> Hi. > > I've never been a subscriber to massive hard drives. > > What does the average user do with all that space? Who actually uses > 1000GB? Then you have the question of backing up. The larger the > storage the larger the back up needed. > > The largest drive I have had is 160GB which came in my Intel iMac. > At the moment I have 100GB of music stored on a 120GB hard drive, > which I bought merely to keep all my music in one place. I have a > 20GB boot drive for crying out loud. > > My PowerBook G3 Pismo came with a 40GB hard drive which I think is a > little bit of overkill as I have only used 10GB. > > It is not that I don't do heavy work. I am a graphic designer who > works in Quark, Photoshop and Illustrator. I use iMovie for video > editing and make a lot of backup disc images. > > I just think massive drives are bought for the 'ive got 500GB' wow > factor rather than if you actually need or use it. > > A PC friend of mine has a 500GB Western Digital external drive and > never goes over 200GB of it. What a waste of money. > > Simon
I have a LaCie d2 Quadra hard drive. It's a 500GB drive. And, it's full. I use the drive as a Time Machine backup drive for my Aluminum iMac (which has a 320GB internal drive, 12GB free) and for some light Final Cut video editing. The reason that drive is actually so full right now is that I've just finished a fairly big editing project, and that ate up most of my space. It's about time to get that off there. Still, there is a use for a drive that big. I actually plan to buy one or two more in the future, and a nice little rack for their storage at some point in the future, cost permitting. For normal computing, though, I have to agree. 500GB is overkill. I have a 120GB HDD in my Pismo (because it was something like $3 more expensive than an 80GB HDD when I bought it) and it's still got 70GB free. That has raw footage from a football game imported. Before that, I had about 90GB available. I don't think that I even have 70GB available when you combine the amount of free disk space on the three hard drives I have hooked up to my iMac. Still, I do see your point. And I do think that there are some people out there who buy big expensive things just to have big expensive things. I know some of those people. But I'm not one of them. Isaac --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
