# How many HDD's do you **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 10, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166 "2003-07-10T02:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![s\_fx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@s\_fx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/s_fx)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/1 "2003-07-10T02:12:45Z")
think i can get into my computer without having one HDD crash? And how many GB’s or even TB’s do you think i’ll come up with? :crazy: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/2 "2003-07-10T02:47:31Z")
Well it all depends how good you are with computers. I doubt I could get 2 in, but you might be able to get 30 into it. How on earth could you use a TB? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/3 "2003-07-10T02:54:18Z")
what the he\*\*ll is a TB? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/4 "2003-07-10T02:55:50Z")
I think terabit. am I right? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/5 "2003-07-10T02:58:41Z")
I thought it was a made up term. byte \> kilobyte \> megabyte \> gigabyte \> trillabyte But, I’m probably wrong. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/6 "2003-07-10T03:20:35Z")
I think it’s a Terrabyte 1000 gig. My friend runs an isp and he buys drives at 50Terrabytes each (and has about 100 of them) Dave But i’m probably wrong too…lol ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/7 "2003-07-10T04:56:08Z")
he is talking about a terabyte, 100 gigabytes or 1,000,000,000,000 bytes offtopic lets see i have 130gb of sapce on this computer alone, in this room i have ~200gb of space on a total of 4 harddrives ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/8 "2003-07-10T06:32:00Z")
1,000 bytes = 1 kilobyte (thousand) 1,000 kilobytes = 1 megabyte (million) 1,000 megabytes = 1 gigabyte (billion) 1,000 gigabytes = 1 terabyte (trillion) 1,000 terabytes = 1 petabyte (a Bazillion :!: ) How much can you fit in your box ? … depends on a lot - o - factors ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/9 "2003-07-10T06:54:34Z")
just something to think about…if you do happen to hook a multitude of hdd’s together they will be extremely noisy. i once put 4 15,000 RPM harddrives into a server…it sounded like a helicopter was going to take off (well maybe not that loud but you get the point)! good luck 🙂 -teet ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/10 "2003-07-10T07:28:14Z")
make a sound-proof case for them all? you could always record the sound levels of the HDD’s, place a speaker next to them and play the ‘anti-noise’ (sound of an equal and oposite wavelength/frequency - this will counter-act the sound and muffel it. They use this on some aircraft!) I may be wrong about the ‘anti-noise’ thing though, but i don’t think im too far off…) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/11 "2003-07-10T11:04:43Z")
I think the biggest HDD’s you can buy in denmark at the moment is 250 GB… no tera HDD’s yet… relandR: the limit is at 1024 😉 not 1000 🙂 1024 GB = 1 TB (terabyte) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/12 "2003-07-10T11:37:05Z")
Right now i have 550 GB on 5 HDD’s, and i can modify my case so i’ll be able to fit atleast 3 more. But i sure am going for 1 TB 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/13 "2003-07-10T11:38:04Z")
…then there’s the almighty **exabyte**. :hat: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/14 "2003-07-10T11:38:16Z")
geez! and i thought i was happy with my 60GB. Thats impressive s-fx ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/15 "2003-07-10T11:39:27Z")
> \*Originally posted by s-fx \* > \*\*Right now i have 550 GB on 5 HDD’s, and i can modify my case so i’ll be able to fit atleast 3 more. But i sure am going for 1 TB 😛 \*\* > 5 HDDs? Seems rather… uneconomical 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/16 "2003-07-10T12:02:15Z")
thor: 10$ says we hit at least 20 exabyte before 2015 🙂 with the rate we’re going with now… phew… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/17 "2003-07-10T12:20:58Z")
My HDD of preference is the WD1200JB Special Edition. It’s Western Digital’s 120GB HDD with 8MB of cache. Has never failed me once. My friend has an array of I think 7 of them, which he RAIDs. He uses them all for pirated stuff. Unbelievable. eilsoe: I’m thinking even earlier than that. I wouldn’t be surprised if Terrabytes were found in common HDDs by 2006. I waiting for Serial ATA. That’s the next generation of HDD capability, which is much faster than old Ultra ATA/IDE. Terrabytes would be flowing like a river on that type of BUS. but yeah, $10 for Exabytes in 2015, you’re on. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/18 "2003-07-10T13:15:00Z")
Yeah thats what im using, SATA… much faster, a lot easier and not as much FREAKIN CABLES all over the \*\*\*\* computer! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/19 "2003-07-10T13:23:26Z")
you’re lucky, all you have to deal with is a wire as thin as the audio cable from your cd-rom to your sound card (should you still use that). i’m waiting for SATAs to become fairly mainstream so that i can get a good deal and a decent HDD. How big’s your SATA HDD? and how much did it cost? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/20 "2003-07-10T13:26:20Z")
I’ve got three PCs at home, all networked together… Two of them have two HD’s in and one has three. Some have got XP OS, others have got earlier versions, so I can run all the various games I’ve collected over the years. 🙂 [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166.md?page=2)