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| Thread ID: 35216 | 2003-07-05 08:10:00 | Talking about hard drives and partitioning......... | Terry Porritt (14) | Press F1 |
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| 157675 | 2003-07-05 08:10:00 | If you think you can hardly manage with 120GB, read these extracts:- PC World July 1991...'For the purpose of this article, we'll assume you're installing a 5.25in 120Mb hard disk in a conventional AT-type PC running PC-Dos 3.3. PCW March1992....... 'Wanting to run Windows I was advised to purchase a 105Mb IDE drive with my PC. I was dubious but followed the advice. Lucky I did: my main Windows applications, word processor, spreadsheets, desktop publishing and graphics - have chewed up nearly 80Mb of my disk with still only a handful of files created by them. PCW April 1993.....'To Partition or not to Partition' ....'What happens if you need to install some monster application that requires great tracts of hard disk space? Or what happens if your graphics files gets bigger? If you have 10Mb free on C:, 6Mb on D:, and 11Mb on E:, you cant put 15Mb in a single directory, even though you have 27Mb free.' ( The biggest drive size listed was 512Mb) PCW Dec1996/Jan1997.......'If your PC's hard disk is more than a couple of years old, it probably lacks the storage space you need these days. But you can solve that problem for around $450 ex GST by equipping your PC with a hard drive that holds up to 1.6Gb.' Lets now jump just 18 months to PCW August 1998: 'Godzilla-Size Hard Drives' 'Hard drives are getting so big they're almost scary. Who really needs 8 gigabytes of storage, much less one of those gargantuan 14Gb drives that are shipping with Pentium ll 350 and 400MHz PCs these days?' |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 157676 | 2003-07-05 08:33:00 | Wonder what we will have in another 10 years.;) | Thomas (1820) | ||
| 157677 | 2003-07-05 12:04:00 | Yer it'll be a laugh looking back at this time too I guess. I bet in the future we'll probably laugh at how we upgraded our processor from 1ghz to 3ghz. In the future 3ghz would be like 3mhz :) | PoWa (203) | ||
| 157678 | 2003-07-05 20:00:00 | Just a bit of histsory: in 1983 I got a NCR tower in Rarot9onga for company accounts. We filled the 40 Mb h/d and when I asked for another I was told that due to the extreem cost I could only have an additional 20Mb! and couldnt I cancel some of the accounts to fit on the original... | piva (3796) | ||
| 157679 | 2003-07-06 10:44:00 | My first PC only had a 20mb HD and it is bliss having gigs free. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 157680 | 2003-07-06 11:18:00 | My first PC (A tandy TRS-80) had no hard drive and sported an incredible 10k of RAM. Apps were loaded via cassettes. Took about 10mins to load each one, and you could only load one at a time. It also had a huge 10 inch B/W monitor. Now those were the days.................. | sinndisco (4059) | ||
| 157681 | 2003-07-07 00:39:00 | Date 1990 Toshiba 1200XE 286 and 20MB Harddisk Running . . . Windows Office (Word, Excel and Powerpoint) Project . . . . No help files were loaded, but you still had all the functionality you needed to do the job at a crunch . 13 years later, I still use the same programs, and the same functions that I had before . Feature bloat is also disk space bloat . Bigger executables require, faster CPU's and more RAM as well as Hard Disk space . |
KiwiTT (4082) | ||
| 157682 | 2003-07-07 01:02:00 | What scares me most is why do we need so much disk space and memory. Are the programmers just being lazyand using all this resource because its easier than being economical. I used to maintain a mini computer with 28 users and 5 printers. It had 16 Meg of Ram 3 x 90 meg hard drives It ran manufacturing, payroll, inventory and ordering software with report generating for the whole organisation and there was never a speed issue. Now the same organisation, runs nearly 40 PCs 18 printers and a server that falls over once a week, has a permanent on site support person/administrator. The staff are constantly compaining about speed issues over the network. So much for progress Makes you wonder. HH |
Happy Harry (321) | ||
| 157683 | 2003-07-07 01:17:00 | 40 Users, 18 Printers, 1 Server . Try this for size on your management team . Use Windows Terminal Server if you only use PCs on one LAN . - 1 F&P Server - 1 Windows Terminal Server - 1 Email Server - 1 Proxy Server - 1 Firewall Server - 5 Network Printers Each of the 40 Users upgraded to Windows 2000/XP and you will have a good little network you can control fully again . Checkout the Remote Desktop Client . NOTE: This will only work if you applications can run on Windows 2000 . Trying to do everything on one server is asking fro trouble . Better yet, If you have no windows applications, Go to Linux . . . |
KiwiTT (4082) | ||
| 157684 | 2003-07-07 03:41:00 | > My first PC only had a 20mb HD and it is bliss having > gigs free. What a lucky fella! My 286 only had 18Megs.. But oh how happy I was when I realised that I could double space the drive and get almost 40 megs from it! Sad thing was, I could backup the entire PC to 35 floppies at a cost of $40ish, and that'd include OS too (Toybox II which is still around online somewhere..). Back then, who needed to format! Now Im crumbling at the thought that my recent purchase of a 40Gig HDD 3 weeks back is no longer enough.. even though its twice the space I had previously, its being fast filled! The thing is, nowadays we have DVD Writers etc. which can backup still in proportion to the size of the HDD.. When I got a 260MB HDD, I had no idea what I would do with all that space. After upgrading to Win95, i soon realised that there went half that space.. installed Office 97 on minimal... Doublespaced the HDD and installed VB 5, and we're down to around 20 megs left for documents etc. Its a sad life.. ;-) |
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