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    What's your Storage Capacity?

    I'm uploading ring tones etc from my old phone (SE K750i) to my new phone (SE K800i) and I was just plugging in the 2GB M2 micro card when I thought just now ridiculous 2GB on a phone would have been a few years back !! (Jings 2GB on a PC would have been unheard of a few years back)

    So I decided to total up my various devices I have ON ME AT THE MOMENT (not counting my portable HDD or Laptop I have at home and not counting this works laptop I'm using just now) It kind of shocked me.

    IPAQ H5550 - 4Gb SD card, Expansion Pack with 2 x 2GB Compact Flash = 8 GB
    Iomega mini HDD usb - 40GB
    Creative Labs Zen Touch - 20GB
    Sony Ericsson K800i + 2GB M2 Micro card = 2GB
    USB Pen Drive - 4 GB

    totalling all that little lot up I would be capable (assuming I emptied my various cards out , deleted mp3's etc) to pinch up to 74GB of confidential works information and sneak out the front door with it.

    Now I know there are bigger portable HDD's out there (the big brother to my Iomega one is 100GB) so I'm expecting other geeks to beat me easily.

    What's your current storage capacity

    (I'm beginning to thing Johnny mnemonic didn't need to risk his head after all )

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    Christ prob a few 100 gig with all the odd pen drives, mp3 players, cameras, misc Flash cards I have laying about. 80 gig portable HD a few 2 gig micro SD cards £9 each !!!! (brought a handfull to take pics etc at chill)

    Have 4 sata 300Gb Drives on raid in my work PC. They are running on a mirror 2x2 so 600gb in total (about 10 gig left now I have installed vista lol)

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    On me right now? Fairly measly, to be honest - a few meg on my phone, and 4gig on my PDA. If I had my iPod with me today, that would add an extra 80gig ... but I don't.

    At home - well - that's a different matter. I totted up the storage capacity in and attached to my Mac, and it came to around 1.2 terabytes.

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    Quote Originally Posted by straycat264 View Post

    At home - well - that's a different matter. I totted up the storage capacity in and attached to my Mac, and it came to around 1.2 terabytes.


    Why?

    Didn't know that there was that much info available for a mac


    Is it just me or does the word terabyte sound like some monster from a 70's space puppet show?

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    well if we're counting my PC(s) at home I have a 400gb Sata drive in my Main PC , 200gb in my server (I know I know, back to front! but it's only a cr*ppy little wifi mail/web server hidden away in my bedroom cupboard )

    I would like to upgrade (ie.. completely rebuild) my PC soon, but with my new flat, and flights up and down to London I've been unable to keep up with the bleeding edge and lagging behind a bit.

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    Is it just me or does the word terabyte sound like some monster from a 70's space puppet show?
    you're thinking of Terrahawks aren't you? I loved that show !!

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    Why?
    Why not?

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    Didn't know that there was that much info available for a mac
    Well - you learn something every day

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    Is it just me or does the word terabyte sound like some monster from a 70's space puppet show?
    Yeah - I think Terabyte was Megabyte's arch-nemesis.
    Kilabyte was one of Terabyte's chief minions.

    And then there was Yobibyte, who was thought to be a mere football hooligan, but who turned out to be Terabyte's Supreme Commander.

    Or did I just totally ruin the whole plot?

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf1970 View Post

    You'll Never Get Away With This!!!

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    Didn't know that there was that much info available for a mac
    You're right. Mac users tend to have data on that (pictures, video, music, etc) rather than just hordes of useless apps .

    Anyway I've got my iPod Nano (2GB) and a phone with 2MB! in.

    That's it... and I call myself a geek.

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    Oooo I like this game Beo, proper geeky!

    100Gb laptop
    60Gb desktop
    30Gb iPod
    2x1Gb CompactFlash cards for my 300D
    I think I have a 128Mb and a 256Mb CompactFlash card for my other camera
    128Mb card in my phone

    I think that's it

    Hang on though..... do the 40-odd blank DVDs I have count?

    Edit: 1Gb flash stick as well!

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    Hmm.

    I've got a 1GB hard disk, of which about 100MB is unusuable.
    That's it.

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    Um... My phone's about 64 Meg I think...

    Umm... And that's it. :shrug:
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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    Currently carrying about 86Gb, mostly the iPod, plus Cf cards for the Nikon. I also have a pocket sized HHD backup drive at home, with 120Gb of space on it.

    Oh, and my brain as well. Current estimates of human brain capacity put it in the 10 Terabyte - 1 Petabyte range [geek]1000 Terabytes is called a Petabyte[/geek]

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    Quote Originally Posted by TurboTomato View Post
    Oooo I like this game Beo, proper geeky!

    100Gb laptop
    60Gb desktop
    30Gb iPod
    2x1Gb CompactFlash cards for my 300D
    I think I have a 128Mb and a 256Mb CompactFlash card for my other camera
    128Mb card in my phone

    I think that's it

    Hang on though..... do the 40-odd blank DVDs I have count?

    Edit: 1Gb flash stick as well!
    Oh dear silly me, didn't read the ON ME AT THE MOMENT in big letters *bangs head on table*

    30Gb iPod (but that's out in the car so doesn't really count).... and the 128Mb card in my phone...

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    well i have limited storage space. Two double wardrobes thats full up and thats about it. No cupboard space and no airing cupboard. <yawn> - thats me boring myself before anybody else makes a comment.

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    Quote Originally Posted by Trouble View Post
    well i have limited storage space. .


    I think it’s a variant on Parkinson’s Law, things expand to fill the space available

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    Nada - nothing - zip - bug£er all! I know... I'm sitting at a computer ... but I have no idea how much memory it has... that's what my husband and my big brother are for!

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    I have a 186GB file on one of my HDs at the moment. (It's a 200000 x 450000 pixel satellite image, if you're curious).

    About 1.5TB external right now, plus 320GB internal, and another TB of hard drives with archived data but not plugged in.

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    I can handle about 6 pints of lager (4 if its WifeBeater) before considering an impromtue day off the next day, but I'll have a headache after 3.

    And I can neck 2 and a half before needing a pee but after the first pee somehow my man sized bladder gets replaced with that of a gnat and I only need to think of a drink and I'll need to down load again!

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    Re: What's your Storage Capacity?

    Quote Originally Posted by Trousers View Post
    And I can neck 2 and a half before needing a pee but after the first pee somehow my man sized bladder gets replaced with that of a gnat and I only need to think of a drink and I'll need to down load again!
    Ah ha... the "first fatal" pee! you have to hold it as long as you can 'cos once you've gone once... you spend the rest of the night in the loo!

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