>Hard drives are getting so big they're almost scary. Who really needs 8 gigabytes of storage, much less one of those gargantuan 14GB drives that are shipping with Pentium II 350- and 400-MHz PCs these days?
http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9806/12/harddrive.idg/
Seriously who needs so much storage space?
I have a 6TB drive for visual media and surprisingly I still have 3.5TBs left. Takes longer to fill up than I thought. Now my porn drive.. 2TBs filled up in the span of four months. Worrying..
There must be some psychological compulsion for people to post like boomers whenever someone makes a shitpost. That's the true sign of an election tourist, the need to respond to shitposting in earnest.
How much of a newhomosexual are you to not be able to tell those posts are shitposts too? Are you a twelve year old, can you only tell if a post is taking the piss if it's the most over the top shit on the planet?
Why do you write like an underage ESL homosexual?
Says the terminally online, /po/tard zoomer.
>b-but this is a shitpost!!
>a-and only "boomers" shitpost!!1!
Verification not required.
Same but without the weird porn addiction.
>I have a 6TB drive for visual media
You mean your coomer folder?
block chain XD
i remember my first 1 gigabyte hdd
deleted system32 for extra hdd space because i was trying to download the first harry potter movie and ran out of storage on my 1.2gb
NTA, my entire Windows 10 LTSC install was around 2GB. Deleting system32 wouldn't free up that much space.
This was on win98, I was just deleting any big file I could find.
I know it's a meme, but I don't think you can even delete system32 anymore. Maybe you can as admin, but some files will refuse to delete anyway. You'll still brick your system, but can recover anyway.
yeah the permissions on windows have gotten more and more cancer, it's not even your pc anymore, even running as admin isn't the highest level, i couldn't stand it had to make the full switch to linux.
First HDD in the family computer was like 540mb, lol. Most games I played were on floppy.
the final boss of the storage kingdom
wait.. what happens when you run out of letters??
It gets mounted into an empty folder inside another drive
I.e. C:Drive27
He'll use the Bosnian alphabet for extra letters.
Ć, Č, Đ, Ž, Š
>he
Don't assume my gender, shitlord.
you will never be a woman
never said I was.jpg
hahaha should've used linux it does 262144 disks roflmao
static int sd_major(int major_idx)
{
switch (major_idx) {
case 0:
return SCSI_DISK0_MAJOR;
case 1 ... 7:
return SCSI_DISK1_MAJOR + major_idx - 1;
case 8 ... 15:
return SCSI_DISK8_MAJOR + major_idx - 8;
default:
BUG();
return 0; /* shut up gcc */
}
}
hahahahaha
LOL
what is the maximum number of drives for windows? it's not easy to find an answer
i have never seen a true answer. searching just now found me basically nothing, except this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/scsi/ns-scsi-_stor_addr_btl8 might be relevant. I have no idea if this is reflective of internal kernel limits, what kind of limits drives have, etc. and as usual msdn is garbage so I don't know what it means when it says '8 bit address' but then the address has an AddressLength, and 3 8 bit components. Based on this one page, the limit could be anywhere between 256 and 16777216. i saw some pages with people having problems when they approached 128. microsofts support website says the limit is 24 disks because A and B are for floppies, lol. other pages said 'if you have 4 sata connectors you can have 4 hard drives. I'm guessing any HBA supporting 1024+ devices doesn't even have drivers on windows so it probably doesn't truly matter. I'm surprised no one has tried to test it for fun though. Of course you'll saturate a bus somewhere before you hit the limit (unless it really is only 128 or 256!) but it would be interesting to see how many devices you can add before a software limitation
>I'm guessing any HBA supporting 1024+ devices doesn't even have drivers on windows
any LSI HBA supports that many drives, and they have drivers built into Windows, like the SAS2008.
Bro, your $CHIA reps?
Mountpoint gore
Unless you're running a sever with MANY clients, this is either autism or schizophrenia.
You can mount drives to arbitrary paths, doesn't necessarily have to be a letter.
There is a lot of porn
Just how MUCH do you need porn? 14TB is nearly two full years of nonstop HD video.
ALL OF IT
Alright, assume that typical coomer "career" would be from about 15 years old to around 40 before kys, old age or general wear&tear of equipment forces him to tone it down a bit. That makes it around 25 years of cooming.
A porn addict spends at least 11-12 hours per week looking at porn (source: https://psychcentral.com/blog/sex/2020/06/what-is-porn-addiction-compulsivity) which during the coomer career amounts to about 1,8 years total.
That amount of unique porn would only be about 12,4TB at HD quality, so that 14TB disc would be just right for a lifetime supply of porn. Give or take.
No
For a porn hoarder it probably isn't about actually watching all of it. People also collect toys, cards, guns, and all kinds of things they don't actually use.
>typical coomer "career" would be from about 15 years old to around 40 before kys,
>he doesn't watch porn at 2x speed
you made a huge mistake. you assumed it was one video at a time
I watch videos 6-7 at a time when I get into it.
>porn addict
doesnt exist. have a nice day. I only horde rare fetish JAV content that I know one day will not exist ever again. I get like 3 JAV a year and thats fricking rare usually its more like 1 a year and the hentai fetish content i havent got any new content as far as full length hentai goes for like at least 5years or some shit. All the other shit will get deleted. Don't get me started on doujins with specific fetish content when e-hentai went down i nearly had a heart attack. Thats not happening again!
>he doesn't jerk off to PC-98 porn
ngmi
I have a 42TB NAS, a 108TB NAS, 2x 1TB NVMe, 250GB SSD, and a 14TB HDD. Plus a bunch of flash drives of different sizes.
Kys richgay
I'm a NEET the past 3-4 y ears, just don't spend money on anything else over the past 8 years or so.
>have a 42TB NAS, a 108TB NAS
What do you have on them? Films?
I used to digital horde years and year ago but gave up becuase it was never complete and therefore never satifying.
Just built the 108TB NAS as I ran out of space. 42TB is going to have music, tv shows, anime, and my Windows backup for programs, drivers, OS, etc. 108TB NAS is just all movies. I don't horde random shit, I just keep the stuff I like. I delete shows, movies, music, etc. if I don't them.
Whats the point of keeping something you've already seen? Are people actually so bored they rewatch things?
Why wouldn't you rewatch something? I've seen some movies dozens of times. I also like to make WebMs from them to post, especially horror movies. It's nice to have everything just in case. What happens if the entire goes down for a week? What if the israelites go full censorship and start requiring internet logins, pricing tiers for access to the parts of the internet, etc.
you have a point, i do that with artists i like, i save every single one of their posts, guess i could also start doing it with more broad media like you
Some people go for archiving every tweet by politicians and ~~*wrong think*~~ people so they have a record when it gets deleted or banned.
Sounds based. I guess I'll donate money for continued support.
>Whats the point of keeping something you've already seen? Are people actually so bored they rewatch things?
How young are you?
I re-watch movies I enjoy a ton, but I've also seen thousands of films and hundreds of series so it's mostly all just same story with different characters and it's hard to enjoy newer shows with mandatory woke shit.
>it's mostly all just same story with different characters
This is me when I watch SK rom-com shows. They're literally all the same plots. I know what'll happen after the first episode, but still love them anyway.
I can't get into the romcom shows, though Coffee Prince holds a special place in my heart. I like shows like Healer, My Mister, or Lost with a lot of interwoven drama.
This is a homosexual.
no u
Once you live for more than 16 years you'll realize your perspective changes over time, and you can get fresh enjoyment out of rewatching something you enjoyed watching years prior.
>What happens if the entire goes down for a week? What if the israelites go full censorship and start requiring internet logins, pricing tiers for access to the parts of the internet, etc.
This is going to happen I guarantee it. Set up your digital archives of niche shit you enjoy now, before they're gone forever. Popular media will be easy to pirate forever imo since the countless digital hoarders before us already have them hosted and seeded.
>Popular media will be easy to pirate forever imo since the countless digital hoarders before us already have them hosted and seeded.
It's pretty crazy that rarbg has been down for almost a year but since the magnet links still work and the torrents have working trackers people are still seeding basically all the 1080p stuff.
>Set up your digital archives of niche shit you enjoy now,
I do this with erotic games
All untranslated of course
7tb of eroge? That's a lot of fricking games anon. I have a collection of near a thousand titles and it's just over a tebibyte.
I wanted to archive all releases from all developers who have at least 1 title I like
Turns out that ends up being quite a lot
>tebibyte
only autistic people say this
i think you meant tebioctet
>Popular media will be easy to pirate forever
Yes, but only the really shitty quality ones. There's a reason why on public trackers that only shit that has seeders are those cancer rips that are like 1.4GB for a 1080p encode. It's all those 3rd worlders with 50kB/s upload speed.
The most zoomer that never zoomed .
you must only watch garbage if you have no desire to watch it again in the future
>Whats the point of keeping something you've already seen? Are people actually so bored they rewatch things?
I have 640 TB total, hope to hit a petabyte soon.
Most of it (>98%) is pronographies
if you have less than 50 TB pronographies you're a filthy normie and a noob so get over to /t/ and get your shit together right now!!!
imagine not watching movies like blade runner, terminator 1/2, alien/s or the thing more than once in your life.
>no Robocop
wtf how many movies and shows do you save?
I have the same tactic, downloading everything + deleting the worst crap. Around 400 Movies and 150 Anime shows, barely scratching the 10tb mark. Not watching most mainstream movies but in general I feel like I've watched most relevant stuff.
Over a thousand movies. I keep everything in the best quality possible, so a ton of UHD & BD remuxes. Those add up really fast. Anime BD-remuxes are really beefy as well. Some TV shows are 100GB.
>I don't horde random shit, I just keep the stuff I like
I do exactly the same, though I've only got ~37TB on my home server and for now it's more than plenty.
>What do you have on them? Films?
NTA.
Lets see.
>Films
TV shows. TV shows with all the episodes, biggest there is especially if you are multi lingual and want the same thing in 2 different languages.
Then games
Then Movies.
its almost as if places of work exist where there are more than one person using a drive. crazy but true
>Hard drives are getting so big they're almost scary.
That's not a big hard drive.
This is.
that's puny.
It does look like a hard drive.
Dumb ESL.
>Verification not required.
There is no way that this post is a human
There is no way you aren't sub-human.
I need a few more 20TB drives
they should on'y cost $100 now
they're inflating prices too much
If they keep it up I'll just keep buying used DC drives
Ultrastars that's where it's at b***hes and b***hasses
Where are you buying 20tb drives for $100? Where I'm getting them they're $180 at the cheapest.
I've got ~30 TB I use for backups and archiving rn (filled ~20TB of it this far). I plan on expanding it as I'm able to
people hoarded physical media instead of storing everything in their computer so it's not a that weird a though for those days
>tfw grandpa spins up his ibm supercomputer 1mb backplane with 20 5 foot hdds in it to look at rasterized art again and dims the power, shakes the house, and has several noise complaints filed
People that save all the media they watch. My friend has like 23tb
I grew up on shit tier internet. I hoarde everything. Never delete shows or games.
Got a 55 TB NAS full of every show I ever wanted to watch, all my music, every North American game from NES to PS2 and select ones for Xbox 360, PS3 and Switch. Remarkably I'm only using like 48 or 49 TB.
How do you back all of that up?
I have 3 14 TB externals.
The drive with family photos of also Raid mirrored
You would be better with backup than raid even if same machine.
raid is not backup
>bought seag*te 4TB a few years ago cause cheap and available
Didnt fail yet but whats a reliable brand with models that have good sizes like 8TB or 16 TB ?
HGST
trying to pick which make and model is the most reliable is a sucker's game. Buy cheap refurbs, so you can have a lot of them for redundancy and backups. Any single drive failing should never lose you any data that you care about, it should be a minor inconvenience at most.
>cheap refurbs
best you can do. Better buy 2 used/refurb drives and have redundancy than one new drive. They cost the same most of the time.
>seagate
>didn't fail yet
HAHAHAHA
>Buy cheap refurbs
LMAO
i have 5 14tb drives and 8 8tb drives plus 3-4 1-3tb hdds. i forgot how many nvme/ssds i have all in raids
i started wearing a bodycam and saving all my footage, 2 months later and I only have 4TB left of 13.5TB space total
>Consider, for example, Windows 98. Microsoft's latest operating system could consume 170MB--more than twice the real estate Windows 95 occupies.
That started the path to the bloated mess that is Windows today.
170MB is just a standard 98 install, a full install was more like 250MB
yeah, back then you could actually pick which components you want to install, you can get it much smaller than 170MB, too, officially
i wonder why we don't have these options anymore?
immediately after 98se you had 2000 which was something like 900MB, then xp soon after at something like 1.5GB
shit got big fast in only a handful of years
also 98 didn't really start that, windows 95 was more than twice the size of 3.1, 95 was something like 50MB for a standard install of the first edition, while 3.1 is about 13MB
>fikwot brand
>Who really needs 8 gigabytes of storage
>much less one of those gargantuan 14GB drives
Trolling is forbiden outside /b/. Go back.
The drawback is these Black folk have forgotten how to compress their shit. Ridiculous how we have games pushing 500GB. I shat my pants when I pirated that backstreet boys final gaytasy and it was 100GB before installation
I stopped hoarding, so now all my stuff fits in a 2TB drive, but I keep deleting stuff like movies, anime and series because I never watch them again. Currently putting the info of some images like infographics in text files instead. I've optimized all my images to decrease the size and maintain quality. The biggest things I have is 650GB of FLAC music, tons of roms and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina+ some other books, which could be smaller if people optimized the images. I would re-zip all the archives, but would only gain about 20 bytes each.
We could set for better codecs and formats right now, but most places don't support them yet, like jpegxl.
Everything is bloat nowadays because people take internet speeds, being up and content availability for granted.
I'm gen-x so have stuff all the way from the 90s.
It all fits on 4tb drive including 20 years of work files and emails.
I do re-compress videos from drones/cameras tho.
Nice. I'm a zoomer, but all of my stuff from 2005ish-2023 fits on a 4TB drive as well. I keep all of my movies and TV shows on a separate 1TB SSD which has like 500GB free. I don't understand how people need to have a NAS or some shit to store their 100TB of goon material, it's moronic.
>Seriously who needs so much storage space?
Cool post FBI!
Still buying bigger and bigger hard drives.