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ale555666   08-12-2009 at 04:31:34 AM

Why do some people have computers with like 8 Hard Drives. Why do they need so much memory for?
I'm just curious because I have a 640Gb hard drive and I think that I will never use all that space.

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AdioKIP   08-12-2009 at 04:37:58 AM

Alot of people use there computers for alot of things. Personally I run my computer as a media server. I have over 3000+ cd quality albums stored, as well as alot of my favorite TV shows etc. Running Media Center my computer acts as a complete DVR, HD quality recording can easily eat up 10 gigs an hour or more. Add in video editing projects with HD video files that can be in the hundreds up gigs and its not hard to use up a 1tb HD in no time. Personally I've got 3.5 TB's worth of storage which seems to be enough for my needs for another year or so hopefully.

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masterjaw   08-12-2009 at 04:49:05 AM

Huh?! Because they need that much space for their own purposes and they have the money to do it. This is like asking if why some people have trucks when a car is enough for you. Obviously, you don't have to use a truck just to buy some milk in the store.

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jaguarskx   08-12-2009 at 06:58:54 AM

Pron.

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I store my music in FLAC format on my PCs; 1 minute of lossless audio is roughly 5MB.

I also store movies in H.264 format.

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jsc   08-12-2009 at 07:39:19 AM

Hard drive space in a computer is like closet space in a house. Sooner or later, you are going to run out.

Q9550 - gaming and multimedia - 2.6 TB.
Q6600 - basic workhorse - 820 GB.
E5200 - tinker machine - 820 GB.

I like big closets. :D

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Bronze Storage badge cjl   08-12-2009 at 09:34:45 AM

Right now, I have 1.6TB, and quite a bit of it is full. I have a lot of games and apps (~300GB), a fairly large amount of music (WMA lossless, around 700-800kbps), TV, and movies (I have no idea how much space it all uses, but it's several hundred gigs), weekly images of my OS/app drive (~500GB), and I'm sure I would use a lot more if I had it.

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habitat87   08-12-2009 at 09:51:09 AM

Because drm is screwed up and there's no way to stop it. At all... Although, one thing you should never pirate is Windows, that's just something you don't want to have to hassle with. Especially when your not sure if the os has been tampered with. Normal people don't need more than about 250 gigs.

Performance is one reason... But usually not a good enough reason. That's a good point you brought up but there is always a need for more depending on the person.

Another reason is because they are stupid and don't know any better. Heh. This is usually the situation.


Message edited by habitat87 on 08-12-2009 at 09:51:53 AM
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Powderhorn   08-12-2009 at 01:17:22 PM

People asked the same thing about 100MB hard drives. "Who could ever use that much?!" Back then, no audio, no video, and certainly no never-ending increase in the quality of both. It's pretty easy to fill 640GB if you're running a media server; at 8.5GB, you'll hit full at 75 movies if you don't need one of those pesky operating systems. Now, take a Blu-Ray collection and use single-layer for your reference point: 25 movies and you're done. Then, if you want redundancy to save your data if a drive dies, multiply your space needs by up to 2 ...

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