How much storage do you have?

[Syntaxvgm]

Why ??? 

 It's also 1000MB not 1000mb.

Oh don't be that mean, unless it's transfer speeds, I don't think it's important, because we all know he means megabyte and not megabit, especially if he isn't capitalizing the M and not the b (Mb)

[SpagettiNinja]

It's not a marketing size. You are wrong. It's even taught wrong, it's a common thing not to know the reason behind this

 

So basically, the problem is Windows showing the size in a wrong, basically outdated format, if i understand this correctly. Why on earth would they do that? Like, Windows writes the normal terms, like GB and TB, but they actually mean GiB and TiB? As i just said, why on earth would they do that? I really dont understand that, with Windows being what it is.

[Dredgy]

13TB on my main PC.

4x 3TB HDDs

2x 500GB SSDs.

[jameshumphries47]

Why ??? 

 It's also 1000MB not 1000mb.

you know what i mean  

 

Oh don't be that mean, unless it's transfer speeds, I don't think it's important, because we all know he means megabyte and not megabit, especially if he isn't capitalizing the M and not the b (Mb)

 

[coen113]

500 gb hard drive, 250 gb ssd

[Timie187]

256 gb ssd and 750 gb hdd. On a laptop btw.

[wrath]

I have an earth shattering 500gigs of storage

[Sauron]

One of my drives just died, but I plan to substitute it soon.

 

Counting that one, I have 2 1tb internal hdds, 2 1tb external hdds and a 120gb ssd. So about 4tb in total (minus formatting space).

[cesrai]

320GB HDD and 60GB SSD.

[Syntaxvgm]

So basically, the problem is Windows showing the size in a wrong, basically outdated format, if i understand this correctly. Why on earth would they do that? Like, Windows writes the normal terms, like GB and TB, but they actually mean GiB and TiB? As i just said, why on earth would they do that? I really dont understand that, with Windows being what it is.

It's not outdated, IEC and IEEE literally changed a unit of measurement. It was first proposed by IEC in the 90s, adopted in 96 or something by IEC, and IEEE didn't adopt it until 2000 I think. It was a stupid move done quietly by a small group of people that caused confusion even among the best experts, and a lot of controversy. IEC and IEEE don't make laws, they make standards. Now with IEEE, like I said, if they decided you should put a little penis on every hard drive, I think most of the IT world will adopt it, because if you don't adopt every IEEE standard your server will catch on fire or something....at least that's what people think.

Anway the issue goes like this-

Hard drives use the IEC measurement methods, because it makes sense witht he way hard drives works

Most memory doesn't, because that doesn't make sense at all.

But most flash drives and SSDs use the IEC standard, because it's easier to advertise a larger number.

But some don't. Notice confusing SSD capacities?

It gets really confusing.

I think CDs use the old method.

As it was, I think the whole reason behind the IEC proposal was not rooted in ANY argument of making sense for computers, but rather that "kilo means thousand god damnit!" and so on, it was more about aligning to the SI standard of base 10. The "1024" system is base 2, or a binary standard. Which makes a lot of sense, too much sense actually. If it had been named different originally, than this mix up would not have happened. This change came as a result of some more in the scientific community I'm told, and not really the tech one...because we don't need that kinda change, and the resulting confusion. The only ones that were quick to adopt and support the change were drive manufacturers for the reasons of higher capacity numbers and it making sense as far as platters go, keeping in mind at the time solid state mass storage was not really a thing the way it is today.

[Guest]

I have one 120GB SSD and one 1.5TB HDD.

 

[Syntaxvgm]

To add, 1 horsepower is about 745.69 joules per second. Imagine for some reason this would make more technical sense if 1 horsepower was 1000 joules per second-
what then? What if some standard setting board decided to change the definition of horse power? Wouldn't most ignore that change in favor long established definition? I mean the definition of base 2 units of data was in place for YEARS before the IEC change, since the very beginning of computers.
Even better, what if the change was 1 horsepower= 500 joules per second- then some people would adopt that because it would make their cars look more powerful to customers. There would be a split adoption like in the tech world.

[Robin88]

I have a 120GB SSD + a 500GB HDD on my rig, a 120GB SSD + a 1TB HDD in our lasses rig, a 40GB OS HDD + a 2TB HDD and a 500GB HDD in our NAS, plus a 320GB HDD in our lasses Macbook and a 160GB HDD in her old Macbook and finally a spare 250GB HDD I have laying around doing nothing as it's been retired.

So the total storage in our house is ~5TB.

I'm hoping to upgrade to have four 2TB HDD's on the NAS in RAID 5 + the 500GB HDD as an external for use as a tertiary backup for documents and photos eventually, but right now our current setup is fine.

The only problem is the fact that we have no spare cash whatsoever, so everything is on hold right now

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

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[Blade of Grass]

My desktop has a 250GB 850 Pro, a 120GB HyperX 3k, and a 1TB Re drive.

 

My server has a 120GB M500, a 1TB Blue, and four 3TB Seagate NAS drives.

[ChineseChef]

I have a lot of hard drives, but I will just leave this here.  I have an addiction to collecting, don't judge me.

 

 

On a side note, this is my data storage server, not my main rig.

[RazorStorm]

3x 850 pro 128GB SSD in raid 0 = 384GB

2x seagate barracuda HDD raid 0 = 6TB

[Axel Sypkens Smit]

120 gb SSD

500 gb SSD

1Tb HDD

2TB HDD - nas

[HatallaS]

2x520 ssd more than enough. All my movies and photos are on multiple portable HDD to cross over.

[ssttevee]

Desktop:

- 256GB SSD

- 1TB WD Black

- 4TB WD Green

 

NAS:

- 512GB SSD

- 3TB WD Red

 

Laptop:

- 128GB SSD

 

External:

- 256GB SSD

- 1TB HDD x4

 

Other:

Many old <1TB ide drives, some <1GB

 

 

I'm kind of a data hoarder... 

[William5849]

_Desktop:

_{128GB Samsung SSD for my OS}

_{1TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD for Games and Programs}

_{2TB WD Green}

 

_{Going to be upgrading to 3 4TB WD blacks or their NAS drives soon since they are cheaper for the same performance.}

[unijab]

In laptop1:

240G SSD

 

In laptop2:

500G HDD

 

In laptop3:

80G HDD

 

In laptop4

100G HDD

 

In storage PC:

4x 3TB HDD

6x 1TB HDD

1x 500G HDD

 

In Desktop1:

128G SDD

1.5TB HDD

 

In Desktop 2:

2x 500G HDD

 

External drives:

8x 500G HDD

1x 240G SDD

1x 1TB HDD

 

Thumb drives:

too many to count

[Nup]

One 500gb hdd... 

[JanisPhenex]

One 250 GB Samsung Evo SSD and a Seagate Desktop 2TB HDD

[MetaDrow]

Desktop:

128GB Samsung 840 Pro

2x 1TB WD Black

500GB WD Black

 

External:

1TB Hitachi

1TB WD Green

1TB Seagate Wireless Plus

640GB Samsung? Seagate 2.5"

160GB Hitachi 2.5"

 

Laptop:

1TB Seagate SSHD

 

I think I have more hard drives than I need, I should start getting bigger single drives instead cheaping out for smaller ones...