspect drives for a total of 1.19Tb and looking for more.

ernster

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Even with all my movies, video games, software, and schoolwork, I find myself needing only about 350gb. If I went crazy, and my ISP didn't slightly throttle torrenting, I'm sure even 500gb would suffice.

A quick check shows I use about 40gb for games (and I don't even play them ALL), about 15gb for Windows and office software, and currently 75gb for movies.

I guess some of the rest is pictures from the digi came, but it looks like I'm Data-lite.

aR-Tard

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I crossed the 1TB barrier a while ago. Mostly backups and media, but let's not forget off-site backup people... yes. I love my momma for off-site backup.

wesrubix

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Over the past 6 years (all drives still in usage 24/7 - haven't lost one yet *knocks on wood*):
"File Server": 1 x 80GB; 2 x 200GB; 2 x 250GB; 2 x 320GB
Main PC: 2 x 80GB
Laptop: 40GB
Xbox (XBMC): 100GB
Other: 1 x 1000GB (in self installed USB Enclosure); ~10GB Random Flash Media
TOTAL: ~2.9TB

It's sad to think I could get two more 1TB drives and replace all the storage of my random smaller ones. That said, my next computer (set to replace both my main PC and "file server" - a.k.a. my old pc loaded w/ a ton of drives) will be around 6TB, but I am waiting for Nehalem to come out before building it.






bignaz2k

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 6TB total at home, 2TB remote. Yeah. I'm pretty ridiculous.

AiRDawG

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @Munch: Porn + Music + Movies + DSLR = 4 plus TB eventually

+ Pirated Programs + TV Shows + eBooks

T3hG33k

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> its all about formats IMHO. movies and games are taking up more and more space. music is easier to get so people are getting alot more of it...which takes up space.

everyones different...but if your a real multimedia user...the more terrabytes the better. maybe 250 to 500 would be more than enough if games and movies were only taking up about half a gig to a gig in space. but they arnt any more. movies are going HD, and games are becoming more and more realistic. the fact that games and movies are taking up more along the lines of 20 gigs changes the game entirely.

jrghoull

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I thought that I would never need more than 1TB on my conputers until I got into building my media center. Recorded TV Takes up alot of space! not to mention backing up all of my movies onto the hard drive at 4-9 gig each. now the 2TB I have is quickly dwindling.

jeepingeek

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Rough projection of my media in a few months: 1TB music, 1TB scifi, 1TB movies, 1TB other TV series, 1TB "various". Im currently only at 'bout 3TB.

citizen024

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @HeartBurnKid:
thats the rule of life not just computing.


Chagocal

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> too much is not enough

derek168

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I'm good with just over 1TB or so. But that's only because I'm not ripping DVDs to my Media Center. If I was, I'd need a lot more.

jennyfur

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> This implies we need to have statically stored media... which is unfortunate, but what we actually want is media upon request, absent a paid-for service.

I don't want any movies, music, games, etc stored on my drives - but until cloud computing and IP get their stories straight, sadly, as many TBs as we can get are needed!

liveinvt

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> my buddy just cracked 4TB in his WHS and its full... hes getting 3 new TB drives in a few weeks... i have

160gb, 250gb, 500gb, 200gb, 80gb.. in my main pc so ~1190gb... but im about to buy another 500 so that'll take it ~1700gb

if i had the cash i'd go out and get myself 4x1TB and get it over with as since i got back into NNTP im download 100-150gb a day.

phantam

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I just got 2 2tb world books not including the 2 500gig HD in my computer.

I think they are awesome (and you can access them ANYWHERE and from ANY PC!). Movies (yeah there is porn in there... so what!) + Pictures + Games + file) I am still at only 1.5 TB. I hope this will last me a while because half the programs/movies should be deleted anyways. Flash cards and the rest add another 48 gig. I cannot even imagine if I were a software engineer, Porn afficianado, or CAD designer.

Grifter

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> You can compare this to houses as well. For instance, take Soulja Boy's house compared to 50 Cent's house.

Now, 50 Cent has a seriously huge place. I know, I've seen it on cribs. And it's full of stuff.

Soulja boy has a medium sized, entry level rappers house. His house is full of stuff too.

The point is, you got a big house, you gotta fill it to be cool. You got a big NAS? You gotta fill it too!

igothandle

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Desktop: 40 GB
iPod: 30 GB
Flash Drive: 512 MB

Total: 65.44 GB

:(



man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I lost count.

yougottabekidding

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> fileserver: 500+500+500+120+120+320
desktop: 320
flash cards, usb drives, mp3 players, etc: 100+

= ~2.5TB. and it's not enough. pirating 720p movies takes up a lot of space.

notatoad

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I can suffice with 1 right now, but sure enough I will need 2 next year and 4 the next

Seiven

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> my main rig is 3 terabyte in a 1/0 raid
4 in my homeserver
160 gig in my laptop
40 in my webserver
120 in my ps3
120 in my 360

pellier

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> As much as you can afford...

I'm just peaking at a 2.5Tb, but will probably just buy more because it's becoming so(relatively)cheap. I've got 500 gig just for music, and probably another Tb will be needed for movies eventually. Another Tb just for video editing and image storage...shit I better get 6Tb.

@Elvisisdead: Yeah, we are all becoming packrats, with gobs of media and info at our keystrokes... why throw anything away indeed. A female friend of mine is a Sims addict, and has managed to fill 320 Gb just with skins, mods and hacks.

tamoko

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Too much is never enough

Canoehead

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> D.Vader........ 10 terrabytes please

PC World........You,l need a tray

fastmike

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Hmm... I've got my Raptor 150 almost full (windows and apps only!). My 250GB "cache" drive is almost full. My 1TB is ~90% full. I've got another 250GB external I need to clean out. I've also got a 2x200GB and 2x160GB that I need to finish converting into a media server. Oh, there's also a 250GB travel external I've got and a 80GB iPod. This amount of storage has been accumulated over a period of probably 5 years. One can never have enough storage :)

knyghtryda

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> D Vader... 10 terrabytes please

PC World.... you,l neeed a tray

fastmike

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @MagnoliaBoy:
Yep.
I got 3Tb and counting.
My main computer is a MacBook Pro, and my most space consuming files are RAW and Photoshop files.
Got 1Tb external raid drive as main work area and for storing final files from the internal MacBook Pro drive.
Got another 1Tb identical to the first one, and it's been set as my Time Machine to backup all drives, and it filled up very quickly...

I will need more soon.
I think with my current setup if I want to be completely safe I would need a 3Gb raid level 5 as my Time Machine drive.

gizGianca

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Let's see...

120GB on this laptop.
40GB on my other laptop.

500GB, 300GB, and 200GB drives in my tower.

500GB External drive 1.
80GB External drive 2.
160GB External drive 3.
160GB External drive 4.
160GB External drive 5. (I'm a ProTools'er)

40GB Internal DVR
500GB External drive on the DVR.

16GB iPhone
30GB iPod
30GB wife's iPod.

60GB wife's macbook.

2896GB...

This doesn't count at least 2 40GB 5400RPM laptop drives that I replaced with 7200RPM ones or the miscellaneous older HD's or the one in my old laptop.

Nutballs.

iPhony

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I have somewhere between 1 and 2, but eventually I'll probably need more. I don't do as much video work anymore, but audio isn't much more space friendly, so I imagine it'll fill up pretty fast.

thebigcheese

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> People are making 48 TB servers over on the MyMovies website.

scarbrtj

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @nutbastard: Unless you work with orchestral sample libraries that consume TB like this:

+ Watch video

(start at :53)

johnnyabnormal

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @nutbastard: Amen. 500 GB is enough for me, and 90 GB of that is music. I packrat that for shuffleicious fun. All my photos are stored online. Everything else is backed up on a wee 250GB Iomega drive. Hell, I made do with a Zen Stone 1 GB MP3 for quite a while after the iPod mini gave up.

Don't underestimate the 70's celebrity nudes collections of folks. Those Loni Anderson pics can take up some space.

Cheap storage is leading us to the "why get rid of it" era. Doesn't cost extra to keep it - especially if you don't care if it gets hosed.

Elvisisdead

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I don't know about you people, but it has been a dream of mine for years to one day download the entire internet. Of course the internet does expand as drive capacity increases, but I don't care if I have to invent my own new data storage technology, I want to DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE INTERNET.

Milak82

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> How Many TBs Is Enough?

Trick question: NO amount of GBs is enough.

xint

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @Secret Agent Man: see thats why i dont buy those massive gb drives. god knows i could use them but to think that all my info is on one point of failure. and/or that my one drive is spinning all the time, ever-wearing until the point of mechanical failure is why im for the most part sub 5oo with my drives. and limit to 2 drives being used inside the belly of my machine at any time

damnElantra

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I currently ring in at roughly 1.6 TB of drives in use. I've been on a CD importing spree so I'm starting to hit the limits of my setup. Considering I haven't even touched the 1100+ live music collection, and I backup everything, I see many more TBs in my future. I wish Apple would make it easy on me and embrace eSATA because next I'm moving on to video.

phlavor

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 4 plus... One of the characters in Arthur C. Clarke's (RIP) 3001 mentioned that an entire human mind could be stored in a petabyte, so I'm guessing that's your upper limit right there.

Seagate still has some work to do...

dinger_82

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I never seem to have enough. I'm toying with getting a whole bunch of Xserve servers with 3TB each, then noding them all together in Logic Pro to manage my audio libraries better.

johnnyabnormal

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 640TB ought to be enough for anyone.

I have about 4TB at the moment, 1TB of which is in limbo due to WDC not honoring their warranty on their MyBook Pro.

But I'm at about 95% capacity at the moment, so I'm looking to buy another Big Ass NAS drive within the next 2 - 3 months. It'll be 2 - 3TB more capacity depending on price and redundancy overhead.

Pixelantes Anonymous

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I own 1500+ CDs that I have ripped to Wav files to play through my stereo. I am also digitizing a large portion of my record collection (500+ albums) and have burned through 1.25 TB of storage with this.
I have purchased tv shows and movies from iTunes and these take up around 100 GB of room, and is getting bigger. I also have 10 GB+ of Photos.
1 TB Segate FW800 HD
2x Maxstor 320 GB HD FW drives
1 250 GB Lacie USB 2 drive
1 400 GB Seagate FW drive
200 GB in mac Mini
200 GB in Macbook
160 GB in Apple TV

This equals 2860 GB using HD Company math (1000KB = 1 Meg)









howismydriving

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> One. One TB is enough for me. Hell 500 GB is enough for me, I've always found that people with massive amounts of storage either have no idea what they have, or they simply packrat a bunch of shit they've only looked at once and never intend to look at again.

I get by just fine with an 8GB mp3 player - no it doesn't have ALL my music, but then again, I have music i dont listen to anymore, so why would i carry that around with me?

Of course, not having a broadband connection to call my own might have something to do with it. All i got is my 30 gig laptop. And it;s still bogged down from last minute grabs from stage6 before it went down : (

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Desktop: 300 gb SATA
WebServer: 300 gb IDE + 150 gb IDE + 100 GB IDE
FileServer: (2) 300 gb IDE
MediaCenter: 160 gb IDE
Laptop: 140 gb SATA
Laptop (wife): 100 gb SATA

Add in various SD cards, USB flash drives, and some drives that have been disconnected and put in a safe...I'm looking at 2 TB.

And I'm almost out of space. Good lord.






Norcross

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @MagnoliaBoy:
I hear that, I lost an external 500GB drive when it fell off of my desk about 4 months ago. The problem is, at large capacities, you can't really back up data, your best bet is to back up irreplaceable things (work, photos, etc.) and just accept that your digital music/movie collection can disappear at any time.

Secret Agent Man

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> as soon as the human species quits generating electronic data (music, video's, documents, etc) - at that point we will no longer require "larger" drives. But until then, we will need exponentially larger drives.

rainfever

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> doesnt matter as long as we can get more than 16gb on an iphone

who actually wants less for all the their media

jozen

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Never underestimate the bandwith of an Antonov AN-225 filled with 12 GB microSD cards.

wazmo

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 320GB in my iMac. Wife has an 80GB in her MacBook Pro. My Mac mini-based server has a 60GB internal, plus three 500GB in an external FW enclosure (one is for backing up the iMac and MacBook Pro via Retrospect, the other two are mirrored together and store backups of my applications and CDs). I've also got a 60GB portable FireWire drive, a 160GB iPod classic, and probably around 10GB in assorted flash memory cards. Wife has an 8GB iPod nano.

sgodun

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @EL_RIEL: more?

googlesmith

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> You remember your first 1 gig Drive? I remember my First several computers that didn't have hard drives. Then my first one that did was a 20meg MFM that later I got a RLL controller and got it up to 33megs of hard drive space.

Now I have 8.5TB to hold my movie collection that I stream to my PopCorn Hour and a couple of other Media Streamers.

You Kids get off my Lawn!!!!

SirRey

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @MagnoliaBoy:I agree. I setup a ready NAS to store all my music with redundancy but it still scares me that I have video and images of my 5 yr old. from birth till now also on that raid. In theory I should be OK but I always fear losing it all to a a massive crash. currently @
750GB usable on the NAS upgrading to 2TB soon
500GB on iMac
250GB Macbook Pro
80GB on Tivo series 2 80hr?
160GB Apple TV
not counting 1 other Mac in house or 2 iPods in use.
1.74TB








Boognish

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> How much will I need that will keep me 'til I die? I want 16 terabytes of mirrored SSDs. Yee-haw!

stryder100

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> We have come a long way from my first real PC (that was the first Pentium) running at around 64 MHZ with megabits on the hard drive. Now I am clocking in at about 2 gig of storage and more on the way.

As time goes on and the HD thing really starts to embed itself in our culture and around the web, we will need more and more storage and faster and faster internet.

There was a time when I thought that 100gb hard drives were overkill and now look at it!

jzh797s

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> What I've always wondered is how much, in terms of TB or Gb, is a memory capacity of an average human being.

cygnusx8

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Rule 17 of computing: Your data and applications will grow to fill all available space.

I.E. more is never enough.

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 2000GB in my Mac Pro (4x 500GB)
3000GB in my Drobo (3x 1TB)
160GB in my 2.5" External
80GB in my Mac Book
60GB in my Mac mini

That means I have 5.3TB of space over all my hard drives. However, as YodaMac stated, that is not how my hard drives are actually being used...

My Mac Pro has 4x 500GB drives, but I am running two of them in RAID1, so I only have 1TB of space over two drives.

My Drobo has 3x 1TB drives, but I can only use 1.98TB of them because they are running in (essentially) a RAID5.

The other drives all have the potential to fail. This brings my real world HD count to 3.3TB, which really ain't that bad :)

mmr

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 160 GB in Desktop PC
100 GB in Tablet PC
160 GB in Laptop
60 GB USB HD
300 GB FW HD
500 GB FW HD
80 GB iPod

1.36 TB. I need more space ASAP.

artvanderbilt

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I have 1,000 TBs.

Prove me wrong.

N@tedog

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @werk: it seems we are two of a kind. 2850 GB!!!!

googlesmith

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> whoops I said uncompressed twice

:P

atomicafro

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I have a recording studio and it does use a lot of space if you keep all files from every session you do. I tend to do that so I am able to remaster at a later date if asked to do so.
I can imagine using just about as much space as i can get, but not all on one or two drives. I prefer to have multiple external drives set up in categories.


pcs800

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @YodaMac: point well taken!

riqgeez

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 9 x 250 GB
2 x 300 GB
2 x 500 GB
4 x 750 GB
-----------
= 6850 GB

~6.69 TB
Putting all your DVDs on one computer equals complete lazyness...

gilleskd

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> MOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

EL_RIEL

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> No such thing as enough:

100 gig Mac Book Pro
160 gig Archos 504
200 gig WD External
200 gig WD External
200 gig WD External
320 gig WD External
500 gig WD MyBook External
500 gig WD MyBook External
500 gig WD MyBook External
1.5 ter WD MyBook World Edition External
various other flash drives and old comps

I say I'm at 4TB, and I'm always looking for more.

wharle

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I am just over 1TB but I have to say I am not a big collector of anything but music and movies for the kids. Movie and TV downloads are normally deleted every two weeks. I have to keep tidy, besides who wants to defrag 4TB of files.

Tex1961

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> When I have enough to store every film I want to see and every album I want to listen to uncompressed in glorious uncompressed high definition plus have enough left over to do days worth of 64 track audio recording in 64-Bit/192kHz and HD video editing then I'll be satified.

In other words: 1 exabyte... in a single 2.5" laptop drive plz.

ATA

atomicafro

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 160 wd passport
60 laptop
80 windows drive desktop 1
160 storage drive desktop 1
80 windows drive desktop 2
160 storage drive desktop 2
250 music drive desktop 2
160 windows/bittorent drive desktop 3
250 job backup 1
160 job backup 2
160 textures/turorials drive 1
160 textures/tutorials drive 2
250 music backup
250 passport/laptop backup
160 2007 photo backup
160 school work backup
250 demo reel/video drive
500 redundant backup
160 old machine os

...list seams short. im forgetting some

damnElantra

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I currently have 6.5 Terabytes used out of 8 TB. Most of my work is Video related but I'm currently in a position to buy a Blu-ray burner and start backing up to Blu-ray discs rather than the hard-drives. I hate really having so many hard-drives due to the fact that I just don't trust them.

imTheKing

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @speakerwizard:

Spelling could use a bit of help too. :)

switchxfactor

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> • 80 GB in my new shiny MacBook Air

*Cough*loser*Cough* sorry I got something in my throat.

potohead1

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> it's really more about effective storage.

For summer i'll be buying all new computers, including laptop, desktop and server.

Effektive storage: 1030 GB
Backup storage: 1820 GB
Total: 2850GB

ie. I'll have almost 3 TB worth of storage.

Remember though that after formatting you'll have about: 2654 GB (1024 bytes to a KB, 1024 KB to a MB, 1024 MB to a GB)

googlesmith

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I have 1TB of music, without RAID or any backup system. I live in constant fear.

krewl

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> There are only two kinds of Hard Drives - those that have failed, and those that WILL fail. :)

If you are participating in the "digital world", whether it be photos, movies, music, or all-of-the-above, then you simply MUST save all your data in two places or at least on mirrored drives. (3 TB storage means 1.5 TB actual content)

Purchasing and regularly replacing hard drives absolutely MUST be in your budget, because you most definitely want to replace them BEFORE they die and not after.

Just know that all the money you WOULD have had to spend on physical shelves and entertainment cabinets can now be spent instead on buying new mirrored HDs every two years. Whether the old ones are still running or not...

YodaMac

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I'm at 2TB, but I am in need of more. I'd really like to make a back up of everything, right now I only have my Pictures, and Docs backed up, I'd be at a loss if I lost all my media.

Tayng

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @TheAdAgency:
LMAO!


riqgeez

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> As of now anywhere between 3-4tb is what I have. But in the next year or so I can see my data storage needs doubling like my tolerence to alcohol if I dont quite my current job.

fernsheldon

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> i have 2.8Tb ... woo

digitalhen

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> even if you are just doing causal amateur video editing, it's never too many bits and bytes. i have a 2TB NAS holding all my music in .wav format, ripped dvds, finished photos and movies. wishing for a 1T external drive to hold all work-in-progress video source files and a blu-ray writer to do archives.

whizmika

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @snowtires:
Even with a good raid setup, hard drives are pretty flakey. I gave up on trying to back stuff up on dvd, too. That can crap out and it takes waaaay too long these days.

mechfluff

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> my amiga 500 had a 5MB harddrive, i was amazed, now i have 4x750GB in my mac pro and 2 external 500GB lol isnt that 4,000,000 x more storage? my math is auful.

speakerwizard

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @Rabid Penguin:
Awwww damn... It's sad that Google offers me more free space than I have in my computer... and I payed for that :c(

Rabid Penguin

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 439GB for me... more than enough

ferrdidly

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I've 4TB in a Mac Pro, another 5TB in a desktop case RAID, 2TB in a PC, 320GB in a PS3, 250GB in the DVR, and various USB keys and film cards.

12TBs...that's enough...for now.

SigmundTheSeaMonster

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @drewheyman: Terabyte, Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte, Yottabyte.

TheAdAgency

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 80 gig iPog
150 gig internal
400 gig internal
hmm...

670 gig Gmail account
10 gig original xbox hdd
120 gig xbox 360 hdd

dammit.. I really only have about 550 gigs of useful space :c( I'm far behind you guys... time to catch up.

Rabid Penguin

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 160 gig for Desktop PC
120 gig for Laptop PC
320 gig for external drive
1TB for Network Attached Storage
80 gig for external drive
120 gig on the Xbox 360
80 gig iPod
lots of thumb drives

so my total is almost 2 TB right now... but i have a feeling I'm leaving something out...








Lego Addict

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @fusedinertia:

2GB! My first PC had no hard drive. Just a cassette tape...and we liked it! :-) The first PC that I owned that did have a hard drive had a 10 MB HD...and we thought it was massive.

BTW, I had 2K for RAM on that first TRS-80 model 1...and I had to code carefully as to not fill it. ? instead of print saves 4 bytes! :-)

scuba_steve_1

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> my iTunes Library is 1.2TB alone. Add HD video editing, DSLR, Blu-Ray rips and it gets mind-boggling.

120G internal iMac
2TB Western Digital MyBook
(3)500GB LaCie externals
(1)600GB LaCie external
4220GB

bradc2755

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> i have 9 TB of active disk right now, my movie collection is approx 5TB, all of my applications are backed up un a central NAS box, and the remainder is for apps etc...

If anyone is ever interested in creating an incredible movie collection use my movies 2
[www.download.com]


maccs555

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> does seem silly but yes, games, music, porn, movies, downloads, documents. it can get pretty tight. right now I have a 640gb hd and a WD500gb external. that should amount for something. also, I connected my hard drive to my DTV so I can record cable and the such. So I guess, I really don't have that much space after all.

**scratches head with finger**

riqgeez

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> 60 gig for my os
250 gig for ripping
750 gig external
500 gig external
500 gig external w/ a remote and outputs for the tv

30 gig ipod

Thats getting close to 3tb and it still isn't enough for me. I wish that I could afford backups for all of my drives.

mechfluff

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> We have two desktops and three laptops in our household...and one Tivo. One of the desktops hosts DVDs that we may want to view in different room. The formatted 640 GB hard drive can hold about 65 or so DVDs. That estimate is for 9GB dual layer DVDs. Compare that size with a dual layer blu-ray disk, which is 50 GB. Hmm...a formatted 1 TB hard drive will hold less than 20 such titles. Ouch.

Pictures and music take up space, but video will be driving this situation for the near- to mid-term.

scuba_steve_1

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I have about 3 TB right now, which = 1.5 TB, completely backed up. If you want to be safe with your data, you should have double what you're actually using.

snowtires

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> i enjoy my anime fansubs. "short" series can easily run 4-5 GB, so its not too hard too fill up disk space.

Accelerata

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> what comes after Terabytes? that. that's what i need. a bunch of them though; not just one. maybe like 7,000.

drewheyman

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> my first PC was a 486 with 256 Mb of hard drive space and 4 mb of ram, that was back in 1993. Just to put things into perspective. Now i have about 2TB worth of storage and 4Gb of ram. Man times have changed big time

pyrokotik

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I'm a photographer who shoots in RAW. I usually get 2-4 gigs a shoot. So the more the better.

Josh_Geyer

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> For day-to-day email, web, word processing kind of stuff? 300-500GB, maybe.

For pro-level video editing, especially long-form (as in feature film)? A bare minimum of 3-5TB, 5-8TB is better, and it is impossible to have too much.

bosskev

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I don't have a terabyte but I wish I did. I could easily fill up a terabyte if I wanted too. I'm sure mostly everyone else could too.

CarbonatedWater

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I'm backing up all the pr0n on the internets.

bitgod

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> @arras:

Exactly, before it was just documents and maybe a couple simple programs. Then it evolved into more and more complex programs requiring more space, then the evolution of High Speed online games with unbelievable graphics...not to mention our digital photo albums, or our entire music collection on mp3...now we have moved into movies and our dvd collections being compressed and saved as well. Yeah, we'll be able to use all the space they give us as we find more and more stuff to store on it.

Superchargedgtp

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> I think this whole data madness thing may be whats driving my next home network setup with my webserver/router and media pc being ultra light linux boxes that store all dynamic content on a nice NAS instead of having my data spread out all over the place. Even my desktop I want to only have HD space for applications store everything else on the NAS. It'd make it way easier to back up your data via just a nice Raid 5 array of 1TB discs or something. *shrug* Just a pipe dream atm.

TheCyberBob

]]> <![CDATA[Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?]]> Listen....its not really about the capacity; Its about getting the info right when you need it. Combine speed with capacity and then you're talking.
The only time i will ever be content is when hardrives reach the speed and approxiamte capacity of a human brain. BEcause everyday and new albums comes, movies come, photos are taken in higher res, and every day you need more space...


Salinger

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