How many Hard Drives (HDD/SSD) do you own?


Your Hard Drives  

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  1. 1. How many hard drives do you own?

    • 0-3 (please explain why you have zero)
      4
    • 4-8
      10
    • 9-13
      7
    • 14-20
      4
    • 20+ (Hey, big spender, tell us why you have so many)
      7


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Extra points if you have very rare, old school, or in some way interesting HDDs. We'll stick to HDD & SSDs. We all hgave a desk full of USB sticks or SD cards. No one wants to count those.

 

I realised I have a lot (at least to me it's a lot) of HDDs. 5 in a external enclosure. 4 in various consoles. 2 in My NAS. 3 In my desktop PC. 1 in my Laptop. 1 connected to a TV to act as a DVR.

 

Alll of these are in use. I don't have any put away.

 

 

Your turn.

 

 

 

 

WOW.... umm...

 

I honestly don't even know an exact number

 

I know I have around 30 SSD's.. ( I say around because their might be some  i'm forgetting)

54 Hard drives that I could locate and count. (I already edited his post and increased that number by 4, because I remembered some more) Though I do have another box full of about 10 more old ones.

@Warwagon

 

Care to share why you are in possession of so many? Are these owned by you for personal use or do you use them for work (e.g. you have spares on hand to replace failed drives for clients)?

I have 20+, that's all I know  :laugh:

 

I have a set of four 500GB from an array that I had upgraded and another set of 1TB. I have several other 500GB and 1TB drives laying around that are mostly used or refurbished. My personal computer has three as shown in the specs below. I also have spare laptops with drives in them.

For my own use, between various workstations and work related servers, 12 SSDs or thereabouts in active use.. plenty of mechanicals too for bulk storage/games/whatever but the primary drives are all SSDs now, can't go back.  Mechanical is probably about 30-40 (arrays and such).  Got some more SSds on hand but they're in the pile along with a bunch of mechanicals, for client usage, backup/replacements, etc.  No idea how many in the upgraded/retired pile, quite a few, just can't bear to toss them.  Even got a couple MFM and RLL's laying around, never know when you need to bludgeon an intruder. 

@Warwagon

 

Care to share why you are in possession of so many? Are these owned by you for personal use or do you use them for work (e.g. you have spares on hand to replace failed drives for clients)?

 

I'm only going to be listing hard drives not SSD's.

 

4 hard drives in my workstation down stairs

1 500GB backup drive for my 256 SSD VM 1-1 drive.

2 3TB off site backup drives

2 Photo backup drives (1 is just a backup of the other)

1 in my media center upstairs

1 in my Window install USB portable hard drive

1 2.5 inch with tools on it that I use to reinstall apps on new installs

2 For Media related backups (1 is just a backup of the other)

2 more For other Media related  backups (1 is just a backup of the other)

1 in my server for security recording

1 for my moms off site backup in an USB enclosure

26 spare hard drives just laying around

2 500 GB backup drives for other media backup (1 is just a backup of the other)

4 1TB hard drive for system images (1 is just a backup of the other)

4 2.5 500 GB drives that have a cloned system image each computer 's boot drive.

Hmm. Let's see.

 

120 GB SSD, 240 GB Kubuntu drive, 1 TB bulk media drive (in my computer), 3 TB drive in my NAS, 240 GB SSD in my laptop, another 1 TB drive laying around that I cannot find a use for, whatever my XBO has, a few 80 GB paperweights... Man, just too many drives.

I'm only going to be listing hard drives not SSD's.

 

4 hard drives in my workstation down stairs

1 500GB backup drive for my 256 SSD VM 1-1 drive.

2 3TB off site backup drives

2 Photo backup drives (1 is just a backup of the other)

1 in my media center upstairs

1 in my Window install USB portable hard drive

1 2.5 inch with tools on it that I use to reinstall apps on new installs

2 For Media related backups (1 is just a backup of the other)

2 more For other Media related  backups (1 is just a backup of the other)

1 in my server for security recording

1 for my moms off site backup in an USB enclosure

30 spare hard drives just laying around

2 500 GB backup drives for other media backup (1 is just a backup of the other)

4 1TB hard drive for system images (1 is just a backup of the other)

 

 

Wow. And I thought my HDD situation was difficult to manage!

Wow. And I thought my HDD situation was difficult to manage!

 

Now onto SSD's

 

1 Media Center

4 laptops

1 Server

1 Workstation

1 Theater room PC

1 Macbook Pro

1  Mac 27inch Mid 2011 250gb ssd

1 Acer W500 Tablet

1 Just ordered 1 new one (Samsung 840 128 for my new laptop)

4 Extra's just laying around .. most are used as a spare if I have to reinstall windows for a customer to make the installs go faster

1 in my moms laptop (which I gave her and is technically mine)

1 2.5 IDE SSD

5 Sysprep 64 GB ssd's. (Vista Business, Vista home premium, Windows 8.1 core, Windows 7 home premium, Windows 7 pro

1 256 VM drive.

1 256 msata on my Brix Pro on my couch

2 64GB drives 1 in each of the 2 Zelman virtual CDROM enclosures.

2 Msata's 1 for each of the 2 Intel Nucs

1 new one I ordered for  one of the 4 laptop's that has ECC errors on the drive

 

I feel like i'm forgetting some. :laugh:

1x Crucial 512GB SSD in my laptop

1x Seagate 500GB HDD sitting in a box

1x Western Digital 1TB HDD in the media hub on my Xbox One

1x Western Digital 1TB My Passport

1x Western Digital 2TB My Passport Ultra

 

1x 500GB HDD in my Xbox One

1x 250GB HDD in my Xbox 360

Desktop: 5 SSD's (2x256 GB, 2x128 GB, 80 GB)

Surface Pro 2: SSD, 128 GB
MBP: PCI-E SSD, 256 GB

3 external HDD's, 1.5 TB

2 HDD"s in NAS, 3 TB

Total capacity: ~5.7 TB over 12 drives

 

Misc:

250 GB Xbox 360

500 GB Xbox One

Now onto SSD's

 

1 Media Center

4 laptops

1 Server

1 Workstation

1 Theater room PC

1 Macbook Pro

1  Mac 27inch Mid 2011 250gb ssd

1 Acer W500 Tablet

1 Just ordered 1 new one (Samsung 840 128 for my new laptop)

4 Extra's just laying around .. most are used as a spare if I have to reinstall windows for a customer to make the installs go faster

1 in my moms laptop (which I gave her and is technically mine)

1 2.5 IDE SSD

5 Sysprep 64 GB ssd's. (Vista Business, Vista home premium, Windows 8.1 core, Windows 7 home premium, Windows 7 pro

1 256 VM drive.

1 256 msata on my Brix Pro on my couch

2 64GB drives 1 in each of the 2 Zelman virtual CDROM enclosures.

2 Msata's 1 for each of the 2 Intel Nucs

1 new one I ordered for  one of the 4 laptop's that has ECC errors on the drive

 

I feel like i'm forgetting some. :laugh:

 

 

I feel compelled to ask, WW, are you a hoarder? If I asked you how many motherboards, monitors, or memory you had would you also rattle off a big lists? :p  :laugh:

I feel compelled to ask, WW, are you a hoarder? If I asked you how many motherboards, monitors, or memory you had would you also rattle off a big lists? :p  :laugh:

 

I have around 16 monitors.  Not very many motherboards ..

 

Ram.. I have them in boxes labeled by type

 

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And some spare CPU's

 

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And Towers

 

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and some old laptops

 

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