How many HDD's do you...

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think i can get into my computer without having one HDD crash? And how many GB's or even TB's do you think i'll come up with? :crazy:

[NaliWarCow]

Well it all depends how good you are with computers. I doubt I could get 2 in, but you might be able to get 30 into it. How on earth could you use a TB?

[Jubba]

what the hell is a TB?

[ribcage]

I think terabit. am I right?

[NaliWarCow]

I thought it was a made up term.

byte > kilobyte > megabyte > gigabyte > trillabyte

But, I'm probably wrong.

[Daveman]

I think it's a Terrabyte 1000 gig. My friend runs an isp and he buys drives at 50Terrabytes each (and has about 100 of them)

Dave

But i'm probably wrong too..lol

[Mythmon]

he is talking about a terabyte, 100 gigabytes or 1,000,000,000,000 bytes

offtopic lets see i have 130gb of sapce on this computer alone, in this room i have ~200gb of space on a total of 4 harddrives

[RelandR]

1,000 bytes = 1 kilobyte (thousand)
1,000 kilobytes = 1 megabyte (million)
1,000 megabytes = 1 gigabyte (billion)
1,000 gigabytes = 1 terabyte (trillion)
1,000 terabytes = 1 petabyte (a Bazillion :!: )

How much can you fit in your box ?
... depends on a lot - o - factors

[teet]

just something to think about...if you do happen to hook a multitude of hdd's together they will be extremely noisy.

i once put 4 15,000 RPM harddrives into a server...it sounded like a helicopter was going to take off (well maybe not that loud but you get the point)!

good luck :)

-teet

[TheOrangeOne]

make a sound-proof case for them all? you could always record the sound levels of the HDD's, place a speaker next to them and play the 'anti-noise' (sound of an equal and oposite wavelength/frequency - this will counter-act the sound and muffel it. They use this on some aircraft!)

I may be wrong about the 'anti-noise' thing though, but i don't think im too far off.....)

[eilsoe]

I think the biggest HDD's you can buy in denmark at the moment is 250 GB... no tera HDD's yet...


relandR: the limit is at 1024 ;) not 1000 :)


1024 GB = 1 TB (terabyte)

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Right now i have 550 GB on 5 HDD's, and i can modify my case so i'll be able to fit atleast 3 more. But i sure am going for 1 TB :P

[thoriphes]

...then there's the almighty exabyte.

:hat:

[TheOrangeOne]

geez! and i thought i was happy with my 60GB. Thats impressive s-fx

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by s-fx
Right now i have 550 GB on 5 HDD's, and i can modify my case so i'll be able to fit atleast 3 more. But i sure am going for 1 TB :P 5 HDDs? Seems rather... uneconomical :)

[eilsoe]

thor: 10$ says we hit at least 20 exabyte before 2015 :)


with the rate we're going with now.. phew...

[thoriphes]

My HDD of preference is the WD1200JB Special Edition. It's Western Digital's 120GB HDD with 8MB of cache. Has never failed me once. My friend has an array of I think 7 of them, which he RAIDs. He uses them all for pirated stuff. Unbelievable.

eilsoe: I'm thinking even earlier than that. I wouldn't be surprised if Terrabytes were found in common HDDs by 2006. I waiting for Serial ATA. That's the next generation of HDD capability, which is much faster than old Ultra ATA/IDE. Terrabytes would be flowing like a river on that type of BUS. but yeah, $10 for Exabytes in 2015, you're on.

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Yeah thats what im using, SATA... much faster, a lot easier and not as much FREAKIN CABLES all over the **** computer!

[thoriphes]

you're lucky, all you have to deal with is a wire as thin as the audio cable from your cd-rom to your sound card (should you still use that). i'm waiting for SATAs to become fairly mainstream so that i can get a good deal and a decent HDD. How big's your SATA HDD? and how much did it cost?

[Kitiara]

I've got three PCs at home, all networked together... Two of them have two HD's in and one has three. Some have got XP OS, others have got earlier versions, so I can run all the various games I've collected over the years. :)

[tobydog]

You could achieve 1 TB sing 4 250 GB hard drives in a server case. If you are getting a new motherboard as well, I would go with one that has on-board RAID which would allow you to stream data to multiple disks - the speed difference is incredible.

TD

[thoriphes]

My main computer (dormant) at home dual boots Windows 98 and Windows XP so i can play my Wacky Wheels and Commander Keen series games. ;)

[senocular]

I use about 3 gigs. No more, no less. Most of that is the OS. A swf file usually isnt over 100K so I dont need much space :P

[TheOrangeOne]

Originally posted by thoriphes
My main computer (dormant) at home dual boots Windows 98 and Windows XP How the heck do you do that? I havn't been able to play "the feeble files" since installing xp.....

[Kitiara]

I've got two entire HD's dedicated to games, mainly duplicated since the things weren't always networked. Another one is full of media, mp3's etc.

Besides, it wasn't that long ago when a terabyte was unthinkable.

And who remembers Bill Gates saying (something like) "I can't forsee anyone needing more than 64K of RAM"? :)

[thoriphes]

Originally posted by TheOrangeOne
How the heck do you do that? I havn't been able to play "the feeble files" since installing xp..... What i did was get one of the HDDs from one of my old computers that still had 98 on it and stuck it in my computer. I tried booting to it by messing with the boot sector to no avail. then i found this nifty little program called "OSloader" or something that did it for me! it's not free though and it has nag windows. but it works.

[s-fx]

The SATA is 120 GB's and cost about 140$ by me. The only thing i had problems with was the installation but that's because it was my first time with SATA, now i know how to do :P Some BS with the motherboard BIOS. Im thinking of buying IDE -> SATA adapters so i don't have to have all those big gray/rounded black IDE cables, right now its one hell of a mess.

[s-fx]

Originally posted by tobydog
You could achieve 1 TB sing 4 250 GB hard drives in a server case. If you are getting a new motherboard as well, I would go with one that has on-board RAID which would allow you to stream data to multiple disks - the speed difference is incredible.

TD

My motherboard supports onboard ide raid and onboard sata raid :geek:!

[Niann]

Wow... Thats a lot of space to use... I have a 120GB Drive in one of my PCs that I use for Premiere temp files and Video that I am editing. Otherwise on my other PCs the 40GB drives are working fine. I can't see needing more space then I have in them now... But I dont install a whole lot of things anyway. :)

Cheers!
-Niann

[thoriphes]

You wouldn't happen to have the ASUS A7V8X would you? Cause that's the one I have.

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This here picture is taken of my 5 HDD's and all the other cables from hell.

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IDE cable and SATA cable comparison.

[s-fx]

I have an Abit motherboard, IC7 G or something like that, it even has an onboard gigabit LAN device!

[RelandR]

Originally posted by eilsoe
... relandR: the limit is at 1024 ;) not 1000 :)

1024 GB = 1 TB (terabyte)

:sure:
if yer gonna make a point to pick on *rounded numbers*...
...actually that would be 1,073.741824 GB = 1 TB

the '1024' applies to the kilobyte

all *true* totals are exponents of 2

... but who's really counting :sure:

[Mythmon]

Originally posted by RelandR
1,000 bytes = 1 kilobyte (thousand)
1,000 kilobytes = 1 megabyte (million)
1,000 megabytes = 1 gigabyte (billion)
1,000 gigabytes = 1 terabyte (trillion)
1,000 terabytes = 1 petabyte (a Bazillion :!: )

How much can you fit in your box ?
... depends on a lot - o - factors

its not a bazillion, its quadtrillion

mi = 1
bi = 2
tri = 3
quad = 4

its only logical

[RelandR]

sheesh :sure: er... "bazillion" was a ... nevermind ...

I'll just go over there somewhere... :sure:

[thoriphes]

lol, i was just gonna say, RelandR. i like your humor though.

[RelandR]

ahhhhhhh =) ... a spark of light in an otherwise dark and lonely universe

[Maxtr0sity]

Wow, I'm pathetic, I've used a 20GB separated 10 and 10 by partitioning and I've never used up more than 15GB thankyouverymuch.

=)

[Mythmon]

you dont download a lot of stuff huh?

[thoriphes]

lol, and you do myth?

[Maxtr0sity]

Apparently not. That, and I take advantage of everything I use. There is not a single program that I don't use on a weekly basis. I'm very efficient. Also, I have dialup so it's hard to download big stuff. My mp3 folder is about 4GB, and I think I'm going to burn them all by data on CDs.

=)

[λ]

There's somebody on Direct Connect (a hub based p2p program, very elitist) who is actually sharing 1 TB of data.

I have 31.8 Gb space on my PC, and currently have 6 free. The other PC has around 40 and 30 free.

[Maxtr0sity]

I use DC a lot, it's rare to see someone with that much data. Did you check his files for not fake sharing? ;)

=)