How Much Hard Drive Space Do You Have? [MakeUseOf Poll]

Last week we asked which of the up-and-coming new browsers might sway you from Chrome and Firefox. It looks like if anyone’s leaving Firefox and Chrome it’s because they’re going to Opera or Chromium.

From the 660 votes collected, we had the following breakdown: 32% would move to Opera 11; 24% would never consider leaving Firefox/Chrome; 20% would move to Chromium; 10% would head to Internet Explorer 9; 7% would take up RockMelt 2; SRWare Iron gained 5% of the voters; 2% would go to Wyzo; 2% would leave for Maxathon 3.0; and 1 person would go to something else entirely.

Full results and this week’s poll after the jump.

Opera 11 and Chromium are the hottest new browsers out!

This week’s poll question is: How Much Hard Drive Space Do You Have?

We all seem to have a couple of computers around the house: maybe a laptop, a desktop and a server. Maybe more. But what’s your total hard drive space in those machines?

If you use a very small amount of hard drive space, or a very large amount, we’d love to hear why! Let us know in the comments!

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Angela Alcorn

Ange is an Internet Studies & Journalism graduate who spends way too much time messing with social networks (see AngelaAlcorn.com or @smange).

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  • Anonymous June 5, 2011

    You should have given a few more options… more than 5 is a little low for my storage capacity =)

    Current rough estimate for me would be about 17 TB

    • Angela Alcorn June 6, 2011

      I’m not sure there’d be too many people who would match you there… :)

      • Anonymous June 7, 2011

        I dunno, it is possible. I have all of my movies and TV shows ripped to a server so that I can watch them on all the TVs in the house (using hacked AppleTVs). There has to be others out there with a poopload of storage.

        • Guest June 9, 2011

          40TB here, you aren’t alone my friend.

  • Antuan E. June 5, 2011

    Adding up external storage – via flash drives & external HDD’s – puts me at 5GB>.  However, I also subscribe to a 100GB seedbox, which is nearly half full, as well.

  • Peter June 6, 2011

    I’ve got a little more than 4 TB spread across 5 machines.  The bulk of that is in my WHS (1.2 TB) and in a dev/test machine (2x640G).

  • Brian Matthews June 6, 2011

    My problem is that while I’ve got a ton of space, it’s scattered hither and thither. I really need to get a NAS…

  • Scutterman June 6, 2011

    I’ve just got a 320GB laptop atm, which I’m currently only using half of, but I’ll be setting up a local server for backups etc. soon so that’ll probably have 1-2TB

  • Dhanushka June 6, 2011

    Now I have 160 GB Laptop Hard Disk. But I hope to buy 1 TB because, I need to install Windows 7 and Ubuntu, plus space for Data. And I think HDD and Flash Drives are portable, secure, speedy, durable, spacy, good life span and echo friendly more than Optical Disks. Thank You.

  • Perez Studios June 6, 2011

    I have (4) 1.5TB Drives configured in two mirrors of 1.5TB each and my OS is on a 1TB drive.  I still need more but waiting to make some more money to fund this storage upgrade.

  • Scott_T June 6, 2011

    so, if I have 3tb do I choose 1-3 or 3-5? going to mess with the results I think. need to put some in there or something

    • Angela Alcorn June 7, 2011

      The three is just a fence post. Most people would have a smidgeon under or over. Surely you don’t have exactly 3 TB? :)

  • Cell Travis June 7, 2011

    I use a regular 500GB hard drive and an external hard drive (for backup) of the same size. Most of my use is purely functional. Nothing fancy, really.

  • Jeff Deel June 7, 2011

    Sitting at around 30TB. Then again, I’m a professional video editor and RED Digital Cinema RAW files are not small (a typical long day of shooting with two cameras can yield upwards of a TB of data for a single day depending on shooting style).

  • Tvall43 June 8, 2011

    My cr-48 has 16gb ssd.
    My machine I use for android deving has somewhere around 200gb. That machine gets used rarely and when it is, its usually through ssh

  • pceasies June 8, 2011

    320GB
    1TB
    1.5TB in this computer

    1TB
    2TB in server

    ~6TB total available space. About 2TB is reserved for weekly disk images of a couple computers
    1-2TB is disk images (digitalized all those old game CDs) and TV shows (2-4GB per 1hr from Media Center)

  • Christian Hagen June 11, 2011

    Adding up 8 machines with varying internal HDDs and 8 external HDDs of varying sizes, I have somewhere around 14-15 TB.