Gav's World : Processing and Storage

Processing Power and Storage

I began to wonder one day just how much storage and processing power 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). This used to be two seperate pages, but I got annoyed updating both each time!

Main Computers
Device	Cores	Threads	RAM	Storage		Usage
Desktop PC	8	16	32GiB	500GB 1TB	SSD SSD	Root / home filesystem (Xubuntu) C: / D: drives (Win11)
Inspiron 14 5485 Laptop	4	8	32GiB	256GB 500GB	SSD SSD	Root filesystem (Xubuntu / Win 11) Home filesystem (and D: on Win 11)
Kids PC 1	4	8	32GiB	60GB 1TB	SSD SSD	Root filesystem (Xubuntu) Local filesystem
The Server	4	8	32GiB	64GB 64GB 256GB 240GB 3TB 4TB 3TB 3TB	SSD SSD SSD SSD HDD HDD HDD HDD	Mirrored Root filesystem (TrueNAS) Mirrored VM storage RAID-Z2 storage array
Tiny Computers
Device	Cores	Threads	RAM	Storage		Usage
Chromecast 1 (1st gen)	1	1	512MiB	2GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Chromecast 2 (1st gen)	1	1	512MiB	2GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Fire TV Stick (2nd gen)	4	4	1GiB	8GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Raspberry Pis (only active ones listed)
Device	Cores	Threads	RAM	Storage		Usage
Backup Pi	4	4	4GiB	2TB	SSD	Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS)
Cluster Pi Controller	4	4	1GiB	16GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Cluster CTRL)
Cluster Pi Worker P1	1	1	512MiB	16GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Cluster CTRL)
Cluster Pi Worker P2	1	1	512MiB	16GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Cluster CTRL)
Cluster Pi Worker P3	1	1	512MiB	16GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Cluster CTRL)
Cluster Pi Worker P4	1	1	512MiB	16GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Cluster CTRL)
Every Day Pi	4	4	8GiB	500GB	SSD	Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS)
Home Media Centre	4	4	1GiB	8GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (LibreElec)
Jukebox Pi	4	4	512MiB	16GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Raspberry Pi OS)
MPD Monitor	1	1	512MiB	16GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Raspberry Pi OS Lite)
Picade	4	4	4GiB	256GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (RetroPie)
Wee Red Masq	4	4	1GiB	8GB	MicroSD	Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS)
Raspberry Pis (more idle than used)
Device	Cores	Threads	RAM	Storage		Usage
Car Media Server v2.0	4	4	1GiB	8GB 64GB 128GB	MicroSD USB USB	Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS Lite) Music (Sandisk Ultra Fit) Videos (Sandisk Ultra Fit)
Keyboard Pi	4	4	4GiB	32GB 256GB	MicroSD MicroSD	Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS) Root filesystem (RetroPi)
Hand-helds
Device	Cores	Threads	RAM	Storage		Usage
Amazon Kindle Paper White (7th gen)	1	1	256MiB	4GB	Flash	Root filesystem / books
Amazon Kindle (7th gen)	1	1	256MiB	4GB	Flash	Root filesystem / books
Amazon Kindle (7th gen)	1	1	256MiB	4GB	Flash	Root filesystem / books
Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (2020)	8	8	4GiB	64GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Phones
Device	Cores	Threads	RAM	Storage		Usage
Google Pixel 6a	8	8	6GiB	128GB	Flash	Root filesystem
Cameras
Device	Cores	Threads	RAM	Storage		Type
Canon EOS 40D	???	???	???	4GB 1GB 1GB	Flash	Compact Flash (Sandisk Extreme III) Compact Flash (Sandisk Extreme III) Compact Flash (Sandisk Extreme III)
Canon Legria HF R406	???	???	???	32GB 32GB	Flash	Micro SDHC (Sandisk Ultra, class 10) Micro SDHC (Sandisk Ultra, class 10)
Olympus Tough TG-6	???	???	???	32GB	Flash	Micro SDHC (Sandisk Ultra, class 10)

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

Grand Total

So that's 142 CPU cores with a total of 178 threads, and over 268GiB of working memory (RAM), over 4368GB of solid state storage and over 19TB of spinning rust (hard drive) storage (over 23TB 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.