Hey,

I'm excited.
I ordered a LaCie d2 external hard drive.
250gb - usb/fireware 400&800 connections, i.Link/DV port, some other goodies.
regular 7200rpm/8mb cache hdd
But 250gb!

Most storage I've owned, ever. ;)
This will up my storage to 410gb.

Link:
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10116
Then a 120gb that I put in my xbox, and 40gb on the laptop...

You?

You have a little more combnied, than I have on my main PC.

[img]http://www.valhallalegends.com/images/Grok_storage.jpg[/img]

[code]Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb2 74G 5.3G 69G 8% /
tmpfs 506M 12K 506M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 112G 25G 87G 23% /windows/C[/code]

./edit Mine doesn't look as pretty as Grok's. :(

Thing, is that a WD Raptor?

Grok: Just wait till I attach this baby to my laptop, hehe.

This is SUCH A SCAM among hard drive makers:

[quote]
1 gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Once formatted, the actual available storage capacity varies depending on operating environment.
[/quote]

No. 1 gigabyte = 2[sup]30[/sup] = 1,073,741,824 bytes. Actual available storage capacity is 232.8 gb, when done using ACTUAL numbers. Not because of formatting.

Damn. Hard drive makers are gay.

That scam has been known for years.

The conversion is linear: To convert FGB (Fake Gigabyte) to GB, multiply by the Fake Gigabyte Constant equal to 10[sup]9[/sup]/2[sup]30[/sup], or approximately 0.93.

For example, a HD claiming to have 40 GB actually has 40 FGB, or 40 * 0.93 = 37.2 GB.

I'm not sure why the HD companies started or are continuing this scam. Marketing, maybe.

I got 2 Western Digital 120GB SATA drives and I'm happy with it =)

I have a 6 and a 20 gig. Both western digital. :)

[quote author=Netcooler link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=0#msg68347 date=1088889711]
I got 2 Western Digital 120GB SATA drives and I'm happy with it =)
[/quote]
Eww ???, Western Digital. Every HD I have had made by them has stoped working with in months.

I've had about 10 of em and they work fine for me. The six gig I have is from 98 and it works just fine.

This Comp: 120gigs
External: 80gigs
Other Comp: 120gigs
Laptop: 40gigs
Extra/Linux: 3-5gigs.

1 western digital 200gb sata
1 western digital 80gb ide
1 samsung 40gb ide
1 maxtor 40gb ide
The maxtor is in my b**** box.

[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=0#msg68370 date=1088902390]
The maxtor is in my b**** box.
[/quote]
b****= black?
That's scary....

2 WD 80GBs :)

One of my servers at work has 34 73GB SCSI drives in RAID 5 configuration.

[code]80GB - W.D.
10GB - Maxtor
128MB - Lexar 'Jump Drive' <- the best buy I made so far[/code]

Edit: this is excludeing my 3 other computers.

Say, Grok
;D
Do you have a position for a junior admin wanting to learn lots and lots, smart and capable?!
IE:
me?

Haha. :)

If we are counting all our hard drives:

120gb
80gb x 2
40gb x 2
20gb
6gb
2gb

and probably more I don't remember.

120gb
80gb
3gb
10gb
30gb

Thats All Folks!

[quote]
[C:] 8.87/35.74 GB
[Z:Music] 2.50/20.16 GB
[F:] 1.95/1.97 GB[/quote]
Free/Total.

Z+C = one 60GB WD drive.
F = random shitty 2GB seagate drive.

I'm still to lazy to shut down and take out the 2GB drive that I put in there for some reason now long forgotten.

[quote author=Fr0z3N link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=15#msg68402 date=1088910728]
If we are counting all our hard drives:

120gb
80gb x 2
40gb x 2
20gb
6gb
2gb

and probably more I don't remember.
[/quote]

We're counting what is installed in our PC.

40+40 in mine
15 in family's (used to be 30, bad problem, HD got halved)
40 in mom's laptop (I think)
80 in dad's laptop (I think)
And 1.5 and 5 from older computers which no longer work (I think)

[quote author=muert0 link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=0#msg68372 date=1088902779]
[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=0#msg68370 date=1088902390]
The maxtor is in my b**** box.
[/quote]
b****= black?
That's scary....
[/quote] B!tch box... my crapper box, I jus dono waht the profanity policy is here.

Heh, not what I was thinkin then.

2x74.5GB (80FGB) on main desktop

14.3GB (15FGB) & 19.0GB (20GB) on other desktop
I'm planning to setup a RAID for this system soon though with 200FGB or 160FGB HD's soon.

2x120 + 1x200 = 440Gb. I also have 80Gb & 40Gb drives but they're system and not archive so they don't count :)

11.6GBS on My Compaq Laptop.. and 100Gbs On my g5.. and 40gbs On my iBook

I'm probably a little late, but eh?

This is my laptop:
iago@laptop:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 4388272 3756840 404920 91% /
/dev/hdc 635286 635286 0 100% /mnt/cdrom
/dev/hda1 5092572 4704584 387988 93% /mnt/ntfs
/dev/sda1 102398276 76067040 26331236 75% /mnt/usbhd
iago@laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 4.2G 3.6G 396M 91% /
/dev/hdc 621M 621M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom
/dev/hda1 4.9G 4.5G 379M 93% /mnt/ntfs
/dev/sda1 98G 73G 26G 75% /mnt/usbhd


I also have /dev/sda2, but Linux 2.4 doesn't like using ext3 on usb drives, so I don't mount it. I need to update my kernel, but I'm lazy.

<edit> as for my desktop, 10gb+40gb. But who cares about that? :/

Make it NTFS.

Eh? Make it FAT32. More Linux compatibility than NTFS last time I checked (especially on 2.4). I might be wrong though.

Maybe so my HD was full when I had linux. I remeber I could read and execute off of it. But I don't remember if I could write to it. And it was NTFS.

Linux doesn't stably support writing to NTFS. And I also had problems with FAT32 on 2.4, it would occasionally lock up and not let me access it. Ext3 is the same, but does it much more quickly. NTFS is great, though, because I can only read it.

[quote author=Grok link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=0#msg68325 date=1088880968]
You have a little more combnied, than I have on my main PC.

[img]http://www.valhallalegends.com/images/Grok_storage.jpg[/img]
[/quote]


Where'd you find that?

Start -> Right Click My Computer -> Manage

Since the image is HUGE [I have lots of HD's] I'll link you to my site.

http://khiwhashini.uni.cc/harddrives.png

6 cd drives on one computer?

this possible. ide usually does 4 drives, then you have serial ata which can do another 4 (generally) if it is supported, so that takes care of 8. Then you can put the drives in an array, and there are other ways you can put more on. He could have more then 2 ide slots so he might be able to support more then 4 devices with ide.

[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=30#msg69644 date=1089523394]
this possible. ide usually does 4 drives, then you have serial ata which can do another 4 (generally) if it is supported, so that takes care of 8. Then you can put the drives in an array, and there are other ways you can put more on. He could have more then 2 ide slots so he might be able to support more then 4 devices with ide.
[/quote]

or he could be mounting ISOs.

[quote author=dxoigmn link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=30#msg69645 date=1089523968]
[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=30#msg69644 date=1089523394]
this possible. ide usually does 4 drives, then you have serial ata which can do another 4 (generally) if it is supported, so that takes care of 8. Then you can put the drives in an array, and there are other ways you can put more on. He could have more then 2 ide slots so he might be able to support more then 4 devices with ide.
[/quote]

or he could be mounting ISOs.
[/quote] hard disks, not optical drives, neways hes only got 4 hard drives, so it looks like 2 ide 2 sata, or 4 ide.

120 + 40 + two 20s. = 200 GIGS!

[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=30#msg69646 date=1089525047]
[quote author=dxoigmn link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=30#msg69645 date=1089523968]
[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=30#msg69644 date=1089523394]
this possible. ide usually does 4 drives, then you have serial ata which can do another 4 (generally) if it is supported, so that takes care of 8. Then you can put the drives in an array, and there are other ways you can put more on. He could have more then 2 ide slots so he might be able to support more then 4 devices with ide.
[/quote]

or he could be mounting ISOs.
[/quote] hard disks, not optical drives, neways hes only got 4 hard drives, so it looks like 2 ide 2 sata, or 4 ide.
[/quote]

I think muert0 was refering to the fact that deadly7 has 6 optical drives, however you responded with a response in regard to hard disks. I didn't noticed because I briefly read your post :|. Or were you not refering to muert0's post?

My computer supports two SATA drives (which I have occupied with 200GB and 120GB drives), and 6 IDE drives (using 2 for DVD and CDRW).

The 6 IDE are provided through 3 IDE interfaces, primary, secondary, and tertiary. Each can support a master and a slave.

ASUS P4P800E Deluxe.
[quote] Multi-RAID
The P4P800-E Deluxe offers the most complete RAID solution. A Promise RAID controller offers RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 functions with Max. 2 UltraATA 133 ports and 2 SATA HD ports, enabling users to build a RAID array with any 2, 3 or 4 of the ports. With unique multi-RAID function, RAID 0 and RAID 1 array can co-exist.[/quote]

I was just sayin 6 because I don't really see the point in 6 cd drives.

[quote author=muert0 link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=30#msg69778 date=1089578353]
I was just sayin 6 because I don't really see the point in 6 cd drives.
[/quote]

Let's you have 6 CDs online at once. Let's say you have a technical library that big. You could have an application which knows which drive contains the CD of interest. Users on the network could be provided a single interface point to that library. To them, it would look like all the CDs are online.

Then, as the library was updated by the manufacturer (usually a law library, or medical library, maybe even insurance), the admin could simply swap out CDs. The users would always have updated content.

Oh I was not looking at the picture the first time and looking at the optical. Yes that is most likely alchohol, daemon tools, phantom cd, or something else creativing virtual drives, I have 6 optical right now, only 2 are real.

[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=30#msg69817 date=1089587398]
Oh I was not looking at the picture the first time and looking at the optical. Yes that is most likely alchohol, daemon tools, phantom cd, or something else creativing virtual drives, I have 6 optical right now, only 2 are real.
[/quote]

You probably do not have 'optical'. Optical generally refers to MO, "magnito optical" drives, which are produced by Sony, Plasmon, Hewlett Packard, and some others. The sizes are typically 940MB, 1.2GB, 2.6GB, 5.2GB, 9.1GB, and some variations. Optical comes in WORM and RW. I have worked with optical since 1994, and have migrated some 500 million pages of documents to optical drives in that time with software I have written or supported at my customers.

[quote author=Grok link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=45#msg69843 date=1089590995]
[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=2;threadid=7552;start=30#msg69817 date=1089587398]
Oh I was not looking at the picture the first time and looking at the optical. Yes that is most likely alchohol, daemon tools, phantom cd, or something else creativing virtual drives, I have 6 optical right now, only 2 are real.
[/quote]

You probably do not have 'optical'. Optical generally refers to MO, "magnito optical" drives, which are produced by Sony, Plasmon, Hewlett Packard, and some others. The sizes are typically 940MB, 1.2GB, 2.6GB, 5.2GB, 9.1GB, and some variations. Optical comes in WORM and RW. I have worked with optical since 1994, and have migrated some 500 million pages of documents to optical drives in that time with software I have written or supported at my customers.
[/quote]

By optical he is refering to CD/DVD drives.

Yes, I know. Hence my response.

I have always heard of cd and dvd refered to as optical because of the fact that it is not magnetic like a hard disk, or floppy, or even a magnito optical, which as you know is like a hybrid between magnetic and optical storage (hence the name I guess). I have always heard magnito optical refered to as magnito optical....

I have an MO disk sitting on my desk somewhere. I don't know where it came from, how I got it, or when I got it, but it's there.