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Counting both internal and external hard drives that are used with Macs you own, how much total drive space do you have?
1/1: Counting both internal and external hard drives that are used with Macs you own, how much total drive space do you have?
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Are we talking across ALL computers and peripherals?
Are we talking about across ALL computers and peripherals? If that's the case, then:
Are we talking across ALL computers and peripherals?
Desktop PC? That's not a Mac :P
oops
Oops, forgot about my iPod nano...add another 4 gigs to that figure. :-)
Redundant back-ups
All my data fit on my 200 GB internal drive but I have three more less complete back-ups plus some archived back-ups that are rolled-over continuously (a la TM) including some free space that means almost an additional terabyte in back-up space.
Not counting my 12 ipods....
I have a MacBook with an internal 100GB, a firewire HDD with 320GB and a Time Capsule with 500GB.
My Haul...
My wife and I have:
1 278 GB
Let's see:
Okay, I'll pull mine out too. . . :O
Mac Pro: 4x 160GB
Okay, I'll pull mine out too. . . :O
Dude, you have 7.6 TB of storage!!! That's just silly. :-)
oops
Forgot the iPods :) 20GB and 30GB
1.7tb
1.7tb here. I only counted machines that are mine. If I added in my dad's I'd get another 70gb. I didn't include stuff like my iPod or flash drives either.
1.7tb
Amen to that.
HD space
are we talking formatted capacity?
HD space
Formatted capacity is almost exactly the same as stated capacity. You are falling into the common error of treating the space reported by the OS with the space reported by the manufacturer as being measured in identical units. They aren't.
HD space
Yes, but as computers are binary machines and use drive space in power of 2 units, manufacturers should specify (as occurred in the past) drive sizes in GiB (Gibibytes = 2^30 bytes) as this is the actual usable space.
Everything...
Good thing I bumped my total up becuase I forgot about quite a few things:
550Gb
160Gb Black MacBook (upped from original 80Gb)
Photography + Video
Somewhere about 10 TB. My wife Mary Ann Melton is a heavy duty nature photographer and we buy those external Firewire drives all the time.
Just on Powerbook G4
I have 100 Gb internal and a 150 Gb External. Both are nearly full with the 150 external being my Time Machine backup. I may buy a one of the 250 Gb drives on sale and move my pictures and movies to that drive.
Not Enough in the right places
Internal Drive 60gig, 6 gigs free.
Does RAID count as drive capacity or formatted?
Mac Pro:
Listing stuff because we can
Listing stuff because we can. A great MacOSXHints tradition..
Just my laptop and connected drives
Just my laptop and drives connected to it put me at over 2TB. And then there's a 2TB raid5 connected to the local OSX server, plus a smattering of laptops and desktops. :)
I won't bother to total it. . .
This is just the crap in my appartment that is hooked up to computers that are actually powered up and/or plugged into my network. I'll probably miss some stuff. .but *shrug*
Have 2.9 TB -need MORE space
Mac Pro , 2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors, 6 GB Memory
Did we miss the point of this poll?
I'm not sure if Rob meant for the poll to be targeted across multiple Macs, or simply the main Mac you use. But I guess it does make sense because if your Mac has access to other Mac's drives, then that would considered external.
More interested in free space on boot volume.
The brunt of this poll is certainly interesting, especially in contrast to how much storage we all had on hand, say, ten years ago (I remember my fellow Mac- Geeks coming to my house just to see my brand new Apple 1GB external drive - a whole 1GB for only $1,000!), but what would really interest me is how much free space each of us has/keeps on their boot volume.
More interested in free space on boot volume.
This is a good topic for a second poll, indeed.
space
I was surprised that in our household of only 2 iMac G5s, we fall into the range of 1.6 - 1.899 TBs of storage. It breaks down as follows-
don't be jealous
I have a 512MB thumbdrive that I take down to the Library and tear it up.
3 x 2^8GB
iMac 250GB
Not that anyone cares, but...
80 GB-MacBook Pro
This is probably cheating...
I will often mount (using MacFUSE) drives from my central supercomputer. We are standing up a 1.6 PB Lustre filesystem to attach to the world's largest Cray supercomputer. A piece of that (around 700 TB) is available as one mount point. I can mount and access that using MacFUSE on my MacBook Pro. :-)
This is probably cheating...
you are the winner.
This is probably cheating...
I do say, that's an astounding amount of data. I must concur.
My Hackintosh 2Tb
Hello , I have 2Tb in my hackintosh (4x500Gb SATA) and more 160Gb IDE
My setup...
Well I fall into the below 100 GB camp.
opps
opps.... I forgot to add 240GB for my Media Centre
Mmmm terabytes
MacBook Pro - 120 GB
raid / backup
I recently bought the Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ and it has 4 x 750 GB but it uses RAID5 to distribute the data between multiple HDs. That makes me feel a little bit better in case of catastrophic failure of one drive.
raid / backup
That's a good point that more people should think about. Time Machine is a great thing, but it's still not enough for a good backup scheme.
2008 Mac Pro
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