I don't really have a computer of my own. (Had one, with an 80 GiB hard drive, but when that broke down and I didn't have time to fix it, I lent the HDD to a friend who was pinched for space. He gave me a CD-R with my /home directory on it. In the intervening year, we've managed to lose the HDD --- *just* now that I have a computer again which could use the space.)
So, instead of summing the HDDs of computers I use, I'll estimate the total of my files. To that, you may add overhead for the OS and for MS Office.
Let's see:
one memory stave of 1 GB, (not GiB, natch,) ca. 900 MiB used, of which 600 consists of various programs.
One CD-R, containing at the very, very, most 640 MiB of files.
One 4 GiB harddrive, mostly filled by the OS. Contains no files not elsewhere stored.
One directory on our main computer, which I'd estimate as containing about 1.5 GiB of files.
One GMail account, about 1.5 GiB.
4-5 GiB of files, in total, including the proggies I use most. (Opera, Vim, Total Commander, Inkscape, R.) A bit scattered, though. Chuck in the OS and various mooses of programmes (like MS Office), and we'll end up around 20 GiB, I guess. So if only I could find that 80 GiB harddrive, I'd be good for years to come. ^,^ |
