What's the size of your hard drive???

On one pc I have 40G and the other 85G. Neither one is loaded down.

Most of todays hard drives are overkill. Unless you are editing a major motion picture they really are more than most people need. I bought my PC with an 80G drive. I have absolutely everything on it I can possibly think of. I have 55 gigs left.

But when I buy my next PC I wager it will have at least a 120G as standard equipment. The salesperson will use this as a great selling point and I will laugh uncontrollably.

I have a 37 Gig HD and I'm using a little over 10GB. That's with XP, MS office, and a few games installed.

Better question would be what is your seek time and RPM?

It not the size that matters, but what you can do with it...!

In the past it was essential to keep getting a bigger hard drive because the software was getting bigger. It was taking up most of the drive if you had half dozen programs. It seems that the software has leveled out. I have about 6 major programs and they hardly put a dent on my drives.

Bill, I heard that before but it was usually from the have nots.

I though I went over board,240G should keep me going for a little while

I have a 20gb and and an 80gb in my desktop with about 50gb free between them and a 30gb in my notebook with about 5gb free.

40G and 512MB Ram myself

on my workstation 30g, and my fileserver server has 80g. need another soon though... I keep 5 local gigs for ps scratchdisk ( a gig of ram is all this mobo will hold...not a mistake i will make twice).

I use two x 30G - one for progs, one for backups. I would like a bigger slave though to keep more frequent backups.

My PC have 40gb, my Mac at work 40gb, my mobile 16kb, my mind ???terabites (i never counted )

I have three hard drive, two 30GB and one 10GB. I use one 30GB for my programs and O/S and one 30GB for toatal image backup with PowerQuest Drive Image. The 10GB drive I use for shareware type programs that I download from the net and for any program that I don't have a disk for. If a program is important to me then I will burn a disk to hold it for possible re-installment if my system blows up. I have 384MG of ram and since it is an older pc, I can't add any more. I am on the verge of purchasing a P4 system that I hope to build myself,(my first time building my own pc and if anyone has any advice along those lines, I could certainly use some) with 120GB of storage and 1GB of ram. That should hold me for the next 10 years or so (I hope).

HuronJoe: a gig of ram might be enough. Anything for a monitor it should be fine with a moderate amount of history steps, but you'll have trouble with poster-sized stuff with multiple layers, especially at the resolutions needed for printing. So I suess it depends on your design jobs.

I have two 40GB hard drives, one of which is pretty much emty (it's gonna be used to edit all my florida holiday video) And the other one is about half full, with my bigest folder including the windows one (2.03GB) being my Microsoft train simulator folder at 2.42GB!

I think it's crazy that a sim like TS should take up so much space. My uncle who is a train fanatic has his TS folder at about 10GB i think!

my internal is only 10 but my external firewire is 80. i'd like to have another 80. i don't have enough space to do it, but i would prefer to rip my entire cd collection to disk. that way if i want to hear some specific song i just type it in the box and there it is... or if i want to hear everything by one artist.. or make mix tapes for the car.. or listen to every song i have with the word 'black' in it.. you get the idea.

another 80 would probably do it just fine

Have a 7200RPM 13 Gig and a 5400 rpm 8.4 gig backup drive..... I really need about another 60 or 80 gig for all the .MP3s.....

I picked up a few 200mgz ibm business machines at a show really, really cheap aabout a year and a half ago, just to play with, make workstations out of, etc. I set one up as a file server here in my office and DANG, it is the nicest thing I have ever had. There's no way I could go back. I put an 80 gig drive in it, set it on my desk with a reasonably priced KVM switch and linksys router, and it has served me tirelessly ever since. Now, when someone in the livingroom is lilstening to mp3's, they aren't coming off my hard drive. My own drives aren't taking a beating from indesriminate downloading/deleting, and the automation perks are amazing. Any cron-type jobs i need done are over there, and when downloading large files I don't have to waste resources on my PC, which gives me more for my actual work.

Just as a tip to anyone who is cramming huge drives into their machine, don't overlook old, supposedly-obsolete machines as workhorses. a 200mgz machine can be bought for 25-50 bucks if you catch the right guy, and will run 99% of all software in existance well. Sure, you're not gonna do design work on it, but think of all the repetitive, system-draining stuff you do *while* you are designing that you can shuffle off to the server.

sorry to rant on, but I honestly could not do without it now, especially since my workstation isn't the only workstation on my home network. I see several here that are putting huge drives in their machines, and this is really prefereable to me.

p.s. anything from a p90 on makes a darn good webradio/mp3 stereo as well.

How about my p75 then, eh?

/me bets that all posters in this thread are men

"my drive is bigger than yours, therefore I am more and better abled to procreate than you are, muwahahaa!! Come here, women!"

How about my p75 then, eh?

/me bets that all posters in this thread are men

"my drive is bigger than yours, therefore I am more and better abled to procreate than you are, muwahahaa!! Come here, women!"

ugh, i dunno about a 75. I have a p90 laptop that I have hooked external speakers to in the bedroom, and it makes a darn good webradio and E-Book reader (simultaneously). Ya never know til ya try. If ya think about it, machines were doing the same basic jobs then that they are now, so if you could put together a good, light set of apps, I'm sure you could find good uses for it. SOunds like a linux box to me.

Most of the trouble I end up having with older systems isn't the amount of oomph the processor has, but the amount of ram.

Hmm. I have plenty of RAM in my 'new' box, but windows only uses a fraction of it and swaps the rest to disk. Imagine that: 640M RAM and the highes peak value I ever saw was about 200!

As for the p75: it's not really suited as a mp3-player. Fairly easy to make it skip.

Crae: "my drive is bigger than yours, therefore I am more and better abled to procreate than you are, muwahahaa!! Come here, women!"

Its not your size that counts, its your rpm!

well i spent alot, i got like a 22,750 RPM with 4 160 gigs links

Wow...I must be a hardware junkie....I have an 80, 60, 45 and a 40. Of those I have 120 gigs free....

My hole thing is every time I walk into a store there it is that four lettle word (SALE)and I can't resist, I just picked up another 60G for what I don't know I have so many parts now I should just build another PC.