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1. Running a Norco RPC-4224 build with about 10TB of storage, switched to this from using a normal tower with JBOD because was running out of space for more HD and also had no redundancy in case a HD failed.  Now have 6 HD in the Norco with 1 HD being a parity drive.

 

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I'm using 1TB HDD, and a 500GB HDD. When I built my computer I wanted atleast 1TB, and it was fairly cheap. The 500GB one is from an old laptop that I don't use anymore. :P

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I have 2 Hdd one is 500 Gb Hitachi with and other one is 312 GB Seagate, did'nt get much choice with those since i has little when i bought my system and was not that very tech, I got this system back in 2006 but right know i some time use my 312 Gb to record on it and use it as scratch disk, hopefully I well upgrade this to more modern storage config with that arrival of 5th Gen Intel Cpus

 

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128 GB SSD and 1tb HDD. Fast booting and lots of storage at the time. Runing out now but really allows the best of both worlds.

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That's a wierd timing but, my old and trusty WD 320Go died this morning... Was running in my server. Running it 24/7 without a proper harddrive is just stupid. Thankfully, i had a backup on WD Red 1To. But running single drive backup isn't smart either....

 

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I have 4 drives because when I do a new build I normally try and keep the old one and add it to the next one if they haven't died. Saves money I guess reusing them but the older ones are kinda scary I don't keep important stuff on them. First is my OCZ Vertex 4 128gb ssd I use for my boot drive and normally install the major game I'm playing on it at the moment. Next is 2tb WD drive keep my steam stuff and random media stuff. Last two drives are 500gb ones sea gate other is WD I store all my movies on one and music on the other. Makes my media easy to organize.

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I ran a 2TB HDD Seagate because it was cheap and I wanted space cause of movies and games.

 

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I am running a single 5400rpm drive 640GB and back up to a external 320gb drive.

i use this config mostly because it is what i had "lying around" and dont really have money to spend on hdd's.

altho i am planning on a raid array in the near future, and have alreadly got the case and mobo, the psu us next, and well hdd's.

i know there are no extra points for mentioning WD, but i have only had one WD drive die on me compared to all the others, and do trust WD drives, but have always gone with seagate.

so that is my storage config and why i use it.  :D

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at the moment i have a 250gb 830 for os  3 2tb  movies ect 1 3tb drive 1 4tb black for steam and the like the 2tb drives are backed up to external drives as for why iv just been adding drives as i have need storage  i really need to do a proper backup solution

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Currently I'm running a Samsung 840 pro 128GB SSD as my boot drive. I also have a raid 1 array in my system, with two Seagate Barracuda 1TB. On that raid array is also an OCZ Vertex 3 64GB SSD cache.

 

I bought the 840 pro as my boot drive when I was assembling my system, because well, it was the best performing consumer drive at the time. Period. I picked up the Seagate Barracudas on a screaming sale, something like 60 bucks a pop or so. I added the SSD cache, mostly because I really wanted to see what it was all about. I've been extremely happy with my SSD cache, especially for my HEAVILY modded Skyrim. It takes my load screens down by about 70% of the time, as long as I've loaded the content once or twice before to get it entered into the cache.

 

I could really use some WD reds, especially 4TB! I'm looking to set up a NAS ASAP, as there is about to be a third computer in the house. While I only really game on my PC (RAID 1 for steam games, amirite?), my grandfather has a ton of important work files that if lost by a drive failure, would be critical. He isn't as tech savvy as I, and doesn't realize that not having a backup is a really bad move, especially on his 5 year old HDD. I really need a way for everyone to access the same data, and for everyone to be able to back everything up, all in one central location. These drives would really catapult me in the right direction, and save me a ton of money!

 

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How big can this be? :D

 

My original NAS was a Qnap TS-209 Pro II that originally only held 2x 1Tb drives, but with the right drives, funnily enough Western Digital WD20EARS 2TB drives you were able to up the storage capacity from 1Tb drives to 2Tb drives.  What I discovered was... it was SLOW!  Something that I didn't know when I purchased it was that transfer speed usually depended on the processing speed of the NAS and how much memory was available.  The Qnap was nice for a first NAS but also the limitations on size was a pain.

 

Research, research, research (and a lot of procrastinating - it's how I roll) kept me looking at different NAS devices, QNAP, Thecus, Lacie, Netgear and Synology. Some nice NAS's in there but just not for me. Price wise they were expensive (Aussie prices to North American prices) but limited to space and capacity. 

 

So I decided to build my own with some components and using Freenas.  I used a Asus P8H67-I mini itx board with an i3 -2100 and G.Skill Ripjaws F3-10666CL8D-4GBRM DDR3 with 7 x 2TB WD20EARS drives.  I squeezed it all into a Lian Li PC-Q08 case. ;)

 

I also have a my main gaming rig which has a Samsung 256GB SSD 840BW Pro as my boot drive and a WD 1TB VelociRaptor 64MB SATA3 as my games (Steam mainly) drive and a mishmash of 2 x 1Tb WD Black drives and a WD 500Gb and WD 640Gb drive for storage.

 

My server machine recently died so I am about to transfer those drives, 1 x 500Gb WD and 2 x 1TB WD drives into my gaming rig so I can still use them until I source another server rig.  I recently acquired an old notebook from a friend and replaced the old dodgy hdd in it to a WD Scorpio Black 750G 7200RPM 16MB SATA II and put Ubuntu on it giving it a new lease of life and am currently using that as well.

 

On top of that, due to a silly error by me I shorted out 3 of the drives in my NAS accidentally, so I need to send them away to try and recover the data on those. :(

 

I've virtually always used WD drives since my first WD 850Mb drive (yeah you read that right) except for some silly forays with drives like Maxtor, Quantum or IBM Deskstars (no Bigfoots.. I was never that silly).  When my WD 850Mb died under warranty, they replaced it with a WD 1.0Gb drive which also had an issue and then replaced that with a WD 1.2Gb drive. That special service locked me in to always making Western Digital my first choice of hdd where possible.

 

Next NAS will more likely be same components, new case (maybe Zalman MS800 Plus)  2x iStarUSA bpn-de340ss (or similar) and an LSI SAS 9207-8i so I can fill it up with about 12 Hard Drives (WD's of course and hopefully 4 of those will be from here :P )

 

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Hope that's not too big? 

 

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I run a single WD Blue 1TB because its all i could afford, currently saving up for an SSD!

Thanks for the giveaway WD and Linus! :D

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I run a toshiba 500gb as main and storage drive, that was the only drive I can afford because in my country the computer hardware is very expensive compared to the us and canada (sorry if my english is bad) greetings from costa rica.

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1. I have a LOT of different storage devices. In my main box I'm using a 256gb OCZ Vector as the OS drive because it's hella fast and awesome looking. I also have 2x500gb Velociraptors in RAID 0 because they were on sale during black friday and only 80 bucks each was crazy not to get them. Then a single 1tb black as a storage drive. My NAS has 1 320gb WD Blue for the OS and 3x3tb drives for storage. 1 WD green drive which originally inside of a western digital my drive external enclosure but it wasn't very fast and I had lots of issues with it so I cracked the case open and put the drive in my linux NAS box. I just added 2 more 3tb drives, both seagate drives. None are NAS optimized and aren't in RAID. I store lots of pictures that I take with my camera (link to my flickr in my sig). 24mp in RAW ends up with some HUGE files. My HTPC has 3 drives, 1 120gb Mushkin Chronos SSD for the OS and 2x1tb WD AV-GP drives which were an older model designed for 24x7 operation in stuff like DVRs. It has Windows 8 with the media center add on and I use it for recording OTA TV in HD. I also have a hauppauge colossus HD recorder which I use to record from HDMI on my xbox or component from my cable receiver so I can take shows like Breaking Bad and record them in full HD. I have an external SATA enclosure with a 2tb seagate drive which I use to backup my main OS. I also have a 1tb external toshiba drive that I carry to work every day which has all my TV shows and Movies on it... for work purposes.

 

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In my laptop I'm using a 500gb WD Caviar Black. The laptop came with a 320gb Hitachi, which broke when my backpack (containing the laptop) fell off a park bench. I wanted something cheap to replace it, and decided to go with 500gb because 320 went by really fast. I'm a little dissatisfied with how loud it is.

 

My desktop isn't completed yet, but I just bought a 120gb Samsung 840 SSD for it. I wanted the 840 pro, but got a really good deal on the 840.

 

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In my personal rig I have a one 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive, and for back-up I have one Seagate Backup plus external drive thats also 1TB.  I built this computer on a budget so I only got one drive for it, I got a terabyte so I could store everything including all my games at the time. More recently I bought the external drive for backup because one of my friends drives had failed.   

 

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Right now i have ocz vertex 3 64gb for my boot drive and wd black 1tb for my programs because you recommended the ssd and need big storage for programs. Also a 3 tb wd green in my nas for backup

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I am using a Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD and a 1TB WD Green. I had had the SSD since I built the system but I was in the need of more storage, so I got an old HDD which failed on me 1 month ago, so I have to replace it with something. I wanted to spend as little as possible. The 500GB here costs 60EUR and the 1TB costs 70EUR so I went with the 1TB, heck yeah 10EUR for 500GB more, gimme more. 

 

To sum up, I have a SSD for my OS, my applications and some games and the HDD for mass storage. It was the cheapest option in my country and as long as I cant find lower prices on amazon due to taxes and shipping e.t.c., I could only buy something from the local shop.

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I built myself a NAS earlier this year. Starting with an old motherboard I had, I started using single arrays and eventually tried a ZFS setup. During my first experience, I rapidly figured out that I should have built it with more drive. Which I just did by adding a raid card to my setup.

I've rebuilt it all this month and it looks like this :

 

1 x 4GB pendrive for the nas4free OS

3 x 2TB WD greens

1 x 1TB WD green (next to be upgraded with a WD red)

2 x 2TB Seagate Barracuda

1 x 3TB Seagate Barracuda 

1 x WD 3TB Red (lastly added)

I choose this option since I, on the personal level, have many movies, games, music, appz, a huge library compiled over years while doing my masters and PhD. I also store backups of a community group that I preside. I  use this storage for my job as we got tons of interviews, historical documents, videos of events, meetings, etc. 

I may seem overkill at first... It's not even half way full but it's tidy, all in one box and I can manage it all with a simple interface. I also wanted to make sure that I would have lots of room for upgrades with the new video format coming up. The most sensible Data is backed up on 1 x 2TB  External WD Elements which did on me after finishing my transfers last week. Eventually, I will have to buy a new one.

Like I said previously, most of these disks were previously randomly attached to either my main tower or another pseudo-server running on windows 7 I made a few years back in a pretty DIY manner. Some of theses drives are already a few years but they are top notched at this moment and they are working great. Little by little, I will be replacing all of these drives with either 3TB or 4TB WD Reds as they fail. 

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I have a two 128 SSD running in raid 0 because they are cheaper than one 256 SSD but twice as fast.  For storage, I have one 2 TB for storing university research data.  

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I'm running a Samsung 840, 120GB for the boot and for Warcraft and Rift.

For storage I use a WD Blue 500GB, and the reason why is that I recently build this computer, and salvaged the drive from my old one :)

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I currently use a 120 GB SSD boot drive with a 2 x 2 TB RAID0 and a 620 GB backup drive.

Eventually the 2 TB drives will be reconfigured into a more reliable RAID and moved to a home server when I can afford to build it.

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