[Kosh]

It amazes me how some of you are able to horde up stuff you're unlikely to ever use again. The stuff that I have backed up only amounts to less than 200MB. The rest I either have no use for or I can download them again should I need to.

Trouble is, it often disappears from the net never to be seen again.

Edit- added a comma

[Grizzly]

And I have to do it with a 160GB hard-disk, which has been filled to to the top 5 times over again.... Seriously, big hard drives are for people who are too lazy to do something about resource management.

[Mobius]

Sometimes I take a look at C: and delete old/unused/useless stuff.

Computer deaths are pretty common for me - one in summer 2007 and another one in summer 2008 - so they do most part of the job.

[Hellstryker]

Sometimes I take a look at C: and delete old/unused/useless stuff.

Computer deaths are pretty common for me - one in summer 2007 and another one in summer 2008 - so they do most part of the job.

Fortanately, I've never had an HD die on me, so I just carry them over 

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Great example:  Earlier this year I ran into someone that loved the original Xcom game but had lost it years ago.  I had it zipped up sitting on my file server in the same place it has been since 94.  Different file server but same volume and directory.  Had a harder time finding 3 good floppies to put it on. 

[Colonol Dekker]

I used to have the x-com collection set (x-com, terror from the deep and Interceptor) but they were destroyed in a house move i miss plasma weapons.

[Retsof]

My hard drive can hold a (sarcasm) whole 50 gigs, with 5 gigs left.  I don't even have enough memory to run a defrag.

[CP5670]

I'm the opposite of most people here. I have a 250GB drive that is pretty small by today's standards, but I have not bothered to buy more drives since it's barely half full. I delete downloaded installers as well as larger (5GB or more) games that I'm not playing regularly, although I keep all the savegames and config files. I also clean out the Windows temp folders every now and then, which can become surprisingly big if you don't pay attention to them for a long time.

I used to keep all my installers and included them in my backups at one point, which has been a huge time saver for me many times in the past, but game patches and custom content have become a lot larger over the years and my stash eventually became too big for this to remain practical. Now I only keep the download if the file took me a lot of effort to find.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Kudos to anyone who has a 1 PB hard drive. At this rate, having a half-terabyte hard drive will be common in the next decade.

[Mongoose]

I have a good twenty-some burned DVDs lying around full of backed-up files, the vast majority of which consist of various animu and music.  My 320 GB drive still has 170 GB free, since most of what I have backed up isn't on here at the moment.  I don't have very many PC games to speak of, so even if I did have them all installed, I'd still be sitting on a crap-load of empty space.

[Gortef]

I just bought a 1TB external Drive that was on sale... at least I can fit my current and future anime in there.

[Mars]

I have yet to completely fill my 80GB hard drive.

I've had it for over 3 years.

[Daniel P]

don't worry people. One time I use to got a 6 GB harddrive for my computer. (That when I lost my 40 GB hard Drive)

Realize how quickly you can fill up 6 GB harddrive

[Hippo]

my first pc (read before fs2) had a 6g and i would have to actually remove things to install fs2 and other games... we got an 80gb at some point when we upgraded to windows 2000, and i never filled it before we gave it to my sisters kids

[CP5670]

My old Mac had a 160MB drive. Disk space was sometimes an issue on it, as the games back then were small but not small enough, and there were also a lot more games in general. The biggest games weighed in at 5MB or more and a bunch of those could quickly load up the drive.

[Hippo]

i had a IIGS without a hard drive

[FUBAR-BDHR]

i had a IIGS without a hard drive

I had 2 hard drives on my IIGS and even had one on my II+  (became one of the ones on the IIGS). Still have it somewhere.  That thing is huge. 

BTW:  I still both the II+ and IIGS and as far as I know they both still work.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I still have about 100 GB on my Mac.

[ssmit132]

I've always had hard drive trouble. Although I managed to clear out to almost 4 GB free on my desktop (40 GB hard drive), I still have trouble with my laptop (around 50 GB), even though I have two 320 GB external hard drives. Many times I fill my remaining space on my laptop's C partition from FS2 screenshots! (They go to one the external drives.) I'm currently on screen3777.tga. 

Also, sometimes when I'm on the Internet, the space on the same C partition starts shrinking rapidly, causing alarms to start ringing, then suddenly the space comes back. It just happened again now. I have no idea what does it. I should run another virus check over the weekend...

[colecampbell666]

I have 180 GB in my desktop, and 80 and 100 in my laptops respectively (well my mother's, but I use them mostly). My external is 250 GB.

The desktop doesn't have much on it, about 10 GB worth of replaceable stuff, mainly torrents. The larger laptop has a few HD movies, which I delete once I watch them. The small one is empty, just a few school docs. My External has the complete BSG, season 4-5 of Atlantis, and the SG1 movies. It has a few distros from time to time, and usually some school work.

I only really have about 30MB of irreplaceable stuff, as well as my 250MB Funny Pictures folder, now 1800 strong.