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what's YOUR data footprint....?? (chance to show off)

1) how big is your "My Documents" folder?

2) how big is your music library?

3) how big is your total digital footprint (all your data)?


for me.....

1) 19.8 GB measured today

2) 22.7 GB measured today

3) roughly 120 GB (music stuff, docs, production stuff & samples, sets, apps)




... wow I think it's time for an external hard drive for backups!!

Re: what's YOUR data footprint....?? (chance to show off)

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Originally posted by SgtFoo 2) how big is your music library? 22.7 GB measured today

Weak sauce.

people use their 'my documents' folder??

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN people use their 'my documents' folder??

heh. I hate it because some programs install folders in it that can't be moved without a lot of effort. Not worth the hassle to keep it maintained the way I want.

As for how much data I have, I don't know. Everything I have is scattered across numerous backup disks, usb keys and whatnot. I can't even give a good estimate, because I need to sort out duplicates and old files. Maybe ~300 gigabytes?

Re: what's YOUR data footprint....?? (chance to show off)

1) 7GB
2) 585GB
3) 2TB (minimum)

Re: what's YOUR data footprint....?? (chance to show off)

1) 24.5 GB (26,343,383,040 bytes)

2) 17.7 GB (19,063,011,107 bytes)

3) 43.8GB


my laptop is not that big. My desktop has the onboard 40GB HD, 2 attached external HDs (200GBs) and i have 4 other HDs that I connect when I need them.

1)No Doc folder - Mac user
2)110GB
3)1.7TB

1. 607 megs

2. 65 gigs


3. 390 gigs


and lotsa free space

1. 985 MB
2. 140 GB
3. 534 GB

There's probably a shitload of stuff on my old computer too, but I can't be fucked looking

1) 39.4 GB
2) 54.7 GB
3) 120 GB

My external just crapped out too so this is just on my comp. External was filled 250GB...

C:\ (40,172,650,496) 37.4 GB Used
F:\ (191, 075,680,256) 177 GB Used
G:\ (313,216,905,216) 291 GB Used

About 33% Free Space On All Drives...

I don't use My Documents (I spread stuff out on the other drives in case of crash), and iTunes is about 30GB but a lot of stuff isn't imported.

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Originally posted by palm is there a way to put HDs (together) to make them 1 giant buthafucka? in total i have like 1TB HD space but its on 4HDS, chaos.

There is a way but I wouldn't recommend it. If you have lots of files on those drives now, it would require more effort to complete this than what it's really worth. If you were to do this, you would have to backup your data somewhere else, reformat, then when you partitioned your drives you would create them as dynamic disks. You could then add multiple disks together to create one logical disk from several physical ones. Then, everything is golden. However, say a disk dies on you. You would probably have to delete the volume you established and that would mean deleting the data. So, unless you've had your disks in this arrangement from the first time you plugged them in and you are very faithful in your drives, then this is just more trouble than what it's worth.

I'm not entirely sure but a RAID controller might also work and be a better option than converting to dynamic disks. However, I've never used RAID so you'd have to find out for yourself or ask someone who has experience with RAID.

HDDs: 830 GB - one 30-GB internal & two externals (internals in external enclosures) of 500- & 300-GB each. Virtually all space is used on all those drives.

Optical discs: roughly 1600 discs - 1100 CD-Rs & a few hundred DVD-Rs. Probably around 760 GiB of CDs and around a terabyte of DVD-Rs. Most of the data are music, with the rest for ROMs & other stuff related to emulation.

USB flash drives: one 16-GB & one 4-GB.

my digital dick is bigger then yours!

1. 99.8MB
2. 48.1GB
3. 78.4GB (on 80GB internal laptop HDD + 140 odd GB on external HDD)

I got like almost 200 GB being used right now. I have a total of like 800GB

yea il show off why not

1) don't use...

2) 1.1 Terabytes (EDM and Top40 and anything else)

3) 1.7 Terabytes (1.5 used)

Internal Hard drives:
120
120
320
320
320

External Segate:
500

If your interested at an average of 7 megabytes* a track that's 160914 tracks... and no i didn't pay for shit if you look at the total number of tracks, but i do spend my fair share buying music and subscribing to music services. The word gigabite will be the new megabite verysoon, so a Terabyte is no big deal lol

*average is high cause i have sets in there too

Just got a new terabyte HDD a few days ago from Western Digital. Copied (did not move) all my data from 5 smaller drives to it. Here's the Totals:

Capacity: 931 GiB
Free: 164 GiB

D:\Unsorted: 188 GiB
The rest is music (about 300 GiB), DVD-Video images (another 150 or so), & emulation (maybe 100 GiB)

Sure sucks to use torrents all year & never sort our what you download. 188 GiB is not the total of my dumpground but it's about 90 % of it.

Someday I'll need to sort out & actually archive this data somewhere. That will probably take a while to do considering how anal I am with music organisation. :-(

PS: Total storage: 1000 + 500 + 300 + 30* + 16 + 4 GB = 1850 GB.
* The 30GB Maxtor I have currently running XP on will be replaced by my 300 shown above.

To ammend my previous post from a long time ago:

C:\ (289,075,560,448) 269GB Used (320GB HDD)
F:\ (159,056,760,832) 148GB Used (300GB HDD)
G:\ (275,871,825,920) 256GB Used (500GB HDD)
H:\ (150,341,451,776) 140GB Used (320GB HDD)
I:\ (340,730,839,040) 317GB Used (750GB HDD)

If you add it all up, I'm using 1130GB (1.104TB) which is about 51.5% of my total space. All of this not including 160GB iPod, also half-full. Lol, and no backups whatsoever.

Some notable folders to mention:
Downloads (unsorted stuff, torrents): 153GB
TV-Shows: 192GB
Movies: 277GB (It'd probably be 300+ if I sorted the downloads folder)
Concerts: ~60GB (Still new stuff to add)

All of the music I have, including WAV, I would estimate to be around 170-200GB.

Lets have someone try and beat that.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN people use their 'my documents' folder??

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