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how much hard drive space do you have

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rockos

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Dont know if there has been a poll or if this question has been asked. how many hard drives and or how much space do you have total.

i have an external 1TB that is full of DVDRips a little bit of music and some TV shows. Now I am going to have to buy a second TB hard drive...My main HD in my computer is 320GB but i hate putting music etc on there because of the clutter.

So How Many HD do u have...How Much total Space....and What is on them.
 
Depending on the track of 1TB drive prices over the next five months (anyone care to venture a guess as to how much they'll be?), I'll be getting the stock 320 with an additional terabyte for HandBroken DVDs (ALL OWNED) and space to have.

If the price on 1TB drives goes low enough, I may get two. OR, if a larger size single drive is released before July, I'll get that. What's next, futurists? 1.25 or 1.5?
 
Well by the end of next month I will have [between my MacPro and MacBook Pro) a grand total of 3.05 Terabytes.
MacPro has 2 400gig and 1 250gig Internal, with a 1T external Raid 0
MBP has 200gig internal with [coming soon] a 1T Time Capsule

That ought to keep me busy for a few decades...

Conversation with my wife [circa 1983].
Me : "I think I want to get a 10meg HD for my Atari."
Wife : "10Meg! You will never fill something that big!"

Funny how things change...[She is the one that bought me the 1T external!]
 
233gb Hd/ 192.5gb free
2x 120gb fw800 stripe/186.7gb free
1tb Ext / 846.4 free
500gb ext (for back up) / 298.7 free

the above takes some serious housekeeping!!:)
 
at the moment i am using my mbp with 160GB, alongside a 500 and 160 gig externals. My mac pro on the other hand (if it ever arrives!) will have 2.5 TB:)
 
G4: 5.56GB used out of 40GB

PC: 90GB used out of 650 (2 x WD 250 caviar RAID0, 1 x WD Raptor 150 boot)

most of the 90gb is games :p
 
I've got the stock 320GB, two 500GB, and one 250GB drive, so that's roughly 1.57TB internally. I have a 500gb external which i'm using for Time Machine on the MP and MBP. Then on my MBP I have 120GB. So roughly 2.19TB in total.
 
Never Enough!

Between my 3 Macs, external hard drives and ipods I've got about 500 GB and about 90% full so it's never enough. Considering buying a HUGE external drive but I think the better solution would be to spend an evening burning everything I don't need and being more efficient with my space management.
 
i have a:

500gig internal
250gig laptop internal
250gig external
80 gig laptop internal which is now in my tower
16gig ipt
2 gig usb drive
512mb usb drive
256mb xd card for camera


had:
80gig internal emac drive in emac (since given to my parents)
13gig imac g3 drive
 
I have a 250GB internal and a 250GB LaCie. The latter is for backup, but I'm moving between computers right now, so it's unused. The internal will be full soon, what with my ever growing iTunes library. I've optimised my file management and everything, but I do still like to archive my stuff. Maybe some day I'll get another external and use it for Time Machine, then use the LaCie to store some of my old stuff. That way, I'd have a MacBook on the go with only the stuff I really need. Plus iTunes, of course.
 
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currently have...

1.96 TB internal and another 5 TB in a variety of External enclosures.

I back up my all my drives in triplicate so a lot of the drives have the same info on them.

Better safe then sorry...
 
G4: 1070GB total - have about 30 gigs left
G5: 320GB total - have about 100 gigs left
MP08: 1080GB total - have about 700 gigs left (I got this comp on Friday and I'm still working on putting stuff on it)

I also have various laptops where I can put stuff on if need be. The G4 actually has 5 HDs in it, all PATA. MP08 has a 750 and 320.
 
2 FW400 externals - 1@250, 1@320
PM G4 internals - 1@80, 1@500
1 120 not installed in anything
Powerbook G4 - 1@80

Mac Pro - 1@500 (whenever it gets here...:rolleyes:)
Waiting for Mac Pro - 1@750 internal, 1 external FW800 RAID1 @ 500

The current G4 internal 500 GB is going into the Mac Pro when it gets here, and the currently homeless 120 GB will find a home in the G4.

So, 3.1 TB in all between 9 drives. Oof. Of the ones in use, I have about 600 GB free.

Say, is that FedEx I hear knocking?!

Nope, just my uncle.:rolleyes:
 
MacPro has:

Internal: 2 X 500GB WD 16MB cache Caviars and 2 X 320GB Seagate 16MB cache = 1.64 TB
External: 1 x 320GB Seagate FreeAgent Firewire 400/USB2 and 1 X 320GB Seagate 8 MB cache that came with my MP in an external eSATA/USB2 case
 
MP has:
500gb main, 340gb free
500gb time machine, 340gb free
500gb windows, 400gb free

MBP has:
160gb main, 40gb free
120gb backup, full

PC has:
160gb main, 40gb free
250gb backup, 140gb free

I try to keep my main drives >50% free so they stay zippy
 
Why do people need to know this stuff? Does something of yours not add up?
 
Jonny427 said:
MP has:
500gb main, 340gb free
500gb time machine, 340gb free
500gb windows, 400gb free

MBP has:
160gb main, 40gb free
120gb backup, full

PC has:
160gb main, 40gb free
250gb backup, 140gb free

I try to keep my main drives >50% free so they stay zippy
Click to expand...

Are you saying that your drives are not as "zippy" when they are full? Seems like a waste of money buying three 500G drives and have them pretty much empty.
 
rockos said:
Dont know if there has been a poll or if this question has been asked. how many hard drives and or how much space do you have total.

i have an external 1TB that is full of DVDRips a little bit of music and some TV shows. Now I am going to have to buy a second TB hard drive...My main HD in my computer is 320GB but i hate putting music etc on there because of the clutter.

So How Many HD do u have...How Much total Space....and What is on them.
Click to expand...

bay1: stock 320 GB - OS & Applications
bay2: wd 320 GB - Bootcamp XP
bay3: sgate 320 GB - Media (iTunes,Apple TV,iPhotos)
bay4: sgate 320 GB - RAID1 mirror of bay3 drive.

external: fireway 1TB drive. timemachine.
 
Because my third hard drive mysteriously died on me, I'm currently down to two hard drives:

750GB - 325GB free
500GB - 200GB free

I have another 750GB on order which will put me at 2TB when it arrives.
 
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