Feb 27 2007

How Much Hard Drive Space Do You Need?

Posted by Mr Butterscotch as Computers, Featured Articles, Gadgets, Hardware, Portable Media, Software Features, iPod

This is a question that comes up in a variety of situations – from the novice computer user to the PC salesman. Storage and use; these are the two drivers behind any user space requirement.

In my old laptop I had a 30 gig hard drive. Today, there are multimedia players featuring double that. My new laptop has 100 gig, two-thirds more. The space is good, and my needs on the base system (and hard drive) have actually lessened due to purchasing a 200 gig external drive.

This, coupled with my laptop and Xbox 360 form not only a lot of tech but a decent home entertainment hub. Lets do a quick audit of drives here:

Laptop: 100 gig
Xbox 360: 30 gig
External HDD: 200 gig
Old laptop: 30 gig
MP3 player: 1 gig

This is, lets face it, a lot of space. I.T. has my music, videos, games and writing – along with my study and other work. My digital life in fact. As long as I have enough space though I don’t really monitor it, barring on my laptop (I try to keep it reasonably clean for swap file usage etc).

Referring to the eponymous question, how much space do you need? Now there are phone with memory for data storage, pen drives (USB), external, internal, DVD, blu ray, HD and many more storage formats. All are being sold on their various and unique benefits. Do you have TiVO? Sky Plus? An Ipod?

This all makes me think that there are those missing out – on the tech, the wider picture and the pleasure of having their own on-demand entertainment. The revolution is now, and it’s happening in our generation. That being the case, pick up the external, stick it in to your media centre, power up your HD TV and enjoy!

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Comments (5)

5 Responses

scott tunnell
15|Jul|2007

Sorry, but 100 gigs is not 2/3 more space than 30 gigs. It is more than 3 times the amount.
Mr Butterscotch
15|Jul|2007

Well spotted Scott, my math was out that day! I actually have even more space now with a new 4gig mp3 player – I’m hoping to get a new 500gig hard drive as well, but that just seems greedy!
Fire Eye'd Boy
17|Jul|2007

My Xbox has 20 gigs; the elite has 120 – how come ya got 30?
Mr Butterscotch
26|Jul|2007

I counted the ten gig hard drive I run my music off externally – a little cheap but good!
bob billy
27|Jun|2009

Just saying this article is more than 2 years old but a terabyte of storage (1000GB) is becoming relatively cheap, and can be found at retailers for as low as $79.99. Thats truly revolutionary comparing what we had just a couple years back, when 60GB seemed ENDLESS.

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