What takes up all your hard drive space?

[bp1000]

I just bought a nearly maxed out 27inch haswell iMac but I only opted for the 256GB drive.

I have a MBA which only has a 128GB drive and I still have 50GB left. Probably because I have all my music in the cloud, stream my movies from iTunes or Netflix and my photos live on an external drive.

I'm in a better position with this iMac as USB 3 is only about 10% slower than internal sata and I prefer to dump all the large files on external disks.


What is taking up all your space, as I am questioning whether 256GB is enough. It's only a small doubt in an otherwise awesome prospect of having a SSD main drive and USB 3 drives that are almost as fast as internal storage.

 

[Old Muley]

Movies, music and photos account for the biggest chunk of space use on my HD. My solution was to move them to an external hard drive connected via FireWire. There is no real reason to keep the, on your internal. If you just kept the system and apps on your 256 SSD, you'd probably be ok. Find a good thunderbolt drive solution and you'd be set! (I bought a new iMac too but opted for the 3tb fusion drive. I will live with a thunderbolt to FireWire adapter to connect an external drive until thunderbolt drive prices come down.)

 

[Mr. Dee]

I am a Windows user, I have a lot of Music, Photos and Videos. Out of all three, my iTunes Music Library uses the most.

160 GB SSD, iTunes Library is about 60 GBs.

 

[d0nK]

On my MPB (128GB SSD + 1TB HD):
80GB - ML OSX + Applications
140GB - Images/photo's
300GB - Audio Projects + Samples
30GB - Video's
25GB - Documents
50GB - Web Development
80GB - iTunesMedia

In my Hackintosh:
140GB - ML OSX + Applications
300GB - Images/photo's
900GB - Audio Projects + Samples
200GB - Video's
25GB - Documents
50GB - Web Development
300GB - iTunesMedia
500GB - Windows + Games
2TB - Backup

I don't trust the reliability of external hard drive enclosures at all. When I make a move to get an external or two I'll certainly be backing up my backups.

 

[OneMike]

50gb images
1tb music
7.5tb movies
200gb misc

Then backups of all the above

 

[bp1000]

Got to admit I regretted my decision to build with 256gb but I think it should be ok.

If I change to 512gb ssd I have to cancel my order.


If I get a samsung ssd 256gb is a USB 3 caddy sufficient to get the max read/writes the drive is capable of?

What if I had 2 or 3 external ssd drives, does the USB bus slow down even if only 1 drive is active?

 

[MrGimper]

Porn, is there anything else that matters? ;-)

 

[kazmac]

movies

but I've moved a lot of them off to external drives. Outside of that, applications, but I still have a huge chunk of my 500gb drive free. Music, tv shows and writing do not take up much space.