I am thinking of purchasing the following system: HP Pavillion 8586C. 600 MHz Intel P3 cpu. 31GB harddrive. Network card. 19" Viewsonic monitor. CD-ROM drive. Keyboard, mouse. Windows XP What does 31GB harddrive mean? Does that refer to ram size?
2007-01-09 05:43:12 · 16 answers · asked by magnoliabelle67 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
It means as of a hard drive 31GB is very small, as the OS will take up about 5GB (lil less maybe) leaving you with practical nothing.
Another thing, that CPU is very slow.
You get what you pay for, IMO spend abit more for a better/faster notebook.
2007-01-09 05:53:43 · answer #1 · answered by INOA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the 31GB harddrive refers to the total space of your hard disk used for storing information and data on your computer. pls let me explain this: to store a single letter like "a" you will need 8bits or 1Byte, then to store the word "apple" you need 8*5 or 40bytes. Now 1024 bytes = 1KB, 1024 KB=1MB, 1024MB=1GB. that means your 31 GB can store up to 31 billion characters. whao! quite much? I bet there are better and larger. you can still get up to 160GB!
2007-01-09 06:47:36 · answer #2 · answered by Temmy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, 31GB HardDrive means you have about 31 GB of storage space on your PC.
Memory will be referred to as something like, 256MB DDR, or 512 MB DDR2 ....etc
2007-01-09 05:53:02 · answer #3 · answered by Viper 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
31GB harddrive is the storage space you will have pre-formating. (around 25 Gb of space after formating etc.)
RAM is memory - or simply put how much you can have open at a time.
2007-01-09 06:32:08 · answer #4 · answered by mo-b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the hard drive is the disk that everything is stored on. if you were to open the computer up it is a thick rectangular kind of shape. the ram size would either be in MB(megabytes) such as 128, 256, or 512MB, or it could be in GB(Gigabytes), but it would be a low number... most likely 1 or 2.
2007-01-09 05:54:30 · answer #5 · answered by Gino R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Hard drive is the storage disc, but this is an old, slow computer and RAM is not given. New ones are cheap and ready for new operating systems.
2007-01-09 07:15:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
31 GB is the space of the hard drive,it is so small.
i have 80GB and i cant find space to put things.so get a bigger one.but watch out for the limit that the motherboard can read.
as i think it will read up to 80GB hard drives so u can put 2 hard drives of 40GB or 31GB one as master and the other as a slave.
NOTE:ONE HARD DRIVE OF 80GB ALMOST WILL NOT WORK AND MAY BE ONE HARD DRIVE FOR 60GB WILL NOT WORK AS IT CANT READ THE WHOLE 80GB SPACE AT ONCE,THIS MEANS THAT THE U CAN CONNECT UP TO 2 HARD DRIVES OF 80GB TOGETHER"40GB+40GB".
SO THE BETTR IS GETTING A P4 2GHz OR 3GHz PC AND U CAN HAVE FUN WITH IT AND FORGET ABOUT THE ABOVE STORY"CONNECT UP TO 160GB HARD DRIVE".U CAN PLAY GAMES MUCH BETTER WITH IT.AND IT WILL BE MUCH FASTER.AND GET HIGH RAM SIZE LIKE 512MB OR 1GB OR EVEN 2GB AND FOR VIDEO CARD GET 256MB OR 512MB IT WILL BE BETTER.
2007-01-09 06:04:17 · answer #7 · answered by tim6630_2006 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
31gb refers to how much space you have to store data. It is not relevant to ram size.
2007-01-09 06:02:26 · answer #8 · answered by Chorx 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no its the memory of the hard disk (HDD).
which is how much data you can have on the computer for example a music file is about 0.005Gb. or an OS like windows takes up about 1.3GB of memory and the CPU is too slow.
2007-01-09 06:40:39 · answer #9 · answered by AD. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RAM and the hard drive are 2 totally different things.
2007-01-09 05:50:07 · answer #10 · answered by Ghjjf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋