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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. iwantamac

    iwantamac Notebook Evangelist

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    About 1/5. I'm still trying to figure out why my hard drive's net capacity's only 111.5GBs when my hard drive was actually 120GBs. I only had my computer for 2 months and I already filled up 21-23GBs of it already...well that is after I moved my 10GB movie file to an external drive.
     
    iwantamac, Mar 8, 2007
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  2. shinji257

    shinji257 Notebook Deity

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    This is because the manufacturers are reporting size capacity on the decimal scale. Actual usable space ends up being less once you format it. A 120GB drive actually has 120,000,000,000 bytes or approximately 111.75 GB of actual capacity. This is not due to space taken up by the MBR or overhead by the file system. This is simple math.
     
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  3. RedSensiStar

    RedSensiStar Notebook Deity

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    30GB of the 80GB on my FE.
     
    RedSensiStar, Mar 8, 2007
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  4. Kdawgca

    Kdawgca rotaredoM repudrepuS RBN

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    About 98% of my hard drive is full (407mb left on a 18.62GB hard drive).
     
    Kdawgca, Mar 8, 2007
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  5. boon27

    boon27 Notebook Evangelist

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    100gb and only used about 25gb. I'm already shocked to see how I have used 25gb on just install couple of programs and such.

    500gb on desktop only 5gb free space I wonder if that counts :)
     
    boon27, Mar 9, 2007
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    paradox7212 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Mine is a 120gb drive which is 37% full
     
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  7. Jalf

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    Hmm, 30% overall, I guess.

    Have around 50% free on my 250 and 300GB drive. And I just bought a 400GB. Plan to buy another one and put them in RAID 1 once I have the money.
    (my 300GB disk has started acting a bit funny, so I don't want to trust it with all my data)
     
    Jalf, Mar 10, 2007
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