How much free disk space do I need?

[mark28]

I'm always running out of my Disk space, because of page in and page out. I obviously need to upgrade to 8 Gb, but in the meantime, I'm going to have increase my free space of the hard drive.

How much free disk space is recommened for OS X?

 

[moel]

10% of the drive really..doesn't matter huge amounts tho.

 

[mark28]

10% of the drive really..doesn't matter huge amounts tho.

Lol, that's impossible. I can't delete that much stuff 🙁

Guess I'll only keep the critical apps that I need when I'm mobile. ( i need the others too, but I'm going to have make priorities I guess )

 

[maflynn]

If you cannot delete stuff, then its time for a larger hard drive.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Lol, that's impossible. I can't delete that much stuff 🙁

Guess I'll only keep the critical apps that I need when I'm mobile. ( i need the others too, but I'm going to have make priorities I guess )

How much data do you have on what HDD or SSD size?

Applications don't take that much space, it will be your files that take up that much space.

I currently have a 60GB SSD (trimmed down from 500GB HDD) and put the HDD into a FW800 enclosure to have fast access to my bigger files and be able to take the HDD with me.

 

[mark28]

How much data do you have on what HDD or SSD size?

Applications don't take that much space, it will be your files that take up that much space.

I currently have a 60GB SSD (trimmed down from 500GB HDD) and put the HDD into a FW800 enclosure to have fast access to my bigger files and be able to take the HDD with me.

It's mainly big sample libraries that take up all the space. I guess I'm going to do the same, I'll run those sample libraries from an external FW800 drive. Is going to be less of a convience to carry an external drive with me, but i'm not going to buy a new hard drive now, I'm waiting for the new SSD's that are coming in 2011. 😛