Biggest hard drive (pissing contest)

[Grayfox]

Well that 16TB is just my raid system.

I have 2 500GB spares, 2 120GB SSDs, 1 1TB HDD drive for steam, a 32GB USB drive, a 750GB laptop drive just sitting

18.27TB total that I use, and grand total is 19.52TB.


I do have a 32GB MicroSD card that I use for my dashcam, but that is adds nothing to the total.

 

[terminator363]

I love looking at the first page of this thread

 

[Davidies]

I love looking at the first page of this thread

''1.5 terabytes? That's ridiculous! '' as some people now have 4x4 terabyte drives nearly a decade later.

 

[GBO Possum]

I love looking at the first page of this thread

Beyond reminiscing about the first page, let me reminisce about the first disk drive I worked with.

It had a capacity of 2 megabytes. Not terabytes, not gigabytes, but megabytes.

In other words, less than one millionth of the capacity of a typical 3.5" drive today which will fit in your pocket.

Those drives were about the size of a washing machine, let's say a cubic meter. So with a million of them, we'd have the same capacity as a device which fits in your pocket today. A million of these things would have a volume of 100 x 100 x 100 meters.

That's approximately equivalent to one of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York.

In today's dollars, they cost about $150,000 each, so this stack of "washing machines" would cost $150 BILLION dollars today. At today's price of about $100 per 3TB drive, that seems like a steal!

 

[Grayfox]

Beyond reminiscing about the first page, let me reminisce about the first disk drive I worked with.

It had a capacity of 2 megabytes. Not terabytes, not gigabytes, but megabytes.

In other words, less than one millionth of the capacity of a typical 3.5" drive today which will fit in your pocket.

Those drives were about the size of a washing machine, let's say a cubic meter. So with a million of them, we'd have the same capacity as a device which fits in your pocket today. A million of these things would have a volume of 100 x 100 x 100 meters.

That's approximately equivalent to one of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York.

In today's dollars, they cost about $150,000 each, so this stack of "washing machines" would cost $150 BILLION dollars today. At today's price of about $100 per 3TB drive, that seems like a steal!

Those old 5.25" HDDs would have 20TB storage if they made them that big these days

 

[Monatsende]

Beyond reminiscing about the first page, let me reminisce about the first disk drive I worked with.

It had a capacity of 2 megabytes. Not terabytes, not gigabytes, but megabytes.

In other words, less than one millionth of the capacity of a typical 3.5" drive today which will fit in your pocket.

Those drives were about the size of a washing machine, let's say a cubic meter. So with a million of them, we'd have the same capacity as a device which fits in your pocket today. A million of these things would have a volume of 100 x 100 x 100 meters.

That's approximately equivalent to one of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York.

In today's dollars, they cost about $150,000 each, so this stack of "washing machines" would cost $150 BILLION dollars today. At today's price of about $100 per 3TB drive, that seems like a steal!

In the early 90ies my PC ran with a 30MB harddrive. That`s what I call nostalgia or museum stuff.

Nowadays those technical items are cheap because we have to buy them again and again and again to keep the industry running. Who really needs that stuff? Oh, an i7, 2TB, HDD + 120GB SSD + + + , I must have. Oh, a curved 42" smart tv, how can I live without? Another iPhone? Sure!!!

 

[ukfan758]

160 GB Acer Laptop

500GB Mac Book Pro

 

[wfooshee]

Just had to look up the Olde Stuff..... Original just-invented IBM 350 drive, one each in each of those two large cabinets in front.

OK, at less than 4 MB each they're not the highest capacity, but they are the BIGGEST I could find.....

My own PC has a 1-gig internal and a 2-gig external. I have a customer with a VMware server attached to a storage array containing 18 900-GB drives in RAID-6, for about 14 terabytes to be used amongst the 10 or 12 virtual servers running on the host.

 

[Epic B]

500 gig on my 4 year old laptop. Well, 434 with Windows 7 on it. So, not much.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

I now have a 2TB hard drive and a 128 GB SSD

 

[BobK]

In the process of adding another 3 1/4 terabytes to the household storage space.

 

[SniperRed3]

1TB laptop
2TB PC external
2Tb PC internal
1TB PS3
I've got multiple other storage devices but too many to count