Storage: What takes up the most space on your hard drive?

Games and Music

In reply to: What takes up the most space on your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN) 

I have Halo 2 and Spore installed, as well as iTunes music. It only takes up about 15 GB though. It is a new computer, so its 250 GB HD will get filled up over time

Samusgravity

(NT) As Photographer, I use external hard drive.

Videos and other media

In reply to: What takes up the most space on your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN) 

I've got 3 physical hard drives in my system.
The primary drive (120GB) is split into three partitions:
B:\> A small BitLocker partition at the beginning of the drive (1.5GB)
C:\> VistaDrive, my OS drive, which is full of programs (mainly under the Steam folder (103GB)
X:\> SwapDrive, a small partition at the end of the drive filled with my primary scratch file (i.e. Virtual Memory) (6.5GB)

My secondary drive (250GB) is about ¾ full and dedicated entirely to Media, mainly three entire series of TV shows (DS9, Voyager, and Atlantis), 5 different animé series, a bunch of random videos, my music library (about 20GB, all re-encoded as WMAs for quality and space), and random ISOs.

My third drive (40GB) is a "to-be-sorted" folder where all my recently aquired stuff goes before it's converted and/or organized. It also contains my secondary scratch file (16GB) and scratch space for my video editing.

I think that's all my drives. Oh, and they're all Sata II.

Oh, and I've got a 4GB flash drive for ReadyBoost purposes.

-IAmTheDonut

Everything Takes Space

In reply to: What takes up the most space on your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN) 

I'm guessing my pictures take up the most space, than iTunes Video downloads and music. I probably have millions of documents, but that takes up the least space. Thank God for Windows Home Server and it's compatibility with both Mac's and PC's (I built my own, not the HP one that sucks); I keep all my stuff on there.

Almost all of the above

In reply to: What takes up the most space on your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN) 

I have nothing I'd rather not discuss and only a few games and videos. However I do firmware development on multiple types of processors. Between development and analysis tools, my Program Files directory has 193 programs in it, all of which I use at some time or another. I also have archival copies of recent jobs and local copies of 7 web sites of which I maintain 5 on my server plus 2 intranet sites for my own use (total of all 7 = 4GB) along with all my taxes since 1991. I have over 6GB of music and audio recordings, almost 8GB of magazines in PDF format, almost 7GB of photos, and over 3GB of saved email. My browser bookmarks (favorites) file is over 6MB. My C; drive is 250GB, My D: drive is 500GB, and my NAS backup server is 1TB. The specs on my primary Linux machine are identical in all respects.

Pictures

In reply to: What takes up the most space on your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN) 

I'm a hobbiest picture=taker, and have somehow taken about 10,000 photos. 48.6 gigs.

My first HD had 20 megs.

I have over 2.65TB of Storage space across 3 Computers

In reply to: What takes up the most space on your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN) 

Main Computer has 1 Raptor 150GB & 320GB
2nd Computer has 2x160GB
3rd Computer, my Server has 120GB boot (3 Partitions) 2x500GB, 1 320GB, 1 USB 300GB, & 1 USB 250GB

Music: 230GB
Videos: 81.5GB
Backups: 116GB (Myself, Family & Friends)
Graphics: 21GB
Install: 27.5GB (ALL Programs over the Years)
Data: 1.15GB
I could ADD MORE as I have a LOT of data spread across ALL 3 systems for Redundancy.

NOTE: this does NOT include my Laptop's 160GB & various 20 and 40 GB Laptop Hard Drives and USB Keys (1x16GB, 1x8GB, 2x4GB, 3x2GB, 1x1GB, & 1x512MB)