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    How filled your hard drive is at the moment?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by mikhail_scosyrev, May 21, 2006.

  1. mikhail_scosyrev

    mikhail_scosyrev Notebook Consultant

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    Also indicate the total size of the HDD
     
  2. Malia

    Malia Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    50/60GB filled... I may be storing some stuff on my bf's HDD too...
     
  3. lowlymarine

    lowlymarine Notebook Deity

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    Well, on my internal (93 GB formatted) hard drive, the Windows partition (43 GB, NTFS) is about 40% full and the Linux partition (48 GB, ext3) is about 25% full. There's also a very, very small (47 MB, FAT32) partition with important school/work documents backed up on it that's only about 12% full. There's also a 2 GB Linux swap partition, which I believe accounts for the rest of the space. My external hard drive (150 GB formatted, all FAT32) is about 52% full, with a full 36 GB being music, photos, and movies for my iPod, and the rest games for both Windows and Linux (meaning over 12 GB of UT2004 between the two installations of it, cowabunga).
     
  4. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Here's mine:
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    I have one partition. Drive is a Hitachi 100GB 7200RPM SATA, 8MB Cache.

    Chaz

    EDIT: Oh, look at that. I have the stupid Indexing Service enabled.
     
  5. mikhail_scosyrev

    mikhail_scosyrev Notebook Consultant

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    Hehe... this is my school's computer... I bet this drive will never be filled beyond even 25% ... why spend money buying such huge drives???
     

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  6. Metamorphical

    Metamorphical Good computer user

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    My HD is a 60gig Toshiba drive that came stock in my Dell.

    Type: Local Drive
    File System: NTFS
    Used Space: 31,129,899,008 bytes (28 GB)
    Free space 28, 873,482,240 bytes (26 GB)
    Capacity: 60,003,381, 240 bytes (55.8 GB)

    A little more than half useds.
    I have one partition.
     
  7. qwester

    qwester Notebook Virtuoso

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    4 HDDs (3 external).

    Internal is split into 2 parts, one is empty at the moment because I am was playing around with linux distros and never got back to installing one, usually this is were linux resides :D

    And that last small, completely full, 40GB is my HDD back in the days of P3, pulled it out when I sold my desktop and still holds my old stuff.
     
  8. mikhail_scosyrev

    mikhail_scosyrev Notebook Consultant

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    Holy Cow... are you storing a Congress Library on your hard drives? :D
     
  9. qwester

    qwester Notebook Virtuoso

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    Its only 60+60+320+40=480GB ... you can get one HDD that it larger than that these days. :D

    Although I don't need them all I just use them since they are sitting around, after being pulled out of systems that were sold or upgraded
     
  10. otaku

    otaku Notebook Deity

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    I have a 40gig 5400RPM drive right now that is 62% full.
     
  11. z5sharp

    z5sharp Notebook Consultant

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    Other- 19.15%
     
  12. Tim

    Tim Notebook Virtuoso

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    My 80 5400 rpm drive is close to 75% full. I need to get a second hard drive. :p
    Tim
     
  13. dlstorm

    dlstorm Notebook Consultant

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    80 MB (o.o8 GB) internal 80% and 110 MB (0.110 GB) hard card, 3 partitions (50%) on 386 screamer.

    JUST KIDDING. That was nearly 20 yrs ago. Today on notebook: 100GB internal 25%. 160GB external 20%.

    How times change!
     
  14. USAFdude02

    USAFdude02 NBR Reviewer & Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Internal notebook: 34%...25GB used on 80GB hard drive.
    External: 10% 16GB out of 160GB used.
     
  15. pop4

    pop4 Notebook Enthusiast

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    around 70% full. I only get to use around 50GB of my 60GB HDD though, as theres 10GB dedicated to a recovery partition.

    Gonna get that 10GB back one day when I do a format and clean re-install of my whole notebook.
     
  16. Arla

    Arla Notebook Deity

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    Normally ends up full, but I do video editing, right now got 3 Mini-DV's on the hard drive which take about 10GB each, plus 40GB of music and it fills up pretty fast.
     
  17. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I have used around 40% of the 80GB hard drive. Not too high of an usage I guess, but then again I reformatted it a few months ago.
     
  18. JrunkinDuncan

    JrunkinDuncan Notebook Geek

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    I Copy DVD's and Download Around 4 Gig Games so I have a 80 Gig 7200 On my DELL and it has like 5 Gigs Free, its really sad I am always burning off DVD's or Offloading the Games onto my desktop at home, but still I have like 8 Games installed around 3-4 Gigs each and of course STEAM is like 9 Gigs, I really need an external I can dump things off to every night when I go to sleep
     
  19. NetBrakr

    NetBrakr Notebook Deity

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    Here is mine.

    New 80 GB HD:
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    Old 30 GB HD, now using as an external HD.
    [​IMG]

    JC
     
  20. lykov

    lykov Newbie

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    fast internet connection is really not helping me to keep plenty of free space=)
    but today its my record i ve got free 4gigs out of total 28!
     
  21. RadcomTxx

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    stupid small 40 gig is pretty much full. i so want to upgrade it.
     
  22. NetBrakr

    NetBrakr Notebook Deity

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    RadcomTxx, here is a tip for looking great price for HD. Check out pricegrabber.com.

    I got my 80 gb for $79.20.

    JC
     
  23. FidyYuan

    FidyYuan Notebook Consultant

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    60 Gig harddrive, only 1.4 Gigs left.
     
  24. titaniummd

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    100Gb
    60% full
     
  25. Nrbelex

    Nrbelex Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Dell Laptop: Have used 43/55 gigs
    (7 year old) Linux Desktop: Have used 12/13.1 gigs

    ~ Brett
     
  26. winterymix

    winterymix Notebook Consultant

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    2 100gb internal drives. Drive 1 is about 65% full. Drive 2 is about 30%.
     
  27. Jesusfrk611

    Jesusfrk611 Notebook Consultant

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    92.9 GB formatted. Around 20 GB used (not quite sure on exact, I'm not on my notebook right at the moment). I'm paranoid to have more than 20 GB used and I don't know why. I want to get an extrenal but don't need one yet.
     
  28. Paul

    Paul Mom! Hot Pockets! NBR Reviewer

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    [​IMG]
    A crappy, old 30 GB hdd (at a blazing fast 5400 RPM according to cnet.com review). Keep in mind, I recently reformatted. Before that, when I was messing around with some Linux VMs through VMWare Player, I had gotten as low as 800 MB left! That was fun.
     
  29. NetBrakr

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    Hm, not bad hd, at least your is 5,400 rpm.

    JC
     
  30. TripleH

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    1000GB....1GB full
     
  31. Sykotic

    Sykotic Notebook Evangelist

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    I have 8.4g out of 60g used. I use a network share on my desktop that uses a 2*120g raid for backup. I have learned to not keep important files on my c drive. It seems that everytime I get more than 50% of a drive full, its seems to go bad. I have never had a drive go bad with less than 20% used.
    My first actual hard drive was 140MB. Next came a 850MB. I could never afford alot of hard drive space and have learned good HDD house keeping. If I dont use a program every week, I remove it. I always archive to cd backup or upload to my network share.
     
  32. RadcomTxx

    RadcomTxx Notebook Deity

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    wow, thats a really good price. i will so check out that site.
     
  33. FPS_Sean

    FPS_Sean Notebook Consultant

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    wow i have a 80GB on my desktop, and its about 60% Full...
     
  34. wannabeapilot

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    80 gig hd 10 gb's left
     
  35. Phillip

    Phillip Phillip J. Fry

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    i have a 52.7 GB partition that is ~26% full and a 16.6GB partition that is about 2% full. and some other partitions that I don't pay attention to.
     
  36. qohelet

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    almost 50%
     
  37. moon angel

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    I have 6.3Gb left of a 60Gb drive but I have 4.3Gb of DVD data that can be erased as It's only used during burning, so around 10Gb left of 60. I also have some games installed that I could easily uninstall if I needed more room.
     
  38. foosa123

    foosa123 adsfjldsajflkajsdfa

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    heres mine: 80GB total, 41% used, so thats about...29.2GB used, and 41GB left
     

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    100 GB, 50% full, Two partitions, each at 50%.
     
  40. Matt

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    52GB / 88GB (this technically should be 100GB)
    [​IMG]
     
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    I have a 100Gb drive that is around 75% full.
     
  42. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    My Windows partition is 60GB, and it's filled to about 75%, Linux is 40GB and is about 40% filled. I think I'll get a USB enclosure and a new 160GB drive, and see if I can resize the partitions a bit. Put Windows up to 100GB, Linux to 60. Games take so much damn disk space, especially since I keep the disk images on the drive so I don't have to carry the optical disks with
     
  43. hmmmmm

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    where is the ~<3%

    mine is 1.2gb left out of 80 (with 1 gb page file)
     
  44. Notebook Solutions

    Notebook Solutions Company Representative NBR Reviewer

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    80 GB, 5400 rpm, 8 MB cache hard drive from Samsung which has 11 Gb free now. I needed to put my movies on another notebook because I could not install my games anymore, so I went for 100% full.
     
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    Looking to get a new one actually, thinking of an 80Gb Seagate Mommentus 5400rpm SATA drive.
     
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    About 75% full, 500GB on my desktop. My old laptop is currently almost empty, and ready to be sold as soon as my dv6000t arrives.

    I have alot of ripped and compressed DVD .iso files on the drive, as well as 1 full DVD 9 (video and audio TS folders), and the same DVD file compressed to DVD5 format. I also have a few home movies, and about 1000 or so photographs... I am a shutterbug fellas, it isn't porn or anything :) .

    On my external drive (500GB Lacie) I am about 25% full.
     
  47. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I have a Samsung 80gb 5,400rpm HDD and its about 85% full.

    I have it divided into three partitions:

    1. C: 12gb for Windows and Apps
    2. D: 60gb for Games and Media
    3. Z: 500mb Hidden in TrueCrypt AES 128-bit for my important stuff.

    Yes, im using the Rainy Day Windows Classic theme, I use whenever I feel dark.
     

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    I can't comment on my current laptop but my last one was about 60% full. However I saw a few of the posts and the one on the first page was interesting. However if you think that is alot then here is my desktop.


    3 internal hard drives and 1 external hard drive. All 200GB a piece for 800GB total.

    Internals:
    1 is about 30% full (OS drive)
    1 is about 80% full (DVD storage)
    1 is about 75% full (downloads and firefox profile information)

    The external drive is about 94% full and that one is used as my server drive. Time to expand that one.

    Oh and I used to have a 120GB drive but I gave that one to a friend.
     
  49. LFC

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    100gb HD (96gb effective)

    Partition C 5.6/15.2gb free
    Partition G 22.1gb/31.2gb free (need to install Fear, Fear EP and Oblivion when I can be bothered. Sitting around for 2 days :D)
    Partition M 10.7/34.9gb free
    Partition P 10.4/11.7gb free

    Partitions for OS, games, multimedia, programs and to temp put DVD rips in that order if you're wondering
     
  50. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Be careful there. NTFS (and Windows in turn) gets really pissy when it runs low on space. I'd suggest taking out the garbage, maybe getting an external drive for infrequently accessed data.
     
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