How much storage space do you need?

fatmac · 03-25-2024, 12:52 PM

Just for fun poll....

pan64 · 03-25-2024, 02:08 PM

I have at least three 2 TB drives in use. Or even more (including backups). And actually you are right, I don't really understand why do we need more than 100GB?
I was thinking about Bill Gates, who stated 640 kB is enough for everything. You probably remember it. At that time, a computer had a total of a few hundred kB of RAM. Now the editor vi executable itself is over 7MB.

rclark · 03-25-2024, 02:19 PM

I have 1.8TB data in use out of 10TB available (on my server). Room to grow if needed. Of course quite a few 4TB external drives to support backup needs. When I need a new drive, I check what is around $100 (my price point). That was a 2TB SSD, now looks like back to 1TB as prices are going back up. Oh, and data is not 'games' either... Not part of that culture.

frankbell · 03-25-2024, 08:44 PM

I have lots of media files and backups thereof.

shortarcflyer · 03-25-2024, 09:13 PM

I have multiple hard disks between 250 and 500GB that I can use to store things if need be. Most of my distros are formated for 50-100GB /home partitions so I am able to spread storage across multiple booted distros if need be. So far have not run out of space on any of them.

rokytnji · 03-26-2024, 08:02 AM

Depends on hardware and use case.

57 gig sd card /home on my 16 gig ssd is enough for my Dell ll chromebook when watching a movie at night using mpv while camping on motorcycle.

Code:

@chromebook:~
$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs           384M  892K  383M   1% /run
/dev/mmcblk1p4   13G  5.8G  6.2G  49% /
tmpfs           5.0M   12K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           968M     0  968M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk1p2  599M  288K  599M   1% /boot/efi
/dev/mmcblk0p1   57G   23G   31G  43% /home

In my Motorcycle Shop computer. 1TB is needed to hold all the pdfs , bills, repair videos, juke box mp3, etc............

Keith Hedger · 03-26-2024, 10:58 AM

Got 2x2T, 1X1.5Tb, 1x4Tb and 1x8Tb, I think I need more!

wpeckham · 03-26-2024, 11:05 AM

DavidMcCann · 03-26-2024, 12:01 PM

I have a 120GB drive. It was the smallest on offer — 32GB would have sufficed.

hazel · 03-26-2024, 12:43 PM

The new drive that I installed with forum help is 120 GB. Actually it is a wee bit small in that I can only have one LFS partition. I used to have two on the old spinning rust drive, which meant that I could alternate them and build each new LFS system using the previous one as host. The next time I build LFS, I'll have to clear the single LFS partition (sda6) and build the new system there with Slackware as build host.

TheJooomes · 03-29-2024, 09:14 PM

I may have gone a bit overkill when choosing an SSD.

Code:

$ df -h | grep -v fs
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3       1.8T  4.2G  1.7T   1% /
/dev/sda1      1022M  144K 1022M   1% /boot/efi

Yes, / includes /home.

Red Squirrel · 04-04-2024, 09:23 AM

I guess there is need, and want. Realistically I think I could do with only 1TB but I like having lots of disk space to not have to worry about trying to cram everything in a limited amount of space since disk space is so cheap now anyway.

With that said, I have 41.2TB total on my NAS and using 25.3TB. Lot of that is Linux ISOs, VMs, backed up data, archived data etc which makes the number bigger. Of course I also have cold backups but I don't count those.

Code:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md3              7.2T  4.9T  2.0T  71% /volumes/raid3
/dev/md2               18T   15T  2.7T  85% /volumes/raid2
/dev/md0               16T  5.4T  9.6T  36% /volumes/raid1