I need more storage so that…
I need more storage so that… I don’t have to make rash decisions on what personal data to keep (especially photos) just because I’m running out of room on my laptop. I love using a laptop as my main computer. It’s portable, compact, and works almost as well as a desktop. Currently the main caveat to using a laptop is hard drive space. Laptop hard drives are smaller and slower than their desktop brethren and as such I find myself making decisions as to what I can “take with me” when I’m on the go.
My laptop’s hard drive is 80Gb. Currently I have 5.17Gb free on the entire drive (see screenshot). How much space is that really? Considering that one of my passions is photos - and that I have two digital cameras that each have 1Gb sticks, this means that I only have the room on my laptop to hold 5 more sets of photos from these cameras. This is very depressing to me.
I’m hoping to find a solution to this problem by switching to Aperture and having it store my full-res photos on an external hard drive, while keeping decent resolution thumbnails on my laptop’s drive for viewing when not at home.
My main reason for wanting to win the Seagate “I need more storage so that…” contest, would be so that I could keep taking photos and not have to decide what personal data to keep just because I don’t have the room to store it.
[tags]seagate contest, hard drives, laptop, contest, entry, podtech, seagate[/tags]
[slug]need-storage[/slug]
December 12th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
This is a good point- ever since I got 250GB I’ve never worried about what I install, what shows I record (on MCE). A few gigs for a few hours means nothing… and that’s awesome.
December 12th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Devin: MCE? And I agree about having the extra space. I think being limited on what you are able to consume, use (applications), or create (photos, video, audio), just because of the size of hard drives really sucks.
I once wrote that I thought hard drive capacities will increase greatly in 2006 - and I suppose 750Gb and 1TB is a huge jump in the right direction - I just expected these sizes to be much more accessible by now.
The iTunes Music Store now selling movies is a huge impetus for companies like Apple to allow for much larger hard drives to be “built-in”. Only being able to buy a few movies will hurt the iTMSs bottom line quite a bit.
In 2007, companies will be giving away hard drives to help the media companies greater distribution of their content. I guarantee it.
December 12th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
Windows Media Center Edition- my TV/PVR. As bandwidth needs increase (like you’re mentioning) it only seems natural the storage spaces increase.
December 13th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
One thing I noticed about the posts on the site for the Segate giveaway is that majority of us do some sorta of Photography work.
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