How much storage do you REALLY need?

[Dreadful Scathe]

Funnily enough, I set a new record for my system overnight.

430+GB for a single file. (A 5 terapixel composite image of the planet).

ooh cool. can you email it over ?

[straycat]

ooh cool. can you email it over ?

Or just post it in the forum gallery for all of us to see.

[ducasi]

Or just post it in the forum gallery for all of us to see.

I think you should use it as a new avatar.

[Martin]

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Of course, I don't know anything about the stores it links to, so they might be a right bunch of cowboys...

For what it's worth, I've got a stack of the Porsche Lacie drives, but I've had 1 failure and 1 sort-of failure (I suspect it's an NTFS corruption problem so it may not be the drive's fault, but it barfs when I try to copy a 160GB file onto it. This is probably not going to be a problem for the typical user), so I'm hesitant to recommend them now.

A big thank you David, armed with this knowledge, I went to the local store and picked up a 500GB external drive, for an amazing low price of $229 (about 90 pounds UK) stupidly cheap considering that was what my 80GB external hard drive cost me a while ago,...

I am a happy man to you...

[thainmaggiet]

prompted by this comment on the Norton AV thread.



I have a 40gb External HDD, and am continually upping my Home PC's HDD's . But what I find is.. the bigger the hard drive I have.. the more JUNK I accumulate.

If I actually went though my HDD's deleting duplicates, older backups of stuff, backups of backups of backups etc..stuff I've not looked at (and not likely to look at again) for ages.. I'd probably only need about 1/3 of the storage capacity I have at the moment.

I suspect software/data is like a gas.. "It expands to fill the space available"

Estimated... what %age of your storage (not counting OS or APP installs) is actually used by stuff you use often.. and how much is filled with "accumulated junk"?

I thought this thread was about clothes storage!!I was going to say never enough{I am a technophobe and an infomaniac!}