Need a bigger hard drive?

[LordShryku]

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118

[jebster]

*drool*I want...*drool*

[LordShryku]

I have 320 gigs in my box at home and most people think I'm absolutely nuts for even needing that much. But I want this! :D

[piersk]

Ok, I can understand that being useful in a datacentre, but why in a home? I just don't get it. My laptop (which I've had for 3 years now) only has 20 Gb. If I need space, I just delete summat I haven't used in ages. How the hell anyone can justify buying that, I don't know.

Maybe it's just me...

[LordShryku]

Video editors would get some use out of it. Personally, a good chunk of my space is taken by my music collection.

[Merve]

I don't see any point to it. I've survived with a crappy 863Mhz P3 with a 20 gig hard drive for a long time. I don't need more than 51 times that.

[Moonglobe]

the point is not that you need it.... the point is that you want it... i've got an 80 gig hd at home, and i still wouldnt mind having an extra terabyte....

[planetsim]

I can see the need if your on BroadBand with a huge data allowance :D and no i am not being rude.

[LordShryku]

Has anyone here ever worked with a full, uncompressed video file? The amount of gigs that takes for one video would make this well worth the money. As it stands, most people who work with low budget video systems end up having to install multiple HDD's in a system, and can still only work with one video at a time. Then come hours of compression, and you'll have to delete off your originals after that's done. Then burn to disk so you'll have room for the next one.

Like Moonglobe said though, most people don't need this, but any geek has to admit it would be cool just to have a terabyte of space. Let alone an 11 pound plug and play terabyte of space you can carry around with you.

[goldbug]

Originally posted by LordShryku
Has anyone here ever worked with a full, uncompressed video file? The amount of gigs that takes for one video would make this well worth the money. As it stands, most people who work with low budget video systems end up having to install multiple HDD's in a system, and can still only work with one video at a time. Then come hours of compression, and you'll have to delete off your originals after that's done. Then burn to disk so you'll have room for the next one.

I want this for my MythTV box at home. 1 hour of NTSC taken via PVR-250 is about 2.2GB per file (nuppel).

Could also use this for my FLAC music archive (~150GB all told).

Some people *can* use this much space :D

[LordShryku]

I knew there had to be someone else here who understood my passion for disk space :D

BTW goldbug, I'm glad you brought that up. I've been considering building a MythTV box. How much did you spend on the hardware?

[Weedpacket]

A colleague of mine has just recently completed a hardware audit of what he's got at home (for insurance purposes): among other amusing statistics is the total 1.5TB of online storage.

First law of computer storage: You Always Need More.

[The Chancer]

Very true on the disk space issue.

Straight recording off the TV can be high on the space issue - as well as having a broadband connection with no transfer limits... music and films.... CD's are still cheaper though at approx 30p per gig, instead of about 80p per gig for HDD space.

But as it was rightly said - having one of those would be a very nice thing to have.

[Elizabeth]

I can't believe it's only $1199! Considering what I paid for my Packard Bell computer in 1995 (yes, shut up I said Packard Bell :D) - this blows my mind.

[goldbug]

Originally posted by LordShryku
I knew there had to be someone else here who understood my passion for disk space :D

BTW goldbug, I'm glad you brought that up. I've been considering building a MythTV box. How much did you spend on the hardware?

Welllll, unfortunately I spent a tad more than an actual Tivo or ReplayTV unit would cost. But it's got many many many more features, and I don't have to pay any subscription fees, so that sorta cancels out, imho.

If you want to build one, see if you've got any old hardware laying around that can suffice. Unfortunately, I didn't have any extra mobo/proc combinations (that worked) sitting around, so I ended up buying a cheapy mobo and Athlon XP2200+ (~150usd total). I just borrowed a 40GB hard drive from my file server (def. NOT big enough unless you are relentless on transcoding to smaller codecs).
One peice I payed for that was definitely worth it: Hauppauge PVR-250 board (~150usd retail). It captures really nice quality video, and comes with a lirc-compatible remote (very latest lirc version).
Just used an Nvidia Geforce4 board I had laying around for the TV-out.
I *did* have an older bttv-based capture card (Pinnacle) that I wanted to use as a second tuner, but due to kernel module conflicts, I can't use it (ivtv [pvr250] conflicts with the bttv module iirc -- has to do with the tuner on the boards or something)

As far as the software... I'm running it on gentoo, which was is nice, because it saved me from compiling everything manually. The manual obviously was written with Mandrake and RedHat in mind, but it mentions Gentoo, so it wins some points there :)

The last I updated it, the only module not in portage was mythweb, the web-based scheduler app, which I can do without for now.

Lemme know if you've got any questions if you decide to build one.... it was a ***** to get running, and it'll probably take a bit of time. :D

[LordShryku]

Well, I really don't have anything laying around beyond a TV out GeForce4 that I'd want to use for this. But I saw Best Buy has 200 gig Seagates for 120USD (mail in rebate), so one of those should do. Plus I have a pretty good relationship with the local PC Club, so deals shouldn't be that hard.

[Merve]

What the hell? Those kinds of computers cost about 1200 Canadian! the Canadian dollar isn't that low! I guess it must be that computers are a hell of a lot cheaper in the states...

[Moonglobe]

200 gigs for $155 (CDN)after mail in? doesnt sound unreasonable. maybe you're just really cheap....

[LordShryku]

Prices now are generally 1 USD per gig, so 120 USD for 200 gig is a good deal