What is your Free Space ?

[John Bull]

I have 58 GB of Free Space out of a total capacity of 76.7 GB.

[ronjor]

Not crowded at all here. :D

[John Bull]

-{ Quote: "Not crowded at all here. :D" }-

Gosh Ron, I never knew there was that much out there !
Makes my 58/78 GB look like a bag of Tuck Shop treats.

I set this up to see what others had relative to me. Well you sure have given me an eye opener at the first pitch. Guess I`m still in infants school.

John

[Peter2150]

My C: drive on this machine. Freespace 557gb Total Space 596 gb

Pete

[dw426]

881Gb free of 919Gb total. Geez, Peter, you and I are almost tied there, lol.

[JRViejo]

869 GB Free out of 919 GB Total Size.

[wtsinnc]

"C" Drive 35.2gb free out of 37.2gb total.

External USB Drives;
#1) 128.2gb free out of 697gb total.
#2) 54.7gb free out of 187gb total.
#3) 51.6gb free out of 189gb total.

[andyman35]

Considering I have 10 partitions spread over 4 hard-drives,this turned out to be quite taxing on my old brain :wacko: .

727gb free out of 1338gb.

[GlobalForce]

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 4.0G 2.7G 1.2G 70% /
/dev/hdc7 14G 9.6G 3.6G 73% /home
I'm @ the other end of the spectrum.

[Dermot7]

This notebook: 195Gb free/ total 222Gb
2nd lappy : 430 Gb free/ total 465Gb
Ext, HD : approx 250Gb free/ total 400Gb

[culla]

free 33.8 of 37.2
i only run os and a couple of programs on c drive
external drives 150g and 350g

[Sully]

NAS box (raid1) 572gb of 684gb free
c: (SSD) 52gb of 74gb free
f: 303gb of 488gb free
g: 155gb of 191gb free
h: 430gb of 442gb free
i: 259gb of 506gb free

Sul.

[NAMOR]

See image... I also have a 1TB WD drive that has nothing on it.
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[Nick Rhodes]

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[blacknight]

It would be better a graphic poll with %. ;)

[John Bull]

-{ Quote: "It would be better a graphic poll with %. ;) " }-

Hello Darknight,
Thanks for taking part, but it is a specific question not a bar chart.

John B

[twl845]

So is this saying that we are buying computers with way too much capacity that we can't possibly fill? :what:

[Ocky]

-{ Quote: "So is this saying that we are buying computers with way too much capacity that we can't possibly fill? :what:" }-
You got it ! ;D

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[Sully]

-{ Quote: "So is this saying that we are buying computers with way too much capacity that we can't possibly fill? :what:" }-
For me it is from using 200mb drives and having to use pkzip on everything because floppies only held 1.44 and there were no cdr's yet. I still remember my first gb drive. The freedom of having a lot of space available to copy that 8gb directory, or when working on a project, having 50gb free to copy the project 10 times and mess with each copy independently. I seem to almost fill a drive up, then end up deleting a lot of it after a spell.

The fear of being full drives me to buy bigger drives when I can. A few months ago I deleted a lot of archived stuff I have had for maybe 8 years. Roughly 600gb of data I decided I could live without.

Sul.

[trismegistos]

On my old computer, system is Windows Xp fat32 frozen at 1.03 gb with only a free space of 75.4mb. The rest is occuppied by Linux.
I still use it for web surfing and that free space stays the same after reboot. Been that way for months.

[c2d]

here's mine

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[John Bull]

-{ Quote: "So is this saying that we are buying computers with way too much capacity that we can't possibly fill? :what:" }-

Ah, my old sparring partner - you have a very significant point there.

Looking at the results so far, it is astonishing the high proportion of Free Space we all have. So, back to twl`s question. Why ? Is it a prestige thing to have an enormous capacity that will never be needed ? The bigger, the better ?

Takes me back to my playground days where the phrase "Mine`s bigger than yours" was heard often amongst the little ruffians.

John B

[wat0114]

Had 19 GB free on C:\ but yesterday after some shrinking and stretching here and there with the inimitable Partition Wizard (man I love this partitioning disk ;D ), it's now @ 34 GB free/85 GB total ;)

[Pain of Salvation]

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[trjam]

desktop

[J_L]

Windows 7 64-bit System:

[Peter2150]

-{ Quote: "Ah, my old sparring partner - you have a very significant point there.

Looking at the results so far, it is astonishing the high proportion of Free Space we all have. So, back to twl`s question. Why ? Is it a prestige thing to have an enormous capacity that will never be needed ? The bigger, the better ?

Takes me back to my playground days where the phrase "Mine`s bigger than yours" was heard often amongst the little ruffians.

John B" }-

It's a question of performance. The fastest part of the disk is the rim. By using one partition, and having only a small part of the disk in use, all the data is at the rim. Maximizes performance.

Same reason, I use Raid 0 on my drives.

[MikeBCda]

From all the posts so far, lots of free space seems to be the standard ... I'm currently showing 25.0 GB free of 33.5 GB total. And I've been fairly steady at 74-76 pct free space over the years; biggest "dent" in free space was back when I was buying MP3s from eMusic, and even that only cost me about 5 pct of space. Got it back when I got active with getting stuff from Amazon -- obviously if I acquired a physical CD there was no point hanging on to the MP3 tracks from it.

[J_L]

Ubuntu Lucid System:

[blacknight]

-{ Quote: "Hello Darknight,
Thanks for taking part, but it is a specific question not a bar chart.

John B" }-


I mean that your nick need to appear a " mastiff " :D ;D , but please don't cripple my nick ;) and don't be unnecessarily ironic. Cheers ;)

[JAH]

C, D, & E are internal 10,000 rpm Raptor drives.


JAH

[twl845]

-{ Quote: "It's a question of performance. The fastest part of the disk is the rim. By using one partition, and having only a small part of the disk in use, all the data is at the rim. Maximizes performance.

Same reason, I use Raid 0 on my drives." }-
Hi Pete, I have an 80GB HD. 10 GB is used for the system, leaving me with 70GB. My stuff takes up 15GB, and I have 2 snapshots using my FD-ISR giving me a total of 45GB used space and 25GB free space. Are you saying that if I delete one of those snapshots leaving me with 30GB used space and 40GB free space J'll see an improvement in performance? :blink:

[Peter2150]

-{ Quote: "Hi Pete, I have an 80GB HD. 10 GB is used for the system, leaving me with 70GB. My stuff takes up 15GB, and I have 2 snapshots using my FD-ISR giving me a total of 45GB used space and 25GB free space. Are you saying that if I delete one of those snapshots leaving me with 30GB used space and 40GB free space J'll see an improvement in performance? :blink:" }-

What I do with FDISR, is have one small secondary as a place to boot, and all the other big stuff is just in Archives. Can't boot to them, but you can swap out.

Will you see a performance boost. Assuming you use a defragger that moves the files to the edge of the disk, the answer is maybe.

Can I tell starting word, and opening a doc file. No. Where I did see it was with Microsoft Train Simulator. It runs through a huge number of scenery files, and the difference between them being scattered all over the disk, or out at the edge was quite noticeable.

So the difference you will see is one of those definitely depends type things.

Pete

[twl845]

-{ Quote: "What I do with FDISR, is have one small secondary as a place to boot, and all the other big stuff is just in Archives. Can't boot to them, but you can swap out.

Will you see a performance boost. Assuming you use a defragger that moves the files to the edge of the disk, the answer is maybe.

Can I tell starting word, and opening a doc file. No. Where I did see it was with Microsoft Train Simulator. It runs through a huge number of scenery files, and the difference between them being scattered all over the disk, or out at the edge was quite noticeable.

So the difference you will see is one of those definitely depends type things.

Pete" }-
I get what you mean. Thanks for the advice. :)

[Sully]

I like to copy my cd/dvds to .iso and keep them on my hdds. Then I use WinCdEmu and mount them when needed. Takes up a lot of space, but soo much faster. Actually, pretty much anything that is static I like to create an .iso for.

Sul.

[allizomeniz]

113 GB free of 140 GB. Lean and mean. :D

I think it would be very easy to fill all 140 GB if I wanted to. I'm constantly deleting and uninstalling to keep it lean.

[Sully]

-{ Quote: "113 GB free of 140 GB. Lean and mean. :D

I think it would be very easy to fill all 140 GB if I wanted to. I'm constantly deleting and uninstalling to keep it lean." }-
Isn't that the truth. The more space I have, the more often I fill it up. Now I simply go for much longer periods of time before I fill it up (and have to clean it). Laziness I guess.

For example I had about two dozen macrium images on one of my drives. That was a lot of space, but each one had something particular about it that I felt like archiving. At an average of 4gb each, that is a lot of space. In the old days I would have been out of room, used up a lot of dvds, or spanned it across even more cds. Now I can house all of those for months until I clean house, and decide which one(s) I really want to hang onto.

It all comes down to convenience I say.

Sul.

[chrisretusn]

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 37G 6.9G 31G 19% /
/dev/sda3 181G 127G 54G 71% /home
/dev/sda4 15G 15M 15G 1% /home/stuff
tmpfs 1.9G 100K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
101G 18G 84G 17% /home/folding/paqmach
233G 72G 162G 31% /home/share
total 568G 223G 345G 40%