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"In the closet I've got a home-built system that I use for network storage. It runs OpenSolaris and has 5 2Tb drives: mirrored with a hot spare for a total of 4
by lylejohnson 16y ago
"In the closet I've got a home-built system that I use for network storage. It runs OpenSolaris and has 5 2Tb drives: mirrored with a hot spare for a total of 4Tb of usable storage."
Just curious, what would an individual need that much storage for? I ask because I'm living pretty comfortably with the 320Gb hard drive in my MBP. Is it digital photographs, or maybe raw video footage?
- shadowfox 16y agoSome of my friends have archives of data going back to 15 years. You end up accumulating a lot of stuff that way.
- joubert 16y agoVideo...
- draebek 16y agoVideo, music, lots of software (e.g. ISOs). Mind you it's also nice to have it redundant like he does.
- GFischer 16y agoVideo, music and games? Also digital photographs, I've got at least a few hundred gigabytes of unprocessed photos - I take thousands of photos per trip, and even my cellphone has an 8mp camera!. Videos really fill a hard drive fast. Some sailing videos are in the gigabyte range for an hour of video.