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Hard drive capacity?
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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What's a safe limit to a hard drive?
I'm currently at 85g on my MacBook with a 120g drive (says 111g capacity). I know I could start trimming a few things off but when should I get concerned?
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Your milage may vary, but ~15% free space is a good rule of thumb. So you are pushing the envelope!
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Forget percentage rules. That made more sense when hard drives were of 40-60 GB varieties. In general, I would say to try to leave at least 5 GB free.
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I have a 120gb drive and normally sit with about 10gb free.
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It really depends on how much virtual memory you use.
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It really is depressing when your drive gets down to about 10GB. I had mine down to 12 just this weekend and decided I had to move some stuff to my external. The 35-45 ranges makes me feel much better about myself haha. I am considering an upgrade to 160 or 200. Anybody out there with a BlackBook willing to trade me the 160 they swapped out for my 120 and some cash?
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Man, I've been running several machines at around 2GB for ages now. One regularly gets down to 200MB or so before I notice and start deleting things. No problems so far......
I do have plenty of RAM though. All the above have at least 1.25GB. Though that one is the one which keeps hitting 200MB free space.
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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I start to have slow down issues after having less than 10 gb free. I use Photoshop CS3 and Apple Aperture quite a bit on my MacBook.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey 
Forget percentage rules. That made more sense when hard drives were of 40-60 GB varieties. In general, I would say to try to leave at least 5 GB free.
As hard drives get bigger/faster, the shape of the performance curve stays the same. 15% is still a good guideline, IMO.
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Originally Posted by Railroader
I start to have slow down issues after having less than 10 gb free. I use Photoshop CS3 and Apple Aperture quite a bit on my MacBook.
I have an 80GB HD and I also notice things running a little bit slower once I reach this point. I try and have around 20GB's free at all times. I also run Photoshop, so a RAM upgrade is surely in store for me as well.
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