Gav's World : Storage Capacity

Storage Capacity

I began to wonder one day just how much storage I have in the house, so just for fun, I decided to take a note of everything (and obviously knocked up some more PHP so that I didn't have to keep count any time that I changed things):

Main Computers
	RAM	Storage		Usage
Desktop PC	32GiB	500GB 1TB	SSD SSD	Root / home filesystem (Xubuntu) C: / D: drives (Win10)
Inspiron 14 5485 Laptop	32GiB	256GB 500GB	SSD SSD	Root filesystem (Xubuntu / Win 10) Home filesystem (and D: on Win 10)
The Server	32GiB	64GB 64GB 240GB 240GB 3TB 3TB 3TB 3TB	SSD SSD SSD SSD HDD HDD HDD HDD	Mirrored Root filesystem (FreeNAS) Mirrored VM storage RAID-Z2 storage array
Tiny Computers
	RAM	Storage		Usage
Chromecast 1 (1st gen)	512MiB	2GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Chromecast 2 (1st gen)	512MiB	2GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Raspberry Pis (only active ones listed)
	RAM	Storage		Usage
Cluster Pi Controller	1GiB	16GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Cluster CTRL)
Cluster Pi Worker P1	512MiB	16GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Cluster CTRL)
Cluster Pi Worker P2	512MiB	16GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Cluster CTRL)
Cluster Pi Worker P3	512MiB	16GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Cluster CTRL)
Cluster Pi Worker P4	512MiB	16GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Cluster CTRL)
Every Day Pi	8GiB	500GB	SSD	Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS)
Home Media Centre	1GiB	8GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (LibreElec)
MPD Monitor	512MiB	16GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Raspberry Pi OS Lite)
Picade	1GiB	32GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (RetroPie)
Wee Red Masq	1GiB	8GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS)
Raspberry Pis (more idle than used)
	RAM	Storage		Usage
Car Media Server v2.0	1GiB	8GB 64GB 128GB	MicroSD USB USB	Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS Lite) Music (Sandisk Ultra Fit) Videos (Sandisk Ultra Fit)
Experimentarium	4GiB	240GB	SSD	Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS)
Keyboard Pi	4GiB	32GB 256GB	MicroSD MicroSD	Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS) Root filesystem (RetroPi)
Hand-helds
	RAM	Storage		Usage
Nexus 7 (2013)	2GiB	32GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Kindle Paper White (7th gen)	256MiB	4GB	Flash	Root filesystem / books
Kindle (7th gen)	256MiB	4GB	Flash	Root filesystem / books
Kindle (7th gen)	256MiB	4GB	Flash	Root filesystem / books
Phones
	RAM	Storage		Usage
Google Pixel 6a	6GiB	128GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Cameras
	RAM	Storage		Type
Canon EOS 40D	Unknown	4GB 1GB 1GB	Flash	Compact Flash (Sandisk Extreme III) Compact Flash (Sandisk Extreme III) Compact Flash (Sandisk Extreme III)
Canon Legria HF R406	Unknown	32GB 32GB	Flash	Micro SDHC (Sandisk Ultra, class 10) Micro SDHC (Sandisk Ultra, class 10)
Olympus Tough TG-6	Unknown	32GB	Flash	Micro SDHC (Sandisk Ultra, class 10)

Plus lots of random USB sticks, spare SD cards and drives etc.

Processing Power that I've Left Behind

When I left my ex-wife, her and the kids were all using my computing power, so here's what I left behind for them.

Main Computers
	RAM	Storage		Usage
Acer Aspire R3700	4GiB	32GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (LibreELEC)
Kids PC 1	16GiB	120GB 1TB	SSD HDD	Root filesystem (Xubuntu) Local filesystem
Kids PC 2	8GiB	240GB 1TB	SSD HDD	Root filesystem (Xubuntu) Local filesystem
Mini-ITX PC	8GiB	120GB 1TB	SSD HDD	Root filesystem (Xubuntu) Local filesystem
Sony Vaio Laptop	1GiB	40GB	HDD	Root filesystem (Xubuntu)
Tiny Computers
	RAM	Storage		Usage
Chromecast (Google TV - HD)	2GiB	4GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Fire TV Stick (1st gen)	1GiB	8GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Raspberry Pis (only active ones listed)
	RAM	Storage		Usage
Kitchen Jukebox	512MiB	8GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS Lite)
Hand-helds
	RAM	Storage		Usage
Asus ZenPad Z580C 8"	1GiB	32GB 32GB	Flash MicroSD	Root filesystem User data
Phones
	RAM	Storage		Usage
Google Pixel 7	8GiB	128GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Google Pixel 4a	6GiB	128GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Google Pixel 4a	6GiB	128GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Cameras
	RAM	Storage		Type
Canon Powershot A720IS	Unknown	4GB	Flash	SDHC (Sandisk Extreme III)
Canon Ixus 50	Unknown	2GB	Flash	SD (Sandisk Ultra II)

Grand Total

So that's over 190GiB of working memory (RAM), over 4500GB of solid state storage and over 15TB of spinning rust (hard drive) storage (over 19TB of storage in total)... just saying, that's all ;-)

So what's the difference between a GB and a GiB?

Well basically...

a GB (gigabyte), an SI prefix is 10⁹ bytes (or a 1 and 9 0s)
a GiB (gibibyte), an IEC binary prefix is 2³⁰ bytes (or 1024 * 1024 * 1024)

The SI prefix is generally used in storage terms as it allows manufacturers some flexibility in bad sector marking and SSD manufacturers the extra sectors for wear levelling. It is also very often mis-used as meaning a binary prefix.

The binary prefix is mainy used in digital electronics and more commonly in RAM figures as for every address bit you add to a device, you double its size.