Bragging Time Part 2: Who has the most total storage space in their HTPC?

[Brent]

Another good roll-call topic!

250 GB Recordings Drive (this seems so small now that I look at it )
250 GB OS & music drive (and some extra junk...)
400 GB External (movies)
300 GB External (movies)
250 GB (movies)
300 GB (movies and home videos) all family stuff I promise.
1TB (movies and backup)
400 GB (movies) on client PC
300 GB (movies plus photos and music backup) on client PC

2.60 TB TOTAL for recordings, movies, music, photos and two OS stuff.

[UFGrayMatter]

   5x500 in RAID5 <- Movies (Server2003)
   4x250 in RAID0 <- TV Shows (will go to RAID5 at some point) (Server2003)
   1x750 <- SageTV Recording Drive
+ 1x300 <- OS and Music
---------
~ 4TB :)

[paulbeers]

740GB in my Sage Server:
1 x 100GB OS Drive
2 x 320GB Recording Drives

1380GB in my File Server (mainly for serving DVD's and MP3's to my Sage server):
1 x 80GB OS Drive
4 x 200GB
1 x 500GB

I plan to buy at least 3 more 500GB drives and probably "retire" my 200GB drives...

[IVB]

stupid *#*%* 3 OTA-HD tuners now that I got the HDHR & Cat's Eye, and all these reality shows at 12GB/hr, taking up craploads of space.

I was working my way *down* this list when I got the DVD megachanger, and now it's just going back up again...

[ybrew]

I voted 2-3 tb.

That'll probably be increased soon. I see an additional 1.5 tb (500 internal, 1tb external) added soon Possibly.

Internal is recordings. external is media library.
Internal currently at 1.5 and external is currently about 650gb.

[Lucas]

Total ~ 7.5TB
SageTV Server:
2x500Gb + 1x750Gb for recordings
2x500 USB Drives for other videos

NAS Server (NASLite V2) ~ 2.9TB
1 x 2TB RAID 5 array (8x300Gb Disks)
1 x 900Gb Raid 5 array (4x320Gb Disks)

NAS Server (NASLite V2) ~ 1.7TB
80Gb for Music/Photos/Personal Videos
3x300Gb, 1x250Gb, 1x500Gb - Imported Videos

+ 2x750Gb waiting to be installed

[jphipps]

Total: 7.4TB
Usable: 5.5TB

2x300
4x400
3x250
3x320
7x500

Room for 1x500 left to max out 2 servers...

[NEOSG]

a lot

[LehighBri]

Originally Posted by NEOSG

a lot

Wow that's crazy. What storage device(s) are you using? RAID/SCSI/NAS/etc?

[NEOSG]

All external drives are either PATA or SATA in USB enclosures with the 1/2 the case off to allow for better heat dissipation. using 3 USB hubs to different ports on the server to allow for smooth transfers

[jominor]

Originally Posted by NEOSG

All external drives are either PATA or SATA in USB enclosures with the 1/2 the case off to allow for better heat dissipation. using 3 USB hubs to different ports on the server to allow for smooth transfers

Alright! I thought I was the only one who left the cases off. Greetings Caseless USB2 Brother!

[lobosrul]

I have:

1x320GB boot drive.
2x400GB Internal (Sage Recording drives)
2x500GB Internal

3x750GB (1.5GB space, expandable to 3TB) Raid-5 NAS.

A total of 3.620 TB of space . Currently using about half.

[jominor]

Originally Posted by NEOSG

All external drives are either PATA or SATA in USB enclosures with the 1/2 the case off to allow for better heat dissipation. using 3 USB hubs to different ports on the server to allow for smooth transfers

BTW, have you run into any problems with the larger(500g+) drives in USB2 encs not mounting properly upon system restart?

[Brent]

After browsing through this thread and poll I'm surprised one of the hard disk manufacturers don't invest in SageTV. Looks like some of their best customers are SageTV fans...

[petereader]

Oh boy, I haven't taken count in a while. Hmm, let's see:

Recording Drives:
2x500
1x300

Video Directory Drives
3x500 (4 in a Raid 5 so subtract 1)
1x750

So 3.55 TB by HDD manufacturers' count, about 3.32 TB according to everyone else (including the data that I'm allowed to put in it).

[lobosrul]

Originally Posted by petereader

So 3.55 TB by HDD manufacturers' count, about 3.32 TB according to everyone else (including the data that I'm allowed to put in it).

Thats because HDD manufacturers calculate a TB as 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000), while your OS calculates it at as 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776)... along with programmers and computer scientists.

[petereader]

Originally Posted by lobosrul

along with programmers and computer scientists.

Yep, That's the "everyone else" I was referring to. I can't believe they can get away with that. It's not too big a deal for those who have been building systems for a while, but could you imagine a soap distributer selling you a "ten pack" that comes comes with only eight bars of soap...Or worse, a brewing company selling you ten beers in a 12 pack I'm sure people would riot over that.

[NEOSG]

Originally Posted by jominor

BTW, have you run into any problems with the larger(500g+) drives in USB2 encs not mounting properly upon system restart?

one of the 750 has to be hotswapped every now and then upon restart. But, for the most part, they seem to work ok

[dvd_maniac]

3x320GB in Raid-0 for recordings recordings
1x750GB for my encoded Movies (1600+)
1x750GB for archived TV shows (5000+)
1x1TB for OS, Music, archived software and Music Videos
2x1TB External Maxtor drives for Movie & TV show backups
A little over 5TB...

[paulbeers]

Does anyone else get slightly disturbed when they stop and think about how expensive this Sage hobby is and complicated?

I remember when I built my first Sage box 5 years ago:
Celeron 766mhz
384mb of PC133 Ram
FX5200 vid card
80GB HD <---- That's right only 80GB!

Now I run two servers with 6 tuners with a total 2.6TB between them (just added another 500GB HD) w/ 4 extenders (thinking about adding 2 more). What is wrong with us?!?!?!?