Drive Space at home poll...

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » March 23rd, 2009, 1:06 pm

How much drive space does your main computer at home access. this can include shared from other computers/servers. or network attached storage, etc... pretty open for definition. essentially how much total is available for you at home (this does not include internet locations, physical at home data storage).

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » March 23rd, 2009, 1:09 pm

Thinking about phasing to Netbook type access, where nearly everything is Internet/Intranet based/accessed. I have been living on a thumb drive for a while now, having consolidated all my My Documents, and having apps that run from the thumb drive. thinking about that next step.

beckrl · Postby **beckrl** » March 23rd, 2009, 1:30 pm

I have around 500g home networking.
What are you wanting to do with Netbook? (email, and internet) I think they are every limited.

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » March 23rd, 2009, 2:32 pm

beckrl wrote:I have around 500g home networking.
What are you wanting to do with Netbook? (email, and internet) I think they are every limited.

only seem limited as a regular PC. but if you are connected to the Net, you have full access to many "desktops", apps, and virtual drive spaces.
http://infraops.wordpress.com/2008/03/2 ... ogle-apps/

remote apps, remote drive space etc... pretty vertical and cutting edge right now, but getting more popular to centrally host VDI sessions. getting "thin" is in.

But also on my home network, when multiple terabyte Network Attached Storage with redundancy RAID or JBOD's having an internal (Intranet) based solution works too, not just Intranet.

Paully_44 · Postby **Paully_44** » March 23rd, 2009, 7:56 pm

my PC has an 80gb hd and I just bought a portable 320gb from staples so I can backup (more effectively) home, church etc....

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » March 24th, 2009, 3:25 am

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or

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soon.

beckrl · Postby **beckrl** » March 24th, 2009, 11:28 am

I thought you were asking for some media storage to replace the thumb drives. But small and thin is in.

I would like one too, but to replace my thumb drives as a portable.
Not so sure about the connection of wifi or ethernet every were
and it didn't have a cd-rom media only a usb. I guess that is the future.
Don't throw away your usb thumb drives yet :wink:

If you get one let us know how things work out...

Pianoman · Postby **Pianoman** » March 24th, 2009, 12:08 pm

I'm intrigued now. I was throwing the netbooks out
as useless for me - but now I'm wandering if I could
load my other programs on my portable external hard
drive & access them that way. Granted they may not
run as fast - would that work?

I generally use my laptop for web surfing & word processing -
but do at times use Excel, Frontpage, a couple Bible
study programs, etc. and was thinking I wouldn't want
to entirely give those up if I got a netbook.

Anyone know what I could expect?

beckrl · Postby **beckrl** » March 24th, 2009, 1:00 pm

Pianoman wrote:I'm intrigued now. I was throwing the netbooks out
as useless for me - but now I'm wandering if I could
load my other programs on my portable external hard
drive & access them that way. Granted they may not
run as fast - would that work?

I generally use my laptop for web surfing & word processing -
but do at times use Excel, Frontpage, a couple Bible
study programs, etc. and was thinking I wouldn't want
to entirely give those up if I got a netbook.

Anyone know what I could expect?

It is my opinion that the netbook is for the internet. It has around 1.8 ghz cpu and 160gb hard drive not sure about the memory. For the ethernet it would be the lowest speed. The idea is for the internet, email and business apps.etc
would that work yes, if you want to carry all that around...

RP, may give more info...

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » March 24th, 2009, 3:18 pm

Internet OR Intranet - especially Intranet use. If you have a home network, you basically have a form of Intranet. You can install most software to the network drive(s), but this would then require that the system have full access to that/those drive for operation.

So, depending on your personal desires for use and what portability means to you.

The thing is that "online"/web-based apps are getting more and more robust. Google and others have these with GB's of available free online storage as well. I have personally discovered and been tracking that I may only ever work at a computer that doesn't have at least a cellular HS Internet connection is maybe a couple times a year.

So, some thought would have to go into whether or not a real netbook solution would be for you. the thing is that you can get a $300 netbook that has a 100 gb (or so) hard drive too, and so it is essentially a full laptop. where a netbook really should have only a minimum hard drive space for cacheing etc.

anyhoots, for this thread, I was wondering how much home drive space folks had available. my personal need for space has increased geometrically over the last decade, and not just because apps and OS's are getting fatter.

But because I choose to keep all my "data" available, and have even begun ripping DVD's and a few Blue Rays, to allow access for multi-media-movie viewing. had a paradigm shift when I got my new computer late last year or so and got a wide screen, large LCD monitor that can display movies very, very well. My brother has a 52" plasma screen mounted in front of his desk as a "monitor", to be able to do this as well (something I am considering, though not quite as elaborate).

All my pictures, and Music, and audio books and digital recordings of classes all add up to lots of space, too.

maybe I can help with the decisian of a netbook/laptop or a real netbook if I knew more about how someone wants to use their system, what they have available etc... otherwise lots of variables. (feel free to PM me). I am instrumental in moving our workplace in this kind of direction as well. TCO for a VDI farm with thin clients are far less than the same number of physical desktop systems, especially if there is an existing infrastructure/networking in place.

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » March 25th, 2009, 2:34 am

My driveway runs from the street and up to the garage. Other than that, I don't see any need for increased drive space. We usually only have two cars anyway, unless we have company, but even then we don't entertain large crowds so our drive space capacity at home is adequate.

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » March 25th, 2009, 3:27 am

dolfan wrote:I don't see any need for increased drive space.

Really? I could even use more of THAT also. EXTREME hard driving space as I just dozed off nearly 4 acres of property next to me and would LOVE it. :lol:

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