I counted:
- Home PC (500GB)
- Office laptop (100GB) - upgraded from 40GB
- Home backup (500GB)
- Office local backup (500GB)
- Tivo (80GB) - it’s getting long in the tooth
- 2 mobile drives (~80GB each) - I rotate copies of my home data and keep them at work. Presto! Remote storage.
- Pocket drive (6 GB)
- Video camera (40GB)
- Update: forgot about my 2006-era iPod (8GB)
- and my kids’ 8-yr old PC (40GB?)
My company bought some of these on my behalf.
That’s 9 11 drives for me. How many do you own?
5 responses so far ↓
sweetsoup // April 25, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Work laptop
Iphone
Ipod
Old mac
4.
PurDude // April 26, 2008 at 7:24 am
Good question.
Wow!
I count 18 hard drives, or nearly 5 TB in use at home. About 2/3rd of the capacity is consumed.
I wonder how much more I will need to download my DVD collection when a solution (like iTunes to CDs) becomes available.
Mac Pro:
* Internal
- 2 x 500 GB Mirrored RAID
- 2 x 750 GB Mirrored RAID
* Backup
- 2 x 500 GB Concatenated RAID (1 TB )
eMac
- 1 x 750 GB
- just installed. replaced a 80 GB.
- 80 GB will be reused in external.
original iMac
- 1 x 30 GB
1394 externals
- 1 x 160 GB
- 1 x 160 GB
iPod Mini
- 1 x 6 GB
- 1 x 6 GB
Pocket Drive
- 1 x 5 GB
- 1 x 5 GB
Motorola HD DVR
- 1 x 160 GB
Sony PS3
- 1 x 80 GB
ジェイソン (Jason) // April 26, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Hmm … I don’t have as much as I used to, but here goes:
My Notebook: 120 GB
Wife’s PC: 40 Gig
NAS: 4.2 TB Usable (configured RAID5)
Web Server: 120 Gig Usable (Pair of 120 SAS configured RAID1)
16 GB SSD (HP iPaq PDA)
500 GB (External HDD)
80 GB (Unused Notebook HDD)
All in all … most of these drives are 90% full. The most critical files make up about 30% of all the data, which is also backed up on a server in Sweden for safe-keeping.
marc farley // April 27, 2008 at 11:45 pm
3 in laptops.
1 old laptop drive now in a 2.5″ external USB case
2 PATA in home office system
1 SATA in kitchen system
2 PATA in Cheapnas
1 PATA in firwire ext case
3 PATA in “full size” USB ext cases
4 (2 SCSI + 2 PATA) in system in garage (not running)
4 SATA in cannabalized system in office
1 mini drive in iPod
1 2.5″ WD USB portable drive in backpack
That’s 23, but its not all of them. I’m not counting my daughter’s Mac and the old Mac clamshell buried somewhere around here. I have a variety of old drives stuffed in boxes in my garage for unknown reasons - which might include 4×9GB 15,000 RPM FC Barracuda drives. I can’t remember if I tossed them or not and the pile is too dangerous to enter, but turning them on makes a sound like a jet engine.
Also - I don’t own a tivo or PDR. I know, I know - what’s with that - it should be the perfect hack project for me, but I don’t.
Ritesh Chopra // April 28, 2008 at 12:31 am
Office NoteBook - 80 GB
Home PC - 80GB
Wife’s Notebook - 120GB
Office Backup Drive - 160GB
Home BAckup Drive - 160GB
NAS Box 250GB X2 drives - just acquired yet to be configured. Want Raid 1 to make sure Pictures & Movies are safe.
Pocket Drive - 5GB
Ipod - 4GB
Camera - 4GB
10 drives - with close to 1.2TB and almost 90% full. Not Bad.
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