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
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



Desktop PC 32GiB 500GB
1TB
SSD
SSD
Root filesystem (Xubuntu / Win 10)
Local filesystem
Kids PC 1 16GiB 120GB
1TB
SSD
HDD
Root filesystem (Xubuntu)
Local filesystem
Kids PC 2 8GiB 60GB
320GB
SSD
HDD
Root filesystem (Xubuntu)
Local filesystem
Mini-ITX PC 8GiB 120GB
1TB
SSD
HDD
Root filesystem (Xubuntu)
Local filesystem
Acer Aspire R3700 4GiB 32GB MicroSD Root filesystem (LibreELEC)
Inspiron 14 5485 Laptop 32GiB 256GB
500GB
SSD
SSD
Root filesystem (Xubuntu / Win 10)
Home filesystem (and D: on Win 10)
Sony Vaio Laptop 1GiB 40GB HDD Root filesystem (Xubuntu)
Tiny Computers
  RAM Storage Usage
Chromecast 1 (1st gen) 512MiB 2GB Flash Root filesystem
Chromecast 2 (1st gen) 512MiB 2GB Flash Root filesystem
Fire TV Stick (1st gen) 1GiB 8GB Flash Root filesystem
Raspberry Pis (only active ones listed)
  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)
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)
Desktop Pi 1 1GiB 32GB MicroSD Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS)
Desktop Pi 2 1GiB 32GB MicroSD Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS)
Kitchen Jukebox 512MiB 8GB MicroSD Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS Lite)
Picade 1GiB 32GB MicroSD Root filesystem (RetroPie)
Wee Red Masq 1GiB 8GB MicroSD Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS)
Experimentarium 4GiB 240GB SSD Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS)
Keyboard Pi 4GiB 32GB
256GB
MicroSD
MicroSD
Root filesystem (Rasberry Pi OS)
Hand-helds
  RAM Storage Usage
Nexus 7 (2013) 2GiB 32GB Flash Root filesystem
Asus ZenPad Z580C 8" 1GiB 32GB
32GB
Flash
MicroSD
Root filesystem
User data
Lenovo Tab 7 Essential #1 1GiB 16GB Flash Root filesystem
Lenovo Tab 7 Essential #2 1GiB 16GB 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 4a 6GiB 128GB Flash Root filesystem
Google Pixel 4a 6GiB 128GB Flash Root filesystem
OnePlus Two 4GiB 64GB Flash Root filesystem
Huawei P10 4GiB 64GB 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 Powershot A720IS Unknown 4GB Flash SDHC (Sandisk Extreme III)
Canon Ixus 50 Unknown 2GB Flash SD (Sandisk Ultra II)
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)
Miscellaneous
  RAM Storage Type
USB Sticks N/A 32GB
32GB
8GB
8GB
8GB
8GB
Flash SanDisk Ultra (USB3)
SanDisk Ultra (USB3)
Corsair Flash Voyager
Corsair Voyager Mini
Corsair Voyager Mini
Sandisk Cruzer Micro
Spare Cards (SD) N/A 16GB
8GB
8GB
256MB
Flash SDHC (Canon)
SDHC (Samsung, class 10)
SDHC (Samsung, class 10)
SD (PNY Technologies)
Spare Cards (µSD) N/A 32GB
2GB
2GB
2GB
128MB
Flash Micro SDHC (Unbranded, class 10)
Micro SDHC (Sandisk, class 10)
Micro SDHC (Sandisk, class 10)
Micro SDHC (Transcend)
Micro SD (Unbranded)
Spare Cards (CF) N/A 8GB Flash Compact Flash (Unbranded)
Spare Drives N/A 3TB
250GB
160GB
2.2GB
HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD
3½" SATA - WD Red
3½" SATA - WD Blue
2½" SATA - Hitachi 5K500
1" Microdrive - Magicstor

So that's over 177GiB of working memory (RAM), over 3934GB of solid state storage and over 17TB of spinning rust (hard drive) storage (over 21TB of storage in total)... just saying, that's all ;-)

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

Well basically...

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.




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