The overwhelming majority of it is consumed by raw over-the-air HDTV captures off my HTPC and lab/testing virtual machines (like clustered Exchange and SQL Server, beta operating systems, etc). The drives are stuffed in 9 different systems, 4 of which have real RAID cards, and some of the others are using Intel Matrix RAID. I occasionally go on a kick and start re-encoding some of the content to save space, but most of it just stays as-is. I've actually got a tremendous amount of free space as well since I've started doing fewer captures and depend more on my cable-provided DVR. Honestly, a good chunk of the capacity can probably be attributed to just thinking storage is interesting.
My power usage is....high. My highest bill this summer was just over $300 for a 1268 sq. foot 2BR all-electric apartment. A large chunk of that is in cooling, though... I just did a count...I've got 55 drives actually running (3 of those technically in cable DVRs), and another 10 (7 of those 250-500GB) currently waiting for reassignment. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bino Gopal > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:44 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] 1.5 TB & 2.0 TB hard drives > > Lol, I know this is "the HWG" but still...*SIXTY* drives?! Wow, are > you > running your own website or something from home?! Or just trying to > archive > small portions of the internet?! :P Hehe, do you get a special support > # > with WD for that; tier 1 customer or something? > > Hmm, what's your power bill like to have all that HW running like > that?? I > know I had to consciously start shutting off my main PC (as I wasn't > using > it as often since I'm mostly on the laptop) and with just that change > (ok, > and being a bit more careful with lights, etc) we dropped our power > bill 25% > vs last year-though it's still ~$100/mo (for a 3 bedroom apt in West > LA)... > :P > > BINO >
