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How much storage in your primary PC?

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How much storage in your primary PC?  

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    • Less than 500GB
      0
    • 500-999GB
      8
    • 1.0-1.49TB
      14
    • 1.5-1.9TB
      3
    • 2.0-2.9TB
      4
    • 3.0-3.9TB
      3
    • 4TB or more
      9
    • Too Many Terabytes
      2

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Although hard drive capacities aren't growing at the rate they once were, the drives themselves are getting cheaper and cheaper. That's made it easy to load up a desktop PC with multiple terabytes of storage capacity on the cheap, and without taking up too many drive bays. At the same time, however, the rising popularity of network-attached storage devices and home file servers has lessened the need for gobs of local storage. I already know how many of you are running network-attached storage devices. Now, I am curious to see just how much capacity lurks inside your main rig.

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Right now, 5TB. 4TB in mechanical drives and 1TB (close enough to) in solid state. 

 

I'm down to about 120GB of mechanical and 200GB of solid state space left free, though. Once I get the funds together, I plan to completely re-do all of my storage, with about 2TB of solid state in my PC and then a 10TB NAS for mass storage (using 10GbE connection). 

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I have a 240 GB ssd and x2 500GB in raid 1 which get back up to a 500GB drive on my NAS. I could lose 2 drives and still have all my data ^_^

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WTF is that font choice?

 

Anyway, 1.25TB. 250GB SSD, 1TB hard drive.

Project White Lightning (My ITX Gaming PC): Core i5-4690K | CRYORIG H5 Ultimate | ASUS Maximus VII Impact | HyperX Savage 2x8GB DDR3 | Samsung 850 EVO 250GB | WD Black 1TB | Sapphire RX 480 8GB NITRO+ OC | Phanteks Enthoo EVOLV ITX | Corsair AX760 | LG 29UM67 | CM Storm Quickfire Ultimate | Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum | HyperX Cloud II | Logitech Z333

Benchmark Results: 3DMark Firestrike: 10,528 | SteamVR VR Ready (avg. quality 7.1) | VRMark 7,004 (VR Ready)

 

Other systems I've built:

Core i3-6100 | CM Hyper 212 EVO | MSI H110M ECO | Corsair Vengeance LPX 1x8GB DDR4  | ADATA SP550 120GB | Seagate 500GB | EVGA ACX 2.0 GTX 1050 Ti | Fractal Design Core 1500 | Corsair CX450M

Core i5-4590 | Intel Stock Cooler | Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI | HyperX Savage 2x4GB DDR3 | Seagate 500GB | Intel Integrated HD Graphics | Fractal Design Arc Mini R2 | be quiet! Pure Power L8 350W

 

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This much

 

 

 

I use them for stuff...

 

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ASRock Z97 PRO 4| i7-4790К@4600MHz/1.26V| Noctua NH-D14| 16GB ADATA@1800Mhz| Gigabyte GTX 660 WF OC| Samsung 840 Pro 128GB; Samsung 860 Pro 256GB; Samsung 860 EVO 500GB| Seasonic SS-650KM3 Gold| CM Storm QuickFire Ultimate| Mionix Naos 7000|

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1TB Spinning HDD and 2x 250GB ssds.

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CPU: i7-5820k @ 4.4GHz Motherboard: Asus X99 Strix  Graphics Card: Gigabyte 980Ti G1 Gaming Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury 24GB (3x 8GB) Hard Drive: 1TB WD Green SSD: Samsung 950 Pro 250GB CPU Cooling: Corsair H100i Power Supply: EVGA G2 850W Case: Corsair 400c Mouse: Logitech G502 Keyboard: Asus Strix (mx reds)  Monitor: BenQ XL2730Z 1440p@144hz OS: Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit Laptops: Lenovo Y50-70: i7-4720HQ - 16GB RAM - 256GB SSD - GTX 960m 4GB - MacBook Pro (Early 2016) 2,0GHz i5 - 8GB Ram - 256GB SSD Phone: iPhone 7+

 

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I have a 1TB HDD in my system, it's plenty for me 

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2TB Seagate HDD

1TB WD Blue

240GB SSD SanDisk

 

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6 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

WTF is that font choice?

 

Anyway, 1.25TB. 250GB SSD, 1TB hard drive.

Comic sans ever heard of it before?

 

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I have a WD Blue 1 TB and a 250 GB 850 EVO. And then a bunch of random laptop HDD's. I have even more harddrives to put in my PC  but I don't have any more SATA cables for them + I'm already at the point where I'm jamming harddrives in my case wherever I can... Capture.PNG the point where I'm jamming harddrives in my case wherever I can... 

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1 TB but i think i still have 400GB free space in total.

Ryzen 5 3600 | MSI B450 Tomahawk Max | Corsair Vengeance lpx 32gb 3600mhz | EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA GAMING | XPG Core Reactor 850w

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250GB SSD, 500GB SSD, 120GB SSD, 2x 500GB HD, 2x 2TB HD

 

4,370GB usable

 

I love it :P

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CPU: AMD R7 5800X | CPU Cooler: Corsair H115i PRO | Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO | Memory: G.Skill RIPJAWS V DDR4 3200mhz 64GB | GPU: EVGA RTX 3080Ti FTW3 Ultra | PSU: Seasonic Prime 1300w | OS Drive: Samsung 850 EVO SSD 500GB | Games Drive: Samsung 850 EVO SSD 1TB | Media Drive: 2x WD Blue HDD 1TB in Raid 0 | Media Drive: 2x WD Black HDD 2TB in Raid 1 | Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D | Monitor 1: ASUS PB287Q UHD | Monitor 2: ASUS PG278Q WQHD

 

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Pretty much all I have is my old 1TB 7200rpm HDD I've had for the past two years. I still have about 1/3rd of it left and I'll be cleaning it out soon lol. I wouldn't mind throwing in like a 128gb SSD for my OS and programs though...

 

That being said I should be more worried about my 4gb of ram lmao 

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120GB Samsung 840 Evo SSD and a 500GB WD Blue 7200rpm HDD so 620GB right now, will add a 1TB WD Blue 7200rpm in the next six weeks or so.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X PBO GPU: Asus Strix RTX 3090 OC Mobo: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master RAM: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB 3600Mhz CL17

CPU Cooler: Corsair H150i Capillex Storage: Samsung 980 Pro and 970 Evo 1TB Samsung 860 EVO 1TB Crucial MX300 525GB WD Black 2TB PSU: Corsair HX1000 Case: Corsair 500D SE RGB 6x LL120

 

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2 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

I'm already at the point where I'm jamming harddrives in my case wherever I can...

That`s why I use additional 4x3TB Adata NH03 (this model http://tw.adata.com/en/hdd/specification/98

The only problem is because of that my usb ports now looks something like this

 

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xD

 

ASRock Z97 PRO 4| i7-4790К@4600MHz/1.26V| Noctua NH-D14| 16GB ADATA@1800Mhz| Gigabyte GTX 660 WF OC| Samsung 840 Pro 128GB; Samsung 860 Pro 256GB; Samsung 860 EVO 500GB| Seasonic SS-650KM3 Gold| CM Storm QuickFire Ultimate| Mionix Naos 7000|

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i'd much prefer a NAS for my storage, but i'm finding it difficult to find a decent NAS thats not expensive.

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25 minutes ago, dexxterlab97 said:

Comic sans ever heard of it before?

 

OP must have edited his post. When I saw it it was this one.

Project White Lightning (My ITX Gaming PC): Core i5-4690K | CRYORIG H5 Ultimate | ASUS Maximus VII Impact | HyperX Savage 2x8GB DDR3 | Samsung 850 EVO 250GB | WD Black 1TB | Sapphire RX 480 8GB NITRO+ OC | Phanteks Enthoo EVOLV ITX | Corsair AX760 | LG 29UM67 | CM Storm Quickfire Ultimate | Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum | HyperX Cloud II | Logitech Z333

Benchmark Results: 3DMark Firestrike: 10,528 | SteamVR VR Ready (avg. quality 7.1) | VRMark 7,004 (VR Ready)

 

Other systems I've built:

Core i3-6100 | CM Hyper 212 EVO | MSI H110M ECO | Corsair Vengeance LPX 1x8GB DDR4  | ADATA SP550 120GB | Seagate 500GB | EVGA ACX 2.0 GTX 1050 Ti | Fractal Design Core 1500 | Corsair CX450M

Core i5-4590 | Intel Stock Cooler | Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI | HyperX Savage 2x4GB DDR3 | Seagate 500GB | Intel Integrated HD Graphics | Fractal Design Arc Mini R2 | be quiet! Pure Power L8 350W

 

I am not a professional. I am not an expert. I am just a smartass. Don't try and blame me if you break something when acting upon my advice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...why are you still reading this?

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3 hours ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

WTF is that font choice?

 

Anyway, 1.25TB. 250GB SSD, 1TB hard drive.

If your on a cellular phone it looks weird

The geek himself.

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Yeah, I only have one 1TB drive in my PC along with the 480GB OS drive (Where everything on my PC lives)...I'm only leaving the 1TB in there to see how long it lasts (It's about 7 years old now). All of my data lives on my home server (60TB). I used to have another 2TB, but that died last year (7 years though).

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I'm running out of space everywhere...

 

 

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Workstation 1: Intel i7 4790K | Thermalright MUX-120 | Asus Maximus VII Hero | 32GB RAM Crucial Ballistix Elite 1866 9-9-9-27 ( 4 x 8GB) | 2 x EVGA GTX 980 SC | Samsung 850 Pro 512GB | Samsung 840 EVO 500GB | HGST 4TB NAS 7.2KRPM | 2 x HGST 6TB NAS 7.2KRPM | 1 x Samsung 1TB 7.2KRPM | Seasonic 1050W 80+ Gold | Fractal Design Define R4 | Win 8.1 64-bit
NAS 1: Intel Intel Xeon E3-1270V3 | SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SL7-F-O | 32GB RAM DDR3L ECC (8GBx4) | 12 x HGST 4TB Deskstar NAS | SAMSUNG 850 Pro 256GB (boot/OS) | SAMSUNG 850 Pro 128GB (ZIL + L2ARC) | Seasonic 650W 80+ Gold | Rosewill RSV-L4411 | Xubuntu 14.10

Notebook: Lenovo T500 | Intel T9600 | 8GB RAM | Crucial M4 256GB

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I am running a 120GB samsung 840 pro SSD as my primary drive (Opp system and local apps)

Then running 2x 2TB raid 1.  this runs my Doco drive and Apps drive

From there for all my storage i run a server with 4x 2TB WD greens in raid 5 looking after all my storage with a 5th drive looking after Server 2008 and a spare drive i use for my personal storage.

But my new Rig i am building i am getting rid of storage for SPEED and moving to a NAS for everything else so my new PC is going to run a 512GB samsung 950 PRO M.2 SSD. this will have a 150 GB OS drive and then the remainder will be my Doc drive with it backed up to my NAS. and then a 512 GB Samsung 850 Pro SSD for Apps.

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I replaced a 1TB Hard Drive with a 500GB SSD last year and I'm never going back. 

 

I do have a home server with 8TB of regular hard drives for backups and stuff.  I may be a bit of a data horder though.  Fairly sure I don't still need graphics card drivers that were released 5 years ago and gigs of different releases of 3DMark.  I'll clean it up sometime...

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Main rig is SSD Only

1. 250gb 850 evo

2. 1tb 850 evo

3. 750gb 840 evo

living room build

1. Intel 600p nvme 256gb

2. 2tb Seagate sshd

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