1 TB
I recently started running MythTV on a Linux box I have sitting in my basement. This machine also acts as a home file, web, and print server, and it had a couple of internal hard drives in it already, plus an external USB drive for backup. MythTV soon ate up all the available space on my /home partition, so I went shopping for another drive to use for dedicated video storage. It’s amazing how cheap hard drives have become: I ended up getting a 500GB drive (which seems to be the current sweet spot for bytes-per-dollar) for $100 plus tax. After installing and formatting it, I took a look at the available disks in my system, and suddenly realized how much total storage there was:
$ df -H -t ext3 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 28G 4.3G 23G 16% / /dev/hda2 216G 142G 63G 70% /home /dev/sda1 316G 143G 158G 48% /mnt/bigboy /dev/hdc1 493G 115G 353G 25% /mnt/video
That’s just about a terabyte! A few years ago I would never have imagined setting up a machine for personal use with a terabyte of storage. And now I have one, almost accidentally. Amazing.
