Just added a 3 TB hard drive to the comp

Fongolio
Fongolio Posts: 3,516
edited March 2012 in The Clubhouse
Like the title says, I just added a 3 Terabyte hard drive to my PC bringing my total storage capacity to 6.8 Terabytes. Most of it is for hi-rez audio storage and backup. The drive is a Western Digital Elements external and it cost me a whopping $169.99 plus tax. Even with the recent price increases in hard drives that's still lest than $60 a Terabyte. I remember buying my first internal 7200 rpm drive. It was 7.5 gigs and cost over $400!
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited February 2012
    I bought a Synology DS1511+ a few weeks ago and populated it with five 3TB :mrgreen: Even running RAID 5 still gave me almost 11TB of space:

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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited February 2012
    Amazing isn't it how much larger faster and cheaper computers and products have became just in the last 5 years even.

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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited February 2012
    Lasareath wrote: »

    What's the windows index of that 3TB?
    I'm not using it for primary so it's not giving me a number. Unless I'm being daft, which is quite likely.
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    Nakamichi CR7 Cassette Deck
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  • BeefJerky
    BeefJerky Posts: 1,320
    edited February 2012
    Well, I "only" have 16TB of storage for my media/file server, but half of that is in an external RAID array for backups. So, I really only have 8TB total to work with in my file/media server, but there is no way I would go without backups; I learned that lesson the hard way (a couple of times to boot). As with Lasereath, I use an SSD as the boot drive in my laptop, and there is no way I would go back to a standard hard drive for that; it is just way too fast. I do, however, have 2 1TB drives in a RAID 0 for media storage in my laptop in addition to the SSD.
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  • jon s
    jon s Posts: 905
    edited February 2012
    Gee... I remember my first IBM clone... 40MB HDD, Intel 386SX processor, 512K RAM... $1000. Just bought another clone a couple of years ago, dual optical drives, triple 1GB WD HDD, 16GB RAM, liquid cooled Intel Quad core i7 processor with a 1200 watt power supply for $1700...

    Going further back, my first computer was an Atari 800 with 48K RAM with a 88K floppy drive... Used it to run Visicalc (spreadsheet) which could only do one page before it ran out of memory. With the Atari 825 printer, it was $3500. Probably spent more on the games... In fact, I still have one but it no longer connects to my TVs since it had a s-video connector.
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  • maximillian
    maximillian Posts: 2,144
    edited February 2012
    Lasareath wrote: »
    Right now i only have a 128GB crucial SSD but it gets a 7.4 in the windows index.

    running an 80GB Intel SSD as my primary and get a 7.6 for the drive. Is that good?
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  • WilliamM2
    WilliamM2 Posts: 4,773
    edited February 2012
    maximillian wrote: »
    running an 80GB Intel SSD as my primary and get a 7.6 for the drive. Is that good?


    That's the same number I've gotten with my Samsung SSD's. Used to get 6.0 with two Samsung 7200's in RAID 0, so it's an improvement.
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited February 2012
    You can use AS SSD and benchmark those SSD drives. This should be able to give you an idea how fast the drive performs compared to manufacturer specs. OP do you mind sharing where you picked up the external for such a great price?

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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited February 2012
    Lasareath wrote: »
    I've been going the other route with my main system for years.

    Trying to get the fastest drive I could in my machine.

    Right now i only have a 128GB crucial SSD but it gets a 7.4 in the windows index.

    What's the windows index of that 3TB?

    My 160GB Intel X25-M G2 drive get's 7.6. :razz:
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  • BeefJerky
    BeefJerky Posts: 1,320
    edited February 2012
    Drenis wrote: »
    My 160GB Intel X25-M G2 drive get's 7.6. :razz:
    My 120GB Intel X25-M G2 gets a 7.7 on my Windows 7 laptop. :twisted:
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited February 2012
    When you upgrade the HD where do you put your existing files off of the original until it is installed so that you can then put them on the new HD?
    I need more space.
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited February 2012
    nice.thanks mouse
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  • cincycat13
    cincycat13 Posts: 882
    edited February 2012
    First internal at 7.5 gigs...dang I am old. I remember installing my 8088 math co-processor chip so I could use my suitcase sized compaq portable to compile fortran. I think I had the 40 meg drive partitioned into two twenty meg parts. The 80's are a wonderful memory.
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  • Syndil
    Syndil Posts: 1,582
    edited February 2012
    I remember those days. Once installed an Evergreen 486 upgrade kit on a 286, and pretty sure my first drive was 40 megs as well. Used to program my own config.sys and autoexec.bat files to optimally configure the PC based on what I was going to be doing at the time. Booted them off of floppies, of course, back when floppy disks were actually floppy.

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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited February 2012
    With me music library roaring towards 500GB's I am starting to look at 1TB drives. My main storage is my macbook pro, which right now is running a 500GB drive at 7200RPM. I am going to have to give up some performance and go with a 1TB 5200RPM soon.
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited February 2012
    Does it make a lick of difference if i put a new internal HD in or just add a usb ext HD?
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  • newrival
    newrival Posts: 2,017
    edited February 2012
    brgman wrote: »
    Does it make a lick of difference if i put a new internal HD in or just add a usb ext HD?
    internal/external doesn't have much bearing. It's the speed of the actual drive and the connection that is important.
    design is where science and art break even.
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited February 2012
    bigaudiofanatic wrote: »
    With me music library roaring towards 500GB's I am starting to look at 1TB drives. My main storage is my macbook pro, which right now is running a 500GB drive at 7200RPM. I am going to have to give up some performance and go with a 1TB 5200RPM soon.

    Skip the 1tb and go for a 2/3 TB. If your already at 500gb, you'll probably end up with like 400gb or so after format/install. I would go bigger.
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  • dee1949
    dee1949 Posts: 1,425
    edited February 2012
    - Pardon my Ignorance ! What do you need all that storage space for? Beside video and audio files. Thinking about upgrading....but I am old school. Will never have the time to compress my cds again. I remember my first hard drive on a pc was 2gb and cost a wopping $200.00. Now a dvd w/4.5gb cost $.10. Amazing
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited February 2012
    dee1949 wrote: »
    - Pardon my Ignorance ! What do you need all that storage space for? Beside video and audio files.

    I think you just answered your own question. I have nearly 1.5 TB of audio files alone. UNCOMPRESSED. Included are many SACD, DVD-Audio, and vinyl rips that can be upwards of 6 gigs. You'd be surprised how fast you can a 2 TB drive with losssless audio. If you start archiving blu ray video files uncompressed 3 TB can be used up quite quickly.
    SDA-1C (full mods)
    Carver TFM-55
    NAD 1130 Pre-amp
    Rega Planar 3 TT/Shelter 501 MkII
    The Clamp
    Revox A77 Mk IV Dolby reel to reel
    Thorens TD160/Mission 774 arm/Stanton 881S Shibata
    Nakamichi CR7 Cassette Deck
    Rotel RCD-855 with modified tube output stage
    Cambridge Audio DACmagic Plus
    ADC Soundshaper 3 EQ
    Ben's IC's
    Nitty Gritty 1.5FI RCM
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited February 2012
    I keep all my music uncompressed, and there is only a handfull of tv shows that make it to my HD, so most of it is music.
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    Panasonic 50" TH-50PZ80U
    Denon DBP-1610
    Monster HTS 1650
    Carver A400X :cool:
    MIT Exp 3 Speaker Wire
    Kef 104/2
    URC MX-780 Remote
    Sonos Play 1

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    Polk Surroundbar 3000
    Samsung BD-C7900
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited March 2012
    3 TB 2/3 full and 2 TB backup of files on 3 TB full. I can't believe I already need a new 3TB drive for backup!! It's all SACD, DVD-A, vinyl rips and cd rips. All hi-rez.
    SDA-1C (full mods)
    Carver TFM-55
    NAD 1130 Pre-amp
    Rega Planar 3 TT/Shelter 501 MkII
    The Clamp
    Revox A77 Mk IV Dolby reel to reel
    Thorens TD160/Mission 774 arm/Stanton 881S Shibata
    Nakamichi CR7 Cassette Deck
    Rotel RCD-855 with modified tube output stage
    Cambridge Audio DACmagic Plus
    ADC Soundshaper 3 EQ
    Ben's IC's
    Nitty Gritty 1.5FI RCM
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