Terabyte Hard Drive

[D-Rocks]

Hey everyone,
Do you think it is really nesscary to have a terabyte byte hard drive. What do you think is enough hard drive space for gaming,music,movies,pictures?

 

[dario03]

Completely depends on the person. When you say music and movies do you mean just storage or do you do a lot of editing. Editing can take a ton of space so 1tb might not be enough. But if your just storing it and don't download constantly then 1tb may be more than enough.

I have about 2.4tb usable space and I would say thats about what I need because 1. I have a habit of never deleting things. 2. I download a lot. 3. I wanted to be able to virtualize operating systems and have dedicated space for them. 4. don't want to fill the hdd completely so I like to keep at least 25% free space for better performance.

I had a friend that constantly filled his computer with 1tb of stuff and had to delete things a lot and that was 4 years ago. I also have another friend who video edits and he goes through multiple drives of storage constantly deleted and burning to dvd, I don't know how much space but I know its a lot.

 

[D-Rocks]

Doesn't the hard drive lock up if you were 99% full.

 

[dario03]

Everything will become slower. And would probably lock up if your swap file is on there and is needed. But I have had drives 99.5% full without locking up before.

 

[Hefemeister]

IMO you can never have too much drive space. I used to build computers and say I will never need that much space and I always find a way to fill them up. Right now I have approximately 1.5tb of info on my computer. Mostly pictures, music and home movies.

 

[D-Rocks]

What is better a EIDE or Serial ATA or Ultra ATA?

 

[Peter.Cort]

sata.

 

[synergy]

I also believe that you can never have TOO much space. The problem is backing up large amounts of data. In my case, I have around 1TB of data and am currently sketching because I hate having all that data vulnerable. But backing up that much data isn't as easy as say 250GB worth.

 

[eyeCpc]

When the next drive goes in I will have almost 2.5tb available for both OS and storage with a 1tb sata being added on. Running multiple versions of Windows here along with backing up updates and some work with video at times drive space is a premium.

 

[carlitos]

i have a 750 Gig external, i download movies and music for me and my family, I've had it for 2 months now and I've yet to use up 100Gigs

if your planning on saving ALOT of games,movies and videos, then go for it, by the way by alot i mean ALOT, i have full seasons of shows like family guy, it's awsome since i'm running a media sever but again, i haven't even used up a fourth of it, i doubt i'll ever max out a 750gig