I've just recently upgraded my storage from 60GB SSD & 320GB HDD to 128gb SSD & 1TB HDD
I've zero interest in dotting additional boxes around the house, so my main computer also houses my entire media library and everything's streamed from it to everywhere else. Currently I have about 46TBs of storage, which is almost full and therefore soon to become 80+TB. All courtesy of Seagate's Archive drives.
128GB SSD for Windows, 1 TB for general, 3 TB for emulation “files” and related dev tools, and 1 TB drive for Steam/Origin. So 5 1/8 TB roughly. :)
1.5 tb. 575 GB of it is SSD space.
4X1Tb raid0 + 3Tb WD Green on USB3 external pod + 256Gb System drive PCIe SSD and a 4X3Tb raid5 NAS.
1tb backup
320gb media 1 photos and music
500gb media 2 film, video camera files
500gb main os drive (SSD)
120gb games drive (SSD)
128 Gb SSD and 1TB hard disk. Looking at upgrading main computer later this year and seriously considering reducing as everything else can go on NAS
256GB SSD for Windows and programs, 500GB SSD for games I play regularly and 2TB hybrid for general storage and lesser used games.
Its actually more space than a few years ago, but far less drives. I used to run RAID1 internally on storage drives but now that my external storage protects against drive failure, I decided to downsize.
My external NAS storage has recently increased from 4 x 2TB zRAID (usable 6TBish) to a mixture of drives in unRAID totalling 10TB. It will probably also get increased again soon by replacing an older drive with a new 4TB to keep me plodding along a few years.
Only 840 EVO + 850 EVO (2x250GB) in RAID 0.
Everything else is in NAS machines on a gigabit network.
250GB SSD for windows, 512GB, 480GB, 256GB and 240GB SSD's for games. 2TB HDD for main storage. Just upgrading to X99 and adding a 256GB PCI-E M2 SSD for windows. Also thinking of upgrading my 240GB SSD to a 960GB SSD to give me more space for games.
My laptop has more storage than my pc. PC - 500GB SSD, Laptop - 3 x 128GB m.2 SSD's raid 0 + 1TB HDD. (Oh and NAS with 16TB) :D
I have 500Gb in my main PC. This is down from 4Tb on the old pc. My old PC is still in service though so no need to add the extra storage.
1x 240Gb SSD (Will get another soon). 2x 640Gb HDs in Raid 0. Had them ages. 2Tb external for back up. I'm always astounded at people who have terabytes and terabytes of space and fill it? What with?
500GB more since adding an SSD, mainly because it is impossible to take away part of a 2TB HDD when you add an SSD. It will never be empty if only because of local copies of my onedrive account and a local dev folder (backed up to a subversion server) because the project I am working on requires this to be on the C drive.
Since early last year I've had a three tier setup with an SSD for OS and games, then a HDD for media (scratch copies of videos while editing and converting), then a NAS for long term protected storage (backed up to crashplan, raid 6 array).
Recently I've moved from a couple of laptops to a single workstation and have combined all the spare drives so I now have two 240GB SSDs in RAID 0, then misc HDDs using windows storage spaces for spanned storage, think that's about 800GB across 3 drives. Finally the NAS is 13TB actual, 7TB effective (one 3TB is being used as a 2TB, then two drives of parity lost, then a little extra for all the ZFS gubbins).
So, about a terabyte of which 400GB is SSD. For more I go to the network.
At the moment just a 120gb ssd. Top tip of the day, don't buy Toshiba HDDs. On my 3rd one (1 DOA, 1 dead 10 months later and the 3rd one dead after 15 months after purchase) oh and their UK warranty sucks
Still have the NAS with important stuff on it, and with gibabit connections round the house it's less of a problem these days
640GB hitachi for C drive and games,
1TB hitachi for ‘stuff’ like music and general drivers and stuff like that,
2TB hitachi for movie and tv series collection
WD 1TB external for backups
touro 1TB for more backups
240GB crucial SSD for plugging in amp and tv for movie watching and things.
would be using the SSD for c drive, which I was until sata port broke, or the sata cable, or even the SSD or mobo (cant tell which) but the SSD keeps disconnecting if I plug it in internally.
would get bigger drives but mobo only supports 2TB max. it is 7 years old. ;)
so. internal storage has shrunk due to sata ports breaking. externals grown due to more backups and using internal drives as external.
At present, a single 1TB HDD. However I'm right in the middle of organising an upgrade, which will include a 500GB SSD and a 2nd 1TB HDD bringing me up to 2.5TB. I also have 3TB total in WD Passports, 2TB for media and currently 1TB for steam game backups, however since I'm now on faster internet I may delete all of those and repurpose it for more media storage or backups of important info.
I would like to move over completely to SSDs for the speed as aside from browsing and light work, the pc is primarily used for gaming and currently media consumption, but I'd like to get a nice big tablet for that so I'm not confined to the desk. They're still too expensive for me to consider though, so for now hard drives it is. It may be I eventually convert to all SSDs on the PC, and get a NAS box to load up with HDDs to store all my media and access it remotely from the tablet when I like. Gotta be able to afford it first though.
250GB SSD - OS and Programs
120GB SSD - Scratch/Temp Folder/Page File Drive for things like Photoshop (older left over drive from old pc)
1TB HD - Document/work assets storage
1.5TB HD - Media storage
I do need more storage though.
8 Years ago I built my last PC and installed 4x750GB drives in RAID10, but as drives were replaced by bigger ones after failure and I eventually added an SSD it changed. I've just built a new one (the old Q6700 has been replaced by an i7 6700K!) and now have a 250GB Samsung 850 SSD for OS and programs and a 2TB WD Red for data plus an extra 1.5TB which I occasionally back things up on, so not actually got that much more than 8 years ago. I will move to a NAS eventually as I am running our of data space. Probably go for 4TB useable in RAID1.
120 ssd for windows
120 ssd for steam
1tb for backups
1tb for media
500gb for misc.
I did have another 640gb but i gave that to my Mrs for her first PC build.
Planning on getting a couple of 2tbs as my drives are getting old.
2.5TB (mirrored) HDD, soon to be 5TB mirrored
256GB SSD - OS and ZFS cache
iranu
I'm always astounded at people who have terabytes and terabytes of space and fill it? What with?
I think I've got about 12TB of NAS storage, only ~ 3TB in my Mac. I've got a fairly large media library - uncompressed bluray rips run to about 30GB, and I don't want the kids scratching the physical disks. I keep local copies of software ISOs for rapid spinning up of VMs.
I also mount my NAS as an iSCSI device to have my steam collection on, a time machine backup device (using AFP), and a document storage repo as I need to keep company records for 7 years. Even so though, I've only used ~ 10TB. To be honest, I'm more surprised about the number of people running RAID-0 in this thread, and I would wager probably software RAID-0 rather than hardware. :surprised:
Main PC Local storage:
120GB x2 OCZ agility 3 SSD raid 0 (boot drive: programs, games)
4TB SSHD Seagate (games, programs and files)
1TB Samsung 840 EVO (games)
Win 10 Media Storage Server/Game Stream:
41TB combined HDD capacity
1 MILLION bytes. At least. :surprised:
256GB Samsung SSD
512GB Samsung SSD
bunch of 250GB + HDD
to be replaced with
256GB Samsung 950 Pro M2 drive
keep the 512Gb SSD
and get two Toshiba X300 4TB HDD and put them in RAID 1
the 256GB SSD will go in an external enclosure
Main PC (gaming + work)
256gb SSD - windows
4tb Raid 0 (2tb x2) + 64gb SSD Cache (video files + games)
2tb extra
Media PC
128gb SSD - windows
2tb storage
Second PC (work)
2tb raid 0 (1tb x2) + 32cb ssd cache
netbook
256gb ssd
router
1.5tb USB drive
dvd duplicator
1tb hd
Other
3tb USB3 drive
128gb USB3 pendrive
Never actually thought about it and listed it all before.
Thinking back to my first PC
8.4gb hd
i have an 250 ssd a 2tb and 1tb hard drive
465GB SSD and 2861GB HDD. 2/3 of SSD capacity is currently used - and honestly, I could (and I did) live with the SSD alone. But I needed some backup and media storage, and the drive was dirt cheap, so I bought the 3TB version instead of just 1TB.
1tb SSD Samsung Evo, 2x 2tb HDD's + 2x 1TB HDD's - less, is never more :D
My main PC is a server with 3Tb in a RAID 1 array, which stores all my data. The client machines have between 500Gb and 1Tb, but that is mainly for OS and transient files.
Yes, it is more than 5 years ago.
A little more than 8tb atm, I recently lost a 3tb so I would of said 11tb if that didn't happen. When I get the money I plan to get 4 8tb drives and put them in a raid so I wont lose any more data or at least reduce the risk.
I have a htpc which holds the bulk of the data.
hairyonion
A little more than 8tb atm, I recently lost a 3tb so I would of said 11tb if that didn't happen. When I get the money I plan to get 4 8tb drives and put them in a raid so I wont lose any more data or at least reduce the risk.
I have a htpc which holds the bulk of the data.
RAID is not a substitute for backing up data!
Currently around 2TB SSD power 500GB main, 1GB Games, 250GB backup games 750GB other.
120gb SSD for windows, 240gb SSD for steam, gog, origin, uplay, and a handful of games, 1tb HDD for the rest of the games, programmes, and media. Need a bigger HDD, and maybe a 500gb SSD for more games
My primary PC is from 2010, and has the 640Gb western digital drive that I used for OS, as well as a 2Tb Seagate drive that I added in early 2013. I have 95gb and 670gb remaining space on each drive, and that's without doing much tidying up, so I could clear alot more, so I don't need any extra space right now.
peterb
RAID is not a substitute for backing up data!
Yeah people need to remember that RAID is not a good data protection method, certainly if using consumer grade drives.
Buying 4 x 8TB drives and putting them in a RAID array might seem like you are adding a layer of protection, but unless its RAID 1, you have to remember that you are adding other elements than can cause failure.
When building an array, you have to remember the device which actually manages it, is a point of failure.
Sure RAIDZ on something like freenas obfuscates this somewhat, but at the end of the day this only protects against DRIVE failure. If you do have a drive failure and you rebuild using the parity calculation, you have to thrash all your other drives for long periods of time during the process, in which time you can easily encounter another drive failure and lose everything. When working with single parity drive across a 4 x 8TB drives… that's some clenchy bum time rebuilding.
My unRAID array thankfully is not an array in the traditional sense, it keeps files as files on a drive formatted normally. If the array fails then I can get the individual files back. It has parity to protect for a drive failure still but even then, its still a bit of a risk whenever you have to check the parity. Soon they will be introducing the ability for redundant parity… which will be well received if successful.
The best way to back up and protect your data is to have it in two separate locations/arrays/drives. ‘Cold’ storage is, as far as im concerned, the best way to backup vital data, even if it is inconvenient.
RAID has drifted into the consumer space in recent years and I understand why, unfortunately the mentality and understanding of purpose has not come with it.
240ssd for windows, 1tb for game, 2x2tb mirror for storage which really need upping to 2x 4tb as it's pretty full :-/
128 GB SSD + 5,5 TB in PC + 8 TB in NAS
Internal i have 1 SSD and 15 HDDs with 30TBs of storage
External i have many HDDs and extenal HDDs(USB 3.0, e-sata, USB 2.0) with about 90TBs of storage
MiSJAH
iranu
I'm always astounded at people who have terabytes and terabytes of space and fill it? What with?
pr0n obvz.
Movies, TV series and documentaries take up a fair bit of space when they number in the thousands. The same is of course true for HD pr0n.
500gb ssd + 2tb Mechanical
128gb ssd and 1tb hard drive But i have a 2tb nas which i keep most of my stuff on
2 x 128GB SSD's. However, I do have about 13TB of storage on my HTPC.
250GB SSD system, 1TB scratch data + 5TB main data.
5TB+ internal
1 x 128GB SSD for the OS
1 x 1TB for games
1 x 3TB for media
1 x 1TB for messing around with virtualisation (only spare available)
I've added 2TB to my storage from a few years ago, and that's not including the external 3TB backup drive I now use.
6.5TB - hasn't changed in the last few years
2 WD Black 1TB.
2 WD My Passprot Ultra 1TB.
Sandisk X300 512GB.
Sandisk Ultra II 480GB.
1 x 256GB SSD and 1 x 128GB SSD in my main rig. The rest is in my NAS.
PC:
250GB SSD (Win7/Win10/Steam)
1TB HD (Games/Media/Backups)
160GB (More games when the 1TB was running low!)
NAS:
1TB HD
Hopefully, SSD prices will fall a little more this year and I can swap out the HDs for one.
Biscuit
Yeah people need to remember that RAID is not a good data protection method, certainly if using consumer grade drives.
Buying 4 x 8TB drives and putting them in a RAID array might seem like you are adding a layer of protection, but unless its RAID 1, you have to remember that you are adding other elements than can cause failure.
When building an array, you have to remember the device which actually manages it, is a point of failure.
Sure RAIDZ on something like freenas obfuscates this somewhat, but at the end of the day this only protects against DRIVE failure. If you do have a drive failure and you rebuild using the parity calculation, you have to thrash all your other drives for long periods of time during the process, in which time you can easily encounter another drive failure and lose everything. When working with single parity drive across a 4 x 8TB drives… that's some clenchy bum time rebuilding.
My unRAID array thankfully is not an array in the traditional sense, it keeps files as files on a drive formatted normally. If the array fails then I can get the individual files back. It has parity to protect for a drive failure still but even then, its still a bit of a risk whenever you have to check the parity. Soon they will be introducing the ability for redundant parity… which will be well received if successful.
The best way to back up and protect your data is to have it in two separate locations/arrays/drives. ‘Cold’ storage is, as far as im concerned, the best way to backup vital data, even if it is inconvenient.
RAID has drifted into the consumer space in recent years and I understand why, unfortunately the mentality and understanding of purpose has not come with it.
What other options are there, I'm talking about tb's of data I don't know of any other way. And the raid would work I understand your point of it not being a perfect solution but other than buying another set of hdds (which again is another point of failure) what other cost effective options exist?
hairyonion
What other options are there, I'm talking about tb's of data I don't know of any other way. And the raid would work I understand your point of it not being a perfect solution but other than buying another set of hdds (which again is another point of failure) what other cost effective options exist?
I dont think you understand the term, ‘point of failure’ in context. If you have 24TB of data all running through a single RAID card, a failure in the RAID card can result in total 24TB of data loss. It's a single point in the system that can result in total data loss.
If you have another set of drives with duplicated data from the RAID array (whether the second set of drives is an array or not is irrelevant) then if the RAID card dies, you still have a copy of the data. This does not add an addition point of failure, it protects you from the existing one. This is a backup and is the only way to properly protect your data.
As Peter said, RAID Is not a replacement for backup. It does not protect your data, it offers a level of protection for a drive failure but has risks associated with it, especially when using a striped array (such as 5 or 6).
There is no ‘cost effective’ alternative solutions. This is simply the cost of proper data management.
256GB ssd for Win 320GB general
120GB Corsair Force 3 SSD
64GB Kingston SSD
500GB Western Digital HDD
250GB Maxtor HDD (This has been going 10 years now!)
Hmmm… in the PC there's
1 x 500Gb EVO SSD (OS and general apps)
3 x 300Gb 10k VelociRaptors in RAID0 which I use for VMware Workstation. Backed up daily, and I've had them for year.
1 x 1Tb EVO as the replacement for the above, but I need to get my act together and migrate the data to it
1.5Tb HDD which is just a dumping ground - extracted zip files, downloaded ISOs etc. I need to be replacing this soon, as it's years old (but because it's all transient data it doesn't really matter if it fails before I do so)
500Gb EVO Pro NVMe PCIe which I only recently picked up - idea being that this is used to simulate a top tier for any storage arrays used for testing stuff. Pretty quick…
On the network - there's a Thecus N5200 with 5 x 2Tb disks in which is used for general backups, as well as a second Veeam repo for the VMs for backup copy jobs, there's a Microserver running as a fileserver (5 x 2Tb disks connected to a P410 raid controller and setup as raid10 with one as a hotspare), then there's the main NAS: Synology DS1815+ with 2 x 500Gb EVO SSD for cache, plus 6 x 4Tb HGST 4Tb disks (R10), plus a DX513 expansion bay which has 3 x 8Tb archive disks (R1, plus spare) - this is used for LUN replication from the main unit. The Synology is the primary storage for the homelab.
Then there's a couple of other bits, but it's mostly in the above. Do I hold more data than I did a few years ago? Certainly, but there's not a significant increase in capacity in the main PC: the big change there is the gradual move from rust to flash.
1x512Gb-ssd 1x128Gb-ssd 1x2Tb-WDgreen 1x2Tb-Hitachi7200 ||||
NAS DRIVES ———– 1x4Tb-WDRED 1x750Gb-WDBLUE
I have a whopping 320gb drive on my main gaming rig. That's it.
Just a little bit less as I have now gone with 100% SSD's. I used to have a 240Gb SSD for windows and other programs along with a 1TB hdd for other stuff. Now I have a 250Gb SSD for windows and other main programs along with a 960GB SSD for Steam, photo's, music etc.
1TB Samsung 850 Pro for Professional software, Games and App's
512GB Samsung 850 Pro for Project files
2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD for media and Batch files.
1TB WD My Passport Ultra for Projects backup.
I'm definitely using more storage space than a few years back, the old system had a 150GB O/S / App's drive, 300GB projects/Media/batch file drive, and a 70gb scratch drive, all velociraptor HDD's.
I say old system, but my current system is getting on a bit now.
I Will probably build a new rig late next year based on a dual socket Purely-P Mobo, and hopefully the fully loaded GP100 Pascal's. The old system will become a render node.
As its mostly for professional use, I don't see my storage needs in the future getting smaller.
two 120gb sandisk SSD
one 500gb hdd
one 2tb hdd
I will be replacing the 500gb hdd with a 500gb ssd later in the year.
Biscuit
I dont think you understand the term, ‘point of failure’ in context. If you have 24TB of data all running through a single RAID card, a failure in the RAID card can result in total 24TB of data loss. It's a single point in the system that can result in total data loss.
If you have another set of drives with duplicated data from the RAID array (whether the second set of drives is an array or not is irrelevant) then if the RAID card dies, you still have a copy of the data. This does not add an addition point of failure, it protects you from the existing one. This is a backup and is the only way to properly protect your data.
As Peter said, RAID Is not a replacement for backup. It does not protect your data, it offers a level of protection for a drive failure but has risks associated with it, especially when using a striped array (such as 5 or 6).
There is no ‘cost effective’ alternative solutions. This is simply the cost of proper data management.
I would agree with the above, I don't use raid for backups due to this. My raid arrays are raid 0 for performance which of course increases the odds on a failure, my backup is a external hard drive. It doesn't get much better for backups as you can store them elsewhere too.
Less space actually, i removed all my HDDs and now just have 2 x 250GB SSD and 1 x 120GB SSD with cloud storage for everything else
Percy1983
I would agree with the above, I don't use raid for backups due to this. My raid arrays are raid 0 for performance which of course increases the odds on a failure, my backup is a external hard drive. It doesn't get much better for backups as you can store them elsewhere too.
The further the high impedance oxygen gap is, the better :D
128GB SSD and 1TB HDD. This system is just over a year old and the only external storage I have is for backup. I just don't find I need much. Most of my media is streamed so not much media space is needed. My previous computer had a 320GB HDD.
500GB ssd in my workstation and 260GB M.2 in my HTPC, 3TB external HDD plugged into HTPC. Might consider a NAS build down the line (years not months)
128GB SSD of boot; 2TB HDD storage; 4x500GB of caching for browser, temp and other stuff :D
lamdt
4x500GB of caching for browser
Before reading the rest, I was genuinely intrigued…..
I'm still using a 1TB HDD. I'd like to buy another HDD or maybe even an SSD some time in the future.
Hoonigan
lamdt
4x500GB of caching for browser
Before reading the rest, I was genuinely intrigued…..
Hehe, all of them are used by my friends and customers, i replace newwer hdd for them and collect small hdd for use.
My “main PC” is a little hard to define. In my HTPC there's a 60GB SSD + 2TB HDD (which is quite full so might be upgraded this year). In the family laptop there's 1TB SSHD. For the secondary laptop I recently moved from a 250GB HDD to a 240GB SSD (which I bought for my desktop almost two years ago but was never installed since I haven't used the desktop for almost two years).
My personal “main PC” is my tablet which has 16GB + 64GB microSD. Unfortunately Android (before 6) is really bad when it comes to using the microSD.
240GB SSD, 640 GB HDD and a 1TB HDD. Borderline sufficient :)
256GB SSD and a 2 TB HDD - plenty for now. may upgrade in a year or two to a 512gb SSD mainly due to speed.
250GB primary SSD, 120GB secondary SSD and a 2TB HDD.
Less now. Ditched my many TB hard drives, and now I'm entirely SSD with 1.25TB of storage in my PC for Windows, software and games. So quiet and everything flies. My NAS continues to deal with everything else.
I have a 250gb SSD and storage on a home server for my data
7TB, 480 M500 SSD, an old Seagate 512 HD, 2x WD Purple 3TB HD
As I'm using my PC for Win10 insider builds, I'd really like to move the Purple's externally, but damn those NAS boxes can get expensive!
I have one 2TB and 1TB HDD but looking to change things up later in the year with some SSD's, one for boot drive and another for programmes.
The old standard 1TB on my pc. No servers, network storages, nothing. Just my PC.
512mb SSD & 2TB HDD
NAS Box has 4TB for all media.
1tb ssd + 1tb hdd
My first PC had 140 MB of hard drive space, most of which I filled up with 2 minutes of Smells Like Teen Spirit recorded on an 8 bit Sound Blaster card.
I later upgraded to a 1 GB drive which at the time I thought I'd never fill. It was quite a task given that the computer only had one 1.44 MB floppy drive with which to get the job done (this was the early 90s so no internet either).
I can remember telling my mates about this new game called DOOM that was almost photo realistic (yes I thought it was that good at the time).
I used to have wild dreams of when computers would have as much RAM as I had hard drive space and now I'm writing this on a computer with 8 times as much RAM as that 1 GB drive that I though I would never fill.
240GB SSD + 500GB Old HDD (soon to be upgraded to 2TB)
256GB NVMe SSD for the OS etc.. and a 960GB SATA3 SSD for general storage.
Everything else is on my Microserver.
128GB Windows SSD
128GB Steam SSD
750GB Western Digital laptop hard drive (for temp storage etc)
NAS and backups ~multiple TB
Boot drive 2 x 256GB RAID 0 SSD's with a 2TB Steam drive and a 500GB backup drive - but with the Freenas taking over the majority of the storage duties now…
2GB HDD and 240GB SSD, nothing special, but usually more than 50% of each is free
Now 250GB less as one of my SSD's just died, AGAIN! NEVER BUY OCZ SSDs (at least, pre Toshiba take-over) lol
Not a huge amount, Main PC has :
256gb Samsung SM941 M.2 SSD
240gb Intel 730 SSD
1tb Crucial MX200 SSD
The main bulk of my storage is in my NAS box, that holds 6x 4tb WD Reds in RaidZ2 and 2x 2tb WD Reds mirrored
3 non raided SSDs which add up to approx 1.4TB
1TB HDD array in raid 0
1.5TB storage HDD
~ 4TB in total
more than I had in the past
1 x 500GB Samsung 850 Evo, 50/50 split between main OS drive and Steam drive.
1 x 240GB Samsung 840 - Origin Drive
1 x 1TB Seagate - Steam games
2 x 2TB Seagate - Backup files, music etc.
500gb 850 evo is all that's in my system at the moment.
I have 4*2tb hard drives, just haven't got them hooked up or screwed in at the moment! Need to change case to do that, hmmmmph.
512GB 850 Pro and 1.5TB WD Black. so about 2TB total.
Currently at 480gb SSD boot and 2tb HDD. But I do have 4 tb NAS box too ;)
Interesting to say I've just got an S7 and have snagged 105 gb of Onedrive storage
Biscuit
hairyonion
What other options are there, I'm talking about tb's of data I don't know of any other way. And the raid would work I understand your point of it not being a perfect solution but other than buying another set of hdds (which again is another point of failure) what other cost effective options exist?
I dont think you understand the term, ‘point of failure’ in context. If you have 24TB of data all running through a single RAID card, a failure in the RAID card can result in total 24TB of data loss. It's a single point in the system that can result in total data loss.
If you have another set of drives with duplicated data from the RAID array (whether the second set of drives is an array or not is irrelevant) then if the RAID card dies, you still have a copy of the data. This does not add an addition point of failure, it protects you from the existing one. This is a backup and is the only way to properly protect your data.
As Peter said, RAID Is not a replacement for backup. It does not protect your data, it offers a level of protection for a drive failure but has risks associated with it, especially when using a striped array (such as 5 or 6).
There is no ‘cost effective’ alternative solutions. This is simply the cost of proper data management.
What I did for my media library is I built a couple of identical PCs one for operation and one for backup (but you could just build a backup machine).
These PCs use a fanless Mini-ITX board with 6x SATA connectors and 6x WD Red HDs in them (sized to match the source machine), running Win7/10 (sure you could use LINUX too though). The backup PC just sits there running for ever in the loft/shed/garage.
I then run BitTorrent Sync on both machines and setup the main machine as the master and the low power as the slave unit. BTsync then whenever something is added to my live library it is then also copied to the backup machine. I probably have about 10TB of TV series, documentaries and movies backup like this, any DVD I buy is only ever played once in my main PC to rip it them put away.
512mb boot SSD and two 960GB SSDs for Data and Games. No spininng rust in my PC thanks ;-)
512GB SSD and 2x 6TB HDDs
I'm probably the only one that has gone “backwards” with less storage. I've ditched my HDDs and just on 500GB + 250GB Samsung 850 EVOs now. When a 1TB NVMe drive drops to around £100 is when I'll buy more storage.
125gb ssd for boot,60mb ssd for photodhop scratch ,76gb Raptor for current work ,4tb archive, 2 tb temporary back up.2x 4tb external duplicating internal archive .
All for Photoshop.
All finished work also written to DVD.
A lot more space now due to larger camera files.
My PC I use the most is a mini PC used as a HTPC with 4x msata ports + 1x sata (4th msata is for the wifi card) -
2x 1TB msata SSD's
1x 512GB msata SSD
1x 2TB HDD
= 4.5TB
First 1TB msata has triple boot OS (XP 64bit for a couple of old programs, win 8.1 Pro 64bit with media center for TV tuners and win 10 64bit for playing), programs, and other assorted data on it
Second 1TB msata has other media on it (photo's, music, games)
Third msata has up to date back up copies of OS's, games and programs.
2TB HDD has recorded TV shows from 2x Hauppaugge dual TV tuners.
1.5TB of SSD and 16.5TB of HDD. This is very slightly less than what I had a year ago, as I've replaced a 120GB SSD and 1.5TB HDD with a 500GB SSD and 1TB SSD
In that same year I've expanded my external storage from 33TB to 48TB
500GB SDD, upgraded recently from a 250GB SSD.
Just over 6TB with a 3TB external.
Rookie setup with no RAID :o
I started down a terrible path and will pay for it in the future but the thought of ‘sorting out’ my data scares me a bit.
I actually use less storage on my main PC than a couple of years ago, because I use far more external hard disks. I find them very convenient because my PC is utterly quiet now, and uses less power with just one SSD inside it. Who needs dozens of Gigabytes of storage available 24/7? You only need it occasionally, and usually for keeping big multimedia files. I've got several 500MB and up external hard disks for archiving. People who work with multimedia files can get away with having one hard disk installed into the PC aside from SSD.
2 x 2TB - HDD
1 x 1TB - SSD
1 x 260 GB - SSD
Nice job digging out an almost 3 YEAR OLD thread