I have a 20 gig and I never have more than 3-4 gigs used. I store everything on CDR's. If there is software I want to use I install it, use it then I uninstall it. So why should I get a large Drive? Most of us are gamers and we know that having alot of stuff on your HD can slow it down. So why all the space??
Do we really need these large hard drives??
- Thread starter luvrambus
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MP3's, backup files, downloaded files (broadband rulez). I have almost 50 gig's total, half of it used.
yes, of course I have MP3, and MPEGS and the such, but I don't store them on my hard drive, I keep them all on CD's. The more stuff you have on your hard drive the slower it goes.
Now that some games are 500-800 or even 1-1.5g , that doesn't leave much room for too many things, especially if you dual boot.
I have at least 6Gigs of Mp3s...probably more and my collection isn't even that big comapared to alot of peoples...my best friend has over 2500...
It's nice to be able to have all my MP3s indexed and sorted nicely on my hard drive so I have easy access them, it's rather annoying to try and remmeber if song blah blah blah is on Mp3 CD 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8....
It's not like you can label a CD with every song on it...
And if you have more than one OS
I have Win98SE and Linux and I've been thinking about making a Win2k partition to.
It's nice to be able to have all my MP3s indexed and sorted nicely on my hard drive so I have easy access them, it's rather annoying to try and remmeber if song blah blah blah is on Mp3 CD 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8....
It's not like you can label a CD with every song on it...
And if you have more than one OS
I have Win98SE and Linux and I've been thinking about making a Win2k partition to.
I gotta do a megaburn again 
cuz my 40 and 20 are jam packed!!! Guess I can burn my 70th mp3 cd now Can't wait to break 100. So storage is SWEET! If I could afford it, I'd pick up one of those 80giger's, but oh well
cuz my 40 and 20 are jam packed!!! Guess I can burn my 70th mp3 cd now Can't wait to break 100. So storage is SWEET! If I could afford it, I'd pick up one of those 80giger's, but oh well "yes, of course I have MP3, and MPEGS and the such, but I don't store them on my hard drive, I keep them all on CD's. "
I'm with noriaka on this one. I have a 4gb mp3 collection why would I want to spread that out over a bunch of CDs and go hunting all the time.
Now if 5.2GB or greater DVDRW was more consumer priced then we'd have something to talk about
luvrambus
"If there is software I want to use I install it, use it then I uninstall it. "
U must have alot of time on your hands. I can easily fill a 20GB drive with apps I use everyday. ie: Photoshop (with KPT, etc...), Office, Visual Studio (Full install > 6gb....I do alot od Dev work), Oracle, a few Dev tools like VB, VC, WebObjects, and boom there goes 20GB.
Even if you only include Games you can easily fill 10gb with Q2, Q3, Diablo2, AOE2 (AOK), RA, SFC. (Multiplayer D2 is almost 1gb on it's own, a Full Install is over 2gb).
Thorin
I'm with noriaka on this one. I have a 4gb mp3 collection why would I want to spread that out over a bunch of CDs and go hunting all the time.
Now if 5.2GB or greater DVDRW was more consumer priced then we'd have something to talk about
luvrambus
"If there is software I want to use I install it, use it then I uninstall it. "
U must have alot of time on your hands. I can easily fill a 20GB drive with apps I use everyday. ie: Photoshop (with KPT, etc...), Office, Visual Studio (Full install > 6gb....I do alot od Dev work), Oracle, a few Dev tools like VB, VC, WebObjects, and boom there goes 20GB.
Even if you only include Games you can easily fill 10gb with Q2, Q3, Diablo2, AOE2 (AOK), RA, SFC. (Multiplayer D2 is almost 1gb on it's own, a Full Install is over 2gb).
Thorin
Wow! I only have a 6.4Gb HD, and it is enough for me. I just make sure I keep it real tidy. And I don't have that many MP3's either. Under 100mb of mp3's is all I got.
And I don't have that many MP3's either. Under 100mb of mp3's is all I got.that's why I have my ( shameless plug)Ide drives, and a scsi up for sale- I was using 20 gigers, and hardly filled 1/3, so I went to IBM 9 gig scsi's.
I used to use a 261MB Seagate HD... And that was with Win95 on top of it. Usually had about 20MB free.
I couldn't have anything installed... All I had was IE 5, Win95 and ICQ 99. Oh yeah, Outlook Express too. Had a tiny bit of room for web pages, but not much.
That was in the days of the P83. Now I'm using a 412.5MHz K6-2/350 w/96MB RAM and (best out of all of these things) a 20GB Quantum Fireball Plus LM. :Q The Quantum made the most massive difference, as a single upgrade.
Do we need these large hard drives? No. That answer is no, for everybody. Now, if you change the question, that's a different story. If the question was "do we need these large hard drives to store our apps, games and MP3s?", the answer for most of us would most definitely be yes.
So far, with my 20GB hard drive, I've never been able to fill more than 11GB... But, I don't have all that much stuff to install. At the moment I have 1.38GB of MP3s, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 98 and BeOS triple-booting, as well as Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament, IE 5, Outlook Express 5, the usual. I have several different installations of ICQ (to keep 2K and 98 from messing each other up.. I have it all on the same partition, a real fatty FAT32)... ICQ98, ICQ99b, ICQ2000a, ICQ2000b...
Anyway, right now I have 11.6/19.1GB free ("20.5"GB hd.. ha). Not bad... Still got plenty of room, and my hd is several months old!
-RSI
I couldn't have anything installed... All I had was IE 5, Win95 and ICQ 99. Oh yeah, Outlook Express too. Had a tiny bit of room for web pages, but not much.
That was in the days of the P83. Now I'm using a 412.5MHz K6-2/350 w/96MB RAM and (best out of all of these things) a 20GB Quantum Fireball Plus LM. :Q The Quantum made the most massive difference, as a single upgrade.
Do we need these large hard drives? No. That answer is no, for everybody. Now, if you change the question, that's a different story.
If the question was "do we need these large hard drives to store our apps, games and MP3s?", the answer for most of us would most definitely be yes. So far, with my 20GB hard drive, I've never been able to fill more than 11GB... But, I don't have all that much stuff to install. At the moment I have 1.38GB of MP3s, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 98 and BeOS triple-booting, as well as Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament, IE 5, Outlook Express 5, the usual. I have several different installations of ICQ (to keep 2K and 98 from messing each other up.. I have it all on the same partition, a real fatty FAT32)... ICQ98, ICQ99b, ICQ2000a, ICQ2000b...
Anyway, right now I have 11.6/19.1GB free ("20.5"GB hd.. ha). Not bad... Still got plenty of room, and my hd is several months old!
-RSI
The same question would apply to anything then! Do you need a car? No. Do you need a 500MHz+ CPU? No. Do we need 256MB RAM? No. But like everything else, the bigger and faster you have, the quicker and easier and more efficient your time is spent... Sure I can swap out CD's like mad and reinstall every app when I need to use it (making sure to backup my Outlook Express e-mail to floppy everytime I need to use another app. Sure you don't NEED a huge hard drive. You know how when you run outta RAM you can notice your HDD swapping out data like crazy, slowing your overall system performance? Well, imagine having to do that with CD-ROM's... There's no way it's worth it... Anyhow, time for bed, cheers!
LOL, your question is funny considering your handle.
I have a 20GB and have filled it only once. I was playing around with divx and mpeg's and what not and, er well it filled up my hard drive for the better part of a day.
I agree with everyone else on the mp3 deal, as it is I hate having to change game cd's in the cd player much less having to root around for the mp3 cd I want to listen to.
I have a 20GB and have filled it only once. I was playing around with divx and mpeg's and what not and, er well it filled up my hard drive for the better part of a day.
I agree with everyone else on the mp3 deal, as it is I hate having to change game cd's in the cd player much less having to root around for the mp3 cd I want to listen to.
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Most of us are gamers and we know that having alot of stuff on your HD can slow it down.
Firstly, how does it slow you down? If you are a gamer you should have enough RAM to avoid constant paging anyway.
Secondly, you are gamer and therefore you have just answered your own question. A quick check on my HD tells me that Q3 takes up 460 MB of space and Unreal takes up 400 MB of space. That's almost a Gig for two games.
Firstly, how does it slow you down? If you are a gamer you should have enough RAM to avoid constant paging anyway.
Secondly, you are gamer and therefore you have just answered your own question. A quick check on my HD tells me that Q3 takes up 460 MB of space and Unreal takes up 400 MB of space. That's almost a Gig for two games.
Hmm lets see. Games, ISOs, Movies, Apps, Music, and Porn.
They take up alot of space..I need a bigger drive...
They take up alot of space..I need a bigger drive...
mp3 mp3 mp3 what else.
supposedly what if you get mp3s faster than you can burn them? =p
then you'll need big hard drives =p simple as that.
supposedly what if you get mp3s faster than you can burn them? =p
then you'll need big hard drives =p simple as that.
C: Drive 30GB Maxtor (1.45 GB Free)
D: Drive 28.5 GB Seagate (7.59 GB Free)
The only reason I have so much free space is that I just dumped a bunch of stuff onto CDR's.
D: Drive 28.5 GB Seagate (7.59 GB Free)
The only reason I have so much free space is that I just dumped a bunch of stuff onto CDR's.
First of all, people with gigs and gigs of MP3s most likely listen to an eighth of the songs. Putting whole albums and making your own CDs into MP3s is a waste of space. Storing movies on your hard drive is also a waste of space. How often do you watch the movies? Do you keep your video tapes in the VCR 24/7...no. So why waste 300-900 megs of space per movie on your harddrive? Storing backup files on the same harddrive is stupid. The purpose of having backups is just in case you harddrive fails. If your harddrive fails, then how good are those backup files.
I also bet that that those people that put their games on the harddrives probably have 50+ speed CD-roms.
The only reason to have extremely large harddrives is if you're in video production or pirating.
So don't make excuses for having the biggest this or the fastest that, when we all know you get the stuff because you're lacking in other places.
I also bet that that those people that put their games on the harddrives probably have 50+ speed CD-roms.
The only reason to have extremely large harddrives is if you're in video production or pirating.
So don't make excuses for having the biggest this or the fastest that, when we all know you get the stuff because you're lacking in other places.
a jr. have speak. What would you say for someone like me that a an FTP serving porn movies? What should I do to save some space? Are we all stupid for having such large HD? Is it our fault because HD manufacture have come down in prices so much?
? What should I do to save some space? Are we all stupid for having such large HD? Is it our fault because HD manufacture have come down in prices so much?TRENDING THREADS
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