How Much HD space do You have? - Tilted Forum Project - TFP - Sexuality, Philosophy and Political Discussion

hawkeye · 12-10-2004, 03:05 AM

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?

Nisses · 12-10-2004, 03:32 AM

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)

Dragonlich · 12-10-2004, 03:34 AM

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 · 12-10-2004, 03:54 AM

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 · 12-10-2004, 07:50 AM

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 · 12-10-2004, 08:04 AM

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

the_marq · 12-10-2004, 08:24 AM

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.

Homey_V · 12-10-2004, 09:08 AM

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

heccubusiv · 12-10-2004, 10:16 AM

120 Gb, quater full

soccerchamp76 · 12-10-2004, 10:52 AM

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

shadowalker · 12-10-2004, 11:11 AM

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

Painted · 12-10-2004, 11:18 AM

120 GB drive, 108GB free

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

sandeep · 12-10-2004, 12:42 PM

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 · 12-10-2004, 12:45 PM

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

kutulu · 12-10-2004, 12:56 PM

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 · 12-10-2004, 01:02 PM

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

Locke7 · 12-10-2004, 01:12 PM

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.

12-10-2004, 01:14 PM

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. : )

12-10-2004, 01:14 PM

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 · 12-10-2004, 01:22 PM

...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)
-----------
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.

Dilbert1234567 · 12-10-2004, 01:26 PM

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.

tropple · 12-10-2004, 01:31 PM

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

aa1037 · 12-10-2004, 04:42 PM

2x120gb in RAID-0

Coppertop · 12-10-2004, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.

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

ChrisJericho · 12-10-2004, 11:08 PM

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.

alarment13 · 12-10-2004, 11:19 PM

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 · 12-10-2004, 11:29 PM

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.

skaven · 12-11-2004, 12:22 AM

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 · 12-13-2004, 02:23 AM

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.

View Poll Results: How Much HD space do you have?
>20 gig	9	6.16%
>40 gig	10	6.85%
>80 gig	23	15.75%
>100 gig	36	24.66%
>250 gig	39	26.71%
>500 gig	20	13.70%
>750 gig	7	4.79%
>1 terra	2	1.37%
Voters: 146. You may not vote on this poll

12-10-2004, 03:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
hawkeye back from sabbatical Join Date: May 2003 Location: Mosptopia	How Much HD space do You have? 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? __________________ You're not fat, You're just a giant ball of love, covered in anger.

12-10-2004, 03:32 AM	#2 (permalink)
Nisses Shade Join Date: May 2003 Location: Belgium	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) __________________ Moderation should be moderately moderated.

12-10-2004, 03:34 AM	#3 (permalink)
Dragonlich 42, baby! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The Netherlands	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. Last edited by Dragonlich; 12-10-2004 at 03:41 AM.

12-10-2004, 08:04 AM	#6 (permalink)
Lak Insane Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New Zealand	aw man, why is there no "< 20gb" option? us penniless students can't afford this "hard drive space" you speak of __________________ ignorance really is bliss.

12-10-2004, 03:54 AM	#4 (permalink)
bal8664 Insane Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Rochester, NY	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

12-10-2004, 07:50 AM	#5 (permalink)
laconic1 vroom Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Arapahoe County	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

12-10-2004, 08:24 AM	#7 (permalink)
the_marq All hail the Mountain King Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Black Mesa	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. __________________ The Truth: Johnny Cash could have kicked Bruce Lee's ass if he wanted to. #3 in a series

12-10-2004, 09:08 AM	#8 (permalink)
Homey_V Psycho Join Date: May 2003 Location: Canada	450 Gigs... I need more space!!!!! So much to save, so little time! __________________ You did what with a duck?

12-10-2004, 10:16 AM	#9 (permalink)
heccubusiv #1 Irish Fan Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The Burgh	120 Gb, quater full __________________ Fuck Ohio

12-10-2004, 10:52 AM	#10 (permalink)
soccerchamp76 Go Cardinals Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: St. Louis/Cincinnati	200 GB partitioned into 80 GB system drive and 120 GB data drive. __________________ Brian Griffin: Ah, if my memory serves me, this is the physics department. Chris Griffin: That would explain all the gravity.

12-10-2004, 11:11 AM	#11 (permalink)
shadowalker Psycho Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Firefox yourself and change the world!	just under 750 gig's, have about 500 free. __________________ I'll make ya famous!

12-10-2004, 11:18 AM	#12 (permalink)
Painted Pleasure Burn Join Date: Dec 2004	120 GB drive, 108GB free Then again all of my movies, mp3's, pics, are on my server.

12-10-2004, 12:42 PM	#13 (permalink)
sandeep Insane Join Date: Apr 2003	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.

12-10-2004, 12:45 PM	#14 (permalink)
bendsley Professional Loafer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: texas	Around 500gigs or so in my computer(s), and both TiVos have 200gigs worth of space in them. __________________ "You hear the one about the fella who died, went to the pearly gates? St. Peter let him in. Sees a guy in a suit making a closing argument. Says, "Who's that?" St. Peter says, "Oh, that's God. Thinks he's Denny Crane." Last edited by bendsley; 12-10-2004 at 12:47 PM.

12-10-2004, 12:56 PM	#15 (permalink)
kutulu Junkie Join Date: Mar 2004	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.

12-10-2004, 01:02 PM	#16 (permalink)
Embic Insane Join Date: Apr 2003	i have 360gb's total and under 20gb free

12-10-2004, 01:12 PM	#17 (permalink)
Locke7 Insane Join Date: Jun 2004	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.

12-10-2004, 01:14 PM	#18 (permalink)
OperativeK Guest	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. : )

12-10-2004, 01:14 PM	#19 (permalink)
OperativeK Guest	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.

12-10-2004, 01:22 PM	#20 (permalink)
SiN strangelove Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: ...more here than there...	...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) ----------- 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. __________________ - + - ° GiRLie GeeK ° - + - ° 01110010011011110110111101110100001000000110110101100101 Therell be days/When Ill stray/I may appear to be/Constantly out of reach/I give in to sin/Because I like to practise what I preach

12-10-2004, 01:26 PM	#21 (permalink)
Dilbert1234567 Devils Cabana Boy Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Central Coast CA	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. __________________ Donate Blood! "Love is not finding the perfect person, but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen

12-10-2004, 01:31 PM	#22 (permalink)
tropple Junkie Join Date: Apr 2004	When my tax refund arrives, I'm adding a terabyte to the file server ;-) __________________ +++++++++++Boom!

12-10-2004, 04:42 PM	#23 (permalink)
aa1037 Finally can use a custom title Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Long Island, NY	2x120gb in RAID-0

12-10-2004, 11:08 PM	#25 (permalink)
ChrisJericho A Constellation of Frustration Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Seattle	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. __________________ <ngdawg> any one else equate jericho with a stage extra who just runs across the stage, yells one word and runs off?

12-10-2004, 11:19 PM	#26 (permalink)
alarment13 Crazy Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: new mexico	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.

12-10-2004, 11:29 PM	#27 (permalink)
lunchbox Thank God hockey is back Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Deeeeeetroit	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. __________________ A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams

12-11-2004, 12:22 AM	#28 (permalink)
skaven Insane Join Date: May 2003 Location: Austin, TX	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.

12-13-2004, 02:23 AM	#29 (permalink)
jon_264 Tilted Join Date: Nov 2004	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.