Disks thread?
Disks thread.
Post your "This PC" window or whatever you use in Linux.
Protip: sane people don't need more than 256GB of disk space.
>>51246844
Obvious bait, but sure i'll bite.
C: drive is an SSD.
I: drive is actually 3 physical HDDs.
Main PC (thinkpad x230) with a single 180GB Intel SSD
>>51246908
server (HP T610)
>2015
>drive letters
>>51247113
>because a/b/c/d as sda/sdb/sdc/sdd are not letters
ok
>>51247164
>Because you access your disks raw and not mounted wherever you want
>>51247204
so basically what's your problem?
nothing fancy
need to get rid of that documents and music crap again, last update re-enabled them
>>51247491
why won't you just get rid of everything?
Burn important things to the LTO tapes and remove all these hard drives
>>51247564
Wouldnt even need to go that far, he could get 2x 4TB drives and consolidate everything onto 2 drives and still have plenty of space left over.
>>51247564
Sysadmin's entire life is literally a meme
Sure, why not.
>>51247607
what's the purpose of having 40TB of storage space?
>>51247564
>>51247582
what fucking planet are you people on?
>>51247655
what kind of a retarded question is that?
>>51246873
how do you combine 3 HDD into one? raid?
and what are the advantages?
I know nothing, no judge! :>
>>51247587
this, why the fuck do you put up with this guy?
>>51247669
telling him to use LTO, what the fuck?
and go out and buy 8TB of storage for no reason at all?
/g/ has really gone to shit with consumerism
>>51247676
Not RAID, just creating a spanned disk.
If you are running windows open up disk management. Right click on one of the drives you want to span, click extend volume, it should then open up a wizard that lets you select other drives with free space that you can select and combine with the other drive to create a single spanned disk. So it assigns it a single drive path (in my case the I: drive).
I just keep adding in more HDDs to that spanned volume because I can't control my anime downloading habits.
>>51247710
>8TB
what.
LTO3 tapes costs nothing and they hold 800GB of compressed data. LTO4 holds 1.6TB.
Both standards are deprecated from 6 years.
>>51246884
I wonder if you're that guy from the civ general talking about Masters of Orion
>>51247752
hey retard, read the fucking thread
>>51247582
>2x 4TB
>>51247752
LTO is for fucking archiving you retarded piece of crap, not for using in a fucking desktop
>>51247638
Porn.
>be me
>2015
>still using a floppy drive
>>51247790
Yes, LTO is for archiving purpose.
Are you seriously trying to convince me that he needs to actively use 8TB of data?
I bet 80% of this shit is anime which is not going to be watched in the next 10 years.
>>51247726
>
I just keep adding in more HDDs to that spanned volume because I can't control my anime downloading habits.
You´re sick and you need help, go get help.
>>51246844
I've never used more than 50GB on any of my computers even though I horde memes like an autist. I just distro hopped so that's why I only have like 3.5 GB used.
>>51246844
Get fucked.
>>51247858
>anime names
>fuckload of multimedia files
You're such a pathetic loser. I'm pretty sure you need this shit to keep yourself alive, because you don't have any friends.
>>51247816
>still using a floppy drive
For what, exactly?
>>51247913
document files, savegames, configuration files, license files etc...
>>51247887
Fucking normalfags.
![2015-11-08_19-31-06[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/C6kQbqp.png "2015-11-08_19-31-06[1].png")
>>51246844
>Post your "This PC" window or whatever you use in Linux.
hurr
>>51246844
I have another 300GB which Windows doesn't see because the're Linux partitions.
I gotta buy some more disks so I can reformat these to EXT4.
Rate my disks /g/
Just cleared up 1gb of space by clearing my history and cache alone.
>>51248404
>four 27TB arrays
I'm so jelly. I can't wait for 128TB SSDs so everybody gets BTFO.
>>51248633
It's all the same array, they just link to different folders within it.
>>51248650
I saw that everything was \\Markbox too late. Still jelly, though.
>>51248700
Here's some more deets on it. I'm using 7x WD Red 6TB drives in RAID 6.
And also have a RAID 1 cache array sitting on top with 2x 120GB Kingston SSDs in it.
The SSD cache works surprisingly well, reads hit the cache 60% of the time, despite the array being 25TB in size.
>>51248745
Anon please stop.
What card are you using?
>>51248837
You mean RAID card? I don't know, I'm using an off-the-shelf Synology NAS. It is model DS2413+ if you are interested.
Synology is far easier to set up for someone like me who isn't fantastic with hardware stuff.
>>51247587
No bully sysadmin.
But I do seriously wonder what he does all day.
He have the neetbux?
I need to buy more 2TB+ HDDs
Waiting for 950 Pro.png
Storing my music in opus really helped decreasing the amount of space I need.
>>51248745
One of your drives is worth nearly as much as my entire computer.
Why does my craigslist have to suck so bad for drives? It's great for video cards (there's a 6950 sitting there for $55), but storage is all priced well above retail.
>A: is for whatcd
>F: is for misc shit
>S: is literally just my steam library
>W: is where documents, videos, pictures, etc go
>>51249961
Yeah they are very expensive drives, but at least it's a business expense. All that stuff is totally business related ;)
>>51250147
have to store all that 4k porn somewhere
>>51247817
>I know more about his data needs than he does
>I throw autistic fits about other peoples' choices that literally don't affect my life
What a fine thread.
- At the moment I intend to just have any bigger storage in my PC with win8.1 installed on it where I could have more than >2TB space.
- My assumption is to have at least 3-4 HDDs and create RAID5 on them. Therefore any HDD failure will not destroy my storage.
- Mobo is ASRock extreme6 z97
I would like to ask couple of question regarding HDDs:
What kind of size has currently the best price per terabyte these days?
Is there any difference if I make RAID5 from OS site rather than from my motherboard configuration?
Any issues if I intend to encrypt such partition? Or would be better to keep encrypted containers inside?
It is said that if HDDs has less platters the better as there is less things that could get broke? Taking this on account what models should look into?
A brief check on newegg mentioned HDDs for CCTV. Is that some gimmick or does it serves its purpose? Could I use them?
>>51250471
The WD Purple surveillance drives are essentially the exact same as WD Red drives but with firmware optimized for I/O thrashing of camera streams, from memory.
>>51247380
he forgot the
>shiggydiggy
part
>>51250516
Thanks for the explanaton. So the CCTV question is scratched.
>>51250471
To continue. Last time I've bought HDDs was couple of Seagate Barracuda 2TB. Despite the opinions I might say they are durable. The only got damaged was because it dropped from 1 meter on the floor.
Then I remember HDD prices going up, because of the flood in Taiwan(?) where WD created most of the disks.
Now today I am absolutely lost. There are 3,4,6 TB HDDs with variety of WD, HGST, Hitachi, Seagate.
Is there any guide explaining, because digging through the offers is surely confusing.
>>51250592
Just buy Seagate, there's nothing wrong with these ;-)
>>51250592
Any big brand is fine, but avoid Seagate like the plague. They are genuinely garbage drives.
ayyy senpai
I have a shitty seagate on my laptop (wich is old too)- 256 gb
But then I store everything on my home server. It has some IDE disks I found, I think they are Maxtor and WD. In total, 400 GB
And a Toshiba external 1 TB in the same server.
Thats my penis network drive
plenty of pace
>>51250679
>Your Mother's HDD
>formatted as HFS+
>not FAT
All drives are SSDs. Also, does anyone know how to make the ODD icon change to the correct windows 10 version?
>>51246844
C - SSD, Windows
D - personal stuff, multimedia (music, movies)
E - games, downloads, more multimedia, i don't even know what's in there anymore..
F - portable HDD, backup for personal stuff from D
G - portable HDD, used for temporary files, transfer between PCs, etc
>>51247806
Seriously? Why? torrent a lot? Epeen status?
>>51250471
I like that no one responds. It forces me to use search engines.
I've foound some particular site regarding the matter of price per terabyte:
https://edwardbetts.com/price_per_tb/internal_hdd/
And after skipping refurbs AND infamous Seagate.
It seems that there is a very little difference between 3,4,5 TB. So I guess if I intend to stack some of those I should go for 3TB then.
best 2tb portable hard drive?
>>51250749
>penis
y
The drives are
>z800
2x Samsung 840 120gb SSD in RAID 0
>Fast Access
>Storage A
Hitachi Ultrastar 7200rpm 32mb
>Main Data
Hitachi Deskstar 7200rpm 32mb
>Storage B
Western Digital Caviar Blue 320gb 7200rpm 8mb
Storage B is in a hot swap bay.
>>51246873
So you have six physical drives in your PC?
I couldn't stand the noise.
>>51247858
>diskpart
>>51250236
>watch anime
>expect to be treaten seriously
>>51251231
Nah. There's a bunch of shit on it, and I share the server with 1-2 other people. Not to say there isn't a lot of porn on it.
>>51246873
can i raid two old laptop drives together in my pc to form one drive?
>>51252014
>Doesn't watch anime
>Posts on an anime imageboard complaining about anime
>Shit English skills
>expect to be treaten seriously
>>51246844
take a moment to pause and look at this graphical user interface. This must be the worst garbage Microsoft has ever come up with. It's like they aren't even trying to follow any kind of consistent design rules at all. Steve Jobs said it best... Microsoft has no taste whatsoever.
>>51246844
JUST
>>51252014
threaten
1/3 primary workstation
2/3 legacy shitbox workstation
3/3 T420
1st is mainly work, 2nd is only anime.
>>51257078
Also 3tb of backup drives that aren't left plugged in
>>51255491
What's the 1M between partitions for
