What is your Free Space ?

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

 

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

 

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

 

"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.

 

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

727gb free out of 1338gb.

 

Code:

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

You got it !

 

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.

 

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.

 

here's mine

 

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

 

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 ), it's now @ 34 GB free/85 GB total

 

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