Funnily enough, I set a new record for my system overnight.
430+GB for a single file. (A 5 terapixel composite image of the planet).
prompted by this comment on the Norton AV thread.
I have a 40gb External HDD, and am continually upping my Home PC's HDD's . But what I find is.. the bigger the hard drive I have.. the more JUNK I accumulate.
If I actually went though my HDD's deleting duplicates, older backups of stuff, backups of backups of backups etc..stuff I've not looked at (and not likely to look at again) for ages.. I'd probably only need about 1/3 of the storage capacity I have at the moment.
I suspect software/data is like a gas.. "It expands to fill the space available"
Estimated... what %age of your storage (not counting OS or APP installs) is actually used by stuff you use often.. and how much is filled with "accumulated junk"?
Funnily enough, I set a new record for my system overnight.
430+GB for a single file. (A 5 terapixel composite image of the planet).
Oh come on - you can't seriously expect me to give an honest answer to this?...
If I really come clean on this front, I won't have an excuse to buy that new hard drive I've been thinking about looking at.
On the other hand, maybe I can buy an iPod Touch instead. Hmmm.
I have very little accumilated junk, as I am a minimalist both in my home and on my computer...
Thing is I use my computer for work and play... Sometimes I still do the odd day training people in Ms products so I need 5 versions of Ms on there due to the fact that some companies have older versions... I also need all the manuals and coursework, then there is my investment business stuff, then of course the music, and photos, most of which are of houses and properties, which is business stuff. Then tax stuff and related spreadsheet projections.
The odd movie of a new development site, or new resorts, again for business.
It all adds up.
All of this I expect my laptop to deal with and to back up 100% on an external hard drive.
Obviously it's a bit harder when you're talking lap-top drives, but for externals, I certainly wouldn't get a drive under 500GB these days. I had to get a drive for that satellite image at short notice, so I had to go for what the store had in stock (500GB), but I'd have gone for 1TB otherwise. Storage is ridiculously cheap these days.
I confess, it's not my own work, it's from a data supplier. I've just repackaged it to work with my company's mapping software.Originally Posted by Beowulf1970
Got a couple of 500GB disks and a portable 250GB. Main uses are for backups and media.
I do tend to keep a lot of old stuff, though I don't think I'll be filling up all the disks I have any time soon.
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
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Of course, I don't know anything about the stores it links to, so they might be a right bunch of cowboys...
For what it's worth, I've got a stack of the Porsche Lacie drives, but I've had 1 failure and 1 sort-of failure (I suspect it's an NTFS corruption problem so it may not be the drive's fault, but it barfs when I try to copy a 160GB file onto it. This is probably not going to be a problem for the typical user), so I'm hesitant to recommend them now.
I knew 64-bit systems were made for a reason.
Could you not use multiple smaller drives in a storage pool of some sort (ZFS or something)? Though I agree you are probably better of just getting a single drive rather than worry about the additional complexity of multiple drives.
I did render a MegaPOV HDR image once that I worked out was just under 100MP in size. It was about 600mb in size (TIFF) when I finished.. I won't tell you how long I left my Spare PC processing to draw it though... (don't think HOURS.. or DAYS.. )
it was about 12000 pixels in width and IIRC about 9000 or so high.
EDIT
a quick calculation
printing that at Hi res 300dpi
12000 / 300 = 40 inches wide
at 72 DPI that's going to be 166.7 Inches Wide.. about 13 feet wide
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