Storage overkill. How many gigs you got?

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by colinb913

I have...

1 tb external
1 500 gb external
1 250 gb external

2 500 gb internals on my rig

1 250 gb internal on my dads rig

60 gb on my macbook

and on my self made server I have another 2.5 TB so in total:

5.5 TB + 60 GB.. I dont think I will ever have to buy any more space.

Sounds like Bill Gate's take on RAM in 1981

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates

When you factor in Moore's Law and relate it to hardware storage devices, you'll see how incredibly silly it sounds to think that ~5TB will be enough to suffice indefinitely

[Totemic]

Originally Posted by JE3146

Sounds like Bill Gate's take on RAM in 1981

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates

Except Bill Gates never said that.
I'm not sure who originally said this nor why it's attributed to Gates, but he's gone on to say:

"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."

Anyways, once you start dealing with HD videos, TB is almost quaint in terms of storage space. I currently have about 6TB of disk space on my media center PC and it's running low now (down to about 12% free space). Even storing everything in just 720p (at 6Mbps using AVC/VC1), it's around 2.2GB per 1 hour show. Flip that to 1080p at 12Mbps, and it's 4.4 to 4.5GB per hour (and 12Mbps for 1080p is kind of on the low side--most of the time I'm seeing around 15 to 18Mbps).

I'm waiting for the big UEFI push before jumping onto the >2TB harddrives for my systems. I should be able to drop around 12TB into each of my file servers at that point.

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by Totemic

Except Bill Gates never said that.
I'm not sure who originally said this nor why it's attributed to Gates, but he's gone on to say:

"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."

You can tell yourself that all you want

[Totemic]

Originally Posted by JE3146

You can tell yourself that all you want

I don't have to.
My Google-fu is strong and doing a quick search shows it's correct.

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by Totemic

I don't have to.
My Google-fu is strong and doing a quick search shows it's correct.

I'll put it to you this way. There's nothing out there credible that says he did say it, and nothing out there credible that says he didn't (other than him saying he didn't like 10+ years later). Leave it up to your imagination. Personally I'd like to think the richest man in the world is human and makes mistakes like the rest of us, even moronic ones.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by JE3146

I'll put it to you this way. There's nothing out there credible that says he did say it, and nothing out there credible that says he didn't (other than him saying he didn't like 10+ years later). Leave it up to your imagination. Personally I'd like to think the richest man in the world is human and makes mistakes like the rest of us, even moronic ones.

Hard to believe he's the richest man in the world, isn't it?
He doesn't seem to even much care, and he gives tons away. Pretty good dude, I think.

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by shilala

Hard to believe he's the richest man in the world, isn't it?
He doesn't seem to even much care, and he gives tons away. Pretty good dude, I think.

I agree. When I meant human, I meant from an intelligence point of view, not judging his character