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Title: How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: cefx- on July 03, 2004, 01:25 PM
Hey,

I'm excited.
I ordered a LaCie d2 external hard drive.
250gb - usb/fireware 400&800 connections, i.Link/DV port, some other goodies.
regular 7200rpm/8mb cache hdd
But 250gb!

Most storage I've owned, ever. ;)
This will up my storage to 410gb.

Link:
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10116
Then a 120gb that I put in my xbox, and 40gb on the laptop...

You?
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Grok on July 03, 2004, 01:56 PM
You have a little more combnied, than I have on my main PC.

(http://www.valhallalegends.com/images/Grok_storage.jpg)
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Thing on July 03, 2004, 02:04 PM
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb2              74G  5.3G   69G   8% /
tmpfs                 506M   12K  506M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1             112G   25G   87G  23% /windows/C


./edit Mine doesn't look as pretty as Grok's. :(
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: cefx- on July 03, 2004, 02:07 PM
Thing, is that a WD Raptor?

Grok: Just wait till I attach this baby to my laptop, hehe.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: MyndFyre on July 03, 2004, 02:41 PM
This is SUCH A SCAM among hard drive makers:

Quote
1 gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Once formatted, the actual available storage capacity varies depending on operating environment.

No.  1 gigabyte = 230 = 1,073,741,824 bytes.  Actual available storage capacity is 232.8 gb, when done using ACTUAL numbers.  Not because of formatting.

Damn.  Hard drive makers are gay.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Yoni on July 03, 2004, 04:18 PM
That scam has been known for years.

The conversion is linear: To convert FGB (Fake Gigabyte) to GB, multiply by the Fake Gigabyte Constant equal to 109/230, or approximately 0.93.

For example, a HD claiming to have 40 GB actually has 40 FGB, or 40 * 0.93 = 37.2 GB.

I'm not sure why the HD companies started or are continuing this scam. Marketing, maybe.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Netcooler on July 03, 2004, 04:21 PM
I got 2 Western Digital 120GB SATA drives and I'm happy with it =)
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: muert0 on July 03, 2004, 04:24 PM
I have a 6 and a 20 gig. Both western digital. :)
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Meh on July 03, 2004, 06:46 PM
Quote from: Netcooler on July 03, 2004, 04:21 PM
I got 2 Western Digital 120GB SATA drives and I'm happy with it =)
Eww  ???, Western Digital. Every HD I have had made by them has stoped working with in months.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: muert0 on July 03, 2004, 07:23 PM
I've had about 10 of em and they work fine for me. The six gig I have is from 98 and it works just fine.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: hismajesty on July 03, 2004, 07:43 PM
This Comp: 120gigs
External: 80gigs
Other Comp: 120gigs
Laptop: 40gigs
Extra/Linux: 3-5gigs.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: quasi-modo on July 03, 2004, 07:53 PM
1 western digital 200gb sata
1 western digital 80gb ide
1 samsung  40gb ide
1 maxtor  40gb ide
The maxtor is in my b**** box.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: muert0 on July 03, 2004, 07:59 PM
Quote from: peofeoknight on July 03, 2004, 07:53 PM
The maxtor is in my b**** box.
b****= black?
That's scary....
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Falcon[anti-yL] on July 03, 2004, 08:00 PM
2 WD 80GBs :)
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Grok on July 03, 2004, 08:05 PM
One of my servers at work has 34 73GB SCSI drives in RAID 5 configuration.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: l)ragon on July 03, 2004, 08:20 PM
80GB  - W.D.
10GB  - Maxtor
128MB - Lexar 'Jump Drive' <- the best buy I made so far


Edit: this is excludeing my 3 other computers.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: cefx- on July 03, 2004, 08:35 PM
Say, Grok
;D
Do you have a position for a junior admin wanting to learn lots and lots, smart and capable?!
IE:
me?

Haha. :)
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Fr0z3N on July 03, 2004, 10:12 PM
If we are counting all our hard drives:

120gb
80gb x 2
40gb x 2
20gb
6gb
2gb

and probably more I don't remember.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Warrior on July 03, 2004, 10:19 PM
120gb
80gb
3gb
10gb
30gb

Thats All Folks!
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Hitmen on July 03, 2004, 10:21 PM
Quote
[C:] 8.87/35.74 GB
[Z:Music] 2.50/20.16 GB
[F:] 1.95/1.97 GB
Free/Total.

Z+C = one 60GB WD drive.
F = random shitty 2GB seagate drive.

I'm still to lazy to shut down and take out the 2GB drive that I put in there for some reason now long forgotten.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Grok on July 03, 2004, 11:22 PM
Quote from: Fr0z3N on July 03, 2004, 10:12 PM
If we are counting all our hard drives:

120gb
80gb x 2
40gb x 2
20gb
6gb
2gb

and probably more I don't remember.

We're counting what is installed in our PC.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: j0k3r on July 03, 2004, 11:22 PM
40+40 in mine
15 in family's (used to be 30, bad problem, HD got halved)
40 in mom's laptop (I think)
80 in dad's laptop (I think)
And 1.5 and 5 from older computers which no longer work (I think)
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: quasi-modo on July 04, 2004, 12:04 AM
Quote from: muert0 on July 03, 2004, 07:59 PM
Quote from: peofeoknight on July 03, 2004, 07:53 PM
The maxtor is in my b**** box.
b****= black?
That's scary....
B!tch box... my crapper box, I jus dono waht the profanity policy is here.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: muert0 on July 04, 2004, 02:40 AM
Heh, not what I was thinkin then.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Trance on July 04, 2004, 08:37 PM
2x74.5GB (80FGB) on main desktop

14.3GB (15FGB) & 19.0GB (20GB) on other desktop
I'm planning to setup a RAID for this system soon though with 200FGB or 160FGB HD's soon.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Arta on July 05, 2004, 10:59 AM
2x120 + 1x200 = 440Gb. I also have 80Gb & 40Gb drives but they're system and not archive so they don't count :)
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Michelle on July 07, 2004, 07:24 PM
11.6GBS on My Compaq Laptop.. and 100Gbs On my g5.. and 40gbs On my iBook
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: iago on July 10, 2004, 06:23 PM
I'm probably a little late, but eh?

This is my laptop:
iago@laptop:~$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5              4388272   3756840    404920  91% /
/dev/hdc                635286    635286         0 100% /mnt/cdrom
/dev/hda1              5092572   4704584    387988  93% /mnt/ntfs
/dev/sda1            102398276  76067040  26331236  75% /mnt/usbhd
iago@laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             4.2G  3.6G  396M  91% /
/dev/hdc              621M  621M     0 100% /mnt/cdrom
/dev/hda1             4.9G  4.5G  379M  93% /mnt/ntfs
/dev/sda1              98G   73G   26G  75% /mnt/usbhd


I also have /dev/sda2, but Linux 2.4 doesn't like using ext3 on usb drives, so I don't mount it.  I need to update my kernel, but I'm lazy.

<edit> as for my desktop, 10gb+40gb.  But who cares about that? :/
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: muert0 on July 10, 2004, 06:39 PM
Make it NTFS.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Yoni on July 10, 2004, 06:46 PM
Eh? Make it FAT32. More Linux compatibility than NTFS last time I checked (especially on 2.4). I might be wrong though.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: muert0 on July 10, 2004, 06:55 PM
Maybe so my HD was full when I had linux. I remeber I could read and execute off of it. But I don't remember if I could write to it. And it was NTFS.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: iago on July 10, 2004, 07:49 PM
Linux doesn't stably support writing to NTFS.  And I also had problems with FAT32 on 2.4, it would occasionally lock up and not let me access it.  Ext3 is the same, but does it much more quickly.  NTFS is great, though, because I can only read it.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: deadly7 on July 10, 2004, 10:07 PM
Quote from: Grok on July 03, 2004, 01:56 PM
You have a little more combnied, than I have on my main PC.

(http://www.valhallalegends.com/images/Grok_storage.jpg)


Where'd you find that?
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: cefx- on July 10, 2004, 10:13 PM
Start -> Right Click My Computer -> Manage
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: deadly7 on July 10, 2004, 10:24 PM
Since the image is HUGE [I have lots of HD's] I'll link you to my site.

http://khiwhashini.uni.cc/harddrives.png
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: muert0 on July 10, 2004, 11:25 PM
6 cd drives on one computer?
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: quasi-modo on July 11, 2004, 12:23 AM
this possible. ide usually does 4 drives, then you have serial ata which can do another 4 (generally) if it is supported, so that takes care of 8. Then you can put the drives in an array, and there are other ways you can put more on. He could have more then 2 ide slots so he might be able to support more then 4 devices with ide.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: dxoigmn on July 11, 2004, 12:32 AM
Quote from: peofeoknight on July 11, 2004, 12:23 AM
this possible. ide usually does 4 drives, then you have serial ata which can do another 4 (generally) if it is supported, so that takes care of 8. Then you can put the drives in an array, and there are other ways you can put more on. He could have more then 2 ide slots so he might be able to support more then 4 devices with ide.

or he could be mounting ISOs.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: quasi-modo on July 11, 2004, 12:50 AM
Quote from: dxoigmn on July 11, 2004, 12:32 AM
Quote from: peofeoknight on July 11, 2004, 12:23 AM
this possible. ide usually does 4 drives, then you have serial ata which can do another 4 (generally) if it is supported, so that takes care of 8. Then you can put the drives in an array, and there are other ways you can put more on. He could have more then 2 ide slots so he might be able to support more then 4 devices with ide.

or he could be mounting ISOs.
hard disks, not optical drives, neways hes only got 4 hard drives, so it looks like 2 ide 2 sata, or 4 ide.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: SNiFFeR on July 11, 2004, 05:02 AM
120 + 40 + two 20s. = 200 GIGS!
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: dxoigmn on July 11, 2004, 05:15 AM
Quote from: peofeoknight on July 11, 2004, 12:50 AM
Quote from: dxoigmn on July 11, 2004, 12:32 AM
Quote from: peofeoknight on July 11, 2004, 12:23 AM
this possible. ide usually does 4 drives, then you have serial ata which can do another 4 (generally) if it is supported, so that takes care of 8. Then you can put the drives in an array, and there are other ways you can put more on. He could have more then 2 ide slots so he might be able to support more then 4 devices with ide.

or he could be mounting ISOs.
hard disks, not optical drives, neways hes only got 4 hard drives, so it looks like 2 ide 2 sata, or 4 ide.

I think muert0 was refering to the fact that deadly7 has 6 optical drives, however you responded with a response in regard to hard disks.  I didn't noticed because I briefly read your post :|.  Or were you not refering to muert0's post?
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Grok on July 11, 2004, 03:37 PM
My computer supports two SATA drives (which I have occupied with 200GB and 120GB drives), and 6 IDE drives (using 2 for DVD and CDRW).

The 6 IDE are provided through 3 IDE interfaces, primary, secondary, and tertiary.  Each can support a master and a slave.

ASUS P4P800E Deluxe. (http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4p800-e_d/overview.htm)
QuoteMulti-RAID
The P4P800-E Deluxe offers the most complete RAID solution. A Promise RAID controller offers RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 functions with Max. 2 UltraATA 133 ports and 2 SATA HD ports, enabling users to build a RAID array with any 2, 3 or 4 of the ports. With unique multi-RAID function, RAID 0 and RAID 1 array can co-exist.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: muert0 on July 11, 2004, 03:39 PM
I was just sayin 6 because I don't really see the point in 6 cd drives.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Grok on July 11, 2004, 03:42 PM
Quote from: muert0 on July 11, 2004, 03:39 PM
I was just sayin 6 because I don't really see the point in 6 cd drives.

Let's you have 6 CDs online at once.  Let's say you have a technical library that big.  You could have an application which knows which drive contains the CD of interest.  Users on the network could be provided a single interface point to that library.  To them, it would look like all the CDs are online.

Then, as the library was updated by the manufacturer (usually a law library, or medical library, maybe even insurance), the admin could simply swap out CDs.  The users would always have updated content.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: quasi-modo on July 11, 2004, 06:09 PM
Oh I was not looking at the picture the first time and looking at the optical. Yes that is most likely alchohol, daemon tools, phantom cd, or something else creativing virtual drives, I have 6 optical right now, only 2 are real.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Grok on July 11, 2004, 07:09 PM
Quote from: peofeoknight on July 11, 2004, 06:09 PM
Oh I was not looking at the picture the first time and looking at the optical. Yes that is most likely alchohol, daemon tools, phantom cd, or something else creativing virtual drives, I have 6 optical right now, only 2 are real.

You probably do not have 'optical'.  Optical generally refers to MO, "magnito optical" drives, which are produced by Sony, Plasmon, Hewlett Packard, and some others.  The sizes are typically 940MB, 1.2GB, 2.6GB, 5.2GB, 9.1GB, and some variations.  Optical comes in WORM and RW.  I have worked with optical since 1994, and have migrated some 500 million pages of documents to optical drives in that time with software I have written or supported at my customers.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: dxoigmn on July 11, 2004, 07:30 PM
Quote from: Grok on July 11, 2004, 07:09 PM
Quote from: peofeoknight on July 11, 2004, 06:09 PM
Oh I was not looking at the picture the first time and looking at the optical. Yes that is most likely alchohol, daemon tools, phantom cd, or something else creativing virtual drives, I have 6 optical right now, only 2 are real.

You probably do not have 'optical'.  Optical generally refers to MO, "magnito optical" drives, which are produced by Sony, Plasmon, Hewlett Packard, and some others.  The sizes are typically 940MB, 1.2GB, 2.6GB, 5.2GB, 9.1GB, and some variations.  Optical comes in WORM and RW.  I have worked with optical since 1994, and have migrated some 500 million pages of documents to optical drives in that time with software I have written or supported at my customers.

By optical he is refering to CD/DVD drives.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Grok on July 11, 2004, 08:44 PM
Yes, I know.  Hence my response.
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: quasi-modo on July 11, 2004, 09:40 PM
I have always heard of cd and dvd refered to as optical because of the fact that it is not magnetic like a hard disk, or floppy, or even a magnito optical, which as you know is like a hybrid between magnetic and optical storage (hence the name I guess). I have always heard magnito optical refered to as magnito optical....
Title: Re:How much storage do YOU have?
Post by: Hitmen on July 11, 2004, 09:49 PM
I have an MO disk sitting on my desk somewhere. I don't know where it came from, how I got it, or when I got it, but it's there.