HDD STORAGE SYSTEM THREAD
1. How many do you have?
2. Capacity? 2TB, 3TB, 4TB...
3. How many times have you lost one?
4. Have you been able to recover the data? How?
I´ll start
>1. I got 10 HDD. I don´t like external. I buy internal and use a dock (SataQuickport3.0)
>2. 2x4TB, 4x2TB, 4x3TB, 3x1TB
>3. Yes (I guess it´s inevitable). When the clusters are fucked I´ve never been lucky. Maybe I´ve recovered 30% only. Three days ago three 3TB stop working. Fortunately, it was the Master File Table that died. Data, apparently was intact and I´ve already managed to recover 2/3 with EaseUs Data Recovery Wizard.
I mostly save series, movies, docs and sports.
17 400 Terabytes of CP
Go outside some more.
>>675781832
1TB internal, 1TB porn drive, 2TB media drive and a 4TB that backs up the other three.
>>675781832
Why? I cannot see a need to save so much shit or have that many TB available.
I use 2, 1TB WD Velociraptor
>>675781933
>about 3 TB worth of old HDD.
>got 2Tb HDD on my main PC.
>4 200GB SDD.for games
I've never had a hard drive problem besides one time when i was about 14 when a hard drive on XP system stopped working. Can't remember model or specs though.
>>675781933
>>675782143
HD takes up a great deal of space.
I guess, at some point, I finally got sick of TS-Screeners, DVDrips and HDrips.
I also do not like depending of Streams, which most of the time can´t be real HD.
I find comforting having a huge collection at my disposal anytime, anywhere.
However, I recognize, it´s kind of a sick and sometimes absurd obsession. I could definately live with less
>>675782422
If only SDD were cheaper. They beat the shit of out HDD, which are fragile as fuck
>>675781832
Do you even RAID nigger?
>256gb SSD Primary
>2TB and 3TB HDD
>2 3TB externals
Only lost one, it was a cheap Hitachi 1TB but it was under warranty. When it was time to upgrade the thing died after I transferred everything important so it was alright.
>$60 for 1TB in 2012
>mfw the company that made the HDD make mega vibrators
>>675782487
What ever makes you happy dude, but I just personally don't need all that much.
I actually just changed one the other day as I was drunkenly chatting with a possible ISIS recruiter on torchat, sobered up and thought that the cops may not accept my defense of being a drunken idiot, relating to terror charges. So I Dban'd them and got rid.
>>675782735
No, I don´t.
I´ve read something about the system, but I still have to find the time to read it slowly (I´ll probably could be doing that insted of browsing /b with this bullshit thread).
I can´t say I fully understand of it works but could be interesting.
>>675781832
>1. 4 HDD, 1 SSD
>2. 2TB, 1TB, 700GB, 1,4TB, 120GB
>3. 2x
>4. yep, Recuva
>>675781832
1. 2
2. 256GB SSD, 2TB secondary
3. A 1TB HDD on my old computer died 2 years after I passed it on to someone else for use (meaning it survived for ~6-7 years)
4. Nah, didn't bother
>>675783112
Careful with that shit, bro
>>675781832
30TB for long term storage and an old 750 for os. storage drives have XFS as the file system and ext4 for the main downloading drives. I had one of the xfs drives almost failed but I was able to repair it temporary with an xfs repair command and migrated that over. I still have files that go back to 1998 so it's been stable
I'm sitting on just over 20 TB in a couple of NAS devices
>>675783164
Pretty much there are 3 configurations, can't remember the numbers.
>1
Splits data between multiple drives so if recovery's needed, it can piece it together.
>2
Holds copies of the same data across multiple drives.
>3
Both above combined.
Not sure if you still need a RAID card or if there are virtual controllers or whateverthefuck. Been a while.
>>675783471
128GB SSD for OS
3x3TB storage
500GB for games.
I'm a photographer so it gets used.
>>675781832
stop using piece of shit WD drives.
>>675781832
HDD1 & 2:
>WD Red 2Tb (Different batch & age)
HW Raid Controller:
>DC-7210 RAID in RAID1 mode
Also two Samsung Evo SSD's with 250Gb - one for Linux, one for Windows and another 1TB Hitachi for less important stuff.
Had a problem with power loss once and it needed one resync but its working now for a bit over two years without faults. Got an small UPS now.
I got some Seagate external drive for cheap money which broke completely just a week after the warranty ran out.
Fagg op here.
One thing I keep doing, don´t know where I took it from is NEVER use the HDD´s directly to reproduce whatever we´re watching at home.
I copy it to a USB, and then plug it into TV.
Sometimes it´s fucking annoying, going through the whole process everytime, but as I understand it, I´ll enlarge their life (lower load cycle count and shit)
>>675781832
1. 1
2. 1TB
3. never so far
4. nope no need for it so far
also havin a SSD with 128GB for OS
>>675783787
Is there actually a better brand?
I´ve had bad experiences with Seagate, and I´ve always consider Hitachi inferior.
>>675784129
Tha´ts actually the next thing I´m doing. People keep telling it far better that having the OS in a regular HDD.
>>675781832
>1. How many do you have?
5
>2. Capacity?
3x 750GB 1x 2TB. 1x 250GB SSD
>3. How many times have you lost one?
2 x 600GB killed by RAID0 several times until i replaced with the 750GB ones
>4. Have you been able to recover the data? Good joke
>>675781832
500GB HDD
I live in 2007
>>675784286
>>4. Have you been able to recover the data? Good joke
I guess it depends on the origin of the problem.
Bad sectors it´s difficult as fuck. Almost impossible (not even with HDD Regenerator)
If it´s only the Master Data Table... I tell you, three days ago I thought I lost 3x3TB, and I´ve already recovered 2 of them.
I´m working on the thrid right now. All Fools are lucky, I guess
>>675784551
try to save data from a lost raid0. larger files are lost forever. no chances at all for recovery
>>675784447
You live in 2007?
Run you fool! Bet against the housing market!
>>675784752
That sucks.
I´m illiterate when it comes to RAID.
>>675784869
may be interesting for you if you have the money to mirror everything. having an external flying around as a backup of the most important stuff is doing the trick, too.
>>675785291
I guess it won´t be cheap... so... unfortunately I don´t have the money.
I guess I have some kind of insurance in the fact that some relatives and friends have copied most of my collection. Not a total mirror, but it´s something
4x 2Tb in PC
4x 2Tb in a shitty Raid 5 USB3 Box
4x 1TB in a shitty Non Raid USB3 Box
1x 1Tb on eSATA
120Gb SSD for OS.
This PC runs the DVR for IP Cams, shitload of movies/music/porn, and all other documents for the other PCs in the house. Also other shitty tasks like Solar Inverter logging, etc
Everything duplicated to backblaze (aside from the IP Cam footage).
The other 5 PCs in the house just run enough SSD space for the OS/games/whatever Programs each PC is used for.
Documents all go the the first PC.
Tits for reading.
>>675781832
3
250/512/3TB
Once
Nope
any general recommendations, besides the obvious (not avoiding hits and stuff)?
also interested in any confirmation, if anybody knows it... of this:
>>675784023
Using them only for storage, and not reproduction, may enlarge their lives
>>675784151
I had 2 Seagate drives fail due to an error in firmware, they were from the same batch. Both sent back to Singapore to be updated at their cost and sent back to me. Otherwise I have not had any failures where I have lost data or total loss of drive. All Seagate apart from the SSD c:
1. 7
2. Σ = 17 TB
3. never
>>675781832
Computer running FreeNAS.
4x2TB WD SE (You can run black as well. Not RE4)
Mine is in a ZFS RAID 5. This will protect you from both disk failure (which is rare with an SE disk after you hit the 1 year mark in a residential situation), bit rot (exceptionally common with large disks and kills everything nowadays), and a puncture (ZFS is currently the only system that will protect you from a puncture...that I'm aware of).
It seems cost prohibative, but it's really not that bad. Any old i3 with 4 sata ports will work just fine, you boot to a thumb drive, and if the PC fails then you can move all the disks to a new shit PC. You just need 1gb of ram per TB of storage space. Its almost impossible to lose data unless you're a retard. Biggest cost is the disks (which you have to buy anyway.)
Anything else is literally a waste of money.
>>675785993
Holly fuck!
That´s a lot of HDD conected to the PC, internally.
Do you have your computer on many hours a day?
Also, another thing an informatic recommended me one time:
Leave always between 10-15% free. It´s helps the HDD (not sure how). Maybe to go faster or.. what the heck do I know.
I try to apply it to all my HDD but ca´nt do it always.
At the end of the day... it´s a lot of GB "wasted"
>>675786334
WOW!
Thanks for the post. Saved. I´ll see what I can do.
Waifu for you
>>675781832
> 1. Five drives total
> 1. 1x1TB SSD (In my laptop), 3x256GB SSDs RAID in my server, 3x8TB HDDs (one for data, one to backup the data drive, one to backup the laptop and server drive) - obviously the two backup 8TB don't get much use, only on once a week for about 1.5 h until the backups are done (automatically)
> 3. So far only one drive has died on my about 4 years ago it was a 500 GB, I didn't much care about
>>675786440
I still have more sata ports available on the motherboard and more hard drives in my drawer. (another 4). Yeah you want to leave room so when they write big files it can all go into the one sector otherwise the drive has to split your file up and different parts of the file in different sectors, makes for searching and reading a lot slower.
>>675781832
>>675781832
>1. I've got 11 and change
>2.1. for PC i have 2x2tb (1 for everyday used, game installs etc... and 1 is encrypted and filled with gay porn), 1x4TB that is mostly filled up with PC games that I havn't installed yet, 1x3TB that is filled with movies and tv shows that I used to stream throughout my house with plex and chromecast.
>2.2 for PS3 i have 4x2TB and 1x3TB filled with pretty much every US game for the PS3
>2.3 for X360 I have 2x2TB - 1 is filled and 1 is about half full.
>2.4 I've got maybe 7 or 8 other smaller capacity drives that still work but I dont' really use anymore most of them are 250GB
>3. I've lost about 5 or 6 drives so far. The drive I used for gay porn has an error on it right now that I can't get rid of but still seems to work so I'm still using it till it dies. It was my main drive for my computer until I got the error and replaced it with a new one.
>4. When I want to recover data I'll always use an external HD enclosure and do my best to get the data off of it. Rarely successful but I'm pretty good at recognizing when a drive is starting to fuck up so I'll copy all the data off of it then instead of waiting until it completely fails.
what can you have that requires so much storage?
>>675786334
What if the thumbdrive fails?
>>675781832
1. How many do you have?
Well I do have 3 HDDs. External ones
2. Capacity? 2TB, 3TB, 4TB...
1TB, 1,5TB, 2TB
3. How many times have you lost one?
Never
4. Have you been able to recover the data? How?
I'd use "Recuva" or something similar. It's free
Main laptop 500GB + 1TB.
eeePC 128SSD
External 500GB, 1TB, 128GB
64GB flash drive
I would like more, mostly for movies that are harder to obtain. I either burn movies to DVD's for storage, or just delete the more popular movies that I know I can download again.
250GB SSD Boot Drive
500GB SSD Games
2TB Ext Drive
6TB Raid 1, on a Debian file server.
6 x 3TB's, 2 x 2TB's, 2 x 1TB, 1 x 4TB, 1x 750GB, 4 x 500GB & 3 x 250GB's
2x3TB HDDs
2x1TB SSDs
400GB PCI-e SSD
So 8.4TB in total, I've barely even used a quarter of it after a year
>>675788539
fuck i forgot another 2TB that i haven't used yet...so it's 3 x 2TB...lol
>>675783634
The farmer in the Dells.
>>675787470
2595 movies, starting in 1903 with Le Voyage dans la lune and 1909 Chasse à la panthère (S).
Almost everymovie, in HD. Some I really like Scarface, for example, more than 15 GB.
89 Series. From Los Soprano, to Lost... Breaking Bad, West Wing, Weeds, 24, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, House of Cards...
More than 200 docs.
Lots of anime and cartoons for the kids.
Forgot to tell... I got everything on DUAL + subtitles. My mother language (for the family) and original version, english (for me)
>>675787709
Yes. I have have recuva too. It´s from the guys who did CCleaner, and it´s pretty good.
I don´t know why but actually have never used it to recover massive lost data. Always to find tiny things I deleted by accident in my computer. But yeah... It´s pretty good
>>675787177
>Yeah you want to leave room so when they write big files it can all go into the one sector otherwise the drive has to split your file up and different parts of the file in different sectors, makes for searching and reading a lot slower.
Didn´t know that. Nice for the info.
>>675788539
>>675789224
You´ve got a nice collection, anon :)
>>675787253
>I'll always use an external HD enclosure and do my best to get the data off of it. Rarely successful but I'm pretty good at recognizing when a drive is starting to fuck up so I'll copy all the data off of it then instead of waiting until it completely fails.
I always try to do the opossite. Conect it to the motherboard. No external enclosures. Somebody told me it was better. Don´t ask why. Can´t remember.
Being able to recognize the storm before it happens it´s a fucking live saver.
I did not see coming my 3x3TB master data table CRASHING. I still can´t belive the fucking SATAQUICKPORT3.0 dock fuck it up
>>675789983
why thanks anon...digital hoarding can be bad but who can turn down 2TB for $50...lol
>>675781832
1 256gb hdd
i've got 4 120 gb ssd and 2 4 tb hdd, wd red
