What size hard drive

Depends on what you need.


If you will be storing music or movies or pictures you will need a larger hard drive.

If you do not care about the size but need speed look at a drive with more RPM's

Also check out the buffer size (go with 8mb or more)

check this out:

http://www.vnunet.com/features/1159770
(there are a ton of other sites as well... use google!)
 
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I use an 80 gig on my home machine. It's a pretty good sized drive. Its not too big and not too small. I'm looking to upgrade to 2 74 gig raptors and put 'em in raid 0 and use the 80 as a backup. On my servers where I work it really varies on what the application is Im using the server for. On my 2 DNS machines, I use a 120 gig drive each. My main server that I use for storage, I have 4 120 gig drives that are hot swappable. Lets see.... I have so many other machines, I loose track. Anyways, an 80 gig is probably just right for whatever application your using the computer for.
 
Bobo said:
40GB is min for business, 80GB min for multimedia/music/pics (imo)
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In this day and age those numbers are a little bit low. I have 20 Family Guy episodes recorded and they take about about 20GB's.... After condensing them about 13GB... 80GB is not enough anymore. I will soon be purchasing another HDD because its getting crazy.
 
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