We build and create a lot of stuff here at 8BIT and we’re running out of hard drives fast and we know you creatives make a lot of stuff too.
Video, audio, print and web material… we simply create a lot of data. And we need to back it up.
So, we’re giving one away.
To enter all you have to do is comment below with how quickly it’ll take you to fill up this 1 TB external hard drive and with what kind of media.
Calculating? Go.
Jared Erickson says
Sexy… wish i could win…
Justin Wise says
I will fill this up in 30 days by backing up my backed up back-ups. As they say in the computing world:
“If you have one, than you have none. If you have two, you have one. If you have four, you have two, etc.”
A brotha can’t back up enough!
wvpv says
It would take me 0b1011010000 days to fill it up.
Ryan says
It would probably won’t take me took long at all, with all the video stuff I do for our youth group. Maybe a couple months or so? I love editing video, so that’s what would be going on there.
Ryan says
It would probably won’t take me too long at all, with all the video stuff I do for our youth group. Maybe a couple months or so? I love editing video, so that’s what would be going on there.
Nathan Hamblin says
It would probably take me a week or so to fill it up. I do A/V and tons of video production, and I am completely out of HDD space, this would be huge.
Kevin says
I’m a photographer, so have lots of photos that take up a lot of space. I estimate I could probably fill this up in 3-6 months at the rate I’ve been going lately.
Tim says
Would fill it up quickly (maybe within hours) backing all of or different media sources that we use in the church (video, images, audio) since we have a lot of video in AVI format because of CODEC issues with our presentation computer π
Greg says
ewww…AVI. What CODEC probs are you having? Maybe the community here can help!
PhillipGibb says
how quickly, as long as it takes to copy the media I have currently across two drives so I can use it to share with the other guys that help with the editing.
Currently I have 2 x 1TB external drives and they are almost filled up with video footage.
Maybe with a litter more breathing room I won’t have to keep deleting older footage.
oh and if I win; there are North Point guys coming to our Church next week π
P.S. please send 8Bit Coffee Mug, lol
adam says
i can fill about 25% of it with engineering documents, photos, video and audio from our last trip to kenya.
a couple more trips and it’ll be full π planning on the next trip by the end of summer, another one early next year π
Casey says
If I tried? I could probably fill it up in a couple weeks with 1080P Video, RAW Photos, Print Res PSDs, and Audio Files. However more realistically, it would probably take 6 months or so of heavy use to fill it up.
greenhornet79 says
At my current rate it would take about a year because I don’t do a lot of video footage.
It would be full of Pro Tools sessions and After Effects projects.
Jesse says
Probably about 10 weeks (summer video guy at a Christian camp). One 1TB HD is already full from last summer.. and a couple of archive goodies..
Jon Wellman says
A week or two… I have a couple of portable hard drives to backup and a camcorder full of video to edit. Plus, I’d free up some room on my Mac.
Greg Shore says
I could immediately dump completed video footage and use half of the drive. Probably another 4-5 months to completely fill.
cjarmstrong says
about 3 months. i’d fill it up with mostly video – documentary we’re shooting all over the country and fun video annoucnements. the rest would be audio that we’re trying to get recorded and voice-over work.
thanks for putting together all of these cool giveaways.
Josh says
At the rate that I am going now probably a couple years. The majority of it would be filled with images from doing photography. I would like to do video in the near future, so I am positive that would speed up the process.
A Boy Named Tracy says
It would take me about 3 months do load it up. We have an AppleTV so there would be a lot of movies. I’m a music junkie so there would also be a lot of music. I also do a lot of video editing which of course takes a lot of space. We got one of our children a Flip video camera so I imagine the majority of the 1TB would be taken up with his videos.
Kevin Ring says
I doubt I’d exceed the capacity of that thing since I’ll mostly bee filling it with pictures of my kids and back-ups of my files.
Hoping for a contest win on my birthday!!
Greg Hudy says
I mostly work on After Effects projects and web projects so that is what the drive would hold, lots of assets for those types of projects, including final renders and backups. I am thinking it would take about 240.99 weeks for me to use the full 1TB.
My math:
about 4GB of animation work /week
about 150 MB web/flash work /week
1000/4.150 = 240.96
Chuck Self says
hmmmm…how quickly… About as long as it takes me to copy all off Andy Stanley’s video messages to it. I might even through some John Saddington videos on it also. Loved the running video!
Andrew says
Ever since I started managing a podcast I’ve been filling up hard drives faster than ever. That said, it’ll still take me quite a while to fill 1 TB.
Erik Scottberg says
I’m thinking that it will take me about 6 months to fill up. I need a new drive for Time Machine backups and for archiving all sorts of files (Tivo video files, pictures, Photoshop, Illustrator files, Final Cut projects, etc.). I’m a bit of a pack rat and I like to keep everything I create, even if it’s unlikely that I’ll use it again. You know, “just in case.”
Travis Fish says
Probably a week or two this summer. It would be filled with video footage, converted video files and final projects. π
tcg says
I think it would take me into 2011.
Primarily web development stuff, honestly, but I’m also a pseudo-creative, so I have lots and lots of Photoshop/Illustrator work for print, web, and apparel.
Obviously I don’t do this full time, otherwise the timeline would be much short… but oh, my! How I would love to have an extra hard drive. Backups! (I recently lost some original work in a crash… had to do some tracing over a remaining hi-res that I was able to recover…)
Doug Rowles says
Forever and ever more!
Tyler says
Lets see… I’d be storing all of my RAW files on the drive and raws seem to like to eat TBs for breakfast so with an honest estimate it would probably be filled up by the start of the fall wedding season (august/september) before my images started getting hungry for more space.
Adam Tucker says
Hopefully a long time….
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benrwoodard says
With what we are planning in our web ministry here at the church it would probably take us a 7 months. The main uses would be security cameras and video from our services. π
Lori says
Oh wow, I would say with all the video and photos I have about 6 months…
dave holzemer says
6-8 months to fill a terabyte drive … I’m a photographer shooting in RAW, tough not in the nude π converting to DNG files so I have that to backup.. then a convert a number of them to 11×14 – 16×20 poster psds for printing and either hanging around our church or donating to silent auctions for missions trips and helping finance our sending kids to youth camp programs. Need to back those up too for additional re-prints.
If thats not enough, I have to backup my backups of not only all the pixs I generate but other projects I work on.
Brendon Foulke says
It would probably take me a day with the amount of music and programming i have to do for my youth ministry.
Daniel Hahn says
With no backup solution at our church right now (yeah I can hear your screaming at me right now…), I would fill it up in about 3 hours with all the stuff we need to backup.
Pick me, pick me!!
Aaron says
First, I would name it something like “Deep Freeze” so it could be friends with my other harddrives: Grill, Fridge, and Freezer. Then I would add it to my Mac Server and gloat over my massive storage capacity. Fill it? Perhaps…but as slowly as possible. Size matters. My philosophy – never use more than 10% of your space so that you can brag the other 9 terabytes you still have available. Atleast, that’s what I’ve learned from my IT counterparts over the years. π
Greg says
Maybe 6 months….depending on what I decide to keep and toss.
Video projects, and backups of backups!
Sethos says
How Quickly?
I Think about two days!
First day: dancing around the Hard drive, because i won it.
Second day: Backup all of my Photoshop Raw’s, other Pictures and my Backup of three Virtual Machines of course. π
so please! Let me win. π
.. Sethos
Barry Whitlow says
We’re starting the country’s 1st full blown media church in Nashville TN and need LOTS of hard drive space to store our creative stuff! Just so happens we’re shopping for an external hard drive right now and have been a little perplexed on which one to get… CHURCH CREATE TO THE RESCUE!!! (we hope)
jay says
1tb (Actual 931MB) is not enough these day to cater for space needs for HD video editing. Video editing takes up the most space.
I run Win XP & Win7 including Mac OS X. I also run a lot of todays games which often takes up to 10GB space for each game. blue ray video, high quality audio and and large photo raw files storage need more than a single 1TB drive, perhaps a few drives are required.
Few months < six months, maybe!
Well, hope to win. is this contest open to worldwide readers? Thanks.
Stephen Boswell says
Hmmm, well I would probably move all of my design school files over, which would take up a good chunk. After that I would use it to back up all of my images from multiple computers. Add to that some experimenting and learning with After Effects, and I think it would begin to fill up pretty fast.
Fred da Silva says
One sitting. Video on 2 PC’s and 2 notebook. Too scared to think about the sorting though!
Chris Roberts says
Graphics, video, everything I’m creating for our church (then I’ll probably still need to buy another one.)
Fred da Silva says
One sitting. Videos on 2 PC’s & 2 laptops
Cliff Holmes says
I would store music in addition to all the videos that I am working on. I keep hearing the importance of backing up important files, like taxes, pictures of the kids, etc. I guess I would finally get around to doing that.
It would probably take me 3-6 months to fill it up.
Jeff says
I would fill it by yesterday.
Reuben Urias says
Oh, man. We could store about 3000 of our weekly sermon videos! Plus, we’re about to begin building a new site soon, which will have more content, graphics-wise! Right now, we don’t have a backup solution π We’re storing locally on a donated MacBook.
Jonathan says
How fast? Given that it’s a USB 2.0 drive, the best perfomance possible is about 57MB/s (assuming no other devices are being used through the same USB chipset at the same time. In reality (and based on Newegg.com reviews), a more realistic speed to expect would be 35 MB/s. If we assume (optimisically) that the drive can hold 1000000 MB (the formatted size will differ, and yes I know that 1TB > 1000000 MB, but the formatted size will likely be even less), then we can say that it will take roughly 28571 seconds, or (rounded up) 8 hours to copy all those video files off my computer’s internal hard drive to this external one, which I greatly need to do as I’m almost out of space!
Matt Smith says
I would expect that the typical response would be that this 1TB drive would be filled up very quickly. The truth for me is that I am in pretty desperate need of a back up drive for all of my files. Right now I don’t have a drive large enough to back up my current files, which means I’m driving without insurance!! I just have been in a place financially to purchase one. So this would mean a lot of nerves and worries would go away.
It would be filled mostly with print design, but there are about 100GB with photography, 10GB web design and a bit of video.
Thanks for the consideration!
Will Anderson says
I am a graphic design student.. I would easily fill up this hard drive with countless illustrations and web design projects. i also create animated video which takes up a lot of space!
Alon says
I would fill this up in one day….staying up all night.
It would be full of memories of three generations of my family that is sitting in CD, DVD, and on the full external hard drive already in use.
William says
It will probably take me all of about 6 months to fill up the drive… mostly with images, website templates, web backups and video. I’ve been holding off on filling my other drive up because if I need to move large files quickly (ie large video files) then it’s all I have at the moment, besides going through the grueling process of uploading them to the web somewhere.
Jon Manna says
it will take somewhere between 2 to 4 hours to fill this baby up (the time it takes to transfer 1TB from mac to external hd)! Most of the content will be the rendered AE clips i’ve made for church as well as HD video.
Bryan Burt says
1 TB of external harddrive would be quickly filled with pictures and videos from work and home and documents from home and business, but it would have enough room to be able to download extra files for the coming year or two. Thanks
Adam Anthony Gregory says
It would take me about 6 months to fill it up. Between the loads of software code, graphics, raw video footage, final video output, templates, and stock images/video, I think I could fill it up pretty quickly.
That doesn’t even take in to account my back ups that I would use it for. I have 2 servers, 2 laptops, and 2 desktops that I would probably be backing up the data from also.
Nathan Edwards says
I already have a 250gb drive I use as my time machine… but I’m starting to do a bit of video editing for my church and christian union… I hear whispers about filming an entire conference… if so that’s a TB mostly gone within a week.
John says
maybe a few days with all the pictures I take with my D450..I think I need a petabyte or exabyte..
Nick Shoemaker says
This is great. IDK how quickly I could fill this up. Probably about a day or so- with all the stuff on my old one.
I’d get to about 60% capacity if I did that.
And that doesn’t include all the RAW photo files I have backed up on dozens of cd’s (my older iMac only had a 60G hd…. yeah that was fun).
Clay Conry says
We’re just getting started down the video road and my laptop’s hd is already full enough! I would use this for archiving videos of our services and storing the raw video! I reckon it would take a couple months.
Stuart says
Well this year is my son’s 21st and I’m creating a montage of his 21yrs of video footage, still pictures, digital pictures, artwork , etc, etc and I know from the previous montages I did that 1Tb would disappear in about 4wks flat.
In all honesty I’d only need it for temporrary storage an dthen I’d donate it to my church for their needs.
Ben Terry says
I record and edit all the testimonial baptism videos for our church and all by the grace of God we have been filling up our 1TB HD with testimonials of people professing Jesus Christ as their savior!!! Praise God we have that problem of filling up this HD that we have now so probably by the end of the month we are in need of another one to save these amazing stories of Christ saving people graciously!
Rhyne Armstrong says
My TB drive is just about dead and it is at 80% already. I have at least 200gb of videos and photos of the kids that need a home. I would fill it up in just about 24 hours.
Mitch Garcia says
Would take me less than a few hours. Need ti to archive podcast and close to 600mns of music files used for many things here at the church.
Paul Sanduleac says
I think I’d fill it in 2-3 days with lots of pictures from my church, and also lots&lots of video recordings.
Kenny Jahng says
I’ve been waiting for a new hard drive so that I can port over all my MiniDV videotape content in order to edit / remix. 2 kids = 13 years of family videos. 1TB will go faster than they are growing up, and that’s pretty darn fast.
Josh M says
Hmmm. I’m thinking a Time Machine partition, a backup of all my websites, photo library backup and a repository for common files … I could fill this thing up real quick. What is it about a brand new hard drive that makes me just want to … fill it up??
Jon stroker says
Our church could definately use a new harddrive. We are a portable church and I have just started as the media pastor. I have since implemented video announcements, weekly taping of service, and event archiving. Everything is shot on my canon 7d in HD, and takes lots of space! I would love to have everything archived on a big harddrive so we can have pieces to pull for promotions, and church recaps. As fast as our church is growing, we would love to have video saved to show the church!
We can’t afford anymore new equipment, but could really benefit from a new hard drive!!!
erik says
I’ll be using this for Graphic working files and media used to create our website.
Karl fisher says
Because seriously – who compresses video & flattens images?
Aaron says
My wife and I would fill this up with photos of our clients and current projects. My best guess is it would be full in 6 months.
Derek says
I could probably fill it up in a couple of days if I put all my computer backups on it, haha. But I would love to consolidate my photography to one drive instead of multiple drives and DVDs. Those camera RAW files take up lots of space after a while.
Seth says
It’ll take me 5 minutes to fill it…
Maybe.
Aaron says
wow, with all the un-backed up data on computers and the fact that our worship media computer just crashed for the third time in a few weeks, I would probably fill up a 1 TB drive the day I got it!
Jmayhak says
I would put all the svn dump files from current and past projects, all the .sql backup scripts (done twice weekly), pics from past trips, and the promo videos from old events on it. Probably put the default images on it for the next ghosting session as well.
We keep that stuff on a server in an admin office…but i’ve been noticing a lot of coffee mugs on the box lately….I know it’s only a matter of time…
Jmayhak says
forgot to say how quickly I would take to fill it up: as long as usb 2.0 takes to transfer 1tb…about 8 hours assuming usb is the only bottleneck.
Jen C says
Wow. 1TB will take me a while, probably a year to fill up at my current pace. Although I have been doing more projects for people lately so it might not take all year.
Would be more fun b/c my hubby would be jealous. π
bobbyshirley says
It would take me as long as hooking up my 3 externals and transferring. The ease of hooking up 1 drive would be like heaven!
bobbyshirley says
And it would be full of graphic design files, web design files, movies, and a metric ton of music.
Jeff Randleman says
I am an amature photographer who loves the outdoors. As a result, I hike, kayak and climb with my camera a LOT. And I take tones of photos, usually in hi-re jpg or RAW format. I could fill up a TB in just a couple days. 36 hours, max.
JayCaruso says
Wouldn’t take long to fill up with video and images. Would be a nice addition to the backup devices I already employ to keep my stuff safe.
Chris says
At work I record our green screen videos in uncompressed HDI 720p. It’ll take about 30 minutes of recording to fill up that 1 tb. π
I’d love to have a place to keep things more than a week long- haha.
George Hicks says
Personal videos, music, photos, sermon illustration videos, video loops for worship…. Data is oozing out of my computer right now!!
Michael Berry says
I would fill up really quickly by ripping all my dvds into digital format in order to save lots and lots of space.
brianfalexander says
However long it takes to transfer my life onto it..probably like a couple of hours or something.
Shane Sanchez says
To be honest, a 1TB hard drive would probably last me a good while.
Once it’s full I’m sure it’ll be packed with our youth ministry videos, graphics, and pictures, along with sermons and homework. Maybe some solid music. It’s going to have a little bit of everything awesome.
Shane Sanchez says
PS-All of our youth ministry media is on my MacBook. It’s going to blow up soon so an external hardrive would save the life of a Mac. You could save a computer.
Seriously.
mike brennan says
Honestly, I could fill that baby up pronto. I had a unfortunate event happen where an external drive I had (with the past three years of archived files on it) took a dump. I managed to get it to boot up one more time – transferred some of the stuff before it died again. What I should have had was a backup of my external drive s I’d be safe. But I learn the hard way. I would look to get all my print & video files for church on there, as well as back up my itunes library.
Christopher G. Sykes says
I think it will take me about 6 months to fill it with video, audio, photoshop, & illustrator creations for my children’s ministry, church, and other various ministries. Of course, that’s just new stuff. I could immediately fill it as a redundant copy of any of my other 3 external drives. I don’t even save stuff to our church server anymore. I would have crashed that years ago.
Terrin says
ZOMG…. Drooling intensely over this hard drive… gimme pls!!!
Terrin says
oh, and i could probably fill it in… maybe 3 months? i’ve had to clear so many beloved files from my MBP due to my cheapness π
Alex Quinonez says
I would give myself a good month or so to fill that HD up… Used up mostly in video render files, project files, PSDs, FCS content, Stock Images… on and on and on….
Alex Quinonez says
BTW i already have a 1.5 tb thats almost full…..
Icarus Forde says
Various things. Probably less than a week, as I backup various computers. Two computers, a 160gig and 320 gig hard drive respectively are full. I’m pushing my limits here….
Plus, heavy photoshopping, photography, web design and post processing doesnt help the cause. π
Joe Decker says
This baby would definitely take me at least a year to fill up, but I know my outdated laptop and the thousands of documents I save on it for college are not a good combination. I would love to have all my files and music backed up so I no longer have to worry about it.
Ronni says
Oh easy… tons of RAW files, Ai’s, brushes, actions, MP4 and MP3’s I’m editing and about 10,000 fonts and misc source files for graphics work. I have a 360 gig that is full, and my hdd on my laptop is almost full, and 4 of the huge wallets of DVD’s full of stuff… that I have to sort through to find something. I’d catagorize everything and it would be RIGHT THERE for me to use! Huge time saver!!!
Ronni says
oh and literally, I could fill it in a few hours of just letting stuff copy over… I’ve already priced buying one but it’s out of the budget right now…
Jamie Miltenburg says
well, With all the Video,Web and audio Production I do for my Church and Community events, I could fill this baby up within a week or two!
PhillipGibb says
wow, a lot of people want the Hard Drive.
I already posted why I want one.
But if I had a RED One camera (4k at 24fps) that should be about 9hrs of recording
However one does not want to operate with HardDrives at 80% – 100% full
Imtiaz Khan says
Need an external drive to take backups of code and tonnes of reference/reading material
Currently using a 250G external Transcend and a 200G IDE on one of our local development machines for this but both are about 70% full. Will also be used for taking offsite backups for client domains so that they don’t commit suicide when a server crashes (:P has never happened so far but then that’s what my job is…. to plan for the unthinkable)…
Might actually take an year to fill up that sort of space. I have a different 250G for the baby pics otherwise it would’ve filled up faster.
Wilfredo mora says
When you start to save all these vΓdeos, templates,
desings and good pictures that you know you will use in your
daily activites, a terabyte will be the perfect Partner.
Tim says
It’s unlikely that I would fill it up. Anytime a hard drive gets within 20% of being full, I get nervous and start using another. Video and FCP files fill most of my drives.
Andy says
Wow that’s a lot of space but we are getting ready to launch Media Ministries at LibertyCC and we plan on doing a lot of video, graphics and more to reach out to those needing the Gospel. So a 1TB HD would be a great goal for our new group to fill with media for God!
Ray Cullins says
It would honestly take a long while for me to fill with site designs, code archives, and illustrations (scans of physical work and digital paintings). It would be great to have backups of everything in the house, though. This would cover that job pretty well.
Jason Cooper says
It would be put to immediate use backing up the graphics and video on our MacPro. Currently we have no backup for all but the most important files. Due to budget we had to choose between upgrades to the computer (software & RAM) or external hardware. We chose upgrading the computer. We will see what this year’s budget holds….
We would fill up about 80-90% of the drive on the first backup…
Rich Landosky says
Our church’s server has a 60GB hard drive on it. I’ve filled it several times over just by myself and been asked to get all of my stuff off of there. They went and got a 1TB external drive hooked to the server for me to put all of my stuff on and then that crashed and died. As a youth pastor I am constantly creating print, video, and thousands of pictures of kids and events for our student ministry, not to mention the endless hours of music. It wouldn’t take long to fill that baby up.
Ben says
It would probably take a good year to fill it up. Maybe less if I were to actually back up everything on my computer.
Thanks for the giveaway.
Nicholas Hanlon says
I would transfer family videos onto it… It would take me about a year to fill it up.
cheybea says
Hm…how quick…I really don’t know lol Hopefully not too quick.
Well first of all I’ve been looking for a external hard drive for a while.
I have way too many cd/dvds with BU (Back Up) on it.
I’ve got a desktop and a laptop full of video work for my church, my “digital media agency” gigs, loads and loads of digital photography (I love to shoot stuff), tons of graphic and web work, 3D models, fun interactive Flash, etc.
=)
Calum Henderson says
I’d fill it up with video, and it would take me about a year.
Justin Woulard says
Hmmm…. It’d probably take about three weeks to fill it up with video, photos, and my various iTunes libraries.
Chris Gambill says
I’ve recently started shooting video in AVCHD. So, transferring the raw files, and then converting them into an editable format would quickly fill up the drive. If I videoed our service each week, I could put 50 weeks on there. If I did additional projects, I could fill it up in about six months.
Trevor Buehler says
I would back up my hard drive that just crashed on to it. My Mac Mini suddenly won’t start up due to an I/O error, although magically i am somehow able to use the drive as a target disk to back things up… if only I had an external harddrive to do so with… hmmm… external hard drive… where could I get one? hmmm…
Once I’m up and going again, I would continue to fill the drive with the white creamy goodness of all of the volunteer IT work I do for my church’s website and my own blog I just started at a great rate (thanks to the human3rror discount at Dreamhost.com (thank you so much!)).
Any assistance in the way of free stuff would be greatly obliged! God bless you kind sir!
kylan says
I’d fill it with free music from SXSW. They put out 5 or 6 GB of music per year, so it would only take about 150 years or so.
John W Snyder says
I would fill it with mainly video. I am doing a lot of that now with my new job. I would also fill it with plenty of audio
Ileana Ortiz says
Hmm… since I’m a photographer, I would probably fill it up with 6 months. You can say I’m trigger happy! : )
I also have been doing quite a bit of graphic design work.
Brandon R. says
Lets see a few months of RAW footage from a shoot or the Sunday sermons, A few HD renders out of after effects and all the music used to play for youth services, and oh yeah edited sermons.