hawkeye

My computer has ~640 gig, (with probably 120 free) which seems to scare most people.
How much space do you guys have?
How much would you have in an ideal world?

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Nisses

About 600 Gig, counting my USB2 External HD too (3x200Gb)

free... about 80 I think, which won't be enough come next lan-party, arf!

time to buy myself another one I think

Ideally: enough to never run out of diskspace... But if you rarely throw things away, that's a financial problem... I might be ok with a 2-3 TB for a few years (hopefully)

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Dragonlich

If we're talking about one computer, I have a 120 gig data disk, and a 36 gig (raptor) windows/application disk. That's all I need, because I have a HUGE collection of cd-roms and dvd-roms full of downloaded crap. I have some 80 gigs free in total.

(I also have a 30 gig harddisk in my Linux server, and a 1.2 gig harddisk in my olde laptop)

In a perfect world, I'd need 140 gigs just for my mp3 collection, some 200 gigs for my games, some 250 gigs for my movies, and some undisclosed amount (lots) for my naughty pictures and movies. I download some 60 gigs of god-knows-what a month, so I'd need loads of space. Probably a terrabyte just to be sure, and even that'd fill up pretty damn quickly.

Alternatively, I could just keep what I really like, instead of collecting everything, and I wouldn't need much more than I have now.

bal8664

I have 80 total and have trouble filling it. Probably because i dont have any videos saved and maybe like 500 mp3's total. I do keep a copy of all my programs installer
files on my pc though which takes up about 20gb. I can't see how anyone can fill like 600gbs, that just seems ridiculous to me. Must be digital packrats

laconic1

I have a 40 gigabyte applications disk and a 80 gigabyte data disk. still have tons of free space on both drives for now, but I have about 100 gigabytes of pr0n archived on DVDs

Lak

aw man, why is there no "< 20gb" option?
us penniless students can't afford this "hard drive space" you speak of

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the_marq

I have around 100GB and I don't think I need a lot more. I typically have only 3 or 4 games installed at any one moment (right now its; HL2, Doom3, UT2K4 and Max Payne2), so that takes up about 15GB, about 2 GB of pr0n and 7GB of mp3's. Add to all that about 10GB worth of operating system and apps and what else do you need? Burn the excess to CD's or DVD's.

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Homey_V

450 Gigs... I need more space!!!!! So much to save, so little time!

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heccubusiv

120 Gb, quater full

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soccerchamp76

200 GB partitioned into 80 GB system drive and 120 GB data drive.

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shadowalker

just under 750 gig's, have about 500 free.

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Painted

120 GB drive, 108GB free

Then again all of my movies, mp3's, pics, are on my server.

sandeep

I have an 80 and a 120. The 120 is Storage, and the 80 is OS / My Documents.

I've gotten tired of wanting more space and more so buying more space. I bought a dvd burner last year and just archive things I want to keep. Works well, and keeps my harddrives empty.

bendsley

Around 500gigs or so in my computer(s), and both TiVos have 200gigs worth of space in them.

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kutulu

I have a 160GB drive. Only about 20GB are free. I have a lot of DVD's I've backed up but have not burned yet.

Embic

i have 360gb's total and under 20gb free

Locke7

1 80 MB that is almost full but have 2 160's on the way because of great rebate deals, they were only 50 bucks each after rebate. Yes I woke up at 5:00am the day after thanksgiving.

OperativeK

Taking into consideration all seven of my computers I would probably fall about 750 gigs. I started backups today and will hopefully be done by the time I get home in 8 hrs. : )

OperativeK

Taking into consideration all seven of my computers I would probably fall about 750 gigs. I started backups today and will hopefully be done by the time I get home in 8 hrs. : ) I finally got DSL just the other day. WooHooo no more fragging on 56k. They thought I was good then lol.

SiN

...and how big is your penix?

/me looks in her pants ....

um...calculating out loud

of all the puters in the livingroom..

160 (bf)
160 (external)
120 x 2 (server)
80 + 40 (me)
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680 gigs

does not include 2 puters w/ approx 200 combined, that are work machines.
does not include the cd/dvd archives, which contains lots of data as well as movies/video. over 1 TB there...

will be getting 1 or 2 160's soon, as I'm full, and the mp3 drive on server is as well.

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Dilbert1234567

i have 4 120's and i need more space, i still have 3 ide channels free, and i have 2 more pci slots i can shove ata cards into.

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tropple

When my tax refund arrives, I'm adding a terabyte to the file server ;-)

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aa1037

2x120gb in RAID-0

Coppertop

80 MB huh? Can you even fit an OS on that?!

ChrisJericho

274

1 X 74 gig Raptor
1 x 80 gig Western Digital ATA
1 x 120 gig Maxtor ATA


And I have a 250 gig Hitachi SATA on my Xmas list.

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alarment13

in my computer i have a 20 gig and an 80 gig, each with about 5 gigs of space on it, I jsut bought a new 160 gig on black friday, but have not taken it out of the package yet.
I also have a 250 gig external which has around 180 gigs of space left.

lunchbox

I only have 120gb because I don't have that much music (trapped in port blocked hell at college) and I don't save porn or pictures, I don't have many videos (the first 100 or so of Naruto) 70gig still free. HL2, CS:S, CS, UT2k3, UT, KOTOR, JK2, HL, +600 or so ROMs all installed.

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skaven

My fileserver (Slackware 9.1, Abit KT7A, T-bred 1466Mhz, 1G PC133) has 4 160G Seagate drives in a RAID-5 array, for around 480G of usable, protected disk space. It's about 77% full now.

jon_264

I have 520 GB on my windows PC and about 160 GB on my Linux Server. The plan is to eventually move alot of the drives onto my Linux Server and cut the windows PC down to a bare minimum. I think I need to do some housekeeping on my windows PC though as I am using about 75% of the available space and most of it is crap I'll never want or use again.

MooseODV

Dang... I guess I'm definitely on the lower end of the scale. I have 40 gigs in my primary computer, 30 in my secondary, and a 80 gig USB2 drive. The external drive has all my mp3s, vids, and the such. Need to get a bigger one and start backing up those dvds...

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-Anders

Meh, 860 MegaBytes in my laptop. With a whoopin' 330 MegaBytes of free harddisk space.
It's too slow (75MHz) to play MP3's/OGG's anyway, thus I have no real need for any extra space.

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tropple

Is anyone using SATA with RAID?

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60GB

15GB free.

Only use it to play games so dont need any more. Install game, play it to death, unistall it, play next (or leave it on if it has good MP)>

godxzilla

i had a friend that used to trade movies and he would keep anywhere from 500GB-1TB disk space in his system at one time. I always thought that was overkill but now am realizing that more disk space is always good. with over 90GB of MP3's and a few movies, i need space too! I have a 160GB and 2 80GB. My server (gentoo linux) has 4 74GB scsi drives in it -

doing the math, that would equal 608GB

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none, my HD is DEAD, this a friends computer.

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Kadath

I sprung for a 250 and I'm happy now. With 160 of that free, I think I'll be okay. I was inspired to get the 250 when I started to collect MST3K eps. At ~700MB/episode, I was filling my 80 GB fast. Then that failed and I was even happier. So now I have my old 13 gig as a Windows partition, and nothing else gets installed on it.

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Holo

73.6GB

2 30's and an older 13.6. I had an 80GB WD 8MB cache deal but it head crashed on me and I haven't bothered RMAing it. If you keep on top of it I don't see why you need over 100GB at this time, especially with a DVD burner. OLnly thing I could see is intense hi-res img work or the obvious, video editing.

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Slavakion

150 gigs, and 100 free. I think I have plenty of wiggle room here.

sailor

300 gigs--80 in my desktop, 20 in a server, 40 in my laptop, and a 160 external drive. I want another big one to use for backup purposes.

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godxzilla

haha that sucks! you can find great deals on HD's all over the net these days

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