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dibble9012 03-18-2007 03:20 PM

How much space is free on your computer?
 
Well, I finally have to break down and buy a larger hard drive for my macbook pro :) It currently has only 15gb left and filling up fast(out of 92gb total, 100gb drive)

Mainly filled up with music and TV shows in itunes, and lots of photos. I know I could get an external hard drive, but since it's my laptop I want everything I can on the internal drive.

So hopefully before the end of this week I'll have a 200gb internal drive installed and 2 100gb external laptop drives :) 1 100gb 7200rpm drive from my old powerbook, and the 100gb 7200 drive that is currently installed in this laptop.

I can't wait till we have 500gb laptop hard drives :)

So how much space do you laptop users have free? Do you use external drives for anything other than backups?

91TPU 03-18-2007 03:23 PM

ha my lappy sucks 20gigs total, C has like 2.5 gigs left, D is empty and is currently waiting to be filled. good thing i only keep limited amounts of music, video, pictures on it

dibble9012 03-18-2007 03:30 PM

Yea, I might have excessive amounts of music, videos, and pictures

43gb of Video
10gb of Music
4.5gb of Pictures

and about 700mb of actual work/documents, lol.

And I'll continue to keep everything on the same drive until they don't make laptop drives big enough. Of course I backup all of this on 2 external desktop sized drives.

This is what I plan on getting to put the old hard drive in. If anyone has suggestions for anything else that would be great, has to be FW400/USB 2.0 bus powered, and SATA. Also the same thing except PATA, preferably matching. Thats why I decided on this unit, it comes in PATA and SATA, so my old drive and the new drive match :) I'd rather have aluminum, but the clear is fine too.

http://eshop.macsales.com/images/Items/owcmstg800u2.jpg

Elkaholic 03-18-2007 03:35 PM

I have an 80Gig HD and it is half full so Ive got 40 left. I have a 120GB External at home that I need to get so I can back up everything.

89macrunner 03-18-2007 04:42 PM

On my ibook i have 35\80 used. No music or video just documents and pictures.

I have two external HD's

60gb WD 2.5in external has:
32gb of music
5gb of software
2gb of video

250gb external 3.5 drive made from a Maxtor HDD with two partitions on it.
I use Acronis (AWESOME) backup software to do this:
Image of my WD external hard drive.
Image of my Desktop PC with all the drivers stripped out but applications installed.

I backup the WD external image whenever I add more to my music library.

The 250gb external drive gets turned off when not in use to extend its life.

dibble9012 03-18-2007 05:26 PM

Yea I use DeJa Vu for backing up my mac, works great, makes a bootable copy so if my main hd dies, I can replace the hd and just clone the backup to the new drive and start working again.

lee 03-19-2007 03:46 AM

my pc has two 250gb harddrives.. so i have 500gb :D

however due to my pc having media center on it, i record a ton of tv, so i only have about 150 gigs left :(

Yota Tony 03-19-2007 07:08 AM

Drive 1 - 14BG free.
Drive 2 - 22.6GB free.

My laptop is for work only so I doubt I'll fill either drive up.

mastacox 03-19-2007 07:12 AM

I crank through the HD space no problem. I have two 200Gb hard drives, and a 60 Gb HD, between the two 200Gb drives I have perhaps 40Gb free. When I finally build a new computer, I'm going 1.5Tb (three 500Gb monstrosities) plus a "small" 100Gb for the OS, and never looking back :bigok:

HAVOC 03-21-2007 05:43 PM

I have 2 250GB HDD's. One is a quarter full, the other one is empty.

Dentonmac 03-21-2007 06:15 PM

Fellow Mac user! Excellent. There ARE a few of us out there.

PowerBook 17 - 11 gigs left on and 80 gig HD. Too much music, Freelance Design work and photos.

Dublin 03-21-2007 06:18 PM

Depends on the computer. My Powerbook 100g-3g free externals 80g, 80g, 60g, 30g and 10g. PC #1 gaming (2) 100g-60g & 40g free plus (2) 100g Raid array (may pull them and use for externals), (2) 80g externals. PC #2 movie recording (2) 80g. PC #3 old 486 500mb- 80mb free, 250mb full old Dos games and a 500mb Quick disk. iPAQ 63mb, storage card 512mb, CF 125 and micro drive 500mb. I've got too much junk, need to get some bigger drives and clean house.

DudeBud 03-22-2007 12:46 PM

around 500 gigs

i have 5 hds, 3 of which are 250 gigs, the other two are 160gigs

dibble9012 03-24-2007 12:37 PM

Well,finally got everything installed. 4200 RPM 200gb Toshiba drive in the Macbook Pro (which is a pita to open up btw) It's so nice to have over 100gb free space on a laptop!

Now I have two external 100gb laptop drives, might sell one of them soon so keep your eyes open for a "FS" thread :)

95ToyotaPU007 03-27-2007 11:53 AM

notebook - 45 GB
external HD - 300 GB

UncleBob 03-28-2007 12:13 PM

You guys are wierd.

I've only recently upgraded from a 2GB HD, 500MHZ machine. Did everything I needed it to do. Pics and Movies go to CD or DVD anyway. Had to pay attention to downloads and clean it regularly. I don't think my Brain even holds more than a few MB. And now, people are getting TB drives?

I hate computers, really. I've been IT support for 10 years now. When I get home from work, I don't really want to mess with them. I have a newer laptop that I've probably opened up twice, had it for a year now.

I really only use my PC for information. Forums and stuff. Oh, that, and downloading lots of pictures of boobies.

mastacox 03-28-2007 12:40 PM


Originally Posted by UncleBob (Post 50484094)
You guys are wierd.

I've only recently upgraded from a 2GB HD, 500MHZ machine. Did everything I needed it to do. Pics and Movies go to CD or DVD anyway. Had to pay attention to downloads and clean it regularly. I don't think my Brain even holds more than a few MB. And now, people are getting TB drives?

I have computer games where the full install in more than double the size of your entire hard drive. Hell, the install for Flight Simulator X is 10Gb!!! Not to mention that I encode my DVDs into DivX so that I can carry several with me on my 40 Gb external USB drive. In this day and age, I would have a lot of trouble getting by on less than 250Gb for my primary computer.

:nerd: :nerd: :nerd: :nerd:

bob200587 03-28-2007 12:52 PM

My Laptop has:
48.7GB used
44.3GB free

Total: 93.1 GB

My External Seadisk has
257GB used
115GB free

Total: 372GB

Of that 257 GB used
Video: 233GB
Music: 19.8GB
Pictures: 161MB
Documents: 2.4 GB

amusement 03-29-2007 07:59 AM

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CJM 03-29-2007 08:15 AM

I have 3 hard drives, a 160gb, 250gb and a 300gb. At last check I have oodles of free space but probably 200gb taken up with movie files for projects, and other junk.


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