1.21 jigawatt hard drives

[Lusche]

What is the purpose of having monster-sized hard drives in a personal computer?  Don't think I will ever fill more than 25% of my 320 gig HD.

I once thought the same about my first 60 mb(!) harddrive...

[guncrasher]

I have 1tb hitachi hd and a 750 wd.  i have used about 20% of each drive.  I have several hundred ah recordings about 3,000 songs.  I dont save movies on them, I see no reason too.  I have the dvd. I also have several thousand family pictures.  I think what takes up most space on my hd's is the back ups.  lol.

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[Spikes]

I had to make a dedicated fraps hard drive for my video editing/making.

Have a 120 for Windows/core stuff, 250 for games, and a 1TB for fraps/movies/music.

[caldera]

Thank you all for the info.   

[cattb]

I have 2 1tb drives and a 500 and 750....I have 2 different OS and assorted software programs. I use 1 tb for back up, movies, music, family pictures and family movies. I use the other 1tb for backup of the other 1tb.

I have told my wife, kids grow up once so take the pictures now. Think about, nowadays its easy to fill a sd card of pictures and movies and then go through and erase some of them later as opposed to takes several rolls of 35mm film and have it developed as the way it was.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

So is having a mondo-huge hard drive beneficial in any way compared to what I have (assuming no movies or FSX)?  Just can't imagine needing so much space.  Wouldn't it be better to have multiple small drives?

A larger harddrive usually has higher platter density. This means that more data can be moved per revolution. If you have two drives with 7200 rpm platter speed, the larger drive is 99.999% of the time measureably faster because of this. This is why it's beneficial to have a large drive even if you wouldn't need all the space.

SSD drives are a totally different animal. With those even a small drive can be blazing fast, it depends totally from the design and controllers used.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

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