Question of the day - Saturday, June 23rd

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Good morning


A few days ago, I went out and bought an external hard drive for my computer.  It has 300 GB internal memory, but that fills up pretty fast with 20 GB of pictures, a bit of music, and a few games and basic applications.  Then I got a 1 TB external, but with movies and a ton of music from iTunes, that's almost full
.  So I went out a found a 3 TB external hard drive on sale for $145.  Maybe this one will last a while longer


So I'm curious.....

How much room do you have left on your hard drive(s)?

On my internal one, I have 25 GB free out of 297.  On my 1 TB I have 64 GB out of 931 , and so far I don't have anything on my 3 TB so it's still 2.72 TB free.  It may look like the numbers are odd (297 isn't exactly 300), but what happens is the manufacturers see a GB as 1000 MB, but the computer calculates it as 1024 MB.  So no space is missing, it's just a difference in calculation.
 

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I'll have to check next time I turn the computer now, but it is filling up fast! I had been taking way too many pictures.
 

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I have 581 GB of space on my main drive and 430 GB are still free. So I'm fine for quite a while.
 

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I have 243 GB free out of 283 GB. I've only had this laptop for a week though. My old laptop only had a 50 GB hard drive and it was almost full. I don't store most of my music and pictures on my laptop. I keep them on my desktop which has a bigger hard drive (500 GB I think).
 

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I have 128GB available on my internal drive.  I don't know how much is left on the external but it's a lot. 
 
 
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