Storage overkill. How many gigs you got?

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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.