How big a hard drive do I need?
by atomike on Feb.18, 2009, under Computer Hardware
Lets answer that question with another question; How many programs do you use?
In general, I recommend you have an least two hard drives. Your first hard drive should have enough space to accomodate for the programs you use – operating system, office suit, video editors, image editors. The data those programs use – text files, movies, pictures – should be maintained on the second hard drive, and therefore you should consider how many files each program is going to save.
For most home users, the first hard drive is the internal hard drive included in their desktop or laptop and it is smaller than the second, which is external and it is optional. Most home users have few text documents, several pictures and media files. All these files should be kept in an external hard drive. If you are a home user, don’t worry to much about the internal hard drive your system has. if you need space, invest your money in an external hard drive.
Small business users should have a big enough hard drive for their programs and program data, specially for database driven programs such as Quickbooks and Outlook. This will ensure data can be accessed fast by their programs. If you need more space, invest your money in an internal hard drive. As your business expands, consider more advances options like RAID or Network Attached Storage.
