How big is your hard drive?

How big is your hard drive?

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 ?

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

[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 .

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

Sorry for the thread's title appearance as well .
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 .

[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...


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.