How big is your hard drive?

How big is your hard drive? :D

Mine is 6.2 GB which is big enough for me...still have plenty of space left on it (Used: 2.70, Free: 3.31)

I am comfortable with a decent amount.
Although, you get those people that have 18 GB...damn, do they even need that much ? :rolleyes:

25 Gig. I have 4 virtual drives of 8 Gig each.

I'm a data engineer, and I have lots of massive datasets.
Most of them are crunched down, but I still use 2 of the
drives at 80%.

[barrk]

This thread wasn't at all what I expected....

That is because not all of us have minds in the gutter.
Some of us have our hopes and aspirations fixed on a higher
purpose.

Besides, Dennis doesn't appear to be around today.

[barrk]

Hehehe.....

[parksie]

So, DerFarm...how high are we talking? ;)

I have a total of 40GB, spread out over about 4 physical drives :)

I gave my wife one of the Virtual drives. She's run out of
space.

I'll probably be getting another 25G drive around about
March.

[CyberSurfer]

I'm afraid to say I have a 4.3Gb HDD....

[Benjamin]

I would've been here sooner, but I had to go shopping.....

I've got a 19", I mean 19 GB HDD.....

I should be getting a 40GB soon.....


I had to format the other day because I was using like 17GB... and my computer was running really slow :(


but, it's fixed now :D

[marnitzg]

Gee. What do you people DO with your HDD's??? I have 60gigs spread evenly over 2 HDD's and I only have 4 gigs free???

[HarryW]

27.3

[parksie]

marnitzg - Mine's filled with music, games and temporary files caused by compiling lots of stuff.

Oh, and I have copies of 4 CDs on there at the moment :)

[marnitzg]

Almost identical to mine. I have 34 gigs of mp3's and 3 dvds sitting on my HDD's

Originally posted by barrk
This thread wasn't at all what I expected....

Sorry to disappoint you Katie, but I don't think John would accept something like that and that...is not something, what your thinking, is definitly something I don't care about on other guys, ya know :rolleyes:.

Get your mind away from there, let's keep this all CPU-wise :).

Sorry for the thread's title appearance as well :rolleyes:.
But that's pretty funny that you think that way, most females don't think like that much, but that's okay Katie, it's nice to know we have females in the world that think that way :rolleyes:.

[Edited by Matthew Gates on 12-29-2000 at 03:47 PM]

[barrk]

If I'm the only female who thinks this way there wouldn't be as many little programmers running around as there are!

[Guv]

DerFarm, you have 25 Gig total: 4 Virtual drives at 8 Gigs each. Am I missing something? 4 * 8 = 25?

I have about 20 Gigs spread over 3 Physical Drives. 5 Partitions. Not much space left. A lot of my space is used for backup. I am set up so that if I lose 2 out 3 drives, I can recover.

I intend to build a system with 60-70 Gigs over three physical Drives and 10 or so partitions.

So sue me over 1 gig.

[[Digital-X-Treme]]

I have a single 18.6GB drive. 6.3GB used space, 12.3GB free space. Mostly filled wit mp3's, copied CD's, code...

Laterz

[parksie]

Originally posted by barrk
If I'm the only female who thinks this way there wouldn't be as many little programmers running around as there are!
So you've been getting your three trained up then? ;)

[kovan]

37.5 Gigs total (3 drives)
and going to pick up another 30 soon because i just signed a SWEET contract :)

[ComputerWiz6996]

I have 140 GB!!!!

I have four Fireball hard drives.
Each one is 35GB!!!
They kick so much butt!!

Hehehe!

Oh yeah, I only have about 20GB filled on my main two, the other two are filled with junk, like Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, about 10GB of movies and MP3's, and two copies of Linux!!

[Guv]

DerFarm, I would not sue somebody from a VB forum over one Gig, but I might sue him over seven.25 Gig. I have 4 virtual drives of 8 Gig each.

So sue me over 1 gig.Last time I consulted my calculator, 4 * 8 = 32. I guess that real programmers leave math to the computer and spend their time on more important issues, like does he/she or doesn't he/she?

[Rudy]

i have 16.5 gigs, 5 gigs for my FTP and 8.5 for my main partition (Windows 2k and all my programs), 1.5 for my Mp3s, and 1.5 for temps files (ususaly empty)

[nukem996]

40 gig
p-4 1400
win 2000(best version of win)
baicly the best of everything

I've got a 10.4 GB hard drive with only about 400 MBs free. I need a new hard drive!

[M@rk]

Hey how do you do it to fill your hard drives...
I've got one 14.3 disk and just 3.2 gb's used and I have lots of mp3s and some programs that use a lot of space...

[nukem996]

i install everything on full. i have neaver went threw my old docs and deleted them. i dl alot of stuff.

[parksie]

My downloads folder is 1.2GB :)

[nukem996]

tonight i might dl this free c++ program. it took an ISDN line 12 hours to do it. im on 56k. its about 650mb

[Benjamin]

a 650mb file would take me about 1 - 2 hours... :D


parksie:

I don't have a downloads folder.... I download it to "my" folder(c:\dennis)

before I formatted, it was about 5gb

and my MP3 folder is almost 2gb,

and my "pictures" folder is about 3gb....

;)

i have a 20gb HDD with bout 9.5GB Mp3's nearly 1Gb downloads, i have win98 and winNT dual boot with Loadsa programs MSDN, VS6.0 and AutoCAD etc. and i have bout 1gb left... and i also have 55gb on my server, a 35gb and 2x 10gb HDD ive filled 20gigs with movies and ive used bout 8gig on backups.

i can remember when 200mb was MASSIVE and thought that i would never fill it!!!! ive got an old PC which has a 40mb HDD!!!!

[HarryW]

I remember when we had two hard disks giving a grand total of 65 Mb between them (this was a top-of-the line 386 ;)) and we got this game which was 9 Mb in total, and we could not believe that a game could be so big, it was just huge.

[marnitzg]

Originally posted by HarryW
I remember when we had two hard disks giving a grand total of 65 Mb between them (this was a top-of-the line 386 ;)) and we got this game which was 9 Mb in total, and we could not believe that a game could be so big, it was just huge.

I remember those days! Hell, I even remember the days when I used to plug a cassette into a tape-recorder connected to my BBC. The good old days!

[parksie]

I still have a tape recorder attached to my BBC.

Does anyone here remember using AMPLE? For those who don't, it's a great bit of kit - synthesiser, keyboard, sequencer. All on a BBC :)

Oh, well, I might as well join in...

3 drives- 15G, 8.5G and 13G, and a disk rack thing with 160G in a Raid 0+1 config (so that's actually 640G spread over 8 80G SCSI drives, but its mirrored and striped etc)

My local drives are pretty full (although only about 2G of mp3's), and the disk rack is aout 1/4 full.

Most if this is cos I store full backups of all source and a copy of the build for each build of the software I write, so it ads up quickly (and average build and source is about 10Mb - do 130 builds across 8 projects, and you fill a disk very quickly. And its basically a pain to burn CD's for backups (I use a 24G tape drive instead - slow, but a lot bigger)

- gaffa

[paulw]

I have a nice little 1.6 Gb drive for all my documents and stuff that forces me to do proper housekeeping - you lot are all suffering from Bloat syndrome. The other PC's have a 13Gb drive, a 1Gb SCSI drive with NT and SQL Server on and a 4Gb IDE (DMA 100) drive. These get regularly trashed and have several OS'es on them.

Mind you, the next one will be 2x40Gb with RAID 'cos it is so cheap that it is a 'no-brainer'.

Cheers,

P.

[M@rk]

Benjamin: How can you download 650 Mbs in 1-2 hours???
What conection do you have???
Mine downloads at 1-3 Kbs/second...

[parksie]

He's a lucky little git and has DSL - usually around 150K/s

[marnitzg]

I'm getting MegaWan soon! Finally, I'll be scapping my 56K!!!!

[HarryW]

I've got a tape drive for the old BBC too; I remember playing Yie Ar Kung Fu, possibly the first Street Fighter-style beat em up? I am also King of Dogfight ;) My dad used to play Elite a lot on the BBC (the best version IMO), but never got to Elite rating, only Deadly. It will probably haunt him his whole life :) It took so long though.

[parksie]

I managed to get to Elite after about 3 weeks solidly playing it :D

[Kzin]

Does your BBC still work? All of mine died mysteriously over the years and where chucked out by my dad. Sad really . . . BTW Was yours a 'Model B' or was 16KB enough? ;0) I always aspired to a Unicorn - a UNIX BBC computer!!!

I can see now this thread is going to degenerating into someone saying the only used lower case Ls and O characters to program their first machine . . but when I was a kid I learned to program on an IBM 1130 with 4KB of memory - Since a punch card took a LONG time to punch out with the "cigar cutter" type punch 4KB was way more than I though anyone would need . . .

Originally posted by parksie
I still have a tape recorder attached to my BBC.

Does anyone here remember using AMPLE? For those who don't, it's a great bit of kit - synthesiser, keyboard, sequencer. All on a BBC :)

[Kzin]

It was SO exciting to sit in the Lab in the small hours with the ONLY microcomputer on the site and see a "virtual world" with real-time 3D graphics on the screen. WOW! Unfortunately its sad but I only managed Elite status by discovering the you could edit the amount of machine tools (or whatever) in you hold from 00 to FF with a hex editor and make your fortune . . .

Originally posted by parksie
I managed to get to Elite after about 3 weeks solidly playing it :D

[barrk]

This thread still isn't about what I thought it was about.... oh well.

[SteveCRM]

What do you mean (hehehe), we are all talking about hard drives ( ;) ) and some peoples are bigger than others...
DAMN they ran out of hard drives at the store... :rolleyes:

:D ;) :rolleyes:

[Emo]

He's a lucky little git and has DSL - usually around 150K/s

yeah, but this is just about normal(at least for me) after you pass 56K, cause I have Cable and well, in some places it's so fast, I need about 5 seconds to d/l 1MB! Actually the highest I've gone to was 400K/s

Now a T3 would be really nice!

-Just a thought
-Emo

[Benjamin]

Originally posted by SteveCRM
What do you mean (hehehe), we are all talking about hard drives ( ;) ) and some peoples are bigger than others...
DAMN they ran out of hard drives at the store... :rolleyes:

:D ;) :rolleyes:


I didn't know you were that way steve..... and are you talking about the fast ones, the slow ones, or the variable speed ones?

and are they external or internal??? :rolleyes:

[crptcblade]

15 GB. Uh, I dont have a cool comment like everybody else...

Originally posted by barrk
This thread still isn't about what I thought it was about.... oh well.

Wow, hehe :D.
Didn't think woman thought about that when they were doing other stuff. How many times is that Katie? 3 times this week so far? :rolleyes:

I can't count the amount of times I've had the thought this week :D

I mean, if a woman walks by and asks for it, the guy will drop what ever he's doing and go along with it. If a female is doing something and a guy comes around, the female's response is, "I'm busy" :rolleyes:

It's cool though Katie, I'm glad there are few advanced females in the world :cool:.

[Benjamin]

and you deny you have a crush on Katie....



:rolleyes:

I don't Dennis. I don't even know her. You know her more than I do. She has probably explained herself in many other threads. But I usually don't read many threads in Chit Chat. Most of them are boring to me (sorry, lol). I just think it's funny that it's on her mind. She was the only 1 thinkin' of that when she saw this thread, I think :rolleyes:. And a female too! Now...most women don't normally think of that no more than 3 times a week. Katie, on the other hand, has thought about it more, which is cool...for a female ;).

[barrk]

Leave Matthew alone, Dennis. He's a nice kid and I enjoy talking to him just like I enjoy chatting with you...don't make him feel self-concious.

[parksie]

:p

We won't... :)

[Benjamin]

I was just kidding Katie.. notice the cute little rolleyes face afterwards... :rolleyes:

[barrk]

Missed 'em..sorry.

[Benjamin]

:rolleyes:

Oh wait, Dennis. I woke up this morning and decided I love Katie :rolleyes:.

Come `arn Katie, ruin your 20 years of marriage and date me :o.

By the way Katie, what do you look like? lol..hehe.

And when Dennis says that I have a crush on Katie, it looks like he's jealous :D.

Am I proving my point to you yet Dennis? Do you understand what I'm trying to send? Is the connection gettin' thru? :rolleyes:

[Benjamin]

Ummm no.... I got hit in the head with a basketball in gym today... so give me a few more minutes to think about this... :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Benjamin
Ummm no.... I got hit in the head with a basketball in gym today... so give me a few more minutes to think about this... :rolleyes:


You to Dennis? Well, it wasn't a basketball, it was much harder and happened in September or October. I got hit in the head with a softball, knocked me down, and I wasn't able to focus correctly for about 3 days. Those misjudgement catches, one wrong move could hurt so much :rolleyes:.

[SteveCRM]

Sounds more like you caught Dennis off guard...(finish him off while hes down! ;) ) hehehehe :D

[Benjamin]

once at a baseball game(quite a while ago, this is one of the reaons I don't play that game anymore, BTW), I was batting....

and the pitcher thought he was a pro... he spit, made all these damn retarded moves with his legs... and he threw the ball and hit me right in the ****ing ear.....

I would've been deafened in that ear if I hadn't been wearing a helmet....

[visualAd]

1 x 20GB, 2 x 40GB :lol:

[SLH]

Originally posted by visualAd
1 x 20GB, 2 x 40GB :lol:

How technology changes - wonder what we'll be using in 5 years time.

[manavo11]

2 x 160 GB :D

[Pc_Madness]

:lol: This thread is pretty funny. :)

Is MathewGates the nameless guy? :unsure:

[BodwadUK]

120GB is not enough :D