How many songs can you put on your hard drive before your computer just basically stops doing things right?

Question

I have about 700 songs on my computer right now, and a lot of them I either downloaded or ripped from a friend's borrowed CD. I also have a lot of pictures, and my computer is acting up a lot lately. What do you recommend that I do?

I am working on putting pictures on writable CDs, but I don't know what to do about my music if I decide to reformat it.

My dad says I have 40 GB on my hard drive.

Answer 1

I keep my 20,000 songs on an external hard drive. Youmight consider getting one to store your songs on.

Answer 2

I could be wrong but don't think it has to do with the number of songs. What you need to do is complicated and I probably wouldn't even be able to do enough. Checks for viruses, spyware, and I think other things. Maybe find Internet sites and start getting help? Or maybe you can talk to a computer whiz or something?

I see you are living with your dad. Maybe he has friends at work with computers who can mention a thing or two. These things take time but lots of stuff is out there to help because it is common for Microsoft Windows to be attacked. Do you get the updates, patches, and whatever? LOTS to do and even I have a mild problem, apparently because I'm not doing enough.

Drop me a line via the mail link if you want and if you think that my mentioning Internet software might help you.

One more idea -- repost your question during the day, save all the parts now, put them together, and repost during the day in the USA. (Don't know whether you are in the USA but I think Americans are the most likely of being able to help.)

I keep seeing more all the time. Reformatting the hard drive is a massive undertaking. You might be able to buy a backup harddrive or whatever it is called and put files you want really badly there. You will lose lots and might want to talk to someone in a computer store about the effects of reformatting because although it should solve the problem, I think you pretty much lose EVERYTHING.

Answer 3

if you fill your hard drive with any information songs or whatever then you simply ran out of space. The fact of how many depends on 2 major factors 1) size of your hard drive 2) how big the songs are. I think you can store about 250 songs per 1 gigabyte of disk space. so if you have 40gigabytes you can apply toward music storage your total songs would be 40x250=10,000 songs and this depends on what bit format your songs are stored i.e., 128, 192, 320 etc... I would say once your hard drive becomes greater than 90% full you will start to see major changes in speed.
I would suggest buying a cheap extrnal hard drive (you can get one for less than 100 dollars) try www.tigerdirect.com.

Answer 4

I have over 3000 songs and about 10,000 pictures and about 20 full lenth movies and another 100 music videos on mp3. No problems to speak of.

I suppose moving most of it over to a disc will free up a lot of space.

Then defagment the computer.

Answer 5

well your computer will start acting up as u put it as soon as it runs out of space which is required for swapin files (dont try to under stand it all u need to know is that you should always leave the size of about twice of your R.A.M (memory ) empty in your harddisk
so if you have around 256 mb ram then plzz leave 512 mb free in your hard disk at all times .
if its acting a lot lately then u can also defrag your system .
go to start run type defrag and run and defrag each of your hard disk partitions .

Answer 6

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Answer 7

It depends on your computer. How many GB can Your computer store?
most computers have millions of GBs.

Answer 8

How big is your hard drive?