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#1 2006-08-25 8:37 am
- reece_james
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Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
I'm interested to know, does anyone have a Terabyte plus Mac as their home desktop machine?
My criteria is this:
• Any desk bound Mac.
• Firewire/USB cases are allowed to be counted, but must always connected for storage. (No counting iPods, your laptop in Target disk mode or your roommate's HDs)
For example, I have a permanent FW400 case with 2x 160GB HDs and a 320GB and the iMac has the 160GB. A nice total of 800GB. (Only using around 550GB) Another 320GB will be joining the rig in a matter of weeks. Just for braging rights.
What cha' got?
Reece [/IMHO]
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#2 2006-08-25 8:46 am
- Shadowless
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
Family G4 iMac has 80GB HD and a 160GB FW drive.
Grand total of 240GB available, 50GB used.
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#3 2006-08-25 9:27 am
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
i have got a total of 1070 gb here on my desktop.
160gb external Lacie d2 Drive
250gb external Lacie drive
the external Lacie drives, along with a d2 DL DVD burner are kept in this.
in my Powermac G5 i have the 160gb drive that came with it...
and a 500 gb maxtor drive in the second bay.
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#4 2006-08-25 9:33 am
- scottajronan
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
I have 80gb in my PB 12" and three external Lacie 320gb firewire disks. But I am think about by one of those Western Digital My Book Premium Edition 500GB USB2.0/Firewire drives does anyone know anything about them. The LAcie's are kinda noisy and I need something a bit quieter.
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#5 2006-08-25 9:35 am
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
2-320 GB hdd, 1-300 GB hdd, 1-160 Gb hdd, 1-80 GB hdd in my g4, for a total of 1180 GB
1.02 TiB of total hdd space, 1053GiB used, 45 GiB free.
also 1-120 GB hdd and 1-100GB hdd that are swapped in from time to time to use as backups for the most important info.(not counted in above calculations)
thinking of getting a new mac pro and putting 4 500 Gib hard drives inside and using this mac as a backup server.
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#6 2006-08-25 9:49 am
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
In my G5, I've got the 160GB it came with plus a 500GB in the second bay, I've also got a 400GB firewire 800 and an 80 GB firewire drive connected which al adds up to 1,140 GB.
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#7 2006-08-25 9:49 am
Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
I have about 1.6TB across a G5 and a QS867.
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#8 2006-08-25 9:56 am
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
I had a 120 that came in the computer, bought a 160 for audio work only to add to it, and a 120 external firwire for backup..then i walked into staples one day and saw a 250 gig for $49 (clearance, and noone in the small town i was in cared apparently)..so, uh, thats..carry the three...divide by pi.....650gigs
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#9 2006-08-25 9:56 am
- thume
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
Home
100GB in my MBP
1x300GB USB/FW
1x250GB USB
1x120GB USB
Work:
1x1.2TB LacCie FW800 and
2x500GB LaCie FW800 (all daisy chained).
3x300GB USB/FW400
Plus 4x200-300GB in my work PC, but I rarely use it and it's juts full of old stuff so doesn't really count.
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#10 2006-08-25 10:20 am
- Aqua OS X
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
I can remember working at Oracle in the mid 90's and having a conversation in the elevator about how mind blowing TB servers were.
hehe, not so mind blowing anymore. A TB on several pokey hard disks can be had for under $300.
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#11 2006-08-25 2:51 pm
Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
I'll be running 1.5TB here within the next few weeks.
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#12 2006-08-25 3:37 pm
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
I have 250 GB in my iMac, and I have a 250 GB USB 2.0/Firewire 400 drive. Not including any of the local harddrives in my other computers, I have a total of 500 GB.
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#13 2006-08-25 6:21 pm
- macnuke
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
300+300+200+160+160+80+60+30+30=1320GB
all accessible from anywhere on the household LAN.
but to play fair, one 60G is in the powerbook.
so wired is only 1260G
I just haven't the desire to hook up the other 200G more or less of other drives laying around.
I do plan on getting at least 4 of the 500's to replace the list with tho.
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#14 2006-08-25 7:12 pm
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
I have 40 TB internal to my ibook.
And my manhood is the size of a baseball bat.
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#15 2006-08-25 7:44 pm
- maxpower01
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
I will get 2x500 GB in my Mac Pro whenever I buy it. But I plan to use very little of that for a long time. The amount of hard drive space some of you claim to have used up is mind-boggling.
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#16 2006-08-25 7:58 pm
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
W have 4tb of external storage on our work machine.
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#17 2006-08-25 9:12 pm
- macnuke
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
well no one will ever need more than 640k of RAM or 10M hard drive.
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#18 2006-08-25 9:16 pm
- Zaimejs
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
macnuke... keep draggin' that threw the mud!
I'm sitting on... 700 gb or so.
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#19 2006-08-25 9:20 pm
Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
Not yet. I have a 120GB in my MacBook and I'm using the stock 60GB as my external in a firewire enclosure. My MacPro is going to have just one 250BG drive for now. I'll upgrade as I need it, but for now it's fine. I use most of the space for pictures and have only about 10GB of music. I really want to get more into video though.
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#20 2006-08-25 9:44 pm
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
Zaimejs wrote:
macnuke... keep draggin' that threw the mud!
I'm sitting on... 700 gb or so.
so i was bored 
the question was who has a TB. looks like you came up short 
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#21 2006-08-25 10:42 pm
- smilr
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
Hmm lets see...
[edit - apparently I'm too puny to count]
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Last edited by smilr (2006-08-25 11:17 pm)
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#22 2006-08-25 10:48 pm
- reece_james
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
I also specified on one machine, not total at home. More interesting that way. The network share is great BTW, but I was thinking dedicated. Like so...
One iMac to be proud of!
(Does anyone appreciate the drive names and get the Windows drive joke?)
Last edited by reece_james (2006-08-25 10:50 pm)
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#24 2006-08-25 11:20 pm
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Re: Who has a 1TB Mac? :cool:
reece_james wrote:
(Does anyone appreciate the drive names and get the Windows drive joke?)
Female Anime characters?
BGC Tokyo 2040's primary antagonist for the Windows drive?
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