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How do people manage to use so little?

No idea if my ISP has a bandwidth cap, and I don't think I can check my usage, either. I'm curious, because I use Hulu Plus on my PS3 quite a bit. Ah well.
 
Drako said:
LOL, I believe he is talking about the 250GB per month bandwidth cap that many ISPs have.
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Oh, well that's different. Then again, my mother basically only uses the internet for e-mail and the occasional photo, so I'm guessing her usage stats would be around 20 GB per month tops. My household streams high-def content fairly regularly and we've only hit 250 once in the past year.
 
Demon-Xanth said:
I have a 60GB SSD in my desktop, 60GB SSD in my laptop, and 80GB HDD in my work PC. None have over 40GB used.
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I have a 120GB SSD in my desktop at home and almost 1/2 of it is being used by the OS and all my programs. I have a 1TB drive for all my other files which is about 1/2 used as well.
 
I like that 62 GB is now considered little. That's well over 15 times as much space as my first build had in total. Ah, progress.
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My first build had 20MB MFM drives son. Don't talk to me about progress.

November 2011 (Incoming: 133051 MB / Outgoing: 44919 MB)
 
I'm about to downgrade to a 128GB SSD from a 500 GB HDD on my only computer (well, depending on the black friday deals *fingers crossed*): as prolific a compyooter user as I am, I think I can whittle it down to under that amount even w/ daily use (esp w/ NAS/Cloud storage so readily available)
 
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bobdole369 said:
My first build had 20MB MFM drives son. Don't talk to me about progress.

November 2011 (Incoming: 133051 MB / Outgoing: 44919 MB)
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Yeah? Well MY first computer didn't even HAVE a hard drive! It was a two-floppy Mac SE!

Although it was really the family's computer. The first computer that was just mine had an 80 MB drive (Mac IIcx) and the first one I built myself (Athlon XP based) had an 80 GB hard drive.
 
I tend to do a cleanup on my server to keep usage down. I don't really store anything on my computer.

I have nearly 2TB free now!

Code: 
/dev/sda3             433G   11G  400G   3% /
/dev/sda1             190M   25M  156M  14% /boot
tmpfs                 3.8G   48K  3.8G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/md0              4.5T  2.4T  1.9T  57% /raid1
 
i have 170GB in pictures and videos I have taken over the years alone

oh nevermind. I see that this thread is about bandwidth usage
 
Speaking of bandwidth my ISP is considering putting a 35GB cap. I am going to blow that like there's no tomorrow. Hopefully existing accounts will be grandfathered, because it's going to royally suck. What I don't get is, I thought they had outlawed that here. I don't get how ISPs are getting away with this. It would be like TV stations regulating how much TV you watch.
 
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 60G 7.9G 49G 14% /
devtmpfs 1.9G 220K 1.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.9G 18M 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/md0 60G 7.9G 49G 14% /
/dev/md1 1.8T 808G 876G 48% /home
 
vg601a-dhcp235:scratch derp2$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 931Gi 76Gi 855Gi 9% /
devfs 188Ki 188Ki 0Bi 100% /dev
map -hosts 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /net
map auto_home 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /home
/dev/disk1s2 20Gi 335Mi 20Gi 2% /Volumes/derp2
vg601a-dhcp235:scratch derp2$
 
This is the highest I have gone. I'm usually under 60gb.
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AstroManLuca said:
Yeah? Well MY first computer didn't even HAVE a hard drive! It was a two-floppy Mac SE!

Although it was really the family's computer. The first computer that was just mine had an 80 MB drive (Mac IIcx) and the first one I built myself (Athlon XP based) had an 80 GB hard drive.
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That was my first IBM compatible machine buddy. My first "computer" had a datasette, the VIC-20. If you really wanna get nasty - I wet my beak on a Casio fx-702. That wasn't even a computer....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_FX-702P
 
Schadenfreude said:
I'm about to downgrade to a 128GB SSD from a 500 GB HDD on my only computer (well, depending on the black friday deals *fingers crossed*): as prolific a compyooter user as I am, I think I can whittle it down to under that amount even w/ daily use (esp w/ NAS/Cloud storage so readily available)
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yeah, moving from a 750GB 7200 HDD to a 128 SSD. waiting for the crucial m4 ssd to go on sale.
 
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