What do you use your disk space for?

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ToddW2

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Always curious what people use their disk space for...

Ganeral NAS: (Synology 5x2TB)
--- Music Library
--- Saved Videos (not movies)
--- Saved Photos (not family)
--- Family Videos
--- Family Photos
--- Client Backups
----- Sorted by Year/Month/Client
--- My Backups
----- Sorted by Year/Month/Backup Info (EMAIL, DOCS, ETC)

Security System (SSD OS: 2x2TB, Tower w/L5639 3.8ghz 6-Core & Win7)
--- Security Photo Captures
--- Security Video Captures
--- Security Video & Photo Archive/History
--- Security Videos From Game Camera (downloaded here)
--- Security Photos From Game Camera (downloaded here)

New Storage Systems in the works:

16 Bay Rackable JBOD Enclosure
--- 16 x 300gb 15k RPM SAS Drives

4U SuperMicro Dual Xeon x5680 96gb RAM
--- # of SSD Will be used to host some VMs

4U SuperMicro ??Unsure yet on Mobo/Cpu something cheap and low power
--- # of 2TB+ Discs
--- Archive storage, won't run 24/7
 
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The bulk of my home storage is from the linux based pvr: 3915 programs, using 6.6 TB (4 months 18 days 11 hrs 37 mins) out of 9.1 TB (2.4 TB free).

The next biggest item would be software development, then backups and then VMs.

I do not backup the pvr programing. I use snapraid (with 6 data disks and 2 external parity drives) to reduce the chance of total loss.
 
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Movies and TV shows take up the bulk of my 18TB of storage.
 
Storage Server: 4x4tb - 16TB Total
-Music
-TV Episodes
-Movies
-Comics
-Documents

VM Host: 6x128GB + 2x2TB External - 4TB Total
-VM Guest
-External Drives are used for backup
 
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12 Bay NAS with 12x3TB WD red drives, SHR2, 27TB useable space, all HD movies.
6 Bay NAS with 6x3TB Seagate drives RAID 5, 13TB useable space, HD TV shows.
4 Bay NAS with 4x2TB HGST drives, RAID 5, 5TB useable space, misc HD video of kids football games
4 Bay NAS with 4x2TB WD Green drives, RAID 5, 5TB useable space, apple time machine backups
Mediasonic four drive enclosure, 3x1TB WD Black drives RAID 5, 1.8TB useable space, VMDK files
OWC Thunderbay four drive enclsoure, 4x3TB drives, no RAID, attached to iMac for storage
Backup server, 16x2TB WD Green drives RAID 5 with one hot spare, movie and tv backups, with 6 external drives 50TB useable space (3x3TB, 2x4TB, and 1x5TB) for overflow movie backups.
 
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How do you "download" HD TV shows? and movies?

Are you guys ripping from Blu-Rays or is there a service I'm not aware of that allows you to stream AND download for offline usage?
 
NORCO RPC-470

9x4tb
1x6tb
2x2tb
3x1.5tb

NORCO RPC-4220

20x3tb

And maybe 40 TB more tb of drives that I don't have a case for atm, gonna get a 4224 fairly soon though

I'd say RAW before formatting just counting the drive stickers I would have 130TB in my storage rack


All in all I'm using maybe 40TB of media
 
I rip Bru-Ray copies from purchased media or download and store purchased digital content.
 
I was about to rattle off my various categories until I realized my old school External 2TB "NAS" hard drive is highly inadequate for this thread. I feel embarrassed with some of you peoples setups.
 
It's not a contest, there are others on here who would make us pale by comparison.
 
It's about organization, and/or structure of the drives that I'm interested in. It could be 100 10gb drives for all I care ;) I'm just curious.
 
Code: 
[tim@nas pool]$ du -hs ./*
450G	./Applications
48G	./Documents
271G	./Downloads
76G	./Music
836G	./Other (Includes datastore for VMs, and backup of family computers)
15G	./Pictures
5.5G	./Sites
13T	./Video
 
ashman said:
12 Bay NAS with 12x3TB WD red drives, SHR2, 27TB useable space, all HD movies.
6 Bay NAS with 6x3TB Seagate drives RAID 5, 13TB useable space, HD TV shows.
4 Bay NAS with 4x2TB HGST drives, RAID 5, 5TB useable space, misc HD video of kids football games
4 Bay NAS with 4x2TB WD Green drives, RAID 5, 5TB useable space, apple time machine backups
Mediasonic four drive enclosure, 3x1TB WD Black drives RAID 5, 1.8TB useable space, VMDK files
OWC Thunderbay four drive enclsoure, 4x3TB drives, no RAID, attached to iMac for storage
Backup server, 16x2TB WD Green drives RAID 5 with one hot spare, movie and tv backups, with 6 external drives 50TB useable space (3x3TB, 2x4TB, and 1x5TB) for overflow movie backups.
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You need to get some more hard drives
 
7 Terabytes if usable space. 4 used for movies, 2 for software and marginal amount for coding/lib sorting.

I have an external for music, 350gb out of 1tb.
 
ToddW2 said:
How do you "download" HD TV shows? and movies?

Are you guys ripping from Blu-Rays or is there a service I'm not aware of that allows you to stream AND download for offline usage?
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I feel sickbeard (for downloading off usenet) is the best.

Here is my sickbeard stats:

Code: 
260 shows (86 active) | 15848/24918 episodes downloaded

SickBeard is probably my largest sorted folder of Video but i have quite a few others:

Code: 
root@dekabutsu: 12:07 AM :/data# du -hs sickbeard
23T     sickbeard
root@dekabutsu: 12:07 AM :/data#
 
I need to setup SickBeard. Too much popular shit gets DMCA'd within 24 hours these days...

Media:
Code: 
[vedran@sabnzbd ~]$ du -hs /mnt/array1
17T     /mnt/array1

12x 4TB Western Digital RE (SAS version), RAID 6, in a CSE-846E16-R1200B, 36.3T useable.
 
I'm in a bit of a bother as I've put off buying some hardware for some time, and now with the euro approaching dollar parity, every week it becomes more expensive, instead of the usual tendency to get cheaper.

My 38TB storage server is full of mostly movies and TV series, preferably in pure Blu-Ray.

Some TBs are taken by music and music videos.

Lots of TB on individual drives are TV recordings from my ISP DVR box (all in one TV/DSL/BR player/phone) or USB DVB thingy.

I want to go to 100TB on the storage server with more rackable enclosures and more and bigger drives.
 
^--- HD capacity and price drop should take care of the euro/dollar exchange ;)
 
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