What can you guys possibly have that fills up 250GB of storage?

[Asian Dub Foundation]

lots of PRON

 

[kuyaglen]

not mentioned yet are...

HD content
Home video projects
Fraps game captures
VM Ware lab machines

 

[Rocco123]

I just got a new HD since my old one is on its way out after dual booting vista/xp on it. This drive i have now is 160 gigs and in 3yrs since i have had it it I still have like 100 gigs free. I have like 50 gigs worth of music and xp/programs installed. I cannot imagine having another 50 gigs or even another 100 gigs. Whats being filled up on these massive drives.

anyway i upgraded to a 250g in the process

So to sum up it all the responses up. What do you fill your HD up with? CRAP!

Yeah, it's nice to have a nice MP3 collection, but I'm guessing that most people listen to about 10% of it on a regular basis. You can't tell me that you listen to 1TB of MP3s on a regular basis because that would be impossible. You'd have to be listening to MP3s every minute of the day for like 9 months.

I won't sit and point fingers, but I'm guessing some people just fill up their huge capacity drives/arrays just to say they have 'X' amount of space used up filled with "important" or "mission critical" data.

Sorry, I will point one finger. Blas - WTF are you going to do with a full local copy of Wikipedia? I'm not criticizing you, that's a serious question.

 

[nicotine]

Porn. Lots and lots of Porn.

 

[jebo_4jc]

Movies---

DVD's archived for the HTPC as well as home videos from the digital camcorder. Those two things take up lots of space. Furthermore, I have backupped copies of my home videos and pictures, which takes a lot of space as well.

My wife's #1 condition for letting me build an HTPC was it better work, and we better not have a hard drive die and take all our memories with it. So that means lots of backups.

 

[Heliocentrical]

Similar story here..

I've got an 80gig and a 200 gig. The 200gig drive contains my os, apps, games, pics, docs, 15 or so ripped dvd's, a collection of about 100 - 30sec mpegs, my mp3 collection (about 3000 songs) and my pvr files.

The 80gig stores backups of my important docs, pics, ect and my photoshop scratch disk.

 

[[LYL]Homer]

Drives as follows:

PVR
80gb - OS, apps
250gb - PVR recordings
300gb - music and TV shows
250gb - movies
250gb - backup

main
74gb - OS, games
250gb - torrents in progress
250gb - downloaded stuff, pr0n

wife's
80gb - OS
300gb - music

between all the pc's we are at about 85% capacity on all drives.

 

[magnetik]

I have over a terrabyte of recorded audio... everything I rip from vinyl.. I leave uncompressed. I also have tons of pictures and movies that I rip from my original dvd's and store on my nas which I use as my media server. Storage is cheap nowadays... not like when I bought my 1st WD winchester 10meg drive. .. hehe.. yes.. I said megs. Sounded like a jet engine taking off when I started it.

 

[unhappy_mage]

I have over a terrabyte of recorded audio... everything I rip from vinyl.. I leave uncompressed.

Use flac instead. Save a bit of space at no quality expense, and get full tagging ability. But I imagine you knew that

 

[magnetik]

Use flac instead. Save a bit of space at no quality expense, and get full tagging ability. But I imagine you knew that

I am too lazy.. I could imagine how long it will take to convert everything over now... I think it's easier to buy new drives and external cases... hehe

 

[unhappy_mage]

But... the tagging! Use foobar, and leave it running while you go to work. It works at about 10x realtime on my relatively slow machine, so even if you have say a week of uncompressed audio it'll only take 17 hours to convert it.

Anyways, that's my suggestion. Feel free to resume using this thread for its original purpose now

 

[TrueChaos]

Ive a 320gb and a 250gb, and I find that the more I have, the more I fill.

Used to have a 40gb drive for a long time, added 250, and filled that in about 2 months, added the 320, its almost full.

Stargate seasons 1-9, + current season
Stargate Atlantis seasons 1-2 + current seasons
Music -- 40gb.
Pictures (I keep almost everything I take, even if it isnt the best shot, you can learn from the exif info, etc) 80-120gb
plus all games, and a bunch of movies.

-Cameron

 

[swatbat]

I should mention how my friend does it. He has a few hundred gigs of music. He has one of his servers in the house pretty much do internet radio just it is internal. Throughout the house you have background music playing and can change it to one of a bunch of different channels. In theory you could go months or longer without ever hearing the same song. You can also make a playlist and just play that. He set this up a few years ago with sbcs and then went to some mini-itx stuff. Few of the rooms were running of xboxs so they could stream video too(worked better then the mini-itx boards). One of the things he has been doing is replacing the older ones with pentium m boxes so they can handle hd video. Really cool setup. As far as the tvs all of them have either an xbox or a htpc hooked up to stream video too off a video server that does nothing but record tv and encode it. He has a few tb's of shit between the music, tv(think entire seasons of shit he would want to watch) and his dvd/laserdisk/vcd collection that has been put on fileservers for always on access.

 

[MrGuvernment]

i dont see how. i mean, i never said i downloaded anything, just that this is what on my drives

just because you didnt download it, doesnt mean it is legal , i doubt many people have 300G's worth of CD's sitting in their homes, or that many anime dvd's they own and ripped , sure TV shows as it is a grey area, not illegal, nor legal.

 

[jen4950]

I've got one of these: Canon 20D

Three of these: Lexar 4GB 133x CF cards

One of these: EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM

And one of these (primary lens, especially when traveling): EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM

Between work and personal stuff I've been taking on average 3.36GB a week for over a year (61 weeks with my 20D). 43496 pics (204GB) at 4MB per JPG and another 8MB if I also capture the RAW file.

That's photos alone..

 

[travis712]

Data would fill up awful quick with a capture card if you record much TV at all. Same with fraps, the list goes on. Then multiple OS'es, plugins, etc.

 

[flynlr]

i have over 400gbs of banhammer pics.

banhammer=adult subjects

relating to world peace and cheech and chong and boobies and disk brakes.

 

[Ockie]

i dont see how. i mean, i never said i downloaded anything, just that this is what on my drives

Yeah because you know them files are so sneaky.. they just leap onto your drives!

 

[po134]

step 1. Get access to a p0rn website (In HD it's even better)
step 2. Get access to a 10mbit line or better
step 3. Tell all your friends you can download as much porn as you want
step 4. There ya go ...

Well it also depends if you only wanna have "legal" stuff.

Games are prettybig today. i can fill out more than 100GB of my space only in games I play (That's assuming i deleted the old one wich I didn't).
For example: my Steam folder has more than 13GB of stuff in it and it's still getting bigger with each new game they release and with the new community map.

You can also run a server FTP/web/pop3 or whatever on your computer as long as you limit the access to it and have a good internet line (like mine )

Capture your TV in HD (HTPC, like mine) for future playback.
Store some seasons of your favorite TV-show (For example mine would be 1-16 of simpsons, 1-5 futurama, 1-9 stargate sg-1, 1-2 stargate sg-a, etc.)

You think you have enough space ? I have many way to make you need/want more.

It's like buying a house, you think you have enough room, but when comes to time to buy an home theater, when you have more children than expected, etc it's never enough, NEVER.

 

[Drudenhaus]

One word: Netflix

 

[Kaos_Drem]

Personally you can never have enough space...especially with any kind of video

I myself have 3.2TB+ of anime some in SD some in HD (i want more of HD) and it keeps coming.

 

[Farva]

Yeah because you know them files are so sneaky.. they just leap onto your drives!

ya, you're the one to talk i mean 10tb of space?! jebus

just because you didnt download it, doesnt mean it is legal , i doubt many people have 300G's worth of CD's sitting in their homes, or that many anime dvd's they own and ripped , sure TV shows as it is a grey area, not illegal, nor legal.

actually, according to the riaa and mpaa, no one can make back ups of anything because they consider it "illegal." but we all know about them...ok, back to the original meaning of this thread

 

[-(Xyphox)-]

One word: Netflix

yep, love it

 

[mystic demon]

for me its tv shows, movies, music, anime, and other things

 

[Subcutaneous]

So i guess all this prolly more than answers your question lol. Everyone has their own way to fill all the space they can get.

 

[Asian Dub Foundation]

maybe the Q's should be: how can you NOT fill up 250gb of storage?

 

[w1retap]

I have a 250gb hdd, and a 200gb.. both are full. In my new comp I'm building, I have a 500gb which I'm transferring my stuff to, then I can expand from there..

I have..

OS's (25+ GB)
Movies (55+ GB)
TV Shows (60+ GB)
Music (80+ GB)
Music Videos (30+ GB)
Programs (50+ GB)
ISO's (80+ GB)
Pictures (8+ GB)

And.. a ton of other misc stuff taking up tons more GBs. Its growing daily so the GB's may vary. lol.

 

[goldy]

50GB of pron

So, so , so sad...

 

[ilkhan]

that ^
oh- coupling = british TV = NOT PORN thats in a different directory

 

[mikeblas]

thats a bit wierd

How so? It's a theoretical lexicographer's dream. And it's interesting from a data warehousing perspective, and kind of interesting from a VLDB perspective. The parallelism opportunities are rich, and ...

Weird? Weird is hoarding copies of movies and music, or pr0n. Besides being Wonder Bread for the mind, it's perverse, antisocial, and immoral.

 

[mikeblas]

So what do you guys with close to 1TB of stuff do to back it all up?

No answer so far, huh? Download it again, I would venture.

 

[swatbat]

No answer so far, huh? Download it again, I would venture.

Rerip the shit or keep it on a raid and hope for the best.

 

[Drudenhaus]

No answer so far, huh? Download it again, I would venture.

Honestly, I've never backed up anything as there is no real feasible/enconomical way to do so. Anything semi-important goes on some form of a redundant array (I know, it's not backing up, but it's the next best thing IMO).

 

[unhappy_mage]

Weird? Weird is hoarding copies of movies and music, or pr0n. Besides being Wonder Bread for the mind, it's perverse, antisocial, and immoral.

I respectfully disagree with most of that. I have a media server with music and movies, and a networked playing station in the common room. It gives a relatively social activity to do when you have half an hour of down time between classes - watch an episode of whatever TV show is on with a roommate, play music at a reasonable level and sing along, whatever.

I agree with the "Wonder Bread for the mind" comment - the last few movies I've seen have been absolutely terribly dumb ("An American Haunting", for example, sucked). But a lot of social things are not very mentally challenging - golf? shopping? dare I say, racing cars? - and works of parody like Family Guy or social commentary like The Simpsons can get you thinking about issues or at least stretch your horizons with the references they make. Going to a baseball game with friends probably won't lead to a discussion of the concept of gay marriage, but I've had debates about that and equally serious topics after watching a TV show.

So that's TV and movies. Next is music. I have quite a bit of music, as I mentioned earlier. Much of it I don't listen to much, this is true. But when there's a get-together in my room and someone requests a song, I usually have it if it's in my genre. And for casual listening, hearing a lot of variety is nice. Try listening to a top-40 station all day and you'll see what I mean.

Last point is pr0n. I know several people with several hundred gigabytes of it, and it's more than a little scary. They tend to be very anti-social people, disrespect women or not know any, and generally not interact with society very well. Not to mention, they never view more than three minutes at a time.

 

[mikeblas]

I agree with the "Wonder Bread for the mind" comment - the last few movies I've seen have been absolutely terribly dumb ("An American Haunting", for example, sucked).

Have you seen Happy Endings, with whats her face and that other chick? It's claw-your-eyes-out bad.

Last point is pr0n.

I think my comments were aimed mostly at pr0no and copyvio stuff. It certainly didn't come out that way, though. (Even porn, by itself, doesn't seem like such a bad idea. But scouring the Internet for it, hoarding it, keeping it when it's illegally obtained anyway ...)

 

[dchrsf]

Used about 100gigs/250, and got the drive month or so ago.

 

[HDBox2d1]

Not reading the whole thread. :shrug:

I just impress people with the amount of storage of i have. ha

 

[coachjohn]

and I shoot RAW files form my work...that's 8MB a pic...and once converted through Phase One's Capture One to a 16 bit TIFF, that's 48MB a pic...adds up in a hurry!

 

[unhappy_mage]

Have you seen Happy Endings, with whats her face and that other chick? It's claw-your-eyes-out bad.

Nope. I'll be sure to avoid it now. How about "V for Vendetta"? Heavy-handedly political, and not even particularly well done (I could have done without all the lousy CG during the knife fight, for example). I'd much, much rather see a well-done version of "Animal Farm" if it's gotta be politically slanted. Or "Brave New World". In any case, I tend to react worse to almost-tolerable stuff than truly bad movies.

I think my comments were aimed mostly at pr0no and copyvio stuff. It certainly didn't come out that way, though. (Even porn, by itself, doesn't seem like such a bad idea. But scouring the Internet for it, hoarding it, keeping it when it's illegally obtained anyway ...)

Glad for the clarification.

OP: I think a lot of people try to do that. I buy as much storage as I need; it just happens that I need a lot

 

[KevC]

Easy. Key word = lossless.

6MP lossless tiffs = 40MB each.
Lossless music CDs = ~500MB each

I don't touch video but those things are known to take up gigs per minute