How TBs do you have?

[Tom Lowe]

I'm not a working video professional, but I seem to fill up my harddrives at a ridiculous rate anyway. At home I have a 500GB performance RAID on my PC, plus one 300 GB and one 400GB Maxtor external -- and they are already full. Most of that is high-def HVX footage, but I have like 100 GBs of movies, 30GBs of music, 80GBs of timelapse RAW pictures, etc. I'm gonna pick up a 500GB external tomorrow, for a total of 1.7 Terabytes.

My uncle shoots weddings as a hobby, and I swear he must have about 20TBs or more. He buys harddrives like they're nothing, and keeps everything he shoots archived. And those are not even double-archived for backup. Just straight video footage, so if he wanted to back his stuff up, he'd be looking at 40TBs!

What about you guys? I'm sure AV and some other guys will put me to shame.

[Rob Lohman]

About 3+ TB. More is coming next week :)

Man, I can still remember having a util under DOS that allowed me to format a 1.44 MB floppy to 2 MB or something. Woohoo! Starting out with a measly 360 KB, then getting double-sided for a full 720 and then 1.44. Jeesh. Which funny enough was called "HD"! And that's how we get back to RED ;)

Still have an 8" (and a couple of 5.25") floppy lying around here somewhere with some arcane OS on it (or that was on there at one point in time)

[Tom Lowe]

haha, yeah... I remember buying a super-high-end PC a while back that boasted 80GBs and I thought, "I'll never run out of storage again!" :)

[Brook Willard]

~1.2 here... I'm down to about 9GB. Too broke to buy more. :)

[Tom Lowe]

Tell me about it. I thought I had like 150GBs left on my PC's hard drive, and then i tried to save a large file and it gave me an error that I had run out of space! I started investigating and realized how much space I have actually used....

[Jeff Kilgroe]

OK...

Workstation 1 - G5 quad - 1TB RAID-0 "scratch disk", 250GB system drive

Workstation 2 - 8 core PC - 2TB RAID-0 "scratch disk", 1TB RAID-0 primary storage / system drive.

Workstation 3 - dual core PC - 640GB RAID-0 drive...

SAN - Apple XServe RAID-5 config - ~5TB
- In house built RAID-5 storage node ~5TB

External hard drives: 1 x non-brand RAID-0 500GB, 1 x Maxtor 500GB, 1 x Maxtor 320GB, 1 x Iomega 250GB

Total hard drive storage is about 16.5TB... There's quite a bit of free space on the workstation drives. I just built them big so I didn't have to worry. The approximately 10TB of SAN storage is about 60% full.

And then there's my VXA-2 tape archive collection... 160GB tapes, but I haven't counted how many I have exactly -- probably close to about 60, but much is duplicated or projects in various stages of completion.

I'm not counting the render node systems. Most of them just have 40GB hard drives for booting Windows and the necessary client softwares.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Man, I can still remember having a util under DOS that allowed me to format a 1.44 MB floppy to 2 MB or something. Woohoo! Starting out with a measly 360 KB, then getting double-sided for a full 720 and then 1.44. Jeesh.

Har :) Yes, I had that same utility or one that did the same thing. Those 2MB floppies were the greatest! I remember buying a 30MB hard drive and having the guy at the computer shop order it in for me. He tried and tried to talk me out of it so I would just buy the 10MB drive they sold standard. Because "no one will ever need more storage! 10MB is already 10 million pages of information!". Hehe...

[dalemccready]

...thinking back to my youth with my 48K apple II+ (upgraded from 32K!) and it's actually floppy, Floppy drive...and paddles for gaming....ahhhh it still brings a tear to my eyes

[Jeff Kilgroe]

My first Apple was the IIe, dual floppies and a 14" Magnavox color monitor. Oooh, the fun times.

[Keith Alan Morris]

2 TB alive and full.
1 TB dead - drives that have fried.

sigh.

[Tom Lowe]

Hahaha, I told you guys AV would blow me out of the water! :)

[Rob Lohman]

Har :) Yes, I had that same utility or one that did the same thing. Those 2MB floppies were the greatest!

After some sleep I think the utility I used was called '2M'. I found some stuff on the always useful interweb:

http://docsrv.caldera.com:8457/cgi-bin/info2html?(fdutils.info.gz)2M
http://home.att.net/~short.stop/freesoft/disk2.htm (2M plus a lot of other stuff)

Anyways, let's get back on topic :)

[ericyoung]

...thinking back to my youth with my 48K apple II+ (upgraded from 32K!) and it's actually floppy, Floppy drive...and paddles for gaming....ahhhh it still brings a tear to my eyes

48K Sinclair Spectrum (probably only a UK thing) used a domestic compact audio cassette for storage! You had to play with the volume setting as it was a bit fussy!! :mellow:

[Rob Lohman]

Yep, my first computer was some Atari (800XL?) with an audio cassette for storage. Always fun loading stuff from tape.

Edit: it must've been an 800XL or 600XL. According to some site the tape drive I had for that system had these astonishingly specifications:

Data transmission rate: 600 bits per second.
Data storage capacity: 100,000 bytes per 60-minute cassette.
Track configuration: 4 track, 2 channel (digital data and audio track)

Yes, you could play audio from the cassette while loading data. That's what I call product features! :)

[Curran Giddens]

Total hard drive storage is about 16.5TB... There's quite a bit of free space on the workstation drives. I just built them big so I didn't have to worry. The approximately 10TB of SAN storage is about 60% full.


16.5TB's! that's a lot o bits o info


4x 400GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8
1x 400GB Seagate Barracuda ES
2x 300GB Maxtor MaxLine III
1x 250GB Maxtor (G5 stock)

2.85 TB

I was down to between 2 - 5 GB on each drive including my startup before I bought my Blu-ray burner (my Superdrive stopped working last month).
I was writing over and over the same last few GB on my startup (not recommended). I really should buy another hard drive and clone my system to it but I'm trying to hold out until Leopard and then install everything from scratch.

my first computer was a b&w mac classic, then a 7100 A/V, B&W G3, G4....

[Stephen Gentle]

I've only got about half a TB on this computer... Sounds pretty small in comparison to your systems.

We might need to invest in a RAID sometime soon. Both for the space and the security - Our 300GB drive has 2GB free, and we've had a lot of drives die.

My first computer (a Mac LCII) had 30MB... I still use it sometimes (I had some great games)

[Simon Blackledge]

erm..

macpro (x2) systems have internal system drive >+1x500gig + 2x500gig raid0 internal sleds +1xExternal Maxtor 500gig split in two with a clone of the osx install on one partition.

Raid is 4TB @ raid 5

so about 8TB plus 2 500gig externals at home that travel to and from work sometimes.

so about 9TB's.. :-/ gonna need more!.. lol

[Corrado Silveri]

1 x xRaid 7TB
6 x Internal storage (average 1TB each) 6TB
4 x Internal storage (average 500Giga each) 2 TB
12 x External Lacie 500Giga 6TB
20 x Backup HD 250Giga each 5TB

Grand Totale (TB+, TB-) 19TB

[vanguy]

On Topic:
System 1: just under 1 TB on a motley collection of homebuilts (Seagate guts) and Lacies. Soon to be just under 2 TB.
System 2: 2 TB of G-RAID
System 3: 3.5 TB of G-RAID plus 500 GB Seagate internal (besides the system drive)

free space: 600 GB total.

Off Topic:

My first computer was a TRS-80 MC-10 with a cassette storage, and 4K of RAM expanded to 20K. It ran at .89 MHz. My first hard drive was 40 MB.

I now have
6,780 times as much speed
100,000 times as much memory
150,000 times as much hard drive space

And it's nowhere near enough.

[Bruce Allen]

Storage total: 5.75TB
workstation: 1.5TB (internal) + .5TB (permanently-attached external)
server: 1TB (data) + 1TB (external mirror)
floating around: 1.75TB across various (semi-mirrored) external drives - you know, music, sound effects, stock, hd footage etc..
free space: about .2TB

first computer: colecovision ADAM with cassette drive. Ah yes, load times...

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[Ivan G]

I still remember booting from floppies with my Amiga 1000 in 85. Then I bought the first 16 meg hard drive. Boy, I was freaked! Anyways. I've been meaning to get an apple raid for the longest. I'm still waiting for 4gig bandwith and larger drives. Last I spoke to apple and about the RED cam. I was told to get 2 raids and stripe them.

[Ralph Oshiro]

Still have an 8" (and a couple of 5.25") floppy lying around here somewhere with some arcane OS on it . . .
Perhaps the "RT-11" OS for the DEC PDP-11 processors used in early CMX editors? I still have the punch-tape EDL from the first musicvideo I ever directed!

[Ralph Oshiro]

My first Apple was the IIe, dual floppies and a 14" Magnavox color monitor. Oooh, the fun times.
At least you had the COLOR monitor! I had the green one. How much RAM did we used to have in those things? Like 16K?

[Paul Hazlett]

Ok here is the run down.

Medea rtrx-2TB full

3 g5's with about 500 gigs each half filled(trying to keep that down.)

20 500 gig drives on firmtek hotswaps satas. 10 TB total with about 2TBs
left.

then the various firewire and usb 2 drives and lacie 800 firewire drives, which suck by the way. about 2TB mostly full.

We dont wipe much since drives are cheap we add them in to the cost of
production so if someone wants to change things, and they do, we can just
plug in the drive.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

At least you had the COLOR monitor! I had the green one. How much RAM did we used to have in those things? Like 16K?

I want to say it was 64KB standard in the IIe, but I don't recall for sure. My dad and I upgraded to 128KB from the stock amount. It had a 16KB ROM. I think it could hold up to 1MB. The color monitor was nice, but it was lower resolution than the green monochrome displays -- it couldn't display 80 columns of text like the monochrome monitors.

[Tom Lowe]

20 500GB drives, huh? Nice!

[Rob Lohman]

Perhaps the "RT-11" OS for the DEC PDP-11 processors used in early CMX editors?

Definitely not that, might be CP/M or some early Microsoft thingy. I'll see if I can dig it up again.

Never used it. Didn't have an 8" drive to read it with. I went from the cassette to 5.25" floppies, then 3.5" and then hard disk.

[Seth Larney]

2.5TB RAID 5 server, 1TB local on each of the 2 3DS MAX Workstations, 1TB local on the AVID, 0.5TB on each of the 2 2D Workstations, 6x 500GB external drives hanging off server, Plus the internals on the 4 other machines in the studio. I guess probably about 10TB total, about 2TB free.

My first bot was the Commodore VIC20 : http://oldcomputers.net/vic20.html

Also tape driven, although I had it for about a year before I got the tape drive (or any storage at all), I remember staying up till 2am programming a game I had written on paper, only to have my mum accidentally unplug the power before I got to execute the thing :) Many days were spent tweaking code for hours on end just to get it running for an hour or two and then turn off again. Oh, memories..

[Curran Giddens]

4x 400GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8
1x 400GB Seagate Barracuda ES
2x 300GB Maxtor MaxLine III
1x 250GB Maxtor (G5 stock)

2.85 TB

I really should buy another hard drive and clone my system to it but I'm trying to hold out until Leopard and then install everything from scratch.


I couldn't hold out any longer. I had to get myself another 400GB Barracuda ES and grabbed a 750GB Barracuda ES while I was at it.

makes for a nice round total of 4TB's

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