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Started by Tsutarja August 10th, 2013 5:25 AM
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Meganium

memento mori

she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
It's amazing to see that storage space is evolving so much as we progress through this current era of technology. Sooner or later, terabytes won't be enough to store your things anymore. xD

& tooooorenting. I haven't even torrented in a while. I tend to download cleanly, unlike Mac there :P

Legendary Silke

You like dragons?

Seen December 23rd, 2021
Posted April 22nd, 2020
5,925 posts
12.5 Years
My Steam and Origin games libraries take a lot of space. Hard to go with an SSD when a game easily comes in the size of a dual-layer DVD or more.

It's followed by over 30 GB of photos from my Chespinator... er, my Sony Alpha NEX-5R. High-quality photos come at a price... storage.

Tsutarja

Age 28
he / him
Florida
Seen 8 Hours Ago
Posted 1 Day Ago
27,327 posts
13.2 Years
The only thing that I would fill up my external hard drive(s) with is probably loads of backups from my machines and nothing more. I don't have enough of an interest in torrenting things where I would constantly do it.

Flakey Bear

Just watch it.

Age 27
Male
Maracaibo, Venezuela
Seen November 24th, 2014
Posted September 16th, 2014
69 posts
9.6 Years
I'm getting a 500GB hard drive for Christmas. That's enough to store all my favorite old & new games, music and videos.
Stuff About FlakeyBear

Currently Playing (PC):
Euro Truck Simulator 2. Still have to get past the quick jobs.
Currently Playing (DS):
FIFA 09, or Pokemon Diamond because Battle Corner.I should insert more.

MKGirlism

3DS and Wii U Game Developer

Age 31
Female
Netherlands
Seen January 15th, 2015
Posted October 19th, 2014
414 posts
10.3 Years
My Backup Server has 500 GB right now, I just save a lot of Projects, files from Computers, and what not.
The best thing is, I can access it anywhere, anytime, and all I need, is a Username and Password (if going via Web Interface), or I can install a Sync Client (which takes space on my local HDD/SSD too).
~Yami

Alexander Nicholi

work hard, play hard

Age 25
Male
Research Triangle / Jakarta
Seen February 15th, 2023
Posted March 5th, 2021
5,498 posts
13.5 Years
I'll say something about HDDs.

I hate not being able to make my own folder structure for my stuff. I despise the way Windows organizes your user folderfor you, and its impossible to change it. That's why I leave everything but my Program Files and my Application Data untouched (unless I forget to modify my downloads directory in FF).

My old (now broken) 320GB MyBook HDD was nicknamed “Bookie”, so I set it to always boot to drive letter B:. It made me feel like it had priority over the system partition :P Speaking of Bookie, I'm supposed to be getting a replacement for it this Christmas. It's gonna be a 1.5 TB Western Digital® MyBook™ HDD. :D
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( don’t stop the groovin’ )

Legendary Silke

You like dragons?

Seen December 23rd, 2021
Posted April 22nd, 2020
5,925 posts
12.5 Years
I'll say something about HDDs.

I hate not being able to make my own folder structure for my stuff. I despise the way Windows organizes your user folderfor you, and its impossible to change it. That's why I leave everything but my Program Files and my Application Data untouched (unless I forget to modify my downloads directory in FF).

My old (now broken) 320GB MyBook HDD was nicknamed “Bookie”, so I set it to always boot to drive letter B:. It made me feel like it had priority over the system partition :P Speaking of Bookie, I'm supposed to be getting a replacement for it this Christmas. It's gonna be a 1.5 TB Western Digital® MyBook™ HDD. :D
*is now officially confused by the post*

Tsutarja

Age 28
he / him
Florida
Seen 8 Hours Ago
Posted 1 Day Ago
27,327 posts
13.2 Years
I still prefer hard drive disks over solid state drives, but I just don't know why.. I guess it's because of the price for one, and maybe the size as well. I'm just more traditional as well when it comes to pieces of technology.

MKGirlism

3DS and Wii U Game Developer

Age 31
Female
Netherlands
Seen January 15th, 2015
Posted October 19th, 2014
414 posts
10.3 Years
I'll say something about HDDs.

I hate not being able to make my own folder structure for my stuff. I despise the way Windows organizes your user folderfor you, and its impossible to change it. That's why I leave everything but my Program Files and my Application Data untouched (unless I forget to modify my downloads directory in FF).
This sounds more like your problem, than a Windows problem, actually.

Legendary Silke

You like dragons?

Seen December 23rd, 2021
Posted April 22nd, 2020
5,925 posts
12.5 Years
Yeah those are quite nice. I've been lucky that my desktop server's hard drives have lasted so long. :)
Hard disk drives tend to fail more easily than other computer hardware components aside from solid-state drives, but at least with HDDs you're relying on time-tested technology. I still don't really trust flash memory.

Things tend to go bad in batches, too. If you've bought several disk drives in the same time period, it's likely that they're in the same batch. If one fails, the other disks are basically on death watch - they're significantly more likely to fail as it's likely that the defects in the failed disk also exists on the other disks.

Legendary Silke

You like dragons?

Seen December 23rd, 2021
Posted April 22nd, 2020
5,925 posts
12.5 Years
It's funny how going from a 750 GB laptop HDD to a 1 TB laptop SSHD relieves storage pressure and improves performance significantly. I'm quite the media hoard, so... well, I need all the storage I can get without breaking the bank or losing endurance.

And as luck would have it, I forgot to image the recovery partition properly. Good thing I didn't do too many changes to the new disk drive, so I only had to copy over the new downloads (as everything else can be copied again from my phone) and wipe the disk clean, and redo the imaging process again. (This does also have the nice side effect of reinitializing the NAND cache.)

I'm actually also working on the old disk drive right now, albeit temporarily. Just need to clean things up and optimize the disk drive with a spiffy new defragmenter before imaging the neater disk image.