i was just wondering, why do people get such big hard drives? anything over 40 gigs sounds like an overkill to me. the only reasons i can think of having a big hard drives is if u download alot of crap like movies/music, use virtual drives/cds, video editing, and programming. i only use like 15 gigs of my hdd out of 40.

1.how big is ur hdd?

2.how much of it do u actually use?

3.what do u use it for?

80 Gigs, and I use the whole thing. Videos are very large things, especially when you have all the raw footage you have to edit.

i have alot of digital video and pictures taken with my digital camera, I keep backups of dvds and software/game cds in case they get scratched its not a big loss. I also have alot of music cds i own that i ripped using EAC and encoded with FLAC (lossless).

Right now I have about 350Gigs of hard drive space. About 50Gs are all my essential stuff that I would really hate to lose, an extra 50Gs dedicated as a backup to the first 50Gs and all the rest is used for movies, ISOs, music, etc

1)I have two drives 4+20 Gigs..............

2) both of them have a lot of empty space(2.35gb & 7.34gb respectively)

3)regarding wot i use them for.....on the 4gb drive i have all the s/w installations n the 20gb drive is all data(music,movies if any,C++ programmes,games etc)

Actually anything that's possible on such an ancient machine(literally.... its a P2 333Mhz) n a slow internet connection to go with it.

How can anyone live on a 40gb?

I don't download too many movies or games because I'm not a big gamer, but I used to have to reformat each month because it was the only possible way to get more than 1gb of my hard drive back. When ever I manually cleaned it I kept almost all of the stuff.

I have a 160gb

As of now, I only have 20gb left.

Applications, RPG Maker XP, Huge Photoshop projects, Vectors, SuSE, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and music.

Another reason is so I can have huge amounts of virtual memory and page files.

I have a seperate partition at the beginning of the drive that takes 5 gigabytes. I share that between XP and VI (Vista) but I have another 5gb for the Linux Swap.

Edited July 31, 200521 yr by Floydian

For most people, its for all the p***...

I have HDs of all sizes... The main ones I use are 20GB, 40GB, 60GB, 80GB, and 160GB!

I use them all... They fill up pretty quick!

I use them for music, videos, games, pics, etc...

I have two HD, 200 GB each.

That sounds like a lot (an actually it is...), but somehow I manage to have 350 Gb taken..

It's funny... about five years ago, I bought a 10,3 GB hard drive and then I thought it was immense and that I would never be able to use all that space..

Times sure have changed...

my girlfriend told me its not the size of the HD its how you use it

Well, they tends to get filled up regardless the capacity....I have 4 x 250, 1 x 160, 1 x 80...but only 55gb free space now....

What I have on it is mostly movies, I'm a Documentary-freak and most of it is scientific oriented....also quite a few homemade movies.(no, not porn..aviation ).

I keep all of it in DVD format rather than burning them, so my hd's tends to fill up pretty quick..

Edited August 1, 200521 yr by Clint

but what do u have on it? i think that if i had like 500gb worth of space then i would somehow find a way to fill it but still, i dont do anything that requires so much space

Well, they tends to get filled up regardless the capacity....I have 4 x 250, 1 x 160, 1 x 80...but only 55gb free space now....

What I have on it is mostly movies, I'm a Documentary-freak and most of it is scientific oriented....also quite a few homemade movies.(no, not porn..aviation ).

I keep all of it in DVD format rather than burning them, so my hd's tends to fill up pretty quick..

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THAT MORE THAN A TERRABYTE OF SPACE!!

How the hell did you do that?

Well congrats anyways I guess..

my girlfriend told me its not the size of the HD its how you use it

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I think you might have misunderstood her!

I have 3 x 120gb drives and one 40gb drive. 2 of the 120s I have a exteranl as I'm a laptop user, the other 120 is in my xbox! I fill them up constantly, I'm sitting at about 40gb free right now total out of all of em. Moives, TONS of music, music vids... I have about 35 xbox games backed up at between 1-5gb/each so thats most of my space!

As soon as you start to make ISO images, you're screwed!

I have a 300Gb at work with around 100Gb of ISO and 100Gb of unattended material (with a lot of backups)

I am not even downloading films, music or games!

Edited August 2, 200521 yr by Incroyable HULK