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rockfan · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:13 am

i have a 2005 compaq presario,... its a 80GB hard drive w/ 256MB memory.....any idea's, thanx just curious

Charlie · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:14 am

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$úñ_DëV|L · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:29 am

Don't worry about the memory, you probably won't be storing any songs on RAM unless you don't mind losing them when you shut off the computer. Although it will help the computer run faster while you're playing them.

If each song is 4MB, that's 2^8 (256) songs per gigabyte, and let's say you're devoting 20GB to your operating system and other applications/data, then you'll be able to fit about 15,000 songs (accounting for the space at the end of your hard drive that you can't use, of course

).

rockfan · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:12 am

$úñ_DëV|L wrote:

Don't worry about the memory, you probably won't be storing any songs on RAM unless you don't mind losing them when you shut off the computer. Although it will help the computer run faster while you're playing them.

If each song is 4MB, that's 2^8 (256) songs per gigabyte, and let's say you're devoting 20GB to your operating system and other applications/data, then you'll be able to fit about 15,000 songs (accounting for the space at the end of your hard drive that you can't use, of course

).

my computer is saying that im running out of space and shit,.....im only up to about 7000 total songs, whats up with that?

$úñ_DëV|L · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:13 am

rockfan wrote:

$úñ_DëV|L wrote:

Don't worry about the memory, you probably won't be storing any songs on RAM unless you don't mind losing them when you shut off the computer. Although it will help the computer run faster while you're playing them.

If each song is 4MB, that's 2^8 (256) songs per gigabyte, and let's say you're devoting 20GB to your operating system and other applications/data, then you'll be able to fit about 15,000 songs (accounting for the space at the end of your hard drive that you can't use, of course

).

my computer is saying that im running out of space and shit,.....im only up to about 7000 total songs, whats up with that?

Do you have any videos on it? CD images? Uncompressed audio? 15,000 is at an average of 4MB per song, but if it's 8MB per media file, just do the math and it's just 7,500. Sounds like you probably are running out of space.

Peeps · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:15 am **Posts:** 33031

rockfan wrote:

$úñ_DëV|L wrote:

Don't worry about the memory, you probably won't be storing any songs on RAM unless you don't mind losing them when you shut off the computer. Although it will help the computer run faster while you're playing them.

If each song is 4MB, that's 2^8 (256) songs per gigabyte, and let's say you're devoting 20GB to your operating system and other applications/data, then you'll be able to fit about 15,000 songs (accounting for the space at the end of your hard drive that you can't use, of course

).

my computer is saying that im running out of space and shit,.....im only up to about 7000 total songs, whats up with that?

pack your computer up and return it

$úñ_DëV|L · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:28 pm

Peeps wrote:

rockfan wrote:

$úñ_DëV|L wrote:

Don't worry about the memory, you probably won't be storing any songs on RAM unless you don't mind losing them when you shut off the computer. Although it will help the computer run faster while you're playing them.

If each song is 4MB, that's 2^8 (256) songs per gigabyte, and let's say you're devoting 20GB to your operating system and other applications/data, then you'll be able to fit about 15,000 songs (accounting for the space at the end of your hard drive that you can't use, of course

).

my computer is saying that im running out of space and shit,.....im only up to about 7000 total songs, whats up with that?

pack your computer up and return it

Maybe it wasn't plugged in....

psychobain · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:14 pm

rockfan wrote:

$úñ_DëV|L wrote:

Don't worry about the memory, you probably won't be storing any songs on RAM unless you don't mind losing them when you shut off the computer. Although it will help the computer run faster while you're playing them.

If each song is 4MB, that's 2^8 (256) songs per gigabyte, and let's say you're devoting 20GB to your operating system and other applications/data, then you'll be able to fit about 15,000 songs (accounting for the space at the end of your hard drive that you can't use, of course

).

my computer is saying that im running out of space and shit,.....im only up to about 7000 total songs, whats up with that?

too many porn

Raziel · **Joined:** Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:42 am **Posts:** 7939

psychobain wrote:

rockfan wrote:

$úñ_DëV|L wrote:

Don't worry about the memory, you probably won't be storing any songs on RAM unless you don't mind losing them when you shut off the computer. Although it will help the computer run faster while you're playing them.

If each song is 4MB, that's 2^8 (256) songs per gigabyte, and let's say you're devoting 20GB to your operating system and other applications/data, then you'll be able to fit about 15,000 songs (accounting for the space at the end of your hard drive that you can't use, of course

).

my computer is saying that im running out of space and shit,.....im only up to about 7000 total songs, whats up with that?

too many porn

sounds about right

Raziel · **Joined:** Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:42 am **Posts:** 7939

I have the megamix of every opera ever written on my computer, so it's basically just one long song, but my computer tells me I'm running out of space. what's wrong with my computer?

Ensign9 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:06 pm

Raziel wrote:

I have the megamix of every opera ever written on my computer, so it's basically just one long song, but my computer tells me I'm running out of space. what's wrong with my computer?

Gremlins.

punkdavid · **Posted:** Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:56 am

Too many punctuation marks ,,.,.,.,.,.,,.,,,,,,,,,,,.... . ....,.,.., ,,, ... ,,, ... ,,, ... ,,,

Raziel · **Joined:** Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:42 am **Posts:** 7939

punkdavid wrote:

Too many punctuation marks ,,.,.,.,.,.,,.,,,,,,,,,,,.... . ....,.,.., ,,, ... ,,, ... ,,, ... ,,,

you think they're taking up the space on his drives?

$úñ_DëV|L · **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:06 pm

Raziel wrote:

punkdavid wrote:

Too many punctuation marks ,,.,.,.,.,.,,.,,,,,,,,,,,.... . ....,.,.., ,,, ... ,,, ... ,,, ... ,,,

you think they're taking up the space on his drives?

Only if they're encoded in Unicode rather than UTF-8.

Raziel · **Joined:** Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:42 am **Posts:** 7939

$úñ_DëV|L wrote:

Raziel wrote:

punkdavid wrote:

Too many punctuation marks ,,.,.,.,.,.,,.,,,,,,,,,,,.... . ....,.,.., ,,, ... ,,, ... ,,, ... ,,,

you think they're taking up the space on his drives?

Only if they're encoded in Unicode rather than UTF-8.

U+002CU+002CU+002EU+002CCU+002EUU+002CU+002CU+002EU+002CCU+002EU

tryinmorning · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:17 pm

I think it may be time to get a new hard drive...

edwardppeck · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:44 am

well when it says you are running out of hard drive space it generally means you are running out space yes? what i do is have one harddrive for my oporating systems programs and all that shit and then have a sepourate harddrive for media purpose's

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