Filling up a Hard Drive

Post by **Nach** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:30 pm

I have a question for you guys, HDs these days start at like 500GB, what do you guys do with it all?

Just have most of it free?
Fill it up with illegal content?
Fill it up with self created content?
Fill it up with other?

Are Hard Drive manufactures that offer such large drives to home consumers knowingly supporting piracy?

When someone buys a new computer, with a giant HD, are they thinking that they'll fit it up with illegal data?

Post by **grinvader** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:35 pm

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<grinvader> I don't have that much space because i'm a lazybum supreme, but i sure as hell wish i had

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:44 pm

My HD isn't really small, but it's not big either(160 gigs). I fill it with a mixture of illegal and legal stuff, usually 50-50 but lately more 70-30.

Post by **odditude** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:39 pm

Seagate's former CEO, Bill Watkins, wrote:Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn.

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:49 pm

I don't know that man, but already I can tell he's a genius.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:28 pm

Mmmh, let's see...

- text = 1 GB
- graphics = 3 GB
- audio (game music files, OSTs etc.) = 5 GB
- programs (program installations) = 8 GB
- Windows installation, swapfile, hibernation file = 9 GB
- games (emulators, game installations) = 12 GB
- software (ROMs, ISOs, installation files, packed tools) = 60 GB
- video (movies, videos, video editing files) = 122 GB

About half of my HDD space is still free.

Post by **lordmissus** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:41 pm

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:34 am

odditude wrote:
Seagate's former CEO, Bill Watkins, wrote:Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn.

megamanzer0 · Post by **megamanzer0** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:42 am

anime+pack rat complex

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:47 am

I think I'm using 600GB. if the drive ends with GBs means it's on a striped disk, GBm means it's on the mirrored drives.

blargg · Post by **blargg** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:30 am

First, what can it be filled with? It's almost always media: video, audio, images. Bloated software and games will consist mostly of these internally. Also, the only illegal content is that which is illegal to possess, no matter how it was obtained. Movies, music, and images are in general are not illegal, otherwise video rental and music stores would have been shut down long ago for selling it. Me? I always immediately fill my drives with an assortment of files of all sizes. It's really fast since I just set the EOF and don't have to write any data. You never know when you'll need a file of just a certain size. I even keep an emergency DVD-R of files of all sizes, in case my drive crashes.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:47 am

blargg wrote:video rental and music stores would have been shut down long ago for selling it.

Legal ones purchase a licenses or whatever to be able to redistribute movies and stuff...

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:36 am

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Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3             261G  187G   75G  72% /
/dev/sda2             1.4T  249G  1.1T  19% /mnt/otherdisk

Not much. Mostly TV shows, movies and games. I had to delete a lot since I had to use the first disk as backup when I was messing around with partitions on the 1.5.

EDIT: Oh yeah and a bit of porno.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:39 pm

mostly illegal

a good amount with legal games, though

but mostly illegal. 2.5 TB in external drives, about 1 TB free.

also backups

Post by **lordmissus** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:45 pm

I do most of my backups to a file server I setup in the house.
I also backup onto CD's/DVD's

FileZilla is also of help from time to time.

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:50 pm

Mix of legal and illegal data, 242 GB total used space, 155.3 GB measured by WinDirStat. I still have 354 GB free.

WinDirStat ranks my hard drive, and I subcategorize in too much detail:

C:\Users - 47.1 GB - Break it down:
--C:\Users\Chris\Documents - 22.3 GB
--C:\Users\Chris\Downloads - 10.3 GB
--C:\Users\Chris\Music - 6.6 GB
--C:\Users\Chris\Videos - 3.6 GB
--C:\Users\Chris\AppData - 2.0 GB
--C:\Users\Chris\Pictures - 1.8 GB

C:\Valve - 22.5 GB (lol yeah, my Steam install is so old it's not in Program Files, and I never got around to moving it there)
--C:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\common\unreal tournament 3 - 9.3 GB
--C:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps - 8.1 GB
--C:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\common\beyond good and evil - 2.1 GB
--C:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\common\trackmania nations forever - 727.8 MB

C:\Windows - 18.5 GB (Vista hueg!)

C:\Program Files (x86) - 17.6 GB
--C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Far Cry 2 - 3.2 GB
--C:\Program Files (x86)\Native Instruments\Bandstand - 2.9 GB
--C:\Program Files (x86)\Futuremark - 2.9 GB
--C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0 - 2.0 GB
--C:\Program Files (x86)\eMule - 1.5 GB

C:\games - 13.6 GB
--C:\games\UT2004 - 5.7 GB
--C:\games\UnrealTournament - 1.9 GB
--C:\games\DeusEx - 1.1 GB

C:\programming - 7.5 GB (all my coding projects and related libraries here)
--C:\programming\foobar - 1.9 GB

C:\emulate - 6.4 GB (all emulators here, mostly huge due to pSX cdimages folder)
C:\roms - 5.8 GB (I swear I own every one of them)
C:\ - 4.3 GB (4.3 GB of which is pagefile.sys)

kick · Post by **kick** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:15 pm

50% my own audio and video productions

40% open-source stuff (Linux distros,free software,free games,etc.)

10% free pr0n videos (there's LOADS of free pr0n now), OC remixes,emulated music, etc.

Sometimes,I don't even need a hard drive (just use a live Linux CD on a diskless machine and stream radio,TV,play online games,etc....

If you don't play first-person shooters,flying sims,MMORPGs and real-time strategy games,you can have great fun with open source stuff (i.e. Battle of Wesnoth,TORCS,Secret Maryo,Frozen Bubble,etc.).

For games and movies,I use my consoles / DVD player.

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:05 am

Loads of free pr0n have been accessible since forever. You just had to know where to look.

It's easier to find it illegally though.

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:55 am

Define "large". My 4 old hard drives add up to 2.08TB, there are single 2TB drives now.

The majority of my hard drive space is filled with various shows ranging from anime crap to mixed martial arts (PRIDE, UFC, Sengoku, DREAM, etc).

dfreer · Post by **dfreer** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:50 am

blargg wrote:Me? I always immediately fill my drives with an assortment of pr0n of all sizes. It's really fast since I just ROF and don't have to write any data. You never know when you'll need a pr0n of just a certain size. I even keep an emergency DVD-R of pr0n of all sizes, in case my drive crashes.

Fixed.

h4tred · Post by **h4tred** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:58 am

Just have most of it free?
Fill it up with illegal content?
Fill it up with self created content?
Fill it up with other?

Both those. Considering I manufacture my own illegal content (did a keygen for a group of apps, plus gonna do a shitload of work on the PopCap DRM), its half and half.

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:19 pm

One terabyte of legally shareable conspiracy videos from multiple sources like youtube and many offbrand sites.

I kid you not.

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:57 pm

Screenshot.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:03 pm

gllt wrote:conspiracy videos

...

Post by **grinvader** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:16 pm

It's not paranoia if they're in his oatmeal cookies

(it's schizophrenia. paranoia leads to extremely rational delusions.)

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