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Computer Storage

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 by Lantec | Discussion: Community

I'm talking about my home computer............

I'm currently adding another internal hard drive to bring me to 1.25 TB and I was curious what everyone else gets by with and how. My internal storage is 750 gb and I've got another 500gb external for backups. That doesn't include all those other flash drives, DVDs, CDs etc. but just my "necessary" storage.

Most of the space is either pictures (current camera uses 10+mb per pic) or music. I tend to rip at 320 CBR so most songs run 10-20 mb. The balance is programs (of course) wallpapers, Stardock stuff and even a couple games..........I like the Call of Duty series and I have a couple racing games. For some reason.....my Outlook file is over 1gb and my MS Money file is approaching that size......Talk about bloat!

Anyway, I'm wondering if I'm keeping too much crap or if I'm at least semi-normal
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kona0197
Reply #1 Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:41 PM
I get by with a 120 GB main hard drive that's about half full. My Linux system runs on a 20 GB hard drive. I have all my pics, music and videos on my drive yet I'm still only half full.

Zoomba
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:42 PM
I run about 910GB at home at the moment.  I'm a full 1TB here at the office on my desktop machine.

killajosh
Reply #3 Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:03 PM
I'm at 440gb. Two internal hdd (one is 80gb used solely for MS programs and OS; the other is 180gb that stores all my other proggies and of course my SD software) and one external hdd that I use for pics, music, and movies (it's also 180gb and is about 60% full- 1200 mp3's, 53 episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender (I know...kids show, but at least it ain't Spongebob), and about 40 movies....)....

Out of 440gb, I've only managed to use somewhere between 100 - 115gb of space.....

ALMonty
Reply #4 Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:04 PM
300 internal, 300 external and a 500 external in the drive slot. I save pictures, music, videos, DVD movies, any programs that I download, any skins I download.

Yes it is all crap but I keep it anyway.  

Lantec
Reply #5 Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:31 PM
Makes you wonder how we survived with that really cool 20mb hard drive in the 8mhz 286 ATs

Lantec
Reply #6 Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:51 PM
bump

Philly0381
Reply #7 Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:10 PM
I get by with a 80GB HDD with 64% free, am I not doing something?  

HAPTORK
Reply #8 Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:11 PM
I know this may surprise but I m surviving at only 80GB, out of which only 3GB is free so I will add 80GB more in a few days.

HAPTORK
Reply #9 Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:12 PM
I know this may surprise but I m surviving at only 80GB, out of which only 3GB is free. I will add 80GB more in a few weeks.

HAPTORK
Reply #10 Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:18 PM
OOps double post and one more for the silly mistake.

my wall
Reply #11 Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:33 PM
I've got three internal hard drives, 800GB (2x 400GB @ raid0) HD space for XP Pro and media files, and another 500gGB HD for vista ultimate and a backup of media files. I also have two externals one that's 500GB that serves as a backup for my media files incase my system were to crash, and another 200GB that I keep attached to my system all the time that serves as a constant backup until the files are emptied onto my 500GB External.
I keep the 200 gig just in case my system should fail and my 500GB external is not attached, you can never have too many backups.
In the near future I plan to scrap my three internal hard drive setup for 2 1TB hard drives.


zakai1369
Reply #12 Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:48 PM
160 gb hard drive and 250 gb backup drive along with a few 2 and 4 gb flash drives.

Bebi Bulma
Reply #13 Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:51 PM
HD Free: [C:Enigma] 92.25/111.78 GB [D:Marvel] 78.97/465.76 GB

Total Free: 171.22 GB/577.54 GB



ArileenDesign
Reply #14 Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:56 PM
Home: 250Gb(Vista) + 500Gb(external on network) +80 Gb(XP) + 500Gb(external not connected right now)

Bebi Bulma
Reply #15 Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:01 PM
Oh...forgot the lappy (Vista), it has a 120gb hd.

CarGuy1
Reply #16 Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:39 PM
Primary machine
C:200 GB internal, 80 GB free
D:200 GB internal, 100 GB free
E:1 TB external, 540 GB free

File Server
C:120 GB internal, 50 GB free
D:120 GB internal, 60 GB free
E:1 TB external, 800 GB free

Laptop
C:80 GB internal, 50 GB free
D:500 GB external, 300 GB free

My systems are set to back up to the external drives at 1 am daily.

Snowman
Reply #17 Saturday, March 15, 2008 7:37 PM

Do the math


vStyler
Reply #18 Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:00 PM
More than I need.

starkers
Reply #19 Sunday, March 16, 2008 2:18 AM
1 x 250gb Seagate
1 x 200gb Samsung
2 x 160gb Western Digital
1 x 250gb Western Digital...

+ 1 x 250gb Seagate external

aufisch
Reply #20 Sunday, March 16, 2008 2:57 AM
2 x 250 Gb Samsung internal (Vista and Ubuntu)
1 x 1 TB Seagate internal (backup1)
1 x 1 TB Western Digital external (backup2)

I just did another complete system-backup yesterday, as my C:\ -drive (one of the Samsungs)started to sound as if my neighbour was scraping her rake across her driveway.

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