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Will Your Hard Drive Hold 600GB?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Julio Franco, Feb 12, 2004.

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  1. MYOB Newcomer, in training

    I've got 200GB in my desktop, a 80GB small external, host-powered USB, HDD and a 300GB big external USB/FW HDD. I barely use 150GB across the lot of them.

    We're getting a situation where HDD's will be too big.
    MYOB, Nov 2, 2004
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  2. LNCPapa TS Special Forces

    My FFXI install alone is 6.53 GB. I have a few games that now arrive on DVD. I have 30+ games installed on my gaming machine. I also have 47 gig of MP3s on my file server and I rip new CDs everytime I want to hear something I haven't ripped yet. I'd prefer to move to a lossless audio compression method - but space is becoming a factor for me. All together I have around 1.6 TB of hard drive space and I am hurting for more. My dept at work - consisting of 6 people now - just ordered a 2.8 TB Apple Xserve RAID just for us to store our files - because we're all running out of space. I agree that the entry level user today has a problem filling up 80 gig - but as the OS and applications become easier to use people will be more willing to do things like save their music to their hard drives and capture/edit video. Keep in mind that 1 hour of DV video is 13 gig - and a normal miniDV tape is 60 minutes long. Also keep in mind that miniDV cameras are dirt cheap these days and broadband is mainstream. Digital cameras avg 3-5 megapixel easily resulting in jpgs over 1 meg each. I have taken nearly 1 gig worth of photos of my daughter - and she's only 3.5 weeks old! That includes deleting the bad images.

    I think we're going to need this space. The only people that won't get a benefit from this are those who use their computers as glorified typewriters and informational search engines.
    LNCPapa, Nov 2, 2004
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  3. MYOB-loginlazy

    I don't game much and I still prefer paper photographs. I download very little music and rip only DVD's I've rented/borrowed and not those I've bought

    I still use my PC very productively, in my opinion. What uses the largest amount of space on my machine is object files, obviously from coding, and hence a productive use.

    Media hoarders, gamers and file sharers will benifit from this. 95% of users and probably still 70% of "techies" won't
    MYOB-loginlazy, Nov 2, 2004
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  4. Unregistered

    Maybe companies should use this, market "Lite" computers for those who only want to type and read, and maybe listen to an MP3 album or 2. Specs could be:

    400-500 MHz CPU
    128MB RAM
    4GB HDD

    It might also be nifty to have it all contained inside a keyboard.
    Unregistered, Nov 8, 2004
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  5. bushwhacker TechSpot Chancellor

    My hard drive is Seagate 80.0Gb Baccauda 7200.7 8meg cache SATA, it is fast enough, but the post say 600gb, that is too big for me. I merely used up almost 1/5 of 73.9gb. They contain games, pictures, DVD and some old Win95b i am modding since. I should say for the average gamer should satifised about 160-200gb is enough.

    :approve:
    bushwhacker, Nov 8, 2004
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