How many hard drives do you have on your computer?

[novabus726]

I'm doing this survey for all of you people who have lots of storage space on your computer. We use hard drives for the following reasons: putting our operating system on it, storing memorable moments, downloading music files and our favourite programs and so many other uses for storing in this device.

But there are serious times that those things will be lost. Hard drive crashes, virus infections, hardware failures and other things that can lose your precious information, forever.

I'm just asking, how many hard drives do you have on your computer system? If how many, what is the reason that you use your hard drives for? If one your IDE connectors are full, what do you do to your other drives (such as a 10GB, an 8 GB, a 6GB, a 4GB, a 2GB or even drives ranging in the 500MB range)? Do you use an IDE connector card or those external devices that you plug in your drive in the casing and plug it in the USB port (whatchamacallit)?

Anyway, I have two hard drives on my PC. One drive is an 120GB Western Digital 7200RPM hard drive (with 8MB Cache). That's where my Windows XP currently occupies. The 2nd hard drive is a Maxtor 30GB Hard Drive (w/ 2MB cache) and currently my Mandriva OS occupies that drive.

So, how many hard drives do you have on your PC?

Please feel free to express your views asap.

- P.S. Drives that are partitionned with a program (i.e. FDISK, Partition Magic) will count, whenever and whatever possible.

[Frogy]

I have two in the system and another used for backing up data, oh and then I have a paperweight maxtor (30gig) that crapped out.

[Bogie]

3 hard drives (1 SATA 160GB, 2 IDE 120GB and 80GB), with partitions, on my main system ... and a Maxtor One-Touch backup external drive 120GB. 1 CD-RW drive and 1 DVD-RW drive.

[Bluvertigo]

2 hard drives:

1- Main drive partioned into three drives, OS - Programs - Misc.
2- Backup

[Deb]

4 x 200G's :ght:

[Mouse]

1 x 40gig. Boo hoo. ;)

[Les Shaw]

4 - 5 200 gig drives .. all full need more

[Mviper]

My system has 2 160 gig drives, my wife has a 120 gig + 80 gig. Also have networked 1 120 gig + 160 gig for additional storage & backup for both of us.

[Mischief007]

My god. That's nuts. I have a 40 GB, 13 GB, and a 120 GB as Backup Storage.

My next system will have 2 SATA drives in raid configuration and then a regular IDE as backup.

[bigzig]

My Computer: 1 x IDE WD 160 gig 1 x IDE SAMSUNG 120 gig 2 x SATA SEAGATE 250 gig

Sisters Computer: 1 X 80 gig 1 X 120 gig 1 X 20 gig

Server: 1 x 40 gig

Fathers computer: 1 x 40 gig

spare harddrive's: 2 x 40 gig's

[Lee Anne]

2, 40gig and a 120

[Deb]

My god. That's nuts.
I need that much just to back up all the blabbin' you guys do on the forums :laf: :mdn:

[Just Doug1]

Server is currently running 4 x 160G on PCI controller, 4 X 120G (largest the BIOS will support) on on-board HPT 37X controller, 2 x 80G (O/S, apps, utilities) mirrored and 2 optical drives on main controller and I am waiting a warranty replacement for WD OEM 80G to complete 320G RAID 5 array (4 x 80G data plus 80G parity drive) on a Highpoint 454 PCI card. :bll:

Video editor has 250G and 200G.

3 other boxes, 160G, 80G, 80G singles, but they are trying their best.

[Dan]

2 x 250 seagate SATA drives...no raid YET :P

[AMD]

Currently just using a single 40Gb, with 19Gb of free space.

I don't see the need to download lots of crap for the sake of justifying the purchase of another drive. :p

Important documents take up very little space.

[networkguy]

My pc has IDE 160 and 200G, and one SATA 80G
Server has 40G, 100G, 120G, 160G

And I like Les, need more space.

NG

[Mischief007]

I need that much just to back up all the blabbin' you guys do on the forums :laf: :mdn:

I'll give you that one Deb ;).

[Swordfish]

I have two in this machiene 1 80 gig and 1 120 gig, in my other computer I have one 30 gig all 3 of them are maxtor

[phoenen]

I have 2 hard drives in my pc, a 40gig and 15gig both Maxtor 7200RPM. I have an 80gig external drive which I use as backups for my animes and personal information. Oh I also have a 64meg flash card which I got while in college which I use as another personal drive, but that one is getting too full.

phoenen

[x86/Z80asm]

I have two HDD's a WD 80GB 8MB cache and a Maxtor 40GB drive, both are 7200rpm.

I also have a 4163B DVDRW and a GCC-4480B DVD/CD-RW combo. Damn I should have bought a 120GB lol, I have a 30GB seagate, but I dont have any more space in my case for it lol (or any more of my onboard IDE for it)

[smirnoff]

160 and 2 80 gig.

total 320 gig

[bpbpbp]

Two 160 GB
I had to replace my older 80GB drive recently.

[Quicksilver]

Two ,WD 120GB 7200 8MB cache and WD 200GB 7200 8MB cache.
The 120 has the OS & partitioned twice, the 200G is partitioned into 3 and I use it for storage and backup.

[sybil]

Not running a server - just like to use my machine as a pvr. Four in my machine - one Seagate 160 Gb sata - several partitions. One 120 Gb WD pata with linux and one storage partition. One WD 160 Gb in a usb external drive and one 80 Gb WD in another usb external.

[Just Doug1]

Important documents take up very little space.

True for a Word document, but my multimedia genealogy archive wouldn't even fit on your 40G unit.

[Exmortis]

1x80GB on each of my 4 machines. That's all they need. :)

[Tess]

Western Digital all.

1 x 200 gig
1 x 250 gig

Second machine

1 x 120 gig

Laptop

1 x 60 gig

[Enzo]

5 total:

Three drives on workstation computer, two drives on internet computer;

Workstation Computer:

W.D. Raptor 74g x 2, Raid 0 Stripe array (system),


Lacie Big Disk Extreme 400g Firewire 800 on 133mhz PCI X host bus (slave),

Internet Computer:

W.D. Raptor 74g (system)


Maxtor Diamondmax 120g (slave)

Everything else is backed up on a regular basis onto tape.

[Limey32]

2 Western Digital 80 gig drives, and 1 Maxtor 20 gig (Now almost 5 years old), still chugging away nicely. :)

[jinxed05]

I have two harddrives 20 gig maxtor and 40 gig western digital .20 gig maxtor linux on that one the other is storage .

[Ken_ver_1_5]

I use a drive drawer system at any one time there is two.
and a stack of 8 drawers for different setups across 2 computers.
largest is a 40 gig smallest is a 6 gig.

[Pedar]

My comp= 1 60 gig Maxtor 7200

Wife's comp= 1 40 gig Maxtor 7200

Looking for a little more space on mine right now though.

[nightwolf]

1=40 gig

[zerocool24]

My Computer
2x250 (1 western digital 8mb, 1 maxtor 16mb)

Wifes Computer
2x160 Western Digital 8 mb
1x120 Western Digital 8 mb

Xbox
1x100 Westerrn Digital 2mb

1040 gigs in total.

[quantum]

Main box: 40 G, partitioned with 98SE, XP Pro, and Mandrake 9.1

box #2: 15 G partitioned, and 1 G (almost 10 years old) with OS

box #3: 6 G

Box #4: 4 G

Main Laptop: 30 G

Laptop #2: 3 G

Once I get a NIC for box #4 they can all be networked. My drives are all filling up fast and I need more space. I also have a paperweight Jaz 1 Gig drive with several discs lieing around which suffer from Click of Death.