Sup Forums, I would like to know your hard drive setup. Do you have multiple drives? All SSD or a mix of SSD/HDD...

Sup Forums, I would like to know your hard drive setup. Do you have multiple drives? All SSD or a mix of SSD/HDD? What do you keep on each?
Do you dual boot? If so, do you use partitions or separate drives for each OS? Do you have a drive that shares media/files between two OSes? Do you have an NAS?
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120GB SSD for OS
1TB HDD for main stuff
2TB Movies
2TB Series
1.5TB Mix of movies, games and porn

Dual booting is a big NO-NO, always brings troubles into the table, no matter what anyone say at your favorite YouTube tech channel, specially if you Win-Linux boot.
Of course a NAS would be great, Synology if you want something already setup,or build your own with owncloud or Seafile stuff

Thanks! That's a lot of drives!
What kind of problems does dual booting introduce? I've had dual-boot Win/Mint on a couple PCs and never ran into a problem.
I'm straight Linux on everything right now, but was thinking of going dual boot on a new desktop, so I was particularly curious about what kind of HD configuration people use for that.

1Tb SSD Win, 512Gb SSD Lin, 512Gb SSD Mac, 2Tb HD Data. Pic related for drive selection.

240gb SSD (desktop)
240GB SSD (laptop)
7TB HDD (NAS)

Windows like to take over your boot manager some updates may brake it.
That's some obscure old piece of technology.

Very interesting! What do you use each OS for? And why is it good to use a power control like that? Do the OSes all play nice on your shared data drive?

>Windows like to take over your boot manager
I see. What about those keyboard/monitor switcher devices? Do you think that's a better solution to just have two towers for your two OSes?

Need to support customers on all 3 platforms and want zero risk of my shit getting fucked up. Power off when not in use kinda guarantees that. Shared drive is partitioned so works good.

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>240gb SSD on main computer
>120gb SSD on thinkpad
>120gb SSD on another thinkpad
>10TB NAS with all my shit

>Shared drive is partitioned so works good.
Ah, so they aren't actually sharing data between them?

2 SSDs - 1 for boot drive, one for applications + games.
2 HDDs in raid 1 for everything else

Personally, it has never happened to me. Using Arch and Windows 10. All I have to do is press F11 and click on my Linux drive when I want to boot in Linux.

It looks pretty comfy. I might just get one.

debian and macos can RW all, windows only NTFS because the botnet and potential fuckup risk isn't worth it.

Makes sense!

If you have 2 towers, you can use Syngergy, it lets you share your mouse/keyboard across devices, works on every OS Win/MacOS/Linux. Or, of course you may want to run a VM if you don't want to have 2 cases.

Desktop:
250gb ssd (OS/core files)
1TB Spinpoint f3 (general storage and some games)
1TB caviar black (more games and other files (music etc.)
Hp laptop:
750gb hdd (samsung i think) (backup of uni files and others as well)
Surface pro3:
256gb ssd (primarily used for studies)
External hdd:
320gb (backup of core stuff such as uni notes and files)

A 240gb ssd is my main drive

I also have
2x 500gb hdd
3x 1tb hdd
2x 2tb hdd

Each one with at least one windows or linux installation but I've a 4tb hdd in the mail and I'm planning on backing and sorting all the files
Too bad I can't keep all of them hooked together all the time alas I only got 4 sapa ports

120GB SSD boot drive
12x3TB HDD ZFS array

As far as my desktop goes I have a 120GB 850 pro and two WD 1TB blacks.
On the Thinkpad I have two 120GB 850 pros each in their own caddy, one with windows 10 the other with arch. I used to dual boot but windows 10 constantly fucked with my arch partition.

I'm seeing a lot of people who use their SSD solely for the OS and core files. Is there any point in having certain applications/games on the SSD as well, or is the performance benefit negligible?

>I used to dual boot but windows 10 constantly fucked with my arch partition.
What kind of fuckery? Which OS did you install first?

Forgot to mention, on the desktop the SSD is for my OS and most used applications while the HDDs are for storage.

one 256 gb m.2 nvme ssd.

I had win 10 installed first and during one of the big feature updates, I can't quite remember which one, it wiped the boot partition. After rebuilding it some time later it wiped the boot partition again and corrupted my main arch partition. No fun.

256gb samsung 850 for my os drive
512gb samsung 850 for gayming installs
2x2tb wd blues for media storage

...

>>>eatadick

old pc:
512gb ssd for os and shit
256gb ssd for programming/work shit
2x2TB hdd in raid 0 for steam library and other crap i don't really care about

new pc:
2TB ssd for windows and all its shit
256gb ssd for linux
not a dual-boot setup in the traditional sense, i just use the bios boot disk menu when i want to fuck around in linux. going to get a bigger ssd for linux too at some point but for now i'm just playing with it

If you have only one ssd and hdd for storage you should install your games on the ssd as well as the most used program

Even if the ssd is kept busy by the os telemetry, games will still load faster than from a separate hdd

I'm also wondering this myself. Is there any legit reason at all to have a larger than ~120GB SSD?

And for that matter, if it's just a simple Win10 boot, with only a few gigs of documents, theoretically 60gb would probably be plenty; as long as all media and games are stored on another HDD.

>Main desktop
Dual 500gb SSDs in raid 0
1 2TB drive for long term storage
1 2TB drive for misc projects
1 1TB drive for misc projects

>Media server
350gb OS drive, partitioned
3 4tb drives for mass storage, not raided, shared on network via SMB

>laptop 1
1tb HDD

>laptop 2
500gb SSD

>External Storage
Dual 1.5TB external drives for backups
~10 misc drives in a drawer that I don't use anymore

Turns out I have 11tb+ sitting in drawers

Do you lnow that the 512 one have better w/r speed performance, why not using it for the os?

Currently have a 1TB HDD and a 128GB SSD for Windows. I'm definitely removing the HDD in the near future, but I'm wondering if I should just get a 500GB M.2 drive since I like the idea of less wire clutter in my case.

250 gig SSD
2TB HDD
2TB external HDD

SSD for Windows and critical programs, 2tb internal for general shit and 2tb external for hording my totally legal backups that I might want to take with me.
Dual booting is trouble waiting to happen. Sooner or later, something's going to spectacularly fuck up and you're not even going to be sure which OS did it. I've never had a dual boot setup run smoothly for a sufficient period.

Drive Consolidation thread? Here is my storage consolidation.

1x6TB HDD
1x4TB HDD
1x2TB HDD
1x1TB HDD
2x0.75TB (750GB) HDD
1x0.64TB (640GB) HDD
1x0.08TB (80GB) HDD
----------------------------------------
8 Hard Disk Drives Total
15.22TB (15,220GB) Hard Disk Drive Space


1x256GB SSD
1x250GB SSD
1x128GB SSD
1x120GB SSD
----------------------------------------
4 Solid State Drives Total
0.754TB (754GB) Solid State Drive Space


1x128GB uSD Card
1x64GB uSD Card
1x16GB uSD Card
1x32GB SD Card
2x1GB SD Card
----------------------------------------
6 SD/uSD Cards Total
0.242TB (242GB) SD Card Space


1x256GB USB Flash Drive
1x128GB USB Flash Drive
2x64GB USB Flash Drive
4x16GB USB Flash Drive
1x8GB USB Flash Drive
----------------------------------------
9 USB Flash Drives Total
0.584TB (584GB) USB Flash Drive Space

--------------------------------------------------
27 Drives and Cards Total
16.800TB (16,800GB) Total Space


And yet I still feel like I don't have enough.

Internal:
500GB SSD
(2x) 500GB Velociraptor 10K in RAID0

External:
3TB,2TB,1TB storage drives

>you're not even going to be sure which OS did it
it was Windows

Samsung 850 Evo M.2 (500GB) OS and Warthunder
Crucial MX300 2.5" (750GB) mostly games and browsers
WD Blue 7200rpm (1TB) family photos and personal projects, also ms office
Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm (2TB) games, anime/movies and solidworks projects
WD Red 5400rpm (8TB) backup

Os and often used shot on ssd. Everything else on hdd. It's the only way

> Do you have multiple drives?
my desktop has a 750gb ssd and a 2gb hdd
>What do you keep on each?
the hdd is basically media or any other rarely accessed, non-performance items
>Do you dual boot?
no, it's better to have multiple machines for that
>Do you have an NAS?
i wouldn't find one useful

500gb boot SSD.
Two 1TB WD black drives.
One 4TB WD black drive.
One 500gb 5400rpm laptop my friend gave me.

all ssd
I will never buy a spinning drive

20 x Seagate Barracuda 4 TB = 80 TB
RAID 0
just for anime and hentai seeding

2x 60gb ssd, 120gb ssd, 256gb ssd, over deacde old 500gb samsung hdd which refuses to die

Current setup
Desktop:
>120GB SSD with arch installed
>500GB platter for daily scheduled backups of 120GB SSD
>8TB NAS with everything, mostly media
>8TB external HDD, daily scheduled backups of 8TB NAS
>3TB 7200RPM mostly containing windows 10 image files for VM with GPU passthrough.
>3TB external drive, daily schedueled backups of 3TB HDD

2in1 Laptop:
>2TB Nvme SSD
>2TB 2.5" external for manual backup every now and then
Use rsync to create hard-linked snapshots so I can revert to whatever date without taking up too much space since it is reusing identical files and not copying everything.
All backup HDDs on my desktop are unmounted until the automated backup procedure commences.

I got my shit fucked hard on more than one occasion because I did not backup my data, now I have gone balls to the wall clinically retarded.

Laptop:

525GB M.2 SSD
1TB 7200rpm HDD

I've got space for another M.2 SATA and a 7mm 2.5" HDD.

>256gb ssd, was 128 but my new laptop came with the bigger so i swapped them out
>3tb or hdds in pc for vidya, pictures and document
>6tb in server for animu and important data backup

forgot to add my laptops

first laptop - thinkpad yoga 460
>256gb m.2
>2tb hdd

second laptop - dell inspiron n5040
>120gb ssd
>1tb hdd

840 pro 256 GB in one PC and 960 pro 512 GB in the other.

old laptop still has spinning rust, new one will be SSD only.

240GB SSD for OS
1TB HDD for pictures, movies, music etc
1TB HDD for games and etc

here is my probably retarded setup
120GB SSD as root partition
500GB velociraptor as /home partition
1TB basic barracuda for other shit
don't know how retarded it is to use a hdd as home partition but well works for me and my machine works fast

256GB SSD for windows and adobe suite
2TB HDD for all my other data, just organized in folders. Used to partition the drive for that but saw no use in that anymore.

>240gb ssd
>1tb hdd
>running out of space, have to delete videos and games for new stuff
can someone recommend a 2-4tb hdd for video(edits) and games? Do I go wd black?

500GB HDD for OS
500GB HDD for work/assignments
2TB HDD for fun

Laptop:
512gb ssd
4tb external Seagate hdd

Am about to purchase a 1tb 960 Evo for my laptop, is it worth it?

>Dual booting is a big NO-NO, always brings troubles into the table, no matter what anyone say
Dual booting is only a problem if you're legitimately retarded. I've been dual booting my laptop and desktop for 15+ years, and I've never had the bootloader give me any problems, no special configuration, just GRUB doing it's thing.

Perhaps, the problem here is you and not the bootloader?

500gb 960 evo
128gb ssd
3TB ironwolf
2 x 1tb blue
1 x 1tb black

960 evo is for debian
ironwolf is anime right now, might put music on and use as nas drive
128gb is windows
1 blue is photo backups
1 blue is music samples for ableton and miisc stuff
black is windows user stuff

then i have a few external drives for backups.

oh and also a 300gb hgst drive for testing shit out on

256 M.2 and 64TB (HDD) array in the mediabox
24TB (HDD) in the seedboxes
16TB (HDD) in the smutbox
1TB SSD in the gaymebox
8TB HDD in the capturebox

Desktop
512gb SSD // Linux
128gb SSD // winLTSB For gaymes
1tb HDD // storage

x230
256gb SSD // storage
256gb mSata // Linux

Seedbox
assorted used drives

>poorfag
>only have a 1T HD for everything
>and a 2T HDD to keep my stuff safe
>have the same screen for 10 years on my desktop

>Dual booting is a big NO-NO, always brings troubles into the table

If you're a scrub who lacks the necessary knowledge and skills, perhaps that's true.

Just installed one of these for my MULTI-BOOT (!!!) system (don't try this at home kids, might cause your CPU to melt)

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secure boot conflicts
uefi conflicts
hardware change conflicts
windows loving grub

its not worth it, just chuck it on a seperate drive and boot from that instead

>Samsung 840 120GB as boot
>Samsung 850 EVO 250GB & 500GB for games
>Samsung 960 EVO 500GB as scratch space
>2x1TB Seagate drivers for local storage and redundancy.

My server has around 12TB(6TB usable) worth of space across 6 drives not including the 250GB boot drive in it. 99% of my stuff is on my server. I make daily incremental backups. Just waiting on 10TB drives to come down to around the $270-ish mark and I'll probably.be buying 4 of them.

>>Samsung 960 EVO 500GB as scratch space
tell more

This is my feel.
>tfw you're using a small netbook as a NFS share for your anime.

Simple really. I use the nvme based SSD as work space. I rip and encode all of my movies and Blu-ray rips before sending them over the network to my server. Both the original 55GB rip and the encoded file are put on the 960 drive.

I also do all of my photo and video editing from that drive. I take a lot of pictures in RAW with my DSLR. Record 4k 30fps with that same camera. My video recordings of gameplay I got via shadowplay. Etc. When my projects are finished or I have none, the disk sits empty.

Bull fucking shit. I have three drives one with xp one with 10 and one with 7, by simply choosing boot priorities in bios I can get any of them to boot without any issue at all.

250GB SSD OS drive
2TB HDD data
4TB HDD media (full soon)
4TB HDD (mostly data backups) nextcloud running on Ubuntu server
3TB (2x3TB HDD in synology's meme raid) NAS (10 day history and backups of all important files)

2x2TB HDD offline backups (local and remote)

128GB SSD portable media (in enclosure)

as well as about 6TB in other drives currently not in use.