AmIdYfReAk wrote:
a friend of mine has 1.3TB's of hdd space on his main box. jelluz?
Since we're all bringing out our e-penises, a buddy of mine went over the top and implemented a managed 1.2TB RAID-5 array with a auto-switching hot spare in a 4U rackmount last summer.
! I'm still working with an 80GB drive and, for the most part, its enough.
I guess it's because I'm kind of lazy. I like to have a lot of HD space to save shit. Yes, shit. I should really get in the habbit of backing of this stuff before HD failure. But when your drives are no older than 2 years you don't expect to have problems. Oh well... Lesson learned.
BTW, a buddy of mine built a machine with 1.4TB of HD storage. He's got this digital camera system with 8 cameras that records his home and stores the footage to HD. He had his tools stolen out of his work van, sitting in his drive way. Because of that, he went out and bought all this gear to record his property.
YourGrandpa wrote:I've got a 550watt Antec True power PSU that's a couple of years old and it's running the following.
(2) PCIE 6800 256 Ultras
(1) PCI ATI 7000 64
(1) DVDRW
(1) CDRW
(2) 80 gig HD
(2) 120 gig HD
(1) 250 gig HD
Opteron 175
ASUS A8N32 Deluxe
USB
Printer, Razer Copperhead mouse, ZBoard, Nostromos game pad and Joystick
(3) Cold cathode fan lights
I know that's a lot of shit, but it's been running fine for over 6 months. Though I'm almost positive that the problems I was having for about a week before I changed my mobo and CPU was caused by a hard drive(s).
although I think most 550watt psu's are only rated for 550 Peak... and somewhere around 530 sustained.
according to this + some guessing on the two 6800's; your running about 505watts of stuff..
so you should be fine.
its a much better calculator, even does calculations for overclocking. + it has provisions for SLI video cards.
not knowing exactly what you have though... you'd be better off looking into it yourself.
! I'm still working with an 80GB drive and, for the most part, its enough.