I'm not really satisfied with my current storage situation. "Only" have ~6.5TB in my PC (2x 1TB, 1x 1.5TB, 1x 3TB) but I use the seperate drives for different stuff. While my first 1TB is for programs, games and docs, the second 1TB is for pics and audio files (music, audiobooks). The first one is already half-full and with single games taking up more and more space I would like to at least ahve 2TB for that (for now). The 3TB is for video files only and getting full faster than I would like it to (especially now that I am finally ripping my BluRays to it), The 1.5TB was an external drive before the SATA-to-USB thingy broke and now it serves as kind of a backup for my video files - and it's almost full.
A NAS is too expensive for me, so I will most likely just replace the 1.5TB and the 2x 1TB with higher capacity ones (using the replaced drives in external enclosures or keep them in case any other drive dies).
I'd say right now 12TB would be enough to make me feel comfortable. But of course more is always better.
I have 1.3TB in my system and I have never run out of space and I do audio editing with 96-192khz/24bit files. I think it comes down to not downloading very much and data hygiene. If I have 18 bounces of the same 200mb track I assume its shit and delete all of it. When I'm done playing a new game I delete it etc.. So I'd say around one TB seems to fit my needs perfectly. I have 500GB for essential backups plus some usb sticks.
I don't do a lot of media editing, but I do have 50gb games that get deleted on occasion. I guess I never worry about fragmentation and whatnot because stuff generally stays put and I work on things for a month at a time. Not to mention refresh my system every year.
SSD's don't really get fragmented. They die. I tend to not get very emotionally attached to anything I make. The creative process itself is what I find most rewarding and I can have a rough sketch to something down in a matter of hours and then spend months on polish and destroying darlings. This also means that I at any point have at least a 20-50 (100?)GB steaming pile of bullshit just taking up space.
I'm curious.. Does this question imply by having this storage that we would run it and maintain it including paying for power, dealing with any heat and noise, running backups and replacing any failed disks and other hardware? That was my assumption.
I would like to replace my samsung 830 128GB with 2* 120GB or larger SSDs in Raid 0, add another set of 2TB HDDs and put both sets in Raid 0. Does anyone know if Z77 supports running 3 raid volumes?
20-30tb across the LAN seems about right to me, were probably about 16-18 now between the NAS boxes and local storage (internal drives in workstations, removable drives used for backup and short term secure storage) but you really never have enough, every couple months I do file maintenance moving and deleting files because sometimes you just can't keep hanging on to files that are 4-5 years old like backup copies of Win XP, not likely to ever need that since we no longer have any XP machines.
Dude I think you and me would get along fine lol. I love tek syndicate but the whole privacy thing is a load of BS and i dont get it. Keeping passwords safe is one thing, but what do you have to hide? Those HD movies you torrented? Shouldnt have got them in the first place. Those nudes you sent/recieved? Thats like putting them on a slideshow for your birthday party and saying just dont look. Cloud storage is for storing things you need to access elsewhere or to keep bulk files off your local PC. By "security" the cloud providers mean your data is not going anywhere. It will be here when you need it and while others might see it along the way, its there for you. Some people will just need to find a new solution for their freaky porno stash lol.
Currently I am sitting at 7TB of HDDs and 1TB in total of SSD (one 500GB in my desktop and one in my laptop)
I had another 1TB HDD but I gave it to my parents.
I haven't gotten a new HDD in a couple years now.. at some point when the 5TB or w/e drives are cheap I'll prob get another one as my drives are getting low.