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Does anyone actually use a Terabyte?

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Alnitak

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I mean, besides the most commonly cited reason for upgrading a hard drive **porn** heheh *|*

I just don't see how anyone other than a professional could ever need the storage being offered today. I don't hold onto a lot of files. The important ones go on the cloud anyway.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no hypocrite. I love porn as much as the next jerkoff, but I don't store it. After one view, it's stale to me. My hard drive and flash memory combined has 90 GB on it, less than a tenth of popular terabyte storage drives.

My question is who ever uses that much space unless you have a hundred games and pornos?
 
palbert said:
Professional what? Inquiring minds want to know.

(I've seen people with overbytes but never anyone byteing earth.)
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Audio visual editors I can see having a NAS server with several terabytes of storage.
 
I've got a 4TB storage array that's about half used up at the moment.

when I buy DVD's/blu rays, I like to rip them onto my hard drive and throw the disks in a binder so that I can watch the movie from any room of the house (or copy the files onto my tablet when I'm traveling). likewise for tv shows.

given the choice, I'd rather watch movies on Netflix or Hulu, but if I want to catch up on a tv series and all episodes aren't available for streaming, I'll download it and keep it in case I ever want to watch it again.
 
I design games and watch a lot of TV and movies on my computer - and I just recently got rid of my porn.

A terabyte isn't enough.
 
I have a lot of movies and tv shows, as well as music and personal photos. I'm very nearly at 1TB.
 
Have used 1TB for backing up my iTunes on my computer and my iPod Classic.
 
Um yes. My photos alone almost take up a terrabyte.
 
Wow!

Okay my next question naturally is... What did you guys ever do before the kind of storage available today?
 
Alnitak said:
Wow!

Okay my next question naturally is... What did you guys ever do before the kind of storage available today?
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well, everything was lower quality so it was smaller in size... I used to burn most of my TV shows to CD/DVD once I ran out of room on my hard drive (obviously, when you could fit an entire movie on a CD, the quality was pretty crappy. it was fine to me back then, but no way could I watch it today)
 
I have about 200 GB left on my 1TB. Most of that is taken up with stuff to watch - not porn. And the rest is music and backups of photos and important documents. Plus ebooks. Before the boon of such storage I burned stuff to DVD or I was forced to delete stuff I liked to free up space.
 
I work in TV production. Every minute of HD 1080p uncompressed video I store is about 4GB. I archive at least 2TB of data each month. When I archive 2TB, it means I make 2 copies of the data and store one at home and one at the office.

My main work system has a 32TB fibre channel RAID. My home office computer has an 8TB internal raid, and I have literally dozens of other 1 and 2TB drives with projects on the go, etc. And my home media server (with music, movies and TV shows) is another 8TB, currently 75% full.

Large digital facilities (like Pixar, Disney or ILM) measure their storage facilities in petabytes, these days!
 
andysayshi said:
I work in TV production. Every minute of HD 1080p uncompressed video I store is about 4GB. I archive at least 2TB of data each month. When I archive 2TB, it means I make 2 copies of the data and store one at home and one at the office.

My main work system has a 32TB fibre channel RAID. My home office computer has an 8TB internal raid, and I have literally dozens of other 1 and 2TB drives with projects on the go, etc. And my home media server (with music, movies and TV shows) is another 8TB, currently 75% full.

Large digital facilities (like Pixar, Disney or ILM) measure their storage facilities in petabytes, these days!
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That makes sense. Visual media is all digital now.

The fastest supercomputers do several petaflops. Of course there has to be storage to even use that kind of power.
 
Currently, I'm burning porn to dvds for backup and to save HDD space. The newer videos are getting larger and larger for HD. I mean close to 1 gig for a single 20 minute video. As you know, a dvd only holds 4.35 gigs. When I upgrade my pc I'll be happy to get 1.5 Terabytes of HDD. This may discourage me from burning backups which takes a lot of time and that may be a mistake in the long run.

I can't think of what else would need such space.
 
I have about 800GB used up between games, music, movies [not porn] and just other stuff.
 
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