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    X61s, 100gb hard drive - how much free space?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by jg70124, Aug 5, 2007.

  1. jg70124

    jg70124 Notebook Enthusiast

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    If there's anyone here with an X61 or X61s with the 100gb hard drive, can you please post how much free space the drive when you got it?

    I had this config briefly, and I seem to recall it had only about 80gb free, the rest taken up by the recovery partition and installed apps.

    Thanks.
     
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    jaydm Notebook Consultant

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    you loose some when the drive is formatted as well.
     
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    panteedropper Notebook Deity

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    the conversion is... 100gb X 1000MB/1024MB =97.65GB

    So assuming the recovery partition is 6gb and your vista install is around 9-10, 80 free sounds about right

    please correct me if i'm wrong
     
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    I wanted the 7200 to optimize performance.

    But I have 50 gb of data files and about 10 gb of apps; plus 10 for the OS (XP in my case) and ~5 for the recovery partition; that leaves only about 20 free. Is that enough (for defragging, optimizing, and so on), or should I go with the slower 160 GB drive?
     
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