Current, but it also depends. If many people would upload pictures at the same time, it would affect your RAM as well.
Yes, I've found that as cameras take much better pictures now, my attachment usage has increased quite a bit over the last few years. When I migrated to XF in Feb 2012, I had 5.5GB of attachments from phpBB3. I'm now using more than 12GB of space
Ahh i seee now...
That's quite a lot, but I think it also depends on the community you're running. If your community is more of a visual type or if your community topic is to "show-off", so yea, your attachement folder would be pretty big. Mine is quite large too, about 5GB, and it's that much because vB is a crappy system that doesn't know how to handle albums/pictures, so users get the idea and stop uploading.
The RAM and HDD depends on the amount of users and data you have. A board that just started can be on a shared hosting with 200-500MB for quite a while (without carrying about RAM too much).
Yep, men + cars = lots of pictures
I'm not even a car guy and I took 10 pictures of my car the day I got it... And about 10 of the car I totalled, and have since taken more of my car as people continue to do damage to it. This may be one of the truest statements I've ever read.
what addon do you use to get the attachment data shown in forum stats?
2TB (RAID 1) storage 36GB RAM on one of mine, on another 1TB (RAID 1) storage and 24GB RAM and the final one 128GB SSD (RAID 1) and 24GB RAM.
