Storage overkill. How many gigs you got?

Originally Posted by shilala

I just swapped out a couple 300gb hdd's with a couple 1.5tb platters in my main rig. There's two more 200gb platters and another pair of 300gb platters in that machine for a total of 4tb now. I think that should do for awhile.
I did it because, as ridiculous as it sounds, 1.6tb was never enough.
I use the second drives of the same position as backups, in case one of my drives flakes.
The reason I mention this is that I have the same problem with my computer as my cigars. Never enough space.
How many gigs in your rig?

Originally Posted by kgoings

I have 4.something TB but it is setup in raid so I only really have 2TB of storage...I need more. Doing photography eats up storage...plus I rip a copy of all my DVD's when I get them...my kids are always scratching or losing my stuff!

2TB's, but I'm not mirroring the drives so that's pure storage space. I know, I'll be sorry if something fails, but I still have a burned hard copy of the movies, just start all over again.

I've got a wireless network set up to stream music and movies throughout the house, so I rip full ISO's of all my movies onto the network, and all of my music is on there as well. Then I create a main movie for either transfer or streaming to my iphone.

At 6-7 GB per ISO a TB doesn't get you very far. If I ever get a blu ray drive for the computer and start ripping blu rays on to the network I'm going to need a lot more space,

[shilala]

Originally Posted by Resipsa

2TB's, but I'm not mirroring the drives so that's pure storage space. I know, I'll be sorry if something fails, but I still have a burned hard copy of the movies, just start all over again.

I've got a wireless network set up to stream music and movies throughout the house, so I rip full ISO's of all my movies onto the network, and all of my music is on there as well. Then I create a main movie for either transfer or streaming to my iphone.

At 6-7 GB per ISO a TB doesn't get you very far. If I ever get a blu ray drive for the computer and start ripping blu rays on to the network I'm going to need a lot more space,

I'm already imagining another pair of 1.5tb platters, Vic.
Today I set up started moving files so I can stream orb to my xbox and iphones and dvd players properly.
I should really have my head examined.

[mithrilG60]

Originally Posted by Resipsa

At 6-7 GB per ISO a TB doesn't get you very far. If I ever get a blu ray drive for the computer and start ripping blu rays on to the network I'm going to need a lot more space,

Look into DVDShrink for your DVD collection and strip out all the menu's, extra features etc. and you should be able to get them down to about 4GB per iso. For bluray it makes much more sense to rip to MKV and either get a set-top box like a Popcorn Hour or a media PC to play them. A standard 1080p movie ripped to MKV ranges from is about 9GB to 12GB. Raw bluray rips are in the 45GB range

Originally Posted by systm

You Should check out freeNas its a great server system, and very easy to set up.
Only about 750GBs across all machines, but I need to get a 1TB to start backing up videos to my server/mpd box.

The major downfall with freeNas is it's lack of expandability. Once you create an array you can't expand it or add additional drives to it without loosing all your data.

[Jason]

2.5tb but it's across 6 devices, storage is cheap and I save everything