Within eyesight…How about you??
Ipod, xbox , xbox360 ,ps3 ,dvr, 3 external hard drives, digital video cam, laptop,Blackberry.
I know I have more, but I cant see my basement from here.
3 2TB mirror WD
1 1TB Maxtor
1 1TB Iomega
1 500 GB WD
1 320 Maxtor (my first and is still going strong!)
1 160 GB IPOD
1 60 GB IPOD
1 40 GB IPOD
1 16 GB NANO
1 8 GB NANO
1 4 GB Shuffle
laptop too lazy to turn on and check size, macmini 400gb, uh uh
a Sony e-reader
I win!
I count 16, counting only physical platter hard drives attached to desktop computers – none of this silly iPod/USB stick/e-reader stuff.
10 currently in use (120 GB - 750 GB), about 20 (3x 120 GB, the rest much smaller) more laying around.
At home right now: One 10 year old desktop PC with a new whopping 160GB IDE hard drive. 2 USB sticks.
And a building full of servers & devs who answer to me at work. Do I win?
IMO, too much tech at home is the sign of a l0ser. If your business is at home, that’s different.
Just out of curiosity, what do you all have on all of these storage devices? Music? Movies?
I have an older computer from '03 with a 160GB HD, but it’s only used fro some older apps. I can’t get to work consistently well with Vista.
And I have my current box with 360GB, about 1/3 of which is in use with pics, music, some movies/videos, and a lot of little miscellania.
Okay, I’ll bite: I have 4 drives in a Windows Home Server, 2 in my everyday machine, 2 in my games box (currently in another room), 1 in my virtual server, and 1 (shortly to be 2, as one of the exercises demands 2 drives) in a scratch box. The last two boxes I’m using for my own education as an IT professional. I’ve 3 USB hard drives, and the rest are old hard drives I’ve upgraded over the years. They still work, so why toss them?
FTR … I have a couple old machines laying around too. And old monitors, and a ziploc bag of mice with the original PC/AT (?) connectors. And a few PCI modems dating back to 2400 baud.
The OP was specifying in plain sight, which more or less means in current use too. I try real hard to keep work at work and home at home. I do tech for a living, not for a life. The same was true in my prior careers.
Diff’rent strokes and all that. And yes, I admit I was being a bit deliberately provocative.
Counting all physical units as one (so only 1 point for a computer that has 2 HDs, a floppy drive and a DVD writer), I get:
2 netbooks, 1 macbook, 2 desktop computers, 1 amiga 500 (if we count the floppy drive in that), 6 external HDs that I can find and 1 cheap mp3 player = 13 total.
And yes, I work at home.
4 internal in desktop, 6 external currently connected to it. 2 more externals not currently connected.
1 in laptop.
1 in ipod classic.
1 in ipod touch.
1 in dvr
1 in xbox 360
1 in old, dormant xbox
1 in ps2
2 dead, bare drives (do dead ones count? You didn’t say they don’t!)
So, 20 if you include the 2 dead ones. There’d be a few more if I could see the other room from here!
4 usb drives out where I can see them (one is a tiny 52 meg)
more in drawers but I can’t see them, so, they don’t count.
one zip drive, one jaz drive (neither are connected to anything)
3 mp3 players
3 hard drives on the back shelf (not connected)
cd internal drive (not connected)
cdrw external on my desk
my main computer and my laptop in its dock.
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and like most who answered this post
I have a lot more in
closets, the basement, under the bed, etc. ect.
but I am not going to get up from my chair:D