Does Leopard really take up 9gb more disk space if you install it over Tiger? I only have 11gb left space and can't afford to upgrade if it means being left with 2gb!
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9gb for Leopard?
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You should get an external HDD and dump most of your stuff on it. The rule is not to exceed the last 25% of your hard drive or your computer will begin to slow down.
I'm confused on some of these "rules", who makes them? Some 9th grader with his first computer or someone with good knowledge about the workings of a drive. For 16 years I used the 10% number. Woops!! I get it now, it's the drive makers trying to boost sales!
Utter nonsense. You trying to tell me that if you have a 400GB drive you should keep 100GB free in order to prevent your computer from slowing down? Yeah, right.
There might be a "rule" for a physical amount of space to keep free (though I have no idea what it would be), but throwing percentages around makes no sense.
Dear god, what have you got on your hard disk? geeze, if I had a 80gig hard disk, I'd be lucky to fill half of it!
Heh, I wish I was in your situation
. I have 750GBs of drive space and it looks like I need to shell out for a 1TB drive now .I would recommend keeping about 15GBs of free space on your primary drive for virtual memory usage. Of course the amount will vary depending on what you use your computer for but 15GBs is a good number taking into account light, medium and heavy computer users.
Heh, I wish I was in your situation
I'm mostly a student, but then again, I tend to purge regularly. Stuff I don't need, I delete immediately.
I have 750GBs of drive space and it looks like I need to shell out for a 1TB drive now
I would recommend keeping about 15GBs of free space on your primary drive for virtual memory usage. Of course the amount will vary depending on what you use your computer for but 15GBs is a good number taking into account light, medium and heavy computer users.
IIRC aren't there like 'raid boxes' where you can plugin 4 disks and you end up with a 'one big disk' appearing to the computer?
That's how much free space is required to install not the additional space that will be used after install. Swap space.
Yes you can use an external RAID array if you want. I don't need the speed or redundancy that RAID offers though. Plus I don't have the money to hand to buy a 4 drive array in one go. I'm just slowly filling up the internal drive bays in my Mac Pro.
after it's installed, use a tool such as Monolingual to get rid of all the other languages. it saved me 2.3GB...
haha, i really don't know. i'm sure my disk space went from 30gb to about 10gb in about a week - any suggestions why? also, when i bought the computer i only had about 60gb free space to start with because of Tiger and that 80gb isn't really 80gb. And i have windows now which takes up another 10gb...
unfortunately i use japanese fonts, so would Leopard take up a whole extra 9gb?
You can deselect the other languages during the installation as well as any unused printer drivers.
true... but running the utility also gets rid of languages in some of the software you have installed, help files, and things like that. i deselected the languages before installing leopard and this STILL saved me 2.3GB