Do I have enough hard drives in my server?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:11 pm

Seagate 400 gigers?

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:26 pm

Damn! All those HARDdrives, and yet you still haven't gotten laid! WTF! Oh the humanity!

nepenthe · Post by **nepenthe** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:09 pm

You are running out of letters, Brent

david

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:20 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Seagate 400 gigers?

boy do i wish

it is what i need

right now using all i got, 800GB total, and it isn't damn near enough space, i'm full

40GB Raptor
40GB Maxtor
80GB Maxtor
80GB Maxt0r
80GB Maxt0r
80GB Maxt0r
80GB WD
200GB Seagate
120GB Maxtor

What I really want

2x 76gig Raptors
6x 400GB Seagate

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:22 pm

nepenthe wrote:You are running out of letters, Brent

david

nah, plenty of letters in the alphabet, it is only 9 hard drives

but the capacity isn't up to what i want

i really really really want 400GB drives

nepenthe · Post by **nepenthe** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:28 pm

Brent wrote:nah, plenty of letters in the alphabet, it is only 9 hard drives

but the capacity isn't up to what i want

i really really really want 400GB drives

I hear you.

While browsing Best Buy after work, I spotted a might stack of 300GB Maxtors with 16MB buffers..... I may have stained them slightly, though not beyond repair.

david

aagiants · Post by **aagiants** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:12 am

i dont understand why you need all that stuff. You should invest in one larger drive

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:09 am

got me beat

18gig
160gig
200gig
120gig
160gig
40gig
60gig

740gig total

caveman · Post by **caveman** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:55 am

Me too...

30GB Maxtor
180GB Hitachi
250GB Maxtor
80GB Maxtor

Total: 540GB

This guy may just have enough.....

Only just mind!!

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:38 am

aagiants wrote:i dont understand why you need all that stuff. You should invest in one larger drive

here are the drives labeled for what they are for

when you go to lan parties you collect a lot of stuff, last year at Quakecon I gathered 500GB of stuff, now of course i weed through that and don't always keep it all, still, it adds up over time

as you can imagine what takes up the most space is video stuff, TV Series, Anime Series, etc... for example Babylon 5, that whole series is taking up 60.3GB of space, just for it, so it adds up quickly as you can imagine

one large drive aint gonna be enough, i'm going to need several large drives, in the order of about 6x 400GB drives, that is ultimately what i want

but of course they aren't cheap either

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:42 am

caveman wrote:Me too...

30GB Maxtor
180GB Hitachi
250GB Maxtor
80GB Maxtor

Total: 540GB

This guy may just have enough.....

Only just mind!!

yeah, that's a nice setup

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:49 am

OK I got to ask...why not burn it onto a DVD and use it instead

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:53 am

Ghosthunter wrote:OK I got to ask...why not burn it onto a DVD and use it instead

i want all my stuff to be accessible on the network, it is a file server afterall, so all i have to do is click my shortcut on my desktop to each drive and have instant access to what i need

also, i don't have a dvd burner, but if i did i'd only use it for backup, i'd still want instant access to eveything over the network, 'tis the reason why i built the file server and my gigabit network in the first place

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:53 am

Some people need the instant/changeable space. A lady I built a home LAN for, she does semi-professional video editing on the side. She has two towers, each with 4x 250 gig drives. So each tower has almost a tera. When working on several projects at the same time, you just want that instant access to large space.

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:06 am

Brent wrote:i want all my stuff to be accessible on the network, it is a file server afterall, so all i have to do is click my shortcut on my desktop to each drive and have instant access to what i need

also, i don't have a dvd burner, but if i did i'd only use it for backup, i'd still want instant access to eveything over the network, 'tis the reason why i built the file server and my gigabit network in the first place

ok makes sense...but cmon how much of that stuff is for ppl 18+ LOL

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:09 am

Ghosthunter wrote:ok makes sense...but cmon how much of that stuff is for ppl 18+ LOL

39.6GB

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:10 am

Brent wrote:39.6GB

wow you know exact amount..LOL

i was only kidding

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:24 am

Ghosthunter wrote:wow you know exact amount..LOL

i was only kidding

i clicked on it to find out how big it was, i didn't know prior to checking

Joel · Post by **Joel** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:52 am

Brent wrote:i clicked on it to find out how big it was, i didn't know prior to checking

suuure

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:32 pm

That guy using just one PSU for all those drives??

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:46 pm

:2cool: pics

caveman · Post by **caveman** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:05 am

Burke wrote:That guy using just one PSU for all those drives??

Not 100% but looks like... Must be a super duper one tho surely..... 22 drives and a mobo with at least 5 fans plus the one (maybe 2 in the PSU) and all the PCI>ATA controllers!!

Must be a decent one....I would hope!?!?!?!

jmw1137 · Post by **jmw1137** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:08 pm

Ever consider consolidating and putting them on bigger drives? I have 4 drives and am almost up to you:

- (1) 300GB
- (1) 250GB
- (2) 80GB

For all the audio files I have I'm going to have about a TB...then I'll need a TB of back-up for it. There aren't any TB hard drives available yet, are there? I know there's the LaCie external but what about internals?