Holy Moly, I only have 16.9 g of hard drive space on my ANCIENT desktop. Is this normal?

Question

I just found out, and I'm in complete shock. I always thought a decent computer/laptop had to have about 160 g at least. Am I reading wrong, or is it truly possible that i only have 16.9 gig?

And I always found space for everything, the computer has never been slow, had like 1000 songs and hours of video, tons of pics (I'm a photoshop geek). I don't understand how it's possible.

Answer 1

well if its ancient then yea it may very well be possible, also an average song is about 3 or 4MB so that means u could have 4000 songs to make up 16 gigs also pictures are relativly small, unles very large resolution so you could have maybe over 12000 pictures so dont be in shock

Answer 2

i suggest that you zip your files to reclaim hd space and a 'win cleaner' software to clean up the junk in it too. enjoy.

Answer 3

Very possible, and if it "only" has a 20GB unit (17 after formatting and partitioning) it's so not ancient. If you can believe it, my first new PC had .34 gigabytes of space, and I own a PC with a .02 gigabyte drive. See, hard disk space doubles about every 18 months, so 20 million bytes was normal in 1988, 200 million bytes was typical in 1993, 2 billion bytes was standard by 1996-1997, and 20 million bytes was common by 2001-2002. Now, 85$ buys 640 billion bytes. Ain't technology grand?

Also, Photoshop files only take up about twenty megabytes in PSD format even for something cavernous, A song takes 3MB, and a feature-length film consumes about 700MB. That's how!

Leave a few gigabytes open and all will be okay. Computers run awful when you use up that last ten percent on the boot drive.

Answer 4

no you're not the downside of having less hard drive space is it will eventually slow you computer down and lag when it reaches about 6 gigs left.

Answer 5

It is possible for an older computer to only have that amount of disk space. Songs, vids and pics do take up a lot of space but 16.9 gigs is a lot to use up depending on the file types.

I have over 400 full cds ripped onto my computer, over 300 hrs of music and it is only using about 14GB.