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I'm currently running a Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD as a main drive, picked it up primarily as a replacement for my earlier Intel 320 Series 80GB, really needed more space for Adobe Creative Cloud and the rest.

 

And for storage unfortunately, during my i7 upgrade had to hustle away 2x2tb drives, so i'm currently living with a 3 year old WD 1tb green that I salvaged from a WD MyBook. Would love a WD Red (or two?) for storage though!

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I currently run 2 1tb wd blacks because i want performance and back up, I use a 125gb kingston hyper x for games and windows.

 

I've been thinking on getting a Nas to further ensure I dont lose any of my uni work, also setting up remote access would be good so some Red drives would be great

Its all about those volumetric clouds

 

 

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Using the PACE acronym:

 

Primary: Laptop harddrive

Alternate: Dropbox, one 500Gb portable harddrive

Contingency: SkyDrive, Google Drive, one 750Gb portable harddrive

Emergency: one 1Tb external desktop harddrive

 

And, I guess my iPod kinda acts like a backup storage for my music if I need it to. =]

 

I really don't want to lose my data, so, it seems to average out about once per year, I add another place to store my data. The storage units I use are typically bought Black Friday every year. 

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I am running a 5400 rpm toshiba 320 gb drive. It is SLOW... Would REALLY like some WD reds!

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Thanks to Western Digital and Linus Tech Tips for hosting the giveaway! It's my favorite brand, haven't had many issue with them at all.

 

My current setup is a 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD and a Seagate 1TB HDD (because they were both cheap lol). The SSD is my main drive so I can boot into Windows quickly (OBv), and the 1TB drive is temporary storage until they go out into my 3TB Western Digital Essential external Hard Drive, running out of space since I take a lot of 1080p footage, would love to ahve more space. Don't get me wrong, I do have Western Digital Drives, just didn't have the best bang for the buck at the time of purchase, all my other systems use Western Digital. I'd probably set up a new NAS for myself if I end up winning, but good luck to everyone else!

 

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Just a 1TB WD Black for me from when I built it, cause anymore than that would have been too costly (and still is for the most part) and I think bundling it with some other item gave me a discount. I also have a 500GB Verbatim backup that's mostly full that I've had since before this rig, that one I leave off until I need to get or store something.

 

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1. My Desktop is housed in a Corsair Obsidian 800D, inside:

1x Corsair 90GB Force GT (boot)

1x WD 2TB Black (games)

2x WD 1TB Black (other stuff)

1x WD 2TB Green (more different other stuff)

 

attached i have:

 

2x Seagate 4TB BackUpPlus's (not backing up anything, just other more different stuff)

1x Seagate 2TB External somethingrather (again, more  more different stuff)

and finaly

1x WD 2TB Elements external (other more different more other different other stuff...or something)

 

i have this configuration because of the years of photo, video and audio mixing editing and such i refuse to delete anything, the problem is that ive never been able to get in front of the mass amounts of data and media i mix and render so its all fairly "at risk" of loss, ive wanted a home server for a very long time. somewhat luckily my content creation has recently gone down so i hopefully i can save up and get a raid card. and some drives to start a raid.

 

i have bought mostly WD products in the past because i have never ever had a single drive fail yet. and i have no problem paying extra for a brand name that i know stands by their products. the Corsair SSD was a RMA i got from a 64GB Nova series i bought during very high dollar per gig ratios. and the seagate drives, all 3 are the newest editions, were A). on sale, and B).on sale, could not pass them up!

 

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1. I use a maxtor shared storage I with a 120GB hard-disk as my storage drive. I use this because it has lots of potential after hack with linux. (it can run bit torrent, ftp, mldonkey, etc..)

 


 


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My current storage solution is a Patriot Javelin S4 full of WD Green 2TB drives. Got it when it was on clearance at NCIX, but it turned out to be really slow and not very reliable. (Reds didn't exist at that point - if it wasn't for the fact that I already had a 2TB Green on hand, I would have gone Barracuda.) Now looking at building a dedicated storage server and these drives would be a great start!

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I'm currently running a Seagate Barracuda 1TB HD for my boot/primary drive in my desktop.  I don't use storage drives in my desktop because I use a Drobo B800FS with 4 x 2TB Seagate Enterprise SATA Hard Drives in RAID 5 for my storage. I use the Drobo to store movies, music, pictures and important files.

 

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I am running a intel 320 series 160gb ssd as my main drive with my os and games I play most often. and I have a 1tb WD caviar blue drive as my storage drive to store my music, movies, and more games.

I am also planning to upgrade to a 500gb ssd during this coming black friday if I see a good deal. so I can move my 160gb ssd into a laptop or something and use the 500gb ssd as on my desktop :)

 

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 Running a WD Green 1TB as my boot drive (retail computer), later bought a WD AV-GP 2TB and a Seagate 2TB because they were on a pretty good sale and I was getting paranoid about data loss. All my important data is mirrored between those two drives.

 

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In my PC I run a Samsung 840 PRO 128GB for my boot drive, this drive seemed to be so respected by certain people and the fact that Samsung gives it a 5-year warranty is very reassuring. For my games storage I temporarily run a WD Red 3TB because it was laying around, I'm planning to use a WD Black 500GB in the near future for this because again certain people really respect those drives. 

 

For all my other storage I've got a small server running WHS2K11 on a 840 Basic 120GB, this because WHS2K11 is very familiair to any other Windows OS so that I don't have to get into exotic Unix or Linux environments and because again the 840 Basic is very respected by certain people. Altough I must say that I might switch over to Server 2012 Essentials because of the availability of Active Directory on this OS. The motherboard is an Intel S1200KPR board because I plan this server to be on for at least 6 years. ATM it runs two WD Red 3TB drives that are mirrored trough Disk Management. I have chosen for this drives because of my good experiences with WD drives and mainly because of the 24-7 RED support. For the RAID, my LSI 9240-8i controller is on it´s way from Hong Kong, when it arrives I´ll let some guy at a tech store check it and verify that it´s a genuine LSI controller and that it can handle RAID 5. This controller costed me about $150 so I, thought let´s take the risk. I hope to be running six drives in RAID 5 in the future, altough if some nice RAID controller that supports RAID 6 shows up I might buy it and switch over to RAID 6 because of the allowing for two drives to fail. I like that. 

 

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  I use a Seagate 500GB Harddrive because it was cheap and seemed reliable. I thought 500GB would be enough but I am left with 100GB and going down fast.

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1. My storage configuration consists of a Western Digital Blue 1TB Drive and a Seagate Barracuda 1TB (which has my OS). The reason I use these instead  of SSD's is because they are considerably cheaper (I am a student with no job) and I really need the storage for my games, movies, TV shows, and school work. SSD's may provide better speeds but I have filled up my WD HDD (which is new) very fast so I could not survive with the small capacity on SSDs.
 

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My storage has always been a bit unique, I mainly just go for pure raw storage amounts for my movie and TV library, plus all my games and other files.

Currently in my desktop machine I have a 1TB Caviar Black for OS/files, a 1.5TB Caviar Black for games, and some dinky little 320gb Seagate drive I cannabalized out of an old machine for other crap. Attached via USB3 are 2TB and 3TB Seagate Backup Plus drives, the 3TB holding my movies and TV, and the 2TB being a network backup drive for my laptop and desktops around the house

 

I used to have another 1TB green in there for other miscellaneous files but gave that to my father for his personal machine, because his photos were taking too much space

 

In my laptop I have a 128gb Samsung 840 SSD, but in the optical drive slot I replaced the CD drive with the Silverstone adapter and put in a 750gb HDD in order to hold more files, programs, and games

 

With the new focus on data security in the world, and especially since I just started at BCIT in computer networking, I plan to encrypt all these drives, and to make it easier I plan on getting a 250gb Samsung 840 Pro or Evo for my main machine because they are the only consumer drives that support full AES256 encryption (event though they're not OPAL complaint).

 

It would be nice if I could have some WD drives to throw in this empty NAS box I have though, that way I wouldn't have to have all my TV and movies reliant upon my desktop machine, especially since these external Seagate drives tend to crap out on me once and a while (just saved one from the brink of destruction, a.k.a. corrupt volume). The NAS box supports RAID 1 and 0, which is a bonus

 

Hopefully one of these days I'll pick up a home server and LSI 8888ELP RAID controller, and run a SFF8088 cable out to a headless chassis holding all my drives for the ultimate NAS (or just for the fun of it). Until then no RAID for me because no dedicated card, can't sacrifice performance issues (plus all my drives are completely different, lol)

 

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1. I only have a desktop and a server at home, with no laptop. Currently I have a very simple storage system, I have never tried RAID yet, although I would love to get a RAID setup going with my FTP Server.  My desktop has a 200GB Samsung 830 Series SSD for the boot drive and two 3 TB Seagate Barracudas for the primary storage drive and a secondary backup drive. I use Allwaysync to keep both of these drives in sync instead of RAID. 

 

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My NAS consists of a 1.5TB WD my book something or other attached to an old Dell Pentium 4 running windows server 2003.  All my movies, TV shows, photos and binaries are stored on this drive.  All the important photos and such are backed up on a 750GB HDD which is not hooked up at the moment.  I use this rig because I had the parts laying around and it was very simple and cheap to deploy.  I stream all my media from this PC to the PS3 and the rest of the computers.

 

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I use a Intel SSD as a boot drive because it is reliable and 2 Seagate Barracuda 1TB drives for storage because they were on sale.

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Right now i've got 4TB of mass storage, one 3TB barracuda HDD and one 1TB noname drive. OS is stored on a 120GB SSD

 

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1. I use a WD Black 1tb drive since I needed a high performing drive since I couldn't afford a SSD. I use it to store my music, games, pictures, etc. I will probably get a WD green 3 tb and pair it with a SSD in my next build.  

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1. I have two Seagate 2TB RAID for the mirror and a wee bit of disaster recovery.  One drive goes down, I simply replace it and move on!
 

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I'm running 2 WD Caviar Blacks 640GB in onboard Intel Raid0 (I wanted to try Raid)

 

I also had a WD Green 640GB for important files, but it died relatively fast...I really though it would last much longer than my Blacks...

Fortunately I was able to copy most of the files from Linux before it was too late.

 

After watching several videos of Linus, I started to feel kinda nervous, so I just got a new Samsung 840 250GB for my OSes and I'll try to Raid1 my Blacks.

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I have a Corsair Force GT 120 GB SSD and a Seagate Barracuda 1 TB HDD and a WD 1 TB External HDD.

 

To be honest, I only have these in my setup because they were cheap at the time of purchase.

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