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Posted by scary_jeff on Fri Mar 19th at 10:46am 2004

As in actually use - free space doesn't count. Stuff you burnt to CDs/DVDs doesn't count. Stuff that would be taking up space if you had it installed, doesn't count. If you have some clever RAID thing where all your data is there twice, you don't get to claim both copies (figures in gigabytes)



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Posted by $loth on Fri Mar 19th at 10:53am 2004

i only have half life and cs on this pc and some other programs, on my other i use about 30+ gigs minimum

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Posted by DesPlesda on Fri Mar 19th at 10:58am 2004

I'm always running on empty. I have an 18.6GiB HDD, and it's always full - mostly because I dual boot Slackware 9.1 and Windows 2000 (Windows purely for games, although Deus Ex runs very nicely under WineX).



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Posted by scary_jeff on Fri Mar 19th at 11:08am 2004

Good god man! You can get yourself an 80 gig drive for ?40... but hmm that's 100AUD which sounds more expensive.



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Posted by $loth on Fri Mar 19th at 11:08am 2004

what sorta stuff would someone have on their HD if they are using 120-240 GB of space??? [addsig]



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Fri Mar 19th at 11:17am 2004

lots and lots of movies. [addsig]



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Posted by wil5on on Fri Mar 19th at 11:26am 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
Good god man! You can get yourself an 80 gig drive for ?40... but hmm that's 100AUD which sounds more expensive.

Also computer equipment is more expensive here... I havent bought a hdd for a while but I think itd cost around AU$150-200 for a decent quality (ie. seagate/WD) 80gb drive.

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Posted by DesPlesda on Fri Mar 19th at 11:45am 2004

I'm poor and lazy. Actually, it works out really well this way. Since I run games on a 6GiB partition, I never have to worry about not being able to save my work due to too many saved game.



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Posted by Gwil on Fri Mar 19th at 11:52am 2004

? posted by $loth
what sorta stuff would someone have on their HD if they are using 120-240 GB of space???

movies, porn, mp3s and so forth, perhaps?

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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Fri Mar 19th at 1:04pm 2004

I've got 150 of 240 used up - dual 120 gig HDs

As far as what's on it... I have on my system drive 10.5 gigs of downloaded files (demos, patches, driver updates, etc. etc.), 11.3 gigs of (mostly self-encoded) mp3s, downloaded videos directory (game trailers and music videos), and Max and Maya.

On my other drive, my Nightwatch development folder is just over 2 gigs, I have a large directory of 3dBuzz video tutorials (10.6 gigs), and my games collection (currently installed) uses up 60 gigs on its own.

Oh, and I have 6 gigs in my general editing directory (editor downloads, textures, tools, etc) and about 3 1/2 gigs in my .rmf directory. [addsig]



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Posted by fraggard on Fri Mar 19th at 1:14pm 2004

I have an old 20GB disk, and a newer 40 GB thing... Using Fedora Core on a 10 GB partition, and 5 10GB vfat partitons for windows XP. I've got around 10-15GB free at any time. Most of it's taken up by applications and games. I'm thinking of getting another HD... Don't know whether I should, or just wait till the prices settle a bit on the 80gig discs.



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Posted by Wild Card on Fri Mar 19th at 2:02pm 2004

*adopts gay polititien voice*

I have an 18.6gig drive, but with Win XP pro it takes up 4gigs to itself so I only have a 14gig drive essentially. And I have to try to fill it up.

Heh, you guys filling to the brim a 120gig drive... thats a helluva lots of "questional material"

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Posted by Edge Damodred on Fri Mar 19th at 2:20pm 2004

I got a 40 GB Drive and it just has a few games, the rest is devoted to game development stuff like Vis Studio, GMax, PSP, RM2k, GTKRadiant, RenderWare crap, DirectX 9 SDK, and other assorted s**t. [addsig]



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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Fri Mar 19th at 2:21pm 2004

? quote:
Heh, you guys filling to the brim a 120gig drive... thats a helluva lots of "questional material"smiley


Or... None. [addsig]



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Posted by DesPlesda on Fri Mar 19th at 2:25pm 2004

There are plenty of types of data that take up large amounts of disk space - my audio design classes fill up five gigabytes a week. Why does everyone assume that lots of disk space usage == pron/downloaded movies?



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Posted by Wild Card on Fri Mar 19th at 2:28pm 2004

? posted by DesPlesda
Why does everyone assume that lots of disk space usage == pron/downloaded movies?

lol its just making fun of people. And probably because my friend has an 80gig drive, 75ish gigs which is porn and downloaded movies.

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Posted by Myrk- on Fri Mar 19th at 5:12pm 2004

I have 200Gb of space or so, currently I use around 85Gb, thats not including all the movies I haven't copied down yet, so I'd use between 120 and 200 gigs. My m8 is getting 0.5Tb lol... he has a lot of anime movies and stuff. [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Fri Mar 19th at 5:48pm 2004

Tb? [addsig]



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Posted by Monqui on Fri Mar 19th at 5:57pm 2004

Terabyte [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Fri Mar 19th at 5:59pm 2004

equaling? 1000gigs? [addsig]




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