hpr Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 in your opinion which is better, or which would you rather have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 i need more space for pr0n... thats y i stick with 72's not rapters and such have no need for high spin speeds, but more of a need for long lofe data storage. *note: my HDD's arnt actuly filled with pr0n, but thats y i have fast interent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 15k rpm 74gig Cheetah. Set four of them up with RAID 0+1 and you're set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShinmaRyuu Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Unless you are doing some hardcore video editing or like 20 track audio recording i see no reason for anything past 7200rpm drives as your main drives. The cost per gb is just to high for main storage reasons. Go with a tiny 10000 as a boot/programs drive and then go stable but cheap 7200s for storage. Honestly to me the heat issues with ultra fast drives make them a downgrade for me unless you like cases that sound like a 747 going through a NASA wind tunnel or your busting out the water cooling gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveMan Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 humungo and slow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wh1t3 and n3rdy Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Small and fast with file srever for storage for all the other crap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Go with several 7200's. Once you've got 8 of them in a sweet RAID5 setup chances are you'll be close to drowning your bus already. It's cheaper and will allow for even more storage than otherwise possible. It's also worthwhile to remember that 99.99999% of the time that harddisk is waiting for YOU and not the other way around. Investing in some extra RAM might be a better idea if it's absolute performance you're after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deags Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 i am a space person... maybe a fast hdd to run the OS but everything else is just storage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 I have a 60GB Western Digital hd in mine, 10GB for Linux, 50GB for Windows. I am hoping to get a 120GB HD soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 to be fair, there's not much point going small. i used to have a 80, and now i have a 320, and i cant notice shit. just spend enough money to get enough space, its that simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kateweb Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 I know a kid with 4 TB's of space and only about 100 gigs of it is pr0n,c me I like space lots of space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mubix Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 74 GB Raptors in a RAID 0...mmmm... gotta love the speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunex Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Volume is always a necessity, and speed is sometimes a necessity. I carry a big hard drive and make use of a lot of RAM when speed is an issue. Computers often are expandable to 8GB now, and that should be enough space for most projects. When it comes to video processing I'd say the best bet would be to go with lossless or near lossless hardware accelerated transcoding to keep memory usage down. Support for that is a little slim right now, however, and will cost a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars, but getting the video transcoding on hardware will let you keep a video stream going for days without overloading the memory. So my vote would have to be high volume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothCriminal Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I only have a 72, but i like keeping 1 72, but booting off a faster 10 or 15. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShinmaRyuu Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I know a kid with 4 TB's of space and only about 100 gigs of it is pr0n,c me I like space lots of space. I am working on 8TB in a FreeNas box :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kateweb Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I know a kid with 4 TB's of space and only about 100 gigs of it is pr0n,c me I like space lots of space. I am working on 8TB in a FreeNas box :) nice I am allmost at my first TB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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