Are your HD's Full?

debro 2006-04-08 21:37:51 UTC #1

A quick glance at the status of my HD's suggests I have alot of cleaning up to do.
Between duplicate files, moving OS's to new HD's, downloads, backups of other peoples HD's, DVD Rips/conversions & etc .... I've managed to almost fill 600GB's of HD space on one PC & another 180 on a spare PC.

So how full are your HD's?

Airhead 2006-04-09 01:06:17 UTC #2

I manage to nearly always keep 50% clean. I feel dirty when my HDD overfill. :sad:

Dee-ehn 2006-04-09 01:53:47 UTC #3

I've got about 1.7Tb of harddrive space and about 100Gb left. The reason why? I crashed a RAID-0 last night. Before that time I had about 2Gb of free space. I love having this free space, but I hate loosing my data (nothing important was on there btw..).

weedougie 2006-04-09 05:04:05 UTC #4

If there was nothing of import on the drive(s) you lost why keep it?

debro 2006-04-09 05:19:35 UTC #5

Cough Pr8n Cough

JayC30 2006-04-09 06:02:41 UTC #6

Shouldn't that be a 0 not an 8

I remove stuff when I get to about 15% free space from my main hdd to my others then back up to DVD at a later date. That reminds me I realy must defrag the externals soon.

chef 2006-04-09 06:49:56 UTC #7

Too much stuff on the int@r n0d.

Dee-ehn 2006-04-09 08:10:59 UTC #8

Because there's lots of data that's only there for "fun". Stuff like MP3s, images, videos etc. No, no pr0n (this time :p). Unimportant but fun stuff though...

cerberus 2006-04-09 08:14:52 UTC #9

Living on the edge , p0rn is very space hungry =)

crossg 2006-04-09 08:23:29 UTC #10

All 4 of my HD's have about 10% used space so I normaly have over 550Gb of free space if I ever need it. The drive I use for ripping and burning sometimes gets close to full though.

Kenshin 2006-04-09 09:35:27 UTC #11

Never... because it's too energy-inefficient to run all the HDDs at once.

drcy 2006-04-09 09:50:30 UTC #12

Nope, I like to keep it <50% full and defragged. A little OCD

ripit 2006-04-09 14:49:23 UTC #13

I have well over a terrabyte between two computers and it's not that uncommon for me to have to empty the recycling bin/delete stuff (on either machine), just to have enough working space to burn a dvd. It seems no matter how much I clean up, I fill it back up in no time. I plan on doing a massive burning session putting a lot of it onto dvd soon, but knowing me, I'll have it filled back up in no time.

debro 2006-04-09 16:33:52 UTC #14

Silly me ... Pr8n is on the Raid1 (mirrored) array, not the striped array .... Can't afford to lose the pr8n collection

ripit 2006-04-09 17:25:19 UTC #15

Now you got the right idea!!!!!!!!!!

wazzy 2006-04-09 17:53:28 UTC #16

I've never heard of an HD with underwear on its head getting past 5% full

drpino 2006-04-09 20:12:11 UTC #17

according to windows -

size / available

debro 2006-04-09 20:16:28 UTC #18

200GB on ye old beast & 1.3TB in the current beast ...
If ya fill that up .. you'd better also stock up on moisturising cream

drpino 2006-04-09 20:24:09 UTC #19

the wonderful world of bit torrent...a ton is ROIO material...

debro 2006-04-09 20:30:04 UTC #20

Arrrrrgh! Indi music
My ears are killing me, just thinking about it

No! I'm serious! My ears have picked up a knife and are swinging it at me....

Noooooo!