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Post by Kaimontfendo on Jan 20, 2011 23:50:53 GMT -5
Congrats on getting a new machine, WK! A terrabyte is a lot of data. (There's a joke that it's called that because that's how much data there is on Earth.) Still, I can't imagine filling that much space. Some years ago, I burned all my files to a DVD-ROM. Since that time, I've placed new and changed files in another folder allowing me to easily keep track of how big they're grown. Currently, they're... 8.45GB. Bigger than I expected, but still not very big at all. Of course, that doesn't include all the data on my PSP, (even though most of it duplicate data) or my computer games that need to be in the right folder so they'll run, and things like that.
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Post by Jet on Jan 21, 2011 4:42:01 GMT -5
Filling a terabyte isnt exactly hard. I have two HD's on my desktop- 40GB and 120GB and Im CONSTANTLY having problems with space and once in a while I look around and delete stuff I dont need or can live without. Others go on a DVD, after which they're deleted. Looking at my collection of anime, games, movies and music I can easily say its about 2TB's, and thats before mentioning store-bought video games. So yeah, you can run out of space. I always keep 25GB spare for times I'll need some more storage, but not always can I maintain such status.
Oh, and since I can only watch stuff in small definition, there is no HD videos on my hard drives at all.
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Post by Dhark on Jan 21, 2011 21:52:50 GMT -5
The one good thing I've read about Nortan is that it's suppose to be able to write a hard drive to zero's (A government wipe). I've read this claim too, and yet... it's not an authorized method for Hard Drive destruction/wiping in the US Military (being DoD and DHS require more). It's a bold statement, and I'm rather curious as to precisely which government(s) /-entity(-ies) think a Norton wipe is sufficient!
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Post by Dullahan on Jan 21, 2011 22:09:35 GMT -5
EPA? Probably some agency where if they don't get absolutely everything, it's not THAT big a deal.
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Post by Kaimontfendo on Jan 21, 2011 23:18:14 GMT -5
Filling a terabyte isnt exactly hard... ...Looking at my collection of anime, games, movies and music I can easily say its about 2TB's, and thats before mentioning store-bought video games. So yeah, you can run out of space. I always keep 25GB spare for times I'll need some more storage, but not always can I maintain such status. Oh, and since I can only watch stuff in small definition, there is no HD videos on my hard drives at all. How can you possibly fill that much space?! Do you have every episode of Dragon Ball Z... Twenty times?! Did you decide one day that you needed to download all of wikipedia or imdb? Do you have a hobby of video editing, for which you keep archives of various visual effects you've created so you can use them when you feel the urge to do so? Do you have a huge collection of digital novels, role-playing books, and so on? Do you have several years of music? Do you have a different OS for every day of the week? A different Web Browser for every month of the year? I'm sorry if I seem angry, because I'm not. I just can't understand how a person can fill so much space so easily. How big is a TV episode on your computer? Really? Seriously, I've had my laptop since 2006, and I've still got about a third of my 80GB hard drive open. (I honestly wasn't aware that I'd filled that much space, but still... that's nowhere near a Terrabyte.)
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Post by Dhark on Jan 22, 2011 6:32:47 GMT -5
If I were to make digital rips of my DVD collection, I would need around 4TB alone for that (more if I wanted TV Shows, and all of my files... or room for future growth). That's conservative file sizes, without perks or menues.
Problem is, I'm just too lazy... and I'd want a nice dedicated media box that I could make redundancy with. Hot swappable drives, and... ugh. Yeah. Sorry, but the Harley fund just seems more important right now :-P
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2011 10:49:23 GMT -5
With home media needing a Terabyte is understandable. Especially with Blue-Ray rips. We're beyond the point of just keeping some porn clips and pirated music. Now it's entire movies, and television series.
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