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    How big is your HD, and how much free space?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by mackie, Nov 18, 2006.

  1. mackie

    mackie Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a 40GB drive (37.2), and have 25.9GB free space.
     
  2. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    100GB (93.1GB), with 20.5GB free.
     
  3. mackie

    mackie Notebook Enthusiast

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    Wow. What do you store that takes up so much space?
     
  4. NetBrakr

    NetBrakr Notebook Deity

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    80GB (74.4GB) and right now, with 63.6GB free.

    JC
     
  5. Padmé

    Padmé NBR Super Pink Princess

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    100GB and 80.2 free space.
     
  6. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    80gb and 29.5gb free space.
     
  7. Duckfart

    Duckfart Notebook Evangelist

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    120 gb 53gb free
     
  8. mackie

    mackie Notebook Enthusiast

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    What do you guys store that takes up like 50+GB?
     
  9. derelict1987

    derelict1987 Notebook Consultant

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    I have a 100gb(93.1) with 42.3 free. I have my music, games, design programs for engineering and a couple TV shows and movies taking up my hard drive right now. I have another 300gb external full of movies, tv shows, pictures and stuff.
     
  10. Gator

    Gator Go Gators!

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    100 GB, roughly 50% free (Aw come on I can't be bothered with hitting Win+E right now!).
     
  11. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    I have around 61GB worth of games, and the remaining ~12GB is taken up by stuff in my documents and other non-game programs.
     
  12. Sirius

    Sirius Notebook Consultant

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    100 gb and 3 gigs free :(
     
  13. strikeback03

    strikeback03 Notebook Deity

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    Laptop is a 40GB with around 11 free. I think between the recovery partition and pre-installed software it didn't have 25GB free when I got it.

    Desktop has a 160 GB (153) for the main drive, 77.4 free; and an 80GB (74.5) just for photos, with 12.2 free.
     
  14. khanhfat

    khanhfat Notebook Deity

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    80GB partition 1 30gb- 13gb free
    partition 2 44gb- 1gb free ( about to clean up soon)

    External 320gb - 17gb free ( about to delete some files)
    - Photos:1.5gb ( only a few of my photographs not all)
    - Videos:158gb
    - music:86gb
    - wallpaper& random pics: 3gb
     
  15. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    I have 120 GB hard drive, and I have 100 GB of free space :D

    I just re-formatted my computer, so I haven't had much software and stuff installed yet.
     
  16. JM

    JM Mr. Misanthrope NBR Reviewer

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    Desktop: 160GB hard drive with 90GB free.

    Notebook: 100GB hard drive with 45GB free.
     
  17. Nicolas41390

    Nicolas41390 Notebook Consultant

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    Primary- 40gb, 1.09gb free
    Firewire drive- 750gb, 23.1mb free
    Server- 3tb, 2.09tb free.
     
  18. Duckfart

    Duckfart Notebook Evangelist

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    You don't know, PORN of course.
    JK :D
    programs,movies, music and over 5000 files of excel, and power point presentation.
     
  19. Calum

    Calum Notebook Consultant

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    100Gb with 70Gb free
     
  20. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    160GB (actually 149GB after formatting) with about 45GB free. Satellite imagery is particular hungry for space. I try to keep all my work for the past 20 years available since I never know when I might need to refer back to it.

    John
     
  21. ronkotus

    ronkotus Notebook Evangelist

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    I have two 100GB(93,1GB). First one having mainly windows and software with 68GB free. Second one having the 2GB page file and some movies, music and pictures with 57GB free.
     
  22. Qhs

    Qhs Notebook Evangelist

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    Total: 54.1GB + 4.9GB(Factory Partition)
    Free: 34GB
     
  23. otacon

    otacon Notebook Evangelist

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    Desktop: 1 Terabyte (2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500 Gig) ~400GB Free


    Laptop: 160GB ~120GB Free
    300GB External ~100BG Free
     
  24. REM333

    REM333 Notebook Consultant

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    Desktop: 2 Harddrives:

    1 WD 320GB (~275GB free)
    1 Seagate 160GB (~14.7GB free)

    Laptop: 100GB (~80GB free)
     
  25. Kaylya

    Kaylya Notebook Geek

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    80 gigs. It shows up as 74.5 gigs so I guess there's a system restore partition or something?

    Anyways, I'm only using 27 gigs right now. I do have an external drive but it mostly is just backup stuff.
     
  26. mugen

    mugen Notebook Consultant

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    1.5 TB and approximately 20 GB free :(
     
  27. chrisyano

    chrisyano Hall Monitor NBR Reviewer

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    100 GB with 66.3 GB free.
     
  28. Best Foot Forward

    Best Foot Forward Notebook Evangelist

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    80Gb (74.5Gb in reality) and fluctuating between 7-10Gb free. No where close to enough space for the future. :(

    Kaylya: it shows up as 74.5Gb because HD manufacturers define 1Gb as being 1million bytes, as opposed to the actual definition which is 1.024million bytes.
     
  29. Phillip

    Phillip Phillip J. Fry

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    DT:
    120GB-43.3GBfree
    120GB-61.2GBfree
    80GB-65.3GBfree
    external:
    250-91GBfree
    laptop:
    80GB-26.0GBfree
     
  30. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I have several games, especially Flight Simulator X, which takes up about 15gb.
     
  31. moon angel

    moon angel Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    60GB Sata 5400rpm, 24GB free, although I have some games i need to uninstall!
     
  32. AP27

    AP27 Notebook Evangelist

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    I have a strange case. Ive had 3 different hard drives in 3 different notebooks (60GB 7.2k, 80GB 5.4k, 100GB 5.4k) and my free space has always ended up to be between 15 and 20GB. Murphy's law i guess :p
     
  33. Notebook Solutions

    Notebook Solutions Company Representative NBR Reviewer

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    Samsung 80 GB, 5400 rpm, 8 MB-cache. Great harddisk but can run hot without a notebook cooler.

    I have around 15 GB left, but I have a lot of games on it (Oblivion, UT2004, BF2, Command and Conquer, Splinter Cell Double Agent, America's Army, Raven Shield etc.)

    Charlie :)
     
  34. Phillip

    Phillip Phillip J. Fry

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    what do I use 50+ GBs for? Games, software, music and homemade videos, and lots and lots of files.
     
  35. Ragnarokender

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    about 100gb, 50% used. I also have a 300gb harddrive thats 50% used... and my desktop 160gb is full (95%+)...guess what its full of?

    In the end, there really is no such thing as too much space (I thought 160gb would be plenty when i upgraded from 4gb....I was sorely mistaken)
     
  36. Jalf

    Jalf Comrade Santa

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    550GB total (250 and 300GB disks)
    And how much free? Right now, I've got 350 free. (Just formatted and reinstalled 3 days ago, so had to do a big cleanup to make sure all data fitted onto just one of the disks)

    (For those interested, I think I've got ~10GB music, 15GB movies, around 80GB CD/DVD images, maybe 15GB programming stuff (libraries, SDK's and my own projects), and a ton of pictures. Until I formatted, my installed games took up another 50 or so, I think. And then there's installed programs other than games, Windows itself, and I still need enough space left over for two Windows installations and preferably room for Linux as well once I can find time to get it set up again

    Thinking about buying another 300GB disk so I can put them in a RAID 1 setup.
     
  37. Dreamer

    Dreamer The Bad Boy

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    We're talking about notebooks, aren't we?

    80 GB with 13 GB free. :eek: Uh, I haven't noticed how little free space I have...
     
  38. ajfink

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    80GB drive, 25.5GB free. I have an external drive I dump to when I feel I need more space.