How many songs can I store on my PC before it starts to affect my computer's performance?

Question

I have a Hewlett Packard s7700n with an AMD Anthalon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 2.00 GHz. It has 894 MB of RAM and 250 GB of storage, of which 226 GB are currently free. I'm running Windows Vista. Can anyone give me a rough idea of how many music files (songs) I can store on my computer before it starts to affect my computer's performance?

Answer 1

Once you cross the halfway point on the the total memory is when I start to notice. I have a PC at home.

At work I use Mac. and they all have 250 GB and they don't have any problems until there is less then 85-87. I try to keep it in the 90's. There is on Mac I never use because it only has 32 GB left and it runs so slow.

In short, Try to keep it less then half and when you get to the final 1/4th it really becomes a problem.

Answer 2

For proper functioning and keeping in mind the system restore files you will have to spare out 60 gb as you are running Vista, and that leaves 226-60 = 166 GB. I take the average size of songs to be 5 mb* so you can store 166000/5 = 33200 songs in the hard drive. people haev mentioned above that one files stored do not affect the computers performance, i think they have not heard of the term VIRTUAL MEMORY and SYSTEM RESTORE, for in my pc i have set at lest 1 gb as virtual memory and many gb of system resotre files.

Answer 3

Well, you can fill your hard drive up to about 85%, but you should not go past that. You need the extra 15% in order to defragment. Your computer uses that to temporarily stick big files in while rearranging. If you go past 85%, you can always burn some cd's/dvd's and delete it off to go back under. Or you can buy a new hard drive and put it in there, about 75 bucks to slap another 250G hard drive in there, doubling your space.

Doesn't matter what's on the HDD, all you need is a little bit free for cleaning purposes so you can have about 200 G's of music which is about 68000+ songs...

Answer 4

Hi. Look at the file size of your music. It will vary depending on the type with mp3s being one of the smallest. Use about 25% of the total storage as a minimum to keep open (25% of 250, in your case) and divide by the average file size and there you go.

Answer 5

Files stored on your HD do not affect your computers performance. Your computers performance is affected by the speed of your processor and your amount of ram. The faster and more the better. Your computer can slow down if you allow your cookies and temp files to accumulate. Also if you fail to keep your system defragmented. So...if you have a good amount of ram which it seems you do and a decent processor, keep ur temp files and cookies at a moderate level, keep your system defragmented you shoud not have a problem

Answer 6

Because the size of each song is variable the question you need to ask is how much memory can you use storing songs.

Given a specific amount of ram there are two important factors:
How much overhead you allow for your operating system (I'd say twice th recommended minimum) and what applications you are running. Photoshop needs LOTS of space and converting an avi file to fllv requires lots of Gig to go.

OpenOffice requires little.

Answer 7

A lot, man, a lot.
IF, Lets say one mp3 is 5MB and you have 226 GB free, THEN, 1 GB is 1024 MB, so 204 songs in One Gigs, then multiply it by 226, it is a 46285 songs.
It will be 2314 CDs (20 songs each of 5MB MP3).

A lot

Answer 8

i won't be able to have self belief i'm the 1st answerer to aid you recognize this because of the fact this is the 1st subject human beings do for a slow workstation: i think of maximum probable it rather is a few thing else. each so generally you need to pass to start Button/ All courses/ upload-ons/ gadget techniques and run the Disk Defragmenter and likewise Disk CleanUp. it is meant to get the workstation working swifter. If it does not artwork, then you definately ought to attempt different issues. additionally, run a test inclusive of your antivirus.

Answer 9

The best thing to do would be to put your music on a separate hard drive, or a separate partition on your current hard drive, so that it doesn't affect your system performance. These computers come with big hard drives. Let's say your hard drive is 250GB. You could allocate 100GB for your system and programs, so that leaves 150GB for music and other stuff, that's about 37,000 songs!

Answer 10

The size of your hard drive, and how much you store on it isn't going to affect your PC's performance. Only when you get really really low on disk space will it become an issue, and you'll know it. I don't see you running out of space anytime soon, and you'll need tens of thousands of songs before you'll fill it up.