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Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
 
I've been bumping up against the limits of the 60GB hard drive in my laptop for years now. I have two external hard drives, but my music and photo files, which I always wanted to have on my laptop, together claimed almost the whole space. I finally caved and moved two of my photo libraries exclusively to an external. I now have 12GB of free space on my main hard drive. I feel giddy with all the possibilities that have opened up! Strange.

I hardly know where to start.
 

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Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :
 
When I found out that iphoto had it's own trash that needed to be emptied separately, I realized I had three years of pictures I had thought I had deleted, and suddenly I had six gigs of available space. I could download new things and manipulate files and move stuff around to externals. All you need is a couple gigs of wiggle room and it's like a whole new computer.
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
My main computer has 1.5TB of storage; I try to keep 500GB free at any given time.
 

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Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :
 
Someday.
 

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 

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Originally posted by TomDavidson:
My main computer has 1.5TB of storage; I try to keep 500GB free at any given time.

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Originally posted by TomDavidson:
My main computer has 1.5TB of storage; I try to keep 500GB free at any given time.

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My only computer is a 12.1", 4.5lb, 4 yr-old laptop.
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
It's not really much to show off, when you think about it. All you really need to have 1.5TB today is $200 in disposable income. Storage has gotten so cheap that the real show-offs need to actually bling their hard drives with spindle windows and LEDs nowadays. *grin*

[ June 08, 2008, 10:54 PM: Message edited by: TomDavidson ]
 

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Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
 
(Sigh) I need to change my primary hard drive for something bigger one of these days; all the little additions and programs that really "want" to be on the C: drive are starting to cramp its confines.

I'm looking forward to re-installing the OS and trying to get all the various drivers and "essential" programs working again in much the same way one looks forward to a long-delayed visit to a dentist.
 

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Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
 
What are spindle windows anyways?
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Sterling: if you buy a retail drive, you might luck out and get a ghost utility bundled. This would allow you to copy your entire current drive intact onto the new drive, thus eliminating the need to reinstall anything.
 

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Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :
 
If you have a mac seriously consider this app. It gives a really nice visual representation of your hard drive use and lets you find little things that can save you space. I found that I had two versions of keynote and that Microsoft Office is morbidly obese. It's a really nice, free little app.
 

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Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
 

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Originally posted by dantesparadigm:
If you have a mac seriously consider this app. It gives a really nice visual representation of your hard drive use and lets you find little things that can save you space. I found that I had two versions of keynote and that Microsoft Office is morbidly obese. It's a really nice, free little app.

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Originally posted by TomDavidson:
Sterling: if you buy a retail drive, you might luck out and get a ghost utility bundled. This would allow you to copy your entire current drive intact onto the new drive, thus eliminating the need to reinstall anything.

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