How much drive storage do you have installed ?

[ChrisX]

Chris,

You are a little mistaken, there. Granted your networked at 100mbps, that's mega BITS per second, your USB 2.0 is rated at 480 mbps, that's mega BITS per second, 4.8 times as fast as the network.

Is this that fast at 480 Mbps?

I saw that as Bus transfer rate and thought I saw this bit: Sustained Transfer rate as 34 Mbps and firewire at 41 Mbps.

Check out: http://www.maxtor.com/_files/maxtor/en_us/documentation/data_sheets/onetouch_data_sheet.pdf

I just found another mistake thinking that it is USB 2.0, it isn't as USB 1.1 at 12 Mbps as too slow.

I have use to another computer having that speed as USB 2.0 and this one got firewire as well. It is a notebook.

OR

Get new USB 2.0 installed in that PC I wanted to have the Ext HDD connected. I'll have to decide soon.

[Doramius]

Installed on -
computer 1: 80G & 120G
computer 2: 4G & 250G
computer 3: 50G, 150G, 250G
computer 4: 10G, 200G, 250G

I also have a bunch of drives that aren't in a computer.
loose laptop drives: 3.2G, 4Gx2, 12G, 20G
loose regular drives: 10G, 120G, 200Gx2
loose SCSI drive: 50G, 80G

So total comes to 2067.2G of space. WOW!!! Now I know where all my money went. No wonder my wife gets mad every time I get a new Hard Drive.

[gmatov]

She should be cheering you on. You are buying 160 gig for like 80 bucks after rebate. When you were a foolish spendthrift, like the rest of us, you were paying 400 for 2 gigs.

Same for RAM.

My main mach has 160, 120, 100, 80, 120 USB, 20 USB, 600 gigs.

No. 2 440 gig,

No. 3, just 1 160, no externals, yet.

So, 1.2 TB, so far. Not for long, though.

Cheers,

George

[Doramius]

If I were to average costs of how much I spent on my drives all together and including the cost to ship them, I think the cost would be around $.60-$.80 a gig. I usually get the drives, brand new, with a bunch of friends in a bulk shipment. the 200G and 250G drives were each about $90-$100 at the most. Seagate and Maxtor 7200RPM drives. I can't stand anything less than 7200RPM.

[jimmalenko]

My main machine has 1 X 80GB and 3 X 200GB (rotated through a removable HD tray).

My other machine just has the solitary 40GB drive.

[ViRaL1]

Main desktop

80GB(WD)
250GB(MX)

Server 1
73GB(FJ)(SCSI)
73GB(FJ)(SCSI)

Server 2
40GB(MX)(Boot/OS)

200GB(WD)
200GB(WD)
200GB(WD)
200GB(WD)
3 in RAID0 til i RMA the last, then back to RAID 5.

PC2
40GB(SG)

PC3
40GB(MX)

PC4
30GB(MX)

Laptop
60GB(Toshiba)

Externals
40GB FW
120GB FW/USB2
(I think that's it.)

[BJ_M]

are you sure ?

[jimmalenko]

That's a mjor porn operation you've got going there, ViRaLi

[BJ_M]

That's a mjor porn operation you've got going there, ViRaLi

haha -- was EXACTLY what i thought also ..

[jimmalenko]

That's a mjor porn operation you've got going there, ViRaLi

haha -- was EXACTLY what i thought also ..

we can only hope ...

[ViRaL1]

That's a mjor porn operation you've got going there, ViRaLi

How'd you guess?

Actually I don't even have a site.

Although every now and then when people ask me what I'm up to, the standard response is 'uploading porn to the internet.'

[jimmalenko]

That's a mjor porn operation you've got going there, ViRaLi

How'd you guess?

Actually I don't even have a site.

Although every now and then when people ask me what I'm up to, the standard response is 'uploading porn to the internet.'

you can always upload it to me

[ViRaL1]

With over a TB of storage and a 5Mb connection. I'm a bad man!

[jimmalenko]

Ever thought of opening it up to FTP or something, or does the thought of hackers kinda quell that ?

[ViRaL1]

I'm also on PPPoE. Never really wanted to pay for DynDNS.

[BJ_M]

I'm also on PPPoE. Never really wanted to pay for DynDNS.

you can get DynDNS type service for free -- some lists

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Address_Management/Dynamic_DNS_Services/

http://www.geocities.com/kiore_nz/subdomains.htm

http://dns.highsynth.com/

http://www.oth.net/dyndns.html

http://www.dyndns.org/ anyway is free also

[jimmalenko]

so are you going to open it up so we can FTP porn like there's no tomorrow ?

[Doramius]

I have another 2X150gigs to add to my previous numbers. Got a couple of new seagate drives.

[CoasterCreator]

let see at home compt.
#1. Int. | | External
60 gb | | 250 gb
200 gb | | 250 gb
about 10 gb( not connected at this moment )
#2
60 gb
40 gb

[Doramius]

Add another 4x80gig. I'm getting some Maxtor Drives from my brother. Not big ones, but free drive space (Well, I have to pay for the shipping, but that's less than $30)

[DeleriumMDK]

1 120GB Seagate
1 40GB Western Digital

Also got a 40GB Maxtor in my Playstation 2...man do I ever feel inadequate as far as my PC specs go after reading this. I'm curious, how big of a PSU are you guys using with this many hard drives? I'm thinking about modding my XBox, throwing the 40GB WD in there and picking up a 2nd Seagate 120GB HDD for my PC...orrr, I will be buying 2 120GB HDD's, one for my XBox, and another for my PC, and then run the 40GB WD in an Enclosure via Firewire. Anyone have a similar setup?

[Doramius]

I have 4 towers for my drives, but even then I have HDDs strewn in a closet like CD cases. They are all in anti-static bags, Of Course. All hell would break loose if I lost a 40gig drive with nothing but kazaa music downloads.

[BJ_M]

a good quality 600 watt is fine for a dual xeon with 10 drives and lots of cooling ... some video cards will need a bit more ---

its not hard also to use more than one power supply at a time -- simple mod to hook 2 atx together .. or use a older AT style for some drives ... make sure they all are on the same ground potential though .. and on the same phase on your mains ...

[gitreel]

80gig
40gig
60gig

[ViRaL1]

so are you going to open it up so we can FTP porn like there's no tomorrow ?

My porn isn't really MY porn. Not sure about the legalities.

The last thing I wanna do is violate my parole again.

[ps2daddy]

1 120GB Seagate
1 40GB Western Digital

Also got a 40GB Maxtor in my Playstation 2...man do I ever feel inadequate as far as my PC specs go after reading this. I'm curious, how big of a PSU are you guys using with this many hard drives? I'm thinking about modding my XBox, throwing the 40GB WD in there and picking up a 2nd Seagate 120GB HDD for my PC...orrr, I will be buying 2 120GB HDD's, one for my XBox, and another for my PC, and then run the 40GB WD in an Enclosure via Firewire. Anyone have a similar setup?

What size PSU do you have now? putting in a few extra drives shouldnt make a big difference you know if it doesnt power up if you need a bigger power supply. Most people have 300watt power supplies or higher and that should be just fine.


I want to switch my 40GB xbox HD to my ps2 and then buy a 200 GB drive and use in my ext HD casse (right now I have a 100GB drive in the case. that one that will go to my xbox)

[Doramius]

its not hard also to use more than one power supply at a time -- simple mod to hook 2 atx together .. or use a older AT style for some drives ... make sure they all are on the same ground potential though .. and on the same phase on your mains ...

I've done the same thing for a couple of towers in the past. It's not hard to do at all. However, if you have time and money you can make a BPU (Base Power Uint). My own design and name. I took a mini-tower frame and with some engineering help from my father, created a circuit board design (Mostly beacuse he has an old aquarium that he uses as an acid bath and has other good equipment) to make a power supply that had around a 4000W capability. It's basically a creation of 6 identical PSUs at 650W a piece. The unit gets pretty warm, but we added a liquid cooling system that attaches to the heatsinks and it has 4X5" fans to aid the cooling. I only put enough cables on it to support 4 ATX motherboards, 30+ drives and has the ability to add connectors to plug a server into. The thing is a heavy a** mofo and I should have made a wheel assembly for it. It takes 2 people to lift it and it still feels like it weighs a ton. It was also pretty expensive to make, so I don't suggest anyone else try it unless you feel like investing in a fun hobby. I think I can still dig up the design plans for it if anyone wants them, but it is NOT HARD AT ALL to figure out on your own. I think it would have been a lot cheaper just to buy 6 identical PSUs, opened them up and bought new styles of heatsinks and parts. I'm also heavy into making new and funky designs of computers for ergonmic reasons. I'll throw a list of design ideas and things in another thread.