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Title: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Hellstryker on November 16, 2008, 11:03:42 pm
http://s209.photobucket.com/albums/bb317/Tyrkeyz/?action=view&current=Jesuschristno.png
:jaw:  :shaking:

Edit: if you must know, that folder is currently fifteen gigs and rising.
Edit: And contains four versions for "Furieux.exe" a hard drive wiping virus a friend of mine coded
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Kosh on November 17, 2008, 05:13:16 am
I've filled up my 30 GB external HDD and most of my 40 GB laptop HDD.
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Post by: Flipside on November 17, 2008, 11:22:38 am
I have well in excess of 100 Gigs of audio samples and synths all on a dedicated drive. It's getting full as well :(
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on November 17, 2008, 01:30:24 pm
Up to around a terabyte myself.  Of course I've been collecting junk since 1980. 
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Post by: Daniel P on November 17, 2008, 01:51:48 pm
Don't worry I just got 36 GB and it almost filled up.
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Post by: Nuclear1 on November 17, 2008, 02:36:54 pm
I mock your 15 gig Stuff folder with my 56 gig own. :p
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Hippo on November 17, 2008, 04:11:01 pm
(http://ahtw.org/space.png)

B, C, and Y are all the same drive, just seperate partitions. Y is my linux drive, B/C are both vista

E and G were former Western Digital external drives i tore apart and put into my desktop, E being partially network shared and mapped (being Z)

N is a dedicated network backup drive


I've got backups from days of olde though after i got tired of losing my data forever, hence the multitude of space. I also get a crazy discount at work on hard drives...

the removable drives are a card reader array, though its not uncommon to see L-X be some varying amount of flash drives (and yes i have hit that hard cap of single drive letters before doing some insane flash drive work)...


TL;DR: approx 862.52gb
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on November 17, 2008, 04:25:46 pm
I keep everything I can on my servers.  There's about another 700gig of space on FUBAR5 that I haven't allocated to a volume yet.  All of those server volumes are mirrored as well.    :pimp:

(http://fubar4.fubar.org/fubar/drives.jpg)
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Excalibur on November 17, 2008, 04:36:52 pm
(http://ahtw.org/.space..png)

B, C, and Y are all the same drive, just seperate partitions. Y is my linux drive, B/C are both vista

E and G were former Western Digital external drives i tore apart and put into my desktop, E being partially network shared and mapped (being Z)

N is a dedicated network backup drive


I've got backups from days of olde though after i got tired of losing my data forever, hence the multitude of space. I also get a crazy discount at work on hard drives...

the removable drives are a card reader array, though its not uncommon to see L-X be some varying amount of flash drives (and yes i have hit that hard cap of single drive letters before doing some insane flash drive work)...


TL;DR: approx 862.52gb

Someone likes their stats...and exactly what were you doing in Goldwave while playing EVE (whatever that is)? By the way that Vista looks cool - does it use up tonnes of memory though?
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Colonol Dekker on November 17, 2008, 04:40:16 pm
Welkl i just installe devery game i own from dos 2.0 games upto RA3 :p

There's a fair bit of music on it too, i don't use servers, i have a stack of RW-DVD's which are easier to get to when my nets off-line :p


quick note desktop/stuff folders FREAKIN RULE :yes:


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Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Hippo on November 17, 2008, 04:41:29 pm
i like to multitask :nervous:


and it actually uses very little memory on its own, unnoticeable compared to normal applications
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: KewlToyZ on November 17, 2008, 04:42:41 pm
It uses more memory but manages it better if that makes sense.
I've gotten used to Ultimate and actually like it better than XP now.

Folder structure changes take quite a bit of getting used to and there are more confusing temporary spaces.
But I like the searchbox integration and it is pretty fast.

I may have to Build an i7-core with DDR3 in a few months just cause they are quick.
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Hippo on November 17, 2008, 04:44:04 pm
the start menu search is frankly amazing
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Post by: JGZinv on November 17, 2008, 06:05:28 pm
< - - already uses 2 TB in storage.

Really want to get a NAS with another 2 TB....
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on November 17, 2008, 07:19:28 pm
< - - already uses 2 TB in storage.

Really want to get a NAS with another 2 TB....

What the heck do you use for backups?   
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Excalibur on November 17, 2008, 10:38:05 pm
4TB megadrives? How do you use up 2000GB?
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Post by: DeepSpace9er on November 17, 2008, 11:30:34 pm
i like to multitask :nervous:


and it actually uses very little memory on its own, unnoticeable compared to normal applications

Damn you. I wish i had or could afford a Widow, a Rohk, a Nighthawk, a handful of raptors, and the rest of the crap i know you have..
My only 'spensive stuff is a phoenix and a moros.
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Hippo on November 18, 2008, 12:06:03 am
thats only my rigged ships i haven't taken time to fly out
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Fury on November 18, 2008, 12:13:38 am
It amazes me how some of you are able to horde up stuff you're unlikely to ever use again. The stuff that I have backed up only amounts to less than 200MB. The rest I either have no use for or I can download them again should I need to.
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: JGZinv on November 18, 2008, 01:02:24 am
4TB megadrives? How do you use up 2000GB?


Really my idea of a "megadrive" doesn't involve TBs.

But as to the question, I've been keeping stuff since I started computing around '95.
Plus I've had like 8 computers over that period of time. 3 of which are currently active.
I couldn't count how many people I've helped because I had some old program version from before
they started charging or limiting features... or some old DOS tool like Norton Commander around.

I do a bunch of stuff with Photoshop... make movie theater sized posters. One of those can eat 400~700MB a pop.
Mostly I use externals and a tiny little old 38GB drive in my laptop.... so there ya go.
If I had the power for games, I'd need even more space... probably another TB at least.
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Kosh on November 18, 2008, 03:43:14 am
It amazes me how some of you are able to horde up stuff you're unlikely to ever use again. The stuff that I have backed up only amounts to less than 200MB. The rest I either have no use for or I can download them again should I need to.

Trouble is, it often disappears from the net never to be seen again.

Edit- added a comma :yes:
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Grizzly on November 18, 2008, 02:16:40 pm
And I have to do it with a 160GB hard-disk, which has been filled to to the top 5 times over again.... Seriously, big hard drives are for people who are too lazy to do something about resource management.
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Mobius on November 18, 2008, 02:19:42 pm
Sometimes I take a look at C: and delete old/unused/useless stuff.

Computer deaths are pretty common for me - one in summer 2007 and another one in summer 2008 - so they do most part of the job. :blah:
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Hellstryker on November 18, 2008, 03:06:23 pm
Sometimes I take a look at C: and delete old/unused/useless stuff.

Computer deaths are pretty common for me - one in summer 2007 and another one in summer 2008 - so they do most part of the job. :blah:


Fortanately, I've never had an HD die on me, so I just carry them over  :p
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on November 18, 2008, 03:06:35 pm
Great example:  Earlier this year I ran into someone that loved the original Xcom game but had lost it years ago.  I had it zipped up sitting on my file server in the same place it has been since 94.  Different file server but same volume and directory.  Had a harder time finding 3 good floppies to put it on. 
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Colonol Dekker on November 18, 2008, 03:18:55 pm
I used to have the x-com collection set (x-com, terror from the deep and Interceptor) but they were destroyed in a house move :( i miss plasma weapons.
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Retsof on November 18, 2008, 10:37:09 pm
My hard drive can hold a (sarcasm) whole 50 gigs, with 5 gigs left.  I don't even have enough memory to run a defrag.
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: CP5670 on November 18, 2008, 10:55:11 pm
I'm the opposite of most people here. I have a 250GB drive that is pretty small by today's standards, but I have not bothered to buy more drives since it's barely half full. I delete downloaded installers as well as larger (5GB or more) games that I'm not playing regularly, although I keep all the savegames and config files. I also clean out the Windows temp folders every now and then, which can become surprisingly big if you don't pay attention to them for a long time.

I used to keep all my installers and included them in my backups at one point, which has been a huge time saver for me many times in the past, but game patches and custom content have become a lot larger over the years and my stash eventually became too big for this to remain practical. Now I only keep the download if the file took me a lot of effort to find.
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on November 18, 2008, 11:00:52 pm
Kudos to anyone who has a 1 PB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte) hard drive. At this rate, having a half-terabyte hard drive will be common in the next decade.
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Mongoose on November 18, 2008, 11:02:57 pm
I have a good twenty-some burned DVDs lying around full of backed-up files, the vast majority of which consist of various animu and music.  My 320 GB drive still has 170 GB free, since most of what I have backed up isn't on here at the moment.  I don't have very many PC games to speak of, so even if I did have them all installed, I'd still be sitting on a crap-load of empty space.
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Post by: Gortef on November 19, 2008, 05:48:46 am
I just bought a 1TB external Drive that was on sale... at least I can fit my current and future anime in there.
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Post by: Mars on November 19, 2008, 01:00:52 pm
I have yet to completely fill my 80GB hard drive.

I've had it for over 3 years.
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Daniel P on November 19, 2008, 02:28:30 pm
don't worry people. One time I use to got a 6 GB harddrive for my computer. (That when I lost my 40 GB hard Drive)

Realize how quickly you can fill up 6 GB harddrive
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Hippo on November 19, 2008, 05:24:57 pm
my first pc (read before fs2) had a 6g and i would have to actually remove things to install fs2 and other games... we got an 80gb at some point when we upgraded to windows 2000, and i never filled it before we gave it to my sisters kids
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: CP5670 on November 19, 2008, 05:34:08 pm
My old Mac had a 160MB drive. Disk space was sometimes an issue on it, as the games back then were small but not small enough, and there were also a lot more games in general. The biggest games weighed in at 5MB or more and a bunch of those could quickly load up the drive.
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Hippo on November 19, 2008, 05:41:21 pm
i had a IIGS without a hard drive
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Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on November 19, 2008, 06:31:30 pm
i had a IIGS without a hard drive

I had 2 hard drives on my IIGS and even had one on my II+  (became one of the ones on the IIGS). Still have it somewhere.  That thing is huge. 

BTW:  I still both the II+ and IIGS and as far as I know they both still work.
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on November 19, 2008, 06:41:42 pm
I still have about 100 GB on my Mac. :)
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: ssmit132 on November 20, 2008, 06:23:59 am
I've always had hard drive trouble. Although I managed to clear out to almost 4 GB free on my desktop (40 GB hard drive), I still have trouble with my laptop (around 50 GB), even though I have two 320 GB external hard drives. Many times I fill my remaining space on my laptop's C partition from FS2 screenshots! (They go to one the external drives.) I'm currently on screen3777.tga.  ;7

Also, sometimes when I'm on the Internet, the space on the same C partition starts shrinking rapidly, causing alarms to start ringing, then suddenly the space comes back. It just happened again now. I have no idea what does it. I should run another virus check over the weekend...
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Post by: colecampbell666 on November 20, 2008, 08:55:04 pm
I have 180 GB in my desktop, and 80 and 100 in my laptops respectively (well my mother's, but I use them mostly). My external is 250 GB.

The desktop doesn't have much on it, about 10 GB worth of replaceable stuff, mainly torrents. The larger laptop has a few HD movies, which I delete once I watch them. The small one is empty, just a few school docs. My External has the complete BSG, season 4-5 of Atlantis, and the SG1 movies. It has a few distros from time to time, and usually some school work.

I only really have about 30MB of irreplaceable stuff, as well as my 250MB Funny Pictures folder, now 1800 strong.
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: Hellstryker on November 20, 2008, 09:14:22 pm
My old Mac had a 160MB drive. Disk space was sometimes an issue on it, as the games back then were small but not small enough, and there were also a lot more good games in general. The biggest games weighed in at 5MB or more and a bunch of those could quickly load up the drive.

Fixed.
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Post by: Polpolion on November 20, 2008, 09:23:30 pm
Huh, my random folder that I just dump everything into is only 8GB. Maybe because I got it in September...
Title: Re: Holy christ, what have I done...
Post by: BloodEagle on November 20, 2008, 11:20:16 pm
I should really empty these more often....

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