Ridgeburner Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 *likes his 930 gigs of HD space* :yes: (check sig) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted February 25, 2004 MVC Share Posted February 25, 2004 Seriously, don't criticize him for not having a raid setup. He could have a good reason it. Nevertheless it's his decision. This is true - but a ~60gig swap file, and allowing a drive fill to up with only, ie 3% free. Where there is that much space available, just does not make any sense ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaladis Veteran Posted February 25, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 25, 2004 thats what i call space... however... think of this: how about 4x 250gb drives? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiseman Posted February 25, 2004 Author Share Posted February 25, 2004 This is true - but a ~60gig swap file, and allowing a drive fill to up with only, ie 3% free. Where there is that much space available, just does not make any sense ;) no,swap file only used 1.5GB~ :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiseman Posted February 25, 2004 Author Share Posted February 25, 2004 Seriously, don't criticize him for not having a raid setup.? He could have a good reason for it.? Nevertheless it's his decision. i don't want having RAID setup cause i'm too lazy(that is the main reason):p:p and don't have enough time to backup my data if it run RAID 0 but RAID 1 will waste hdd space so i don't want to set a RAID setup (i know RAID have many different mode) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sushubh Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 OMG OMG OMG... I just have a measely 36 gigs :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVO VIII Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 this thread has taught me a valuable lesson: the more hard drive space you have = bigger the penis hehe just playin :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted February 25, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 25, 2004 thats what i call space... however... think of this: how about 4x 250gb drives? :p That's what I'm working towards. I've got 2x60, 1x120, and 2x250. I'm gonna drop the 2x60 for a 250 drive and that'll put me at 620GB. Then I'll drop another 250 in there at some point to bring it up to 870. I blame my MythTV box I'm building. I've been a collector of TV episodes lately, and that will only add to the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_Player Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 I'd do one of those fancy raid 15 arrays...or just 2 sets of raid 0 and backup your important **** on the leftover drive...thats what I do...except I only have 2 HDs :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted February 25, 2004 MVC Share Posted February 25, 2004 no,swap file only used 1.5GB~ :rolleyes: seems strange then that your drive with a swap label has only 56% free then, doesnt it. And your letting a drive get to a point where there is only 3% free is just plain stupid - sorry, but it is! With that much space just laying around - it does not make any sense. Since all your space is FREE - why would you need that much space? It's likey having a nice car, but not driving it - you just take it out of the garage to let people see it. You wash it and wax it - but never drive it. As to your statements about raid - if your worried about not backing up if running raid 0, and performance if running 1 - then why not run 0+1, ie a mirrored raid 0 array. This will give you the performance of raid 0, and the peace of mind of a raid 5 (loss of 1 drive out of the 4 and your ok) - This even still leaves you a 160gig drive to use as a backup drive, etc.. With the price of drives today - anyone with about $400 burning a whole in their pocket could put a 1/2TB online using only 2 drives. But if you really have no use for it - whats the point? Since three of your drives show 100% FREE, your using what about 25% of your total space - and that is squeezed onto a drive and a half. Just my 2 cents on your setup is all - Kewl you have 600Gig online, I am happy for you ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khujo Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 I've got about 565GB on this machine, Desktop/HTPC and another 165GB as network storage Blame it all on DVD R... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toematoe Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 it just funny no cd rom or cdrw drive coz lack of power.. get a new power supply unit. and of course raid ur pc. it works better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardice Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 toematoe where are you from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kagaku Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 I just built myself a new 200x5 SATA RAID5 array for my new fileserver, cost me a few hundred for the drives and controller, but it's worth it. I'm currently using it as an anime/movie fileserver at lan parties, along with anything else I can think of storing on there. It's got around 340gb free space right now, so as you can see I'm quite good at filling it. :) My main rig has around 420gigs of space, with about 100 of that free, but I could probably do better. I'm currently got 3x80, 1x60, and 1x120 drives, with the 120 being a SATA. My next idea is to upgrade my main rig's boot drive to dual 75gig WD Raptor drives in a RAID 0 as soon as the price comes down a bit more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fobban Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 I'll soon get my WD 250GB Drive (SATA), then i'll have 2 x 200 GB (maxtor diamond plus 9) and one 250 GB (western) o_O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaffa Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 no RAID either... freaken n00bs. :no: exactly.. so many drives... put those disks in raid ppl!!! :devil: you WILL notice a performance increase... and it's pretty sae if you go for Raid5 ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forster Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 ... :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inertia Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 I have tons of disk space, but I dont want all the drives chewing at my psu in my main box, so i have a file server, also I have raid 0 on my system disc for speed. And i have plenty of RAM and disable my page file. I think this system shows a bunch of drives being used very badly :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mm3h Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 All I have its a 60gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Veteran Posted February 25, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 25, 2004 All makes my 160GB look puny :) Wonder how Windows would get on with 1000GB of storage? How would it report it? 1TB? (How much is a TeraByte?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destian Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 Just use raid5. Otherwise you should just be using larger drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovedude Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 Nice :). I have 2x 120gig enough for me at the moment :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 I have 1x 60 and 1x 80 in this box, and 1x 60 in my server. I don't use much space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomis_nehc Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 mine: 1x 80 gig wd se 2x 120 maxtor se 2x 250 wd se ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shifty Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 Um - no 8 U320 15k rpm drives would be bad ass. 8 SATA drives spinning at 7200 rpm is home use, or a test box or something. Not for a production server. Who do you work for?Your actually using SATA drives - and not even raptors in a production server? What did the IT budget take a 90% hit or something? we are looking for total capacity and speed. to get 2TB of space and speed w/ scsi would be super expensive. to get 2TB of space w/ U320 and 15k RPM drives... 29 70GB Maxtor SCSI drives @ $650 each = $18,850 or 12 180GB Seagate drives @ 7200RPM @ $650 each = $7,150 and to get 2~3 Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S @ $800 a piece the total server cost could buy me a really nice car. not to mention the number of power supplies needed to fuel all those drives would increase the cost initially and also to operate. sata has almost all the perks of scsi like hot swap and w/ our raid 5 if a drive fails we can pop in a new one. the SATA way is far less expensive and can yeild pretty much what this box is intended for storage and a SQL database server. and also all those SCSI drives would definately saturate the 64bit PCI bus which would make having all those drives useless for speed. trust me i had to write the proposal for this. the price difference was about $8000~20,000 SATA vs SCSI. and also the motherboard will have a PCI Express slot on it so that when a new SATA RAID card comes out for PCI Express we can easily upgrade to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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