Funny, Brad uses the names Alpha, Beta and Gamma for his drives. Mine are Alpha, Bravo and Charlie.
Alpha: 80 GB, 21.7 GB available
Bravo: 80 GB, 21.3 GB available
Charlie: 10 GB iPod, 1.5 GB available
I was actually pretty amazed at how similar my two main hard drives are in the amount of room they have left. I've thought of replacing them with a matched pair of 120 GB drives with 8 MB cache (right now they are both Western Digital WD800BB, 80 GB/2 MB models), but I think I'd rather hold off until my drive space is pretty low and then go for a couple of 160 GB SATA drives and a SATA card. That won't be for a while though - I am a pack-rat but I acquire data slowly.
I have 40.31GB free out of a total of 270GB of online storage space. The RAID array connected as well has 144GB of online space, but it fluctuates constantly depending on what footage I have digitized. It currently has 8GB free.
There is nothing worse than running out of hard drive space. With every computer I have ever owned, all the way back to my IIcx with the 80 MB hard disk, I have been low on space. That is, until now with my dual 80 GB hard drives which are each 25% open. My PowerMac 7100 had a 700 MB hard drive and it usually had under 50 MB open at any given time. And I actually used my Wallstreet with its 2 GB hard drive for OS X.1 a little while after I got it! I did move to a 12 GB after a while, but getting by with 2 GB in OS X was really a pain.
Sounds like it's about time for an upgrade, Daver. Or at least a firewire hard drive.
80GB hard drive (technically more like 74.5GB) and I have 51.03GB of free space remaining.
I had more up until the past month or so: iLife 04, JamPack and the Premium version of the Adobe Creative Suite have all been installed in the past 3 weeks or so...gobbling up quite a chunk! And I've been on a bit of an encoding/iTMS spree lately also.
I figure I'll level out at a nice point where I'll have a perpetual, solid 45GB free.
Two 40 Gig drives (hda and hdb)... with an odd partition setup... well not odd to linux users that is...
/dev/hda1 ...Backup Drive... Total 25 Gigs Free 10 Gigs
/dev/hda5 ...Media Backup... Total 12 Gigs Free 3 Gigs
/dev/hdb1 ...Swap Space... Total 256 Megs...
/dev/hdb2 ...Root Partition... Total 24 Gigs Free 14 Gigs
/dev/hdb3 ...Fat Partition... Total 13 Gigs Free 8 Gigs
Backup is for files such as documents and music...
Media Backup is for files such as Movies and odd ripped CD...
Swap Space... the name says it all...
Root partition aka "/" need I say more...
Fat partition... Used to store files that are recovered off of my client's computers... (I fix computers for an extra buck or two) it is formatted under FAT32 -- because FAT32 can be read from almost all OSs so I can just yank the drive and go... easy larg file transfers...
How much space are we supposed to leave free to prevent fragmenting I forget, I think it's 20% free? I am asking for Jaguar owners, as Panther with JFS doesn't have these problems. Wooo Panther!
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Alpha: 80 GB, 21.7 GB available
Bravo: 80 GB, 21.3 GB available
Charlie: 10 GB iPod, 1.5 GB available
I was actually pretty amazed at how similar my two main hard drives are in the amount of room they have left. I've thought of replacing them with a matched pair of 120 GB drives with 8 MB cache (right now they are both Western Digital WD800BB, 80 GB/2 MB models), but I think I'd rather hold off until my drive space is pretty low and then go for a couple of 160 GB SATA drives and a SATA card. That won't be for a while though - I am a pack-rat but I acquire data slowly.
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
...replacing them with a matched pair of 120 GB drives with 8 MB cache...
That's my Gamma.
Quicksilver 1 - 20 GB, 5 GB available
Quicksilver 2 - 20 GB, 1 GB available
Quicksilver 3 - (soon to be added) 120gb
I play musical chairs with my data. Stupid built-in DVD drive.
Sounds like it's about time for an upgrade, Daver. Or at least a firewire hard drive.
53.73GBs free on Serial ATA Seagate 2
LinuxBox Drive 1: 80GB - 30 free
LinuxBox Drive 2: 120GB 105 free
My professor told me yesterday that I was taking up 9 gigs one of the servers for the school.
Originally posted by 709
1030 GB total on this machine. Approximately 80% full.
Oh nice, over a terabyte.
I had more up until the past month or so: iLife 04, JamPack and the Premium version of the Adobe Creative Suite have all been installed in the past 3 weeks or so...gobbling up quite a chunk! And I've been on a bit of an encoding/iTMS spree lately also.
I figure I'll level out at a nice point where I'll have a perpetual, solid 45GB free.
Originally posted by Matt Danger
TiBook: 60GB - 5 free (video projects)
Backed everything up on another drive. All freed up now
/dev/hda1 ...Backup Drive... Total 25 Gigs Free 10 Gigs
/dev/hda5 ...Media Backup... Total 12 Gigs Free 3 Gigs
/dev/hdb1 ...Swap Space... Total 256 Megs...
/dev/hdb2 ...Root Partition... Total 24 Gigs Free 14 Gigs
/dev/hdb3 ...Fat Partition... Total 13 Gigs Free 8 Gigs
Backup is for files such as documents and music...
Media Backup is for files such as Movies and odd ripped CD...
Swap Space... the name says it all...
Root partition aka "/" need I say more...
Fat partition... Used to store files that are recovered off of my client's computers... (I fix computers for an extra buck or two) it is formatted under FAT32 -- because FAT32 can be read from almost all OSs so I can just yank the drive and go... easy larg file transfers...
15.0 GB on my Linux partition*
21.6 GB on my general storage partition
5.0 GB on my Mac
11.4 GB on my iPod
We'll see in a couple of weeks how many gigabytes on my iBook (only 24 hours until I order it! Huzzah!)
Barto
*I only have one Linux partition. I don't see the benefit in having 5 different ones for home, usr, root, yomama...