The Average HDD is Now 590 GB in Capacity

[madjimms]

[citation][nom]whysobluepandabear[/nom]Way to admit to terabytes worth of illegal movie copying. You don't even own the disc - yes, if they wanted to, they could take the disc back from you, as you're only renting the license. So by copying them onto your HD, you could be thrown into the same pool as the people who pirate movies. Be careful in the future when advertising that.[/citation]
You're joking right? I guess I shouldn't admit I have thousands of songs (about 5 albums being ones I own)

 

[apache_lives]

12TB in my new server and 5tb in the old (this is personal/in home, not including my desktops) - me thinks im a little above average

NOTE: Those are RAID5 totals which means actual raw tb = ~22tb

 

[jivdis1x]

He say average. Your 22TB(top number) and someone else 40GB(bottom number) get removed before calculating the average

 

[beayn]

[citation][nom]stingstang[/nom]3.5 Years ago I started with a 320gb drive, and 2 150gb drives. Since then, I've added a 120gb SSD, and I have yet to reach 50% capacity. I don't store thousands of illegally downloaded movies and shows, or thousands of digital photos I'll never look at, or hundreds of thousands of illegal songs. If everyone was just legit with their data, I doubt we'd need even 1tb of storage for another 3 years.[/citation]

lol. Just because you have nothing on your computer, doesn't mean everyone else must be pirating shit to fill theirs. I don't pirate games and I'm at 230gb for games alone, 50gb for apps and OS, 40gb for my home pics and videos. So right there I've filled your 320gb drive to 100% capacity.

Then I've got a backup of my wife's OS drive on my system (60gb), and I've got a backup of my SSD on one of my larger drives (30gb image). I also repair computers, so I've got about 150gb of client backups and 20gb of OS images, programs and utilities for fixing stuff. That's 580gb off the top of my head.

I have a nice Nikon camera so my pics are always growing as are my games and client backups. Again, not everyone just surfs the net on their computers.

 

[livebriand]

[citation][nom]c0oim4n[/nom]I actually thought it would be a lot more than that, considering most computers ship with at least a 500GB HDD nowadays. And I thought that with the 2TB and 3TB drives coming along as fast as they are, more people aren't buying them to satisfy their storage needs. I know that I moderately download stuff, and I already have 700+GB worth of just movies and TV shows.[/citation]
Personally I'd like to see a stat for 3.5" drives and one for 2.5" drives. I've seen plenty of laptops with 320GB drives, but desktops have at least 500GB.

 

[eddieroolz]

That's misleading title. Its what Seagate shipped, not the size of average people's hard disks.

 

[cookoy]

WD is more productive than Seagate, with bigger net income on less sales revenue.