how full is your HDD(s)

[jacheatamobits]

maybe this could be a poll?

im only at 20GB right now, but im wondering what kind of space ill need in the near future (compared to others responses), so this info is kinda important.

i was thinking...

0-20GB
20-40Gb
40-80Gb
80-120Gb
120Gb+

[jspam]

Right now I'm at 60GB out of 80GB on my main PC, and 13 out of 20 on my lappy.

It depends on what you are going to use the drive for. I do alot of mp3 stuff, video recording / editing, and gaming. Plus I dont like to back stuff up very often or uninstall things I'm not using at the moment.

For me, when I made the an upgrade (from 30) I didnt look at anything under 80 gigs.

[jacheatamobits]

see, thats the thing... i do a little of everything. and when the sata drives get here, i want to be sure to have the space i need, i want to be able to not have to clean out my drives and reformat as much.

i guess part of my question should be: what do you use your HDD for, and how fast foes it fill up

AAARRGH! i wish this was alot easier to explain, just that i need more space, and i dont know how much space i need in the long run.

so i guess part of my question would be: how long have you had your HDD?

but the original POLL would work very well to satisfy my curiosity, seeming as you can tell a little about what a person uses their HDD for just by being in the forums for awhile.

ill shut up now

[MEAT BAG]

Drive C of 19.0G has 10.3G free.
Drive F of 18.6G has 2.3G free.
Drive G of 18.6G has 6.54G free.
Drive H of 28.6G has 51.6MB free.
Drive I of 28.6G has 3.12G free.
Drive J of 114G has 76.6G free.

Total Storage: 228G Total Used: 128G Total Free: 99.0G

[cryogen97]

4.5 GB dedicated system drive: 500MB free
17.2 GB general use: 2 GB free
17.2 media only drive: 565 MB free

So about 3 GB free out of 38.9
I need another HD really soon.

[Gregory_WE]

I've used 6GB / 74.5GB :)

[TheCor4D]

20GB left on my 80GB drive

[ManOfKnight]

Drive C: 65GB of 74.5GB
Drive D: 48.7GB of 48.8GB
Drive E: 25.4GB of 25.6GB

Total free space = 139.1GB
Total Used= 9.8GB

[Codeman05]

Drive c: - 5.78GB of 9.76GB (Windows n Apps)
Drive d: - 16.31GB of 28.38GB (Games)
Drive e: - 87.06GB of 118.85GB (Storage/media)

total: 109.15GB of 157GB array

[Penguin4x4]

Half way through my 33GB, (It is a 40GB Maxtor, though once formated and partioned with WinXP, only 33GB is usable, :D:D)

[Carnil]

On my old system, 12 GB out of 12 GB used after four years of downloading stuff.
On my new system, 13 GB out of 120 GB used after about six months.
On my really old system, 320 MB out of 250 MB after about four years.
On my Mac, 240 MB out of 250 MB after about three years

I've found that, regardless of the size of the hard drive, I end up filling it after about four years.

[Tygur]

I basically use my PC for programming and games. I also do web browsing and email, but who doesn't? I also store all my music on my PC, and just about every file I download gets saved on drive E (freeware, shareware, etc). I'm totally against software piracy, so there is no large cache of software and games.

I have an 80GB and 40GB hard drive, and I'm using up almost 72 GB. A good amount of it is probably just wasted space taken up by things I never bothered deleting because I didn't need to.

[Wonderboy]

Drive c: 13.35 free 76.32 total
Drive e: 53.16 free 115.04 total
Drive f: 27.25 free 115.04 total

total for all drives 93.76 GB free / 306.39 GB total

thinking about getting 2 more 180's for a raid array :rolleyes:

[BinarySuperman]

3gb's free out of 40gb's

[larva]

Originally posted by Penguin4x4
Half way through my 33GB, (It is a 40GB Maxtor, though once formated and partioned with WinXP, only 33GB is usable, :D:D)

You must have a bios limitation then. A drive rated at 40GB is actually 36-38GB in size, and there is no loss from partitioning and formatting. The drive manufacturers use to use this excuse for over-rating their drives, but now admit that the simply call a 1,000,000,000 bytes a gig. In reality a GB is 1073MB, not 1000. 40 divided by 1.073 is 37.2, not 33. The type of partition and formating affects storage efficiency, not the realized size. Drives are all rated in terms of formatted capacity, it's just that they have modified the definition of GB to overstate the capacity of the drives. The degree of difference between the rating and the actual capacity is less than you are experiencing, meaning the bios is not allowing access to the entire drive.

[Blueacid]

My 40gb is seen as 38gb in Windows 98 (Grr).

Out of the 40, 10gb are free. (that *WAS* 15gb a month ago, but I just got ADSL, as opposed to Dial-suck - D/LOAD CRAZY!)

[beezee]

21GB free out of 75GB
(WD 80GB SE)

[shadowdr]

c: windows 6.39 used of 18.6
d:games 6.22 used of 18.6
e:programs 2.41 used of 18.6
f:downloads 6.26 used of 18.6
i:backup 7.51 used of 18.6
thats 29 gigs used of 93 from 2x 40 gigs in raid and 1 20 gig.i also have at least a dozen cdr's and cdrw's backing up my backups.

[PhobMX]

17 gb out of 75 (wd SE) a lil bit of everything (winxp and linux)

[JoT]

5.7 GB of my 38.3 drive left, MP3s and pr0n; 1.19 of my bro's 38.3 drive left, I kinda commandeered his for my music videos and game ISOs (all legit, I'm just paranoid :rolleyes: )

[GT2000]

44.8gb used on my 120gb (111gb really...), and on my 60gb all i have is a single 1.5gb partition for the swap file ATM, maybe I'll dip back into linux when I have more free time :)

[MEAT BAG]

hopefully my two 250gig and 80 gig maxtors are on there way.

[gwcz]

c: 23gb - 40gb
d: 10gb - 80gb
e: 64gb - 80gb
f: 37gb - 80gb

total: 134gb - 280gb

[x1xBugsBunnyx1x]

i have abit more then 400gbs installed right now with 112gbs free, keep in mind a DVD takes around 10gbs each to store & twice that to encode..
i do alot of video editing/encoding/ripping etc etc..
most peeps wont need that capacity..

[mbentley]

here's what i have in my computer presently.
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mbentley/disk_usage.jpg

[jacheatamobits]

WOW, i didnt expect such a good response!

thanks, and keep 'em comin'

[Penguin4x4]

Originally posted by larva



meaning the bios is not allowing access to the entire drive.

I know, Its PMO...stupid OEM rig, :rolleyes:

[JigPu]

WD 80GB SE -- 19.4GB Used, 80GB Total

C: -- 16GB Used, 51GB Total (Windows/Apps)
D: -- 2.6GB Used, 6GB Total (MP3/Video)
E: -- 0.8GB Used, 6GB Total (Digital Photos)
F: -- 0.0GB Used, 6GB Total (Family Tree Maker)
G: -- 0.0GB Used, 6GB Total (...For when I get Linux... :D)

Gateway HD -- 8GB Used, 37GB Total

How in THE WORLD do you guys manage to fill 40GB or more of a hard drive?!?! I must not buy enough games or something :D

JigPu

[Mike K]

9GB left on my 15GB

[Penguin4x4]

Originally posted by JigPu


How in THE WORLD do you guys manage to fill 40GB or more of a hard drive?!?! I must not buy enough games or something :D

JigPu

I'm guessing pr0n and MP3's, :beer:


I need a full format, but mine is an OEM rig, so, no..:D

[MEAT BAG]

mine are mostly full of anime and mp3's

probly 110 gigs of what i have is anime then 2 gigs of mp3s then the rest for OS and progs

[q149]

speaking of this, how do you get that damn winXP message from coming up everytime you restart when you have a drive almost full

[JoT]

Originally posted by q149
speaking of this, how do you get that damn winXP message from coming up everytime you restart when you have a drive almost full

by deleting stuff ;D

[John1975]

15.2gig used on my 60gig
Time for a reformat though anyway, so I will be back down to 3 or 4 gigs used by christmas

[PYROMANIAC]

Hard Drive Info:
Total Space Free [90.31Gb out of 571.84Gb]

yea im using a lot of space

[mbentley]

Originally posted by PYROMANIAC
Hard Drive Info:
Total Space Free [90.31Gb out of 571.84Gb]

yea im using a lot of space

haha i think you'll be okay space wise for a while... i am guessing you're in a RAID setup?? :D either that or you have a ton of IDE channels and huge drives!

[PYROMANIAC]

Originally posted by mbentley


haha i think you'll be okay space wise for a while... i am guessing you're in a RAID setup?? :D either that or you have a ton of IDE channels and huge drives!


nah no raid, just sep channels:)...i actually have room for 4 more HD's but no room in my case to put them :(

drives are in my sig

[MEAT BAG]

get rid of that 20 and and 60 there holding you back

[PYROMANIAC]

i should

[GT2000]

Originally posted by q149
speaking of this, how do you get that damn winXP message from coming up everytime you restart when you have a drive almost full

Under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer

Create a new DWord "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks", and change the value to "1"

That's what works under Windows XP, however.

[SlipperyToy]

Okay,on my primary drive...I have 70 out of 80 Gigs and on my secondary drive I have 15 out of 80 Gigs filled.....A lot of mp3s' and pictures and some rendered stuff i did.

[q149]

Originally posted by GT2000


Under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer

Create a new DWord "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks", and change the value to "1"

That's what works under Windows XP, however.

cool, thanks

[Oni]

Right now I have 10GB of 20GB full. That's mostly 'cause I have a LAN coming up, and I have about a zillion games installed :)

Then there's the fansubs . . .

[SiGmA_X]

Drive - Free - Total
C:\ - 29.5GB - 55.8GB
F:\ - 22.8GB - 55.8GB

I can't figure out what is using so much on my C:\ drive, but I haven't really looked in to it either... My F:\ drive has over 30GB in DIVx, and a few more GB of TV shows and songs...

[PYROMANIAC]

Originally posted by Oni
Then there's the fansubs . . .

not much room for many series :( :(

[Cullam3n]

Drive C: 15 GB - 815mb left :eek: (XP, FAT32)
Drive D: 55.8 GB - 34.5 GB left (Win2k, NTFS)
Drive E: 10.5GB - 1.34 GB left (just there)

Seagate 30gb 5400 rpm
Seagate 60gb 7200 rpm

-PC

[JigPu]

LOL I wish I had enough bandwith (or another phone line :rolleyes: ) to download fansubs... In two years of downloading, I've got 2GB of music.

Guess I need to be introduced to more good Japanese, Asian, or Techno artists (don't really like where American Rock is now.... so... :D )

JigPu

[DaBigJ]

I just got a WD 80gb SE. 42 gb free. And that's with 13 gigs of cd images. I've got a 10 gig HD that I installed Windows on while my 60GXP was going bad --it's empty :P... I'll hafta stick it in my server...

All I play is CS, my bro plays War3

[stopdrpnro]

only got 10 gb free on my 40gb maxtor maybe some1 will get me a 120gb for x-mas

[loudblaster]

drive size Free
Drive C: 2.99 GB - 1.99 Windoze xp
Drive D: 30 GB - 11.9 GB left MP3s
Drive E: 4.91 GB - 247 MB Dowloded files
Drive F: 305 MB - 5.24 MB Swap File

I only have about halve of my cd's riped so far. when i'm done I should have around 36 GB of MP3s. all leagaly owned.I definatly need a bigger drive If I want to put 200+ tapes on hard drive. :D

[Koopa_Fett]

About 3gb free out of a 30gb drive. I'll be getting an 80gb with my new rig. Don't know if it'll be enough, I plan to install at least UT2K3, BF1942, CS, and Warcraft 3.

[minoukat]

on the Compaq :

Partition1 : total size=2.49GB, free space=549MB (Windows 2000 drive)
Partition2 : total size=34.8GB, free space=14.5GB (Programs and downloads and anything)

On the HP :

Partition1 : total size=30.2GB, free space=828MB (Windows XP, programs and downloads)
Partition2 : total size=7.00GB, free space=2.06GB (anything that doesn't have room on the primary partition, and for backup purposes when time has come to format)

[ronin1967]

The drives in my sig:

Partitioned:

C: Operating System 2.6GIG Free 5GIG total
D: Program Files 9.33GIG Free 10GIG total
E: Multimedia 19.33GIG Free 20GIG total
F: Storage 17.3GIG Free 20GIG total
G: Storage 21.4GIG Free 21GIG total

[ArBiTaL 24]

Originally posted by MEAT BAG
mine are mostly full of anime and mp3's

probly 110 gigs of what i have is anime then 2 gigs of mp3s then the rest for OS and progs

OOHH that sounds frightningly familiar ;)
I WISH i had HDD that big!
4.3 on laptop, about 1gb free at the moment (i don't know WHY! damn, must fill it back up with more files from kazaa:p )

[james.miller]

100mb free on my 80bg maxtor.

for some reason, its started to slow down!:rolleyes: lol

[ArBiTaL 24]

We need them to invent cheap 1TB storage, then threads like this wouldn't exist!! lol.

EDIT: actually, they would. If you lot had 1 TB HDD's, you'd still manage to fill them ;)