When a company that makes hard drives commissions a survey that promotes “the terabyte lifestyle,” my BS detector pins at 11. Still, I just added up the cumulative storage in my office and it’s well over a terabyte. It’s over 2 TB if you include the living room.
But when it comes to storage, I am so not typical.
(via Digital Media Thoughts)
Ed Bott 
Speaking of storage, what do you recommend for Windows MCE? My HP Z552, has a 200GB hard drive. About 40GB of that is music and another 5GB is pictures.
I’d really like to get my music and pictures off that machine. First, from a safety standpoint in case the hard drive fails, and second just to free up more space for recorded television. (I do backsups, but not as regularly as I should on an 80GB external drive.)
Is it worth putting a couple big hard drives in a basic machine on my network or should I just put an external drive on the MCE machine? I was also thinking about setting up a server to hold all this.
Any thoughts?
But when it comes to storage, I am so not typical
Sure, but how much storage did you have 5 years ago? I bet you were one of those >10 GB folk. See, you’re just at the place where most people will be quite soon.
We just enjoy letting you hang over the bleeding edge, Ed.
Charles, five years ago I was working with the Windows XP beta, and I’m pretty sure I had multiple 40GB and 60GB drives around.
But speaking of bleeding edge… I ran across some receipts a few months ago, including one from 1990. It was for a 1GB drive that I had to buy to replace a drive that failed on a holiday weekend. I paid over $900 for that drive. Yow! A few months ago I paid under $30 for a 1GB flash drive, and I am pretty sure I could buy close to 2 TB of storage (in multiple hard drives, but still) for what that 1GB drive cost only 15 years ago.
I feel old.
Over 1 TB in my TiVo’s alone. 650 GB in HD Tivo and about 200 in my two standard DirecTivo. Scary amount of data. Sad thing is I still run out of space sometimes.