Why would a person need 1000GB of disk space in a computer? What are some of the things you can do if you have so much disk space ? Computers are being advertised with a lot of disk space, especially recently.
2007-10-26 11:53:05 · 14 answers · asked by cidyah 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
My computer has around 1200 GBs of space. I keep a lot of movies, music, dvd images for games. I also have a tv adapter in my computer which lets me watch and record from cable tv. So I can record shows when I'm gone and watch them when I get home. You don't necessarily need 1000 GBs of space to do these things, but it helps to have extra. My drives are around 85% full right now, so I'm one person that can make use of the space.
2007-10-26 11:59:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God, don't I know it. I remember in computer rooms they would have a hard disk you would pull out of a drive that was 3 ceramic disks thick, and maybe 10 mb total.
Programs no long have to worry about either disk space or memory requirements. When I did programming in college for Fortran, it was a challenge to utilize 64kb of ram.
Anyway, truth be told, everything take more room now. And if you do any kind of graphics at all, photos or anything, with your OS you are talking about and easy 20Gb's right there.
I can't believe it either, but the days of the 1000 Gb (1 Terabyte) hard drive is here.
2007-10-26 19:08:14 · answer #2 · answered by PyroTech 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Computers from three, four and five years ago didn't really have much need for so much storage space. But these days, every Tom, Dick and Harry downloads videos from either YouTube, P2P programs or from video cameras.
A one-hour dvd-quality video can take up around 1Gb of space on your harddrive. If you have taken hours and hours of video on a DVD or Harddrive camcorder from a recent holiday, for example, your 1000Gb harddrive will become pretty full pretty quickly. Once you've edited this video and merged all the bits you want together, this size will dramatically reduce.
But one thing you don't want to do is run out of disk space whilst you're in the middle of editing a video of your trip to Rome.
2007-10-26 20:00:34 · answer #3 · answered by Gregor M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The more space, the stuff you can store on your computer. People who want more space are usually people who download a lot of stuff. There are lots of people out there who download lots of music, movie, tv shows, etc. (It is legal in some places, like Canada). For someone who does download all that stuff and more, it adds up quick! There are legitimate reasons for having that much space too. Video/movie editing, graphics related projects and gamers too. Games always get bigger and bigger.
Its a bit of "hard drive envy" too. Bragging rights to say you have the biggest hard drive.
2007-10-26 19:02:07 · answer #4 · answered by MrBlund 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have 4 hard drives. 2 in a raid0 for the C drive, and internal and external storage drives. I have a total of 520GB and run my computer business, tons of games and everything else on it. I would never use a single 1TB hard drive regardless of what I was doing because if you lose your drive you lose everything on it unless you pay to have it recovered which would be a lot on a big drive like that. I can see businesses using them but home computers? Nah.
I build and sell them and if someone wants a lot of storage I use a C drive and a big storage drive. Hey, if the guy across the street has a 750GB hard drive you have to get a 1TB right? LOL
2007-10-26 19:12:29 · answer #5 · answered by s j 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you start loading and saving large video and music files without ever cleaning up after yourself, then the large sizes are needed. Also due to poor quality of software generation by makers that use code generators instead of writing the code, the file sizes get outrageous for games. Have you seen the size of some of the drivers in
Vista, or the size of the OS itself in relation to say 98 or XP? It is sad.
2007-10-26 19:01:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alot of people like to download music, songs, video's, pictures, and save them on their computers. These take up alot of hard disk space.
2007-10-26 19:03:07 · answer #7 · answered by centsless 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Video Editing.
2007-10-26 18:57:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I download ALOT of stuff and It took me about two years to fill a 200 gig. But I do transfer some stuff to dvd on occasion.
Songs don't take up much room, It's really for people who like to pirate movies and unreleased "rips". They can take up to 8 gigs apiece. I DO NOT do anything illegal online, stopped getting music when napster went south.
If you want to see how long it would take you with different connection speeds to fill a terabyte drive, check out this calculator.... remember this is downloading 24/7 at PEAK speeds. (put in 56k and see how long it would take to fill one of those) I used to wait 2 minutes for a picture to load on 56k.
http://www.martindalecenter.com/AATimeCalc.html
2007-10-27 02:38:03 · answer #9 · answered by mike h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Small business servers, HD Video Editing, large file server for movies, etc.
2007-10-26 19:02:36 · answer #10 · answered by shamrock 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋