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Need advice on size of hard drive to get

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russr

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I'm thinking of the D740x 40gb or 60gb. The 60gb is frequently out of stock, so my question is whether or not 40gb will be enough.

here's the type of stuff I do.
gaming
office
windows xp
digital camera (stills)
programming

That's about it.
 
40GB is alot of space. It's enough for what you listed. The only catch is if you need more storage in the future. But, by then, you'll want the super-duper ATA-333 drive anyways.
 
I would get a small/large drive combo. Say, a 20g partitioned for system files and backup, and a large drive, 40g, for apps or just your work. It's nice to have some redundancy, and you could always just use RAID to array your disks. 2 HDD's is really nice though. Take it from someone who has had 2 full meltdowns with total data loss. Maxtor has a 40g for $80 i think, and it's slightly faster seek time than an IBM.
 
40GB will be enough for ya for now, but I've always found that once I have more space I always find ways to fill it. 3 months ago I thought I would NEVER fill 2 80GB hard drives, now I'm burning like crazy trying to make more room. Depending on the price difference though it may be more economical to get the 60GB. Just do a capacity/price comparison & see which gives you a better deal.
 
If you have a burner then stills never have to stay long enough on your hard drive to be a problem and you can have quite a few modern game installs (1-2gig) on a 40gig, but you can have more on a 60gig......🙂
 


<< 40 is alot to me because im only using 4.3 >>



My "WinXP" partition has 6 of 10GB taken up. What takes all the space though is my 40GB "Archives" partitions. Basically I have every version of AIM (and every other little app) still stored in this one 40GB partition...VERY handy 😉
 
60 GB is probably the optimal for dollars/GB. Besides, you can never have enough HD space. Who wants to swap CDs every time you need something?

I have 266 GB and doing my best to fill them. 😉
 
40Gb will be fine. Once you finished games you will remove them anyway. Office and documents take no space. XP with all the extras is not a lot.
Unless you use a lot of digital camera pictures and store them on the HD then 40Gb is fine.
Just use a burner to create backups if necessary or you could purchase another cheap drive 5400.
 
I second the idea of small/big hdd configuration by swifty3.

And you can never have enough hdd space. Its amazing how you find a way to fill them up.

I've got 4 hdds now.
20GB (partitioned for win98/win2k 10gb each)
40GB for all my backup files, drivers, programs etc
40GB for multimedia... mp3, movies, digicam pics etc
40GB for games (with no-cd patch so they run without cds)

This way, I don't have all my eggs in one basket.. so to speak.
 
I'd go for the 60Gb drive. I have a 27Gb application/games drive and a 60Gb archive drive. I had to delete 8Gb of MP3s and 7Gb DivX movies to make space for the 20Gb + of MP3s I'm in the middle of downloading this week. You can never have too much space when you have broadband 🙂
 
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