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Written by chesheer on 2025-02-04 at 06:56

How much disk space do you actually need to do your work? I've been thinking about this lately.

Of course, there are people who work with video and graphics and for them the answer is "the more the better". 1-2 Tb is an absolute minimum, I guess.

But there are people who work with texts (all kinds of). As a translator I find that my laptop with 32Gb eMMC is more than enough. Actually, it had been more than enough for many years in the past. Now I rarely use it.

Most of this space actually goes to OS. And the space to ACTUALLY DO the work boils to... well, 2-3Gb: PDFs, DOCXs, MDs, image files, dictionaries.

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Written by Allen Very Serious Versfeld on 2025-02-04 at 08:31

@chesheer Agreed. I think that's why entry-level windows laptops stalled at 500GB - it's been the standard size for well over a decade now.

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Written by DeManiak 🇿🇦 🐧 on 2025-02-04 at 10:14

@uastronomer @chesheer well that and the Theys would DEARLY love for you to just please please use their cloud storage...

But anyway, yes, agreed, the avg person needs not a super lot.

That said, our accumulated family vids/photos are almost at 1Tb.

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Written by cuan_knaggs on 2025-02-04 at 10:15

@kaasbaas @uastronomer @chesheer and you're only ever going to stream any entertainment

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Written by Allen Very Serious Versfeld on 2025-02-04 at 10:21

@mensrea @kaasbaas @chesheer I'm setting up a family server, probably with nextcloud and some other stuff, and that will need quite a few terabytes eventually.

But our actual personal devices? 500GB is overkill.

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Written by 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat on 2025-02-04 at 08:42

@chesheer You don't need terabytes even if you're doing quite a few kinds of more media focused work, tbh.

I've currently got this pegged at 256GB (<10GB goes to OS) for my needs, but this is currently an audio production, writing and development system, so it does extra duty in terms of my application requirements (and raw PCM audio files can be chonky).

If I weren't doing audio but were still doing writing and development, 64GB might be fine. Honestly, the main disk space hog is probably my Nextcloud sync folder, which would again be smaller if I didn't do such a wide variety of work.

This, my studio PC, is actually a Raspberry Pi 500 8GB which, while significantly more capable than most budget laptops, still illustrates that the most powerful CPU and power-hungry components are also not required.

I've a much heftier workstation/gaming rig elsewhere, but this has been my daily use PC for several weeks while I plan a revamp of my workspaces, and it's entirely fit for the job.

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Written by chesheer on 2025-02-04 at 10:03

@HauntedOwlbear That's neat!

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