What Size Drives

[adrianwi]

Interested to know what the most common drive size is in most peoples FreeNAS builds, so thought I'd try a little poll...

 

[joeschmuck]

While I presently have 2TB drives in my system, when these fail I have every intention to use either 3TB or 4TB drives to replace then, but I will also reduce the total number of drives in order to retain may basic capacity.

 

[DrKK]

I'm using 1.44MB 3.5" floppies, about 4200 of them. In stripe.

(makes a hell of a racket)

 

[joeschmuck]

I'm using 1.44MB 3.5" floppies, about 4200 of them. In stripe.

(makes a hell of a racket)

I recall having a dream when I was a kid where I had a bank of 360K floppy disk drives and they were just raw storage. I already had worked with removable 14" disk packs but this dream just kept returning. Nope, it didn't come true. During those days acoustic modems were all the rage.

 

[DrKK]

I recall having a dream when I was a kid where I had a bank of 360K floppy disk drives and they were just raw storage. I already had worked with removable 14" disk packs but this dream just kept returning. Nope, it didn't come true. During those days acoustic modems were all the rage.

I came of age in tech just after acoustically-coupled modems were a thing...maybe around 1985. I somehow skipped the 300 baud modem universe; my first modem was a 1200 baud. Then a 2400 baud. Then you know, the whatever it was, 28.8kbps. Then, around what, I guess around 1995 or so, I pretty much just quit having computers in the house. Went through grad school with only an old 80486-DX that I used solely to connect to the campus mainframe(*). If I was using a computer, it was for science research, and it was at the university, primarily. I wasn't really back "online", in the sense of having computer stuff everywhere in the house, until like, 2005 or something. 1.44MB 3.5" drives were my last floppy disks before my 1996-2005 hiatus. This is why I brought it up.

(*) Edit: I also used it for IRC.....

 

[DrKK]

That was a weird TMI by DrKK.

 

[Jailer]

That was a weird TMI by DrKK.

Not really. It gives all of us a nice insight into the mind of DrKK before he had aspirations of ruling the world.

 

[nightshade00013]

7 X 4TB HGST NAS in a RaidZ3 for my FreeNAS with plans to add a second vDev of 7 X 8TB drives by 2020.

LOL @DrKK , I remember well my 486DX2 while I was in high school. Worked pretty good with the old 8MB of ram and 500MB HDD. Ended up expanding the memory to a whopping 32MB when I went to DeVRY so I could do some online gaming (was not allowed internet while living at home) and MultiTask a little better with my 33.6 modem. Eventually got one of the Pentium in a 486 upgrade chips to go from a paltry 66Mhz to a blazing 133 Mhz. Now my smartwatch has more horsepower, ram and storage and can run for two days on a battery about the same size as the battery that used to keep the BIOS backed up on the board.

 

[gpsguy]

Yeah, I wish I still had my old gun metal grey 300 baud acoustic modem.

We didn't have pc's when I went to university. I still remember using the IBM 029 to punch the cards for my Fortran class. I'm a little older than joe schmuck.

During those days acoustic modems were all the rage.

 

[Stux]

Yeah, I wish I still had my old gun metal grey 300 baud acoustic modem.

We didn't have pc's when I went to university. I still remember using the IBM 029 to punch the cards for my Fortran class. I'm a little older than joe schmuck.

My first modem:

Hayes Smartmodem 2400

 

[Redcoat]

We didn't have pc's when I went to university. I still remember using the IBM 029 to punch the cards for my Fortran class. I'm a little older than joe schmuck.

I must be even older still ... at uni and at my first job in UK we had electromechanical calculators on which you could divide by zero and they would crank away until somebody noticed the smoking grease from the gearboxes and shut them off. The business folks had a mainframe, but the scientists and our support comps didn't.

I threw away a 5-6 pound 300 baud acoustic coupler a couple of years ago - I have a 1200 baud Hayes and a 1200 acoustic coupler on the desk in front of me that I just pulled out of the closet for this trip down memory lane.

 

[Redcoat]

My first modem:

Hayes Smartmodem 2400

Not to one up (or one down?) you: here's my Hayes

and here's the pairing I referred to in my other post:

I used the acoustic coupler in third-world countries as recently as 10 years ago when I could not get access to phone wiring to stick a needle through it to make a direct connection.

 

[joeschmuck]

Lots of prettry good memories. We could really get off topic by remembering what medium music was recorded on before CD's. Eh, that would be a bit too much off topic for this thread He He

 

[BigDave]

All the OP is doing is a poll, so I'm gonna play...

I can't remember the year, but during a family get together, my
older brother placed a CD in my hand. It's the newest form of
music media, He boasted. I asked, how did you play it?
Oh, he said, the machines won't be on the market for another
six months. My brother's employer at the time was Shape Optimedia!

I also remember Steely Dan releasing Aja in '77 which was the first
digitally recorded and produced album, but I may not be remembering
well enough to be sure about that claim though. The sound of that album
was so very unbelievably clean. You have a copy of that right?

I never had the money for a reel to reel player, but I did the 8track
player in my car and later dual cassette tape player for the home stereo.
The magnetic tape ruled the music industry for decades and I personally
wore tapes and the machines out listening to music on tape and the music
of that era was the most epic of good times...
Music IS food for the soul.

 

[Stux]

I remember getting a gold flexi-disc on the front of National Geographic ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc

The Flexi-Disc preceded the Compact Disc ;)

 

[joeschmuck]

I remember getting a gold flexi-disc on the front of National Geographic ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc

The Flexi-Disc preceded the Compact Disc ;)

I recall those and also the ones on the back of some cereal boxes.

The magnetic tape ruled the music industry for decades and I personally
wore tapes and the machines out listening to music on tape and the music
of that era was the most epic of good times...

Agreed.

I would replace the read/write heads on machines periodically and of course ensure outstanding alignment because that was a must. My favorite cassette tape media was TDK SA-X, I preferred it over MA.

My first music CD was The Cars - Heartbeat City however I did enjoy a Nachamichi Dragon prior to that. The CD players were out of my price range for a long time but I did go into the high end audio stores to drool. And I never did buy the Carver Preamp and Amp I wanted, those were expensive also.

Steely Dan releasing Aja in '77

I was in 9th grade and never heard of CD's until something like late 1982 or early 1983, shortly after I got to my first submarine. I recall it was all the rage if you could afford it.

 

[Arwen]

Gee, everyone is talking about the, (potentially good), old days, and old storage. (After taking the poll of course .

I'd like to point out that one of my backup media is M-Disc DVD 4.7GB. It's supposed to last centuries, though I'd be happy with my life time. I have not had a need for the M-Disc Blu-ray versions yet. (They are available in 25GB, 50GB and 100GB sizes.) Note that I use these for critical backups, (my home directory, scripts, programs, photos and writings).

 

[joeschmuck]

It's supposed to last centuries,

I recall the first writable CD-R's, they were made of gold, well a very thin film of gold, and they were touted to last forever. Of course what good is a CD-R in 200 years when there is no machine capable of reading it. I think it just makes us feel better knowing that data will be around long after we are gone.

 

[Chris Moore]

Interested to know what the most common drive size is in most peoples FreeNAS builds, so thought I'd try a little poll...

Getting back to the OP question, I use 2TB drives with the plan to move to 4TB drives as my needs dictate.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537 using Tapatalk

 

[danb35]

Since I have four different capacities of drives in my pool and the poll only allows two boxes to be checked, I can't answer.