That 8 TB is for ~450 DVDs, a couple thousand TV shows, a couple hundred CDs worth of music, photos, and scanned versions of all our important docs. At that point ebooks are just a rounding error :)
And you are right - 1 TB drives sound really good, or just that one Apple Xserve RAID rack full of 750GV drives :) On 2/22/07, Neil Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's a lot of DVDs. I have about 600 disks (a lot from TV series box sets etc.) and even at ~8gig each (I doubt the average would be that high to be honest) gives you around the 4.5TB mark. And of course if you have 12 drives you would have them all as one large RAID-1 now would you :) > 12 x 750 = More TBs that you can shake a stick at Or less than 7TB if you factor in 2x 6-drive RAID-5 arrays, and each drive only having about 700gig (counting as 1024 instead of 1000). Then there is RAID and file system overhead after that too :) 1TB drives look more appealing all the time... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: 23 February 2007 00:10 To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] I think I found the solution to my HTPC storage problem On 2/22/07, Jin-Wei Tioh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 12 x 750 = More TBs that you can shake a stick at > I calculate that I need about 8 TB if I want to store my entire DVD collection in vob format plus all the other stuff. -- Brian
-- Brian
