I'm embarrassed to ask this, but how much music can you download to your pc before it starts slowing it down?

Question

I'm a novice at computers, when it comes to latest technologies, so please forgive me if this sounds stupid.

OK, I have a little less than 1G of RAM, desktop, Intel Celeron M 420 CPU @ 1.60GHz, (whatever that means), I use WIN XP and Real Player 10. I've put about 17 or 18 CD's on it, will this amount be ok? Is it ok to put any more this? If so, could you please give me some kind of guidelines to go by?

I currently have Google Earth (along with several add-ons) installed, about 4 spyware programs, 4 browsers, a couple news/temperature prog,. A couple TV players, 4-5 media center add-on's, and a couple screensavers I downloaded. And ofcourse my 17-18 CD's and anti-virus, but that's about it. Drive C: shows, (used 12.3GB), free space:165 GB, capacity:178GB.

Answer 1

There is no limit and no slow down (as long as you have enough open space left). You have plenty of disc storage left, and only need to watch it if you drop below about 10GB.
You may also want to add a second disc drive, and back up your data (music etc) on it, as you never know when a disc drive will go dead. Then it is too late to save your data. I back up all of my data every 2 weeks (over 30GB at this point) and have 4 disc drives in my tower (2 EIDE and 2 SATA).
I also have about 2,500 songs, and 38,000 pictures on there, emails for 12 years and about 35 DVD movies. NO slow down! ;-)

Answer 2

Music is stored and your computer doesn't continuously access the entire hard drive. Your hard drive remains inactive until the Operating system retrieves something from it, such as a song. You click on the song you want, your Operating system retrieves only that 1 song you want from your hard drive and plays it.

Think of it like this: you read a book. You read at the same speed no matter what size the book is. However, your reading speed will start to deteriorate if you read more books at the same time. So if you're playing one song at a time, your performance will remain the same.

Answer 3

Tnat de^pands on your hard drive capsity for exemple i have 120 Gega bite of disck space in my pc & i have more than 20 000 song in it & i still can put more without slowing it
A that also depands where is your Windows Xp instaled if for exempl you have C: & D: & Your Win-Xp is in C: then you can put anything you want in D: without slowing it down even if it's foul.
Just keep at least 1Gb of disk space for your Won Xp to run & you'll be ok
Hint: 1Gb = 1024 Mega byts
1Mb = 1024 Kelo Byts

Answer 4

What you're storing on the computer really doesn't make it slow. You have plenty of Hard Drive space, so I wouldn't worry about it. Microsoft recommends keeping at least 15% free, and you are well above that. What slows down your machine is low RAM, and storing music doesn't affect RAM on your machine.
If you have 165G free, that's oh...like 100 more albums no sweat.

Answer 5

definite you may actually acquire music from different computing gadget yet you will no longer have the flexibility to flow music out of your ipod to the computing gadget and once you're trying make confident your ipod is in instruction manual mode

Answer 6

178 GB well you still have to get to 20-40GB free space untill you notice the difference.

Answer 7

lol i have an old laptop, 5.59 gig hard drive, i have 123 mb left, it still runs ok.....i have over 18000 songs on my home music network, like 75 gigs of music. i take requests, will email songs to you

Answer 8

downloading music wont slow your computer down, it will however slow your download speeds down while you are donwloading.

Well with one exception..
once you fill up your harddrive (get > 175gb of used space on your harddrive) then your computer will slow down.

Answer 9

ur good ... when ur down to a couple of gigs left on the harddrive then worry ....

Answer 10

let's KEEP IT SIMPLE ITS NOT THE MUSIC THAT HAS SLOWED DOWN YOUR COMPUTER IT IS ALL THE EXTRA PROGRAM CRAP YOU ARE RUNNING