How much HD space can you account for?

[PlatinumGold]

back in the day when an 80 mb hd was a large HD, i knew each and every file and folder on my HD. i knew why they were there and when i should / would delete them if necessary.

i was very aware of file management and took great pains to maintain a lot of free space.

now when 200 gb HD, i personally have about 350gb of HD space on the PC in question, i'm not nearly as good with my file management. i probably have lots of duplicates of certain files i downloaded, etc.

anyone see this trend? or is it just the excessively lazy like me that has gotten in this trap?

 

[sniperruff]

oh man i have 214mb left on my 73gig partition on my 120gig WD1200JB =(

 

[SynthDude2001]

It's not just you. I don't know what's taking up all the space on my 80gb drives...

My solution? Buy a bigger hard drive (soon)!

 

[BurnItDwn]

I have a pretty good idea whats taking up space, what files are duplicated, etc ....
though I could probably easily wipe out 200 to 300 GB of useless crap if I wanted to.

I find it more rewarding to just buy more hard drives then to delete things. It saves me time, and I can continue to be an internet packrat.

 

[TwiceOver]

I'm pretty good at keeping track of what is where. I have a lot of intentional duplicates. All my MP3s and User Files are synced nightly so they are duplicated.

 

[rh71]

I have 5 partitions and I'm a neat freak and do a lot of moving around. So I'm pretty sure what's where and how much.

BTW get Treesize ... it will tell you what's where and what's taking up the most space.

 

[alien42]

i use spacemonger on a regular basis to keep everything in check

 

[Booster]

I got only one partition and know all my stuff. I know that most of my drive is occupied by movies. I save them on DVDs frequently and always have more than 80% of the drive free, and it's only 80GB at the moment.

 

[aplefka]

I've only got 190 gigs, but I've filled it about 150-155 gigs even after reformatting 2 weeks ago.

My friend came up with a great idea, that rather than buy an external HDD, buy a bunch of DVD+Rs. And I furthered that by saying every month or so I'd make a DVD or two of what I've downloaded and put it on the DVD then delete it, and make a master list of what is on each DVD. Problem is, I found the 14-DVD tutorial on After Effects and I couldn't pass it up, so now I've gotta go out and buy a new spindle because I only have 8 DVDs left.

 

[markgm]

Originally posted by: rh71
I have 5 partitions and I'm a neat freak and do a lot of moving around. So I'm pretty sure what's where and how much.

BTW get Treesize ... it will tell you what's where and what's taking up the most space.

Useful utility, thanks!

 

[Oscar1613]

Originally posted by: rh71
I have 5 partitions and I'm a neat freak and do a lot of moving around. So I'm pretty sure what's where and how much.

BTW get Treesize ... it will tell you what's where and what's taking up the most space.

i use HD Scanner... gives you a nice pie chart so you can see whats taking the majority of the space

 

[Anubis]

have over 500 gigs total on 2 comps and im gonna say that 80% of that is used

and yes i know where all my stuff is

 

[BobDaMenkey]

My HDs on my main computer are about 60% full (120 and an 80) but my second computer is practically empty. It has an 80 and a 40, and the 40 doesn't even have 100mb used on it, and the 80 only has 15gb used.

I don't know half of what is taking up space on my main drive. Most of it is probably game footprints and a couple ripped DVDs. The second HDD is pr0n and music.

 

[Siddhartha]

I have seven hard drives. Each hd is dedicated to a certain type of information.

 

[CheesePoofs]

I normally keep fairly good track of my data. I've got a 160gb HD, but I just noticed that only 127gb are available for use. Where did the other 33gb go??

 

[imported_Phil]

Two drives, 320Gb total, and I know where it all is.

I also use CD Bank Cataloguer, which makes it extremely simple to keep track of what has been archived onto which disc. :thumbsup:

 

[Ronin]

2 separate systems:

<C: 105.36GB out of 114.46GB > <D: 33.2GB out of 152.55GB > <E: 293.03GB out of 312.66GB > <F: 13.29GB out of 19.07GB > <H: 0GB out of 0.83GB > <I have 444.88GB free out of 599.57GB available>
<C: 46.02GB out of 141.81GB > <H: 28.48GB out of 738.56GB > <P: 53.38GB out of 1908.97GB > <Q: 41.41GB out of 2031.45GB > <R: 40.13GB out of 1951.78GB > <S: 15.81GB out of 100.84GB > <I have 225.23GB free out of 6873.41GB available>

I know what ~95% of the data is (and there's roughly another TB or 2 running around that I just don't feel like showing atm).

 

[elbosco]

I cannot account for ~120GB of space.

 

[myusername]

Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
I normally keep fairly good track of my data. I've got a 160gb HD, but I just noticed that only 127gb are available for use. Where did the other 33gb go??

U make funnay?

 

[oogabooga]

i know what >most< of my data is though when i have been backing up prior to formats, i'm pretty sure i have it backed up 2 maybe 3 times more then needed going to go find those folders know

 

[Goosemaster]

interesting utilities in here....

 

[CheesePoofs]

Originally posted by: myusername

Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
I normally keep fairly good track of my data. I've got a 160gb HD, but I just noticed that only 127gb are available for use. Where did the other 33gb go??

U make funnay?

no

 

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: CheesePoofs

Originally posted by: myusername

Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
I normally keep fairly good track of my data. I've got a 160gb HD, but I just noticed that only 127gb are available for use. Where did the other 33gb go??

U make funnay?

no

Go to Disk Management, make a 33gb partition. Windows doesn't support big hard drives.

 

[mobobuff]

I have a 120GB space drive and I can tell you everything that's on it and where it's at.

To be fair, it's mostly media storage so... not that hard. It's also down to its last gigabyte .

 

[cjgallen]

I had a 160gb desktop HD. I let lots of downloads accumulate.

Now I'm on a laptop with a 40gb hard drive. I manage a lot better and burn lots of stuff.