I read the Poll question as how much storage was on my primary PC NOT what is the total size including all external drives. So, as some others have opted to brag about all their extra drives it makes the poll results useless.

85Gb free of 229GB on my elderly WinXP desktop - but all my music, photos & docs are on my 1TB NAS. I think my new laptop has a bigger HDD, but tbh didn't pay much attention to that when I bought it because of the NAS.

Whenever I think about this (rarely) I tend to get embarrassed with myself. I pretty much don't delete anything. In fact I'm a bit of a data pack rat. Usually, whenever I reinstall windows, its onto a bigger drive. The problem is, I create a folder which I copy the entire old drive into before formatting and passing it on. This means I have copies of windows in sucessive folders going back farther than I care to think about.

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FE - I agree entirely, I can just about fit all of my data (i.e. excluding OS & pgms) on a 16GB pen drive (which means is is a doodle for me to keep backups off site or take with me on vacation).

FruitBat - believe I may have the better claim to b/u paranoia. 1 x HDD in caddy by PC. 1 x HDD in caddy in fire-resistant box in cupboard. 1 x 16GB pen drive (see above) off site (with all pertinent data encrypted). 1 x 16GB pen drive (with all pertinent data encrypted) ready for me to take off site in the case of disaster occurring whilst I'm at home (it is the number one posession for evacuation in my fire plan). Also a chunk of the stuff is also on my laptop and netbook. Just in case anyone is wondering, I don't update them all all the time. Some of it only gets updated around every 3 months or so, but they do have stuff going back over 20 years.

As I now wok for myself most of my data is work related technical documents /training documents and presentations.

Opsystem (xp) + programs about 20GB, photos, music and a few videos take the personal stuff up to approx 170GB

3Tb of capacity on my main PC, of which about 2.5tb is in use.

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The 1.5tb is almost full - my digital camera produces 10mb images, and when I go to the stock car races I may take 2-300 photographs, that's 3gb of space used in an afternoon. I also have movies and audiobooks I've downloaded, plus the last 20 years of accumulated documents and college work from various PCs.

The storage is made up of 500gb drive in the laptop, separated into 120gb & 380gb partitions, and 1tb USB drive.

If we want to be really pedantic, I also have direct access to the 500gb hard drive being used for my CCTV, that drive is always full, as each hour sufficient footage is deleted to make way for the new hour. So that makes 2tb...

alan14 *' I've got 1.5tb on my main computer at home,'*

That's one hell of a lot of "storage in use" on your primary pc (as opposed to storage available?).

Obviously, size is important!!

I have 1x500Gb,2x250GB,1x160GB,and several assorted drives from 80-160GB for the caddy.All drives get used frequently & some are full,others empty.

I just quickly guesstimated the total used space on 2Tb of drives to be about 1.5Tb(but this will drop later this week when I complete the burning of a few DVD's & delete the files)

PCA haven't been asked by a PC manufacturer to find out the needs of PC users,so they can cease offering ever larger hard drives in their PC's?My 1st PC had an 15Gb drive,my 2nd had 2x 250Gbs & I've noticed PC manufacturers seem to be having a race to see who can offer the most storage recently. :)

Current laptop 75% used of 2 x 500Mb / Main PC 70% used of 7.75 TB with 3 TB of external storage.

I have a 3TB drive which has the image files of laptops & PCs I have & have supplied to people so I can quickly restore then when required.

My main PC has 4 X 1T drives and I also have 2X 1T USB Drives which I use for travelling with. I have approximately 2.5 - 3 TB in use with my music collection and it is continually growing. Otherwise there is not much junk on my PC.

have 500 split into two 250 for windows xp and 250 for linux mint, use more of mint than xp as xp has significantly slowed down, have to constantly run ccleaner and you tube isnt workings as good as i use to. Im sure some people will beg me to go and use windows 7 or windows 8 but i still dont like then.

1.5TB, using approx 700GB of that.

Silly survey and unclear what the question was.

3TB spread over 4 disks.

Not sure what the question is? I have 500GB internal HD with 4 partitions. C:/System and programs, D:/Driver Backup, E:/Backup of my external HD, F:/ Factory Image. All my data, video, music, etc is on my 1TB external HD.

Bit of a joke this survey - mine usage is about 32GB consisting of OS etc, PGMs, Data (music, photos, documents etc.)