Hard drive Space vs RAM

So I was originally planing on getting 100gb hard drive and 1gb of ram, Now I think I will get 60gb and 2gb ram. I have a 200gb external drive, so I think I'm covered on storage. This will be my first mac, is this a good setup. Also I am getting a airport express for only audio and wireless printing, is that a good idea. Thanks.

Look like you already get it set on your mind, and all I can say is get it done...
I myself prefer the original HD setting and an external HD since I use external HD a lot.
And for memory, I prefer jump to the bigger one and skip those stagering upgrade that leave your 2 x 512 mb wasted if you decided to do another upgrade to 2 x 1 Gb Ram.
And I like airport express, but it is a bit pricey, but on the other side since it is frm apple it will giving you easier setup since it designed to be used intregated with all apple product.
Just read couple post or maybe some user can give you better and cheaper wireless and audio solution.
But if you have un-limited budget, upgrade the memory as priority and upgrade the HD also, and that is one of many MacBook user wildest dream.
Good Luck.

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Hi, would massively appreciate it if anyone would be able to point me in the direction of what's causing fairly regular kernel panics and general poor performance of my 2007 Macbook. Running 2gb Ram, hard drive space is running low (90% full), but seems to operate fine until I hit flash videos, when it stutters, stalls, and, if I push it too far, crashes. Is it directly related to hard drive space? Here's the log:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 2259605 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          8
Anonymous UUID:                    8E803563-23BA-4850-B3FB-F4FFCAE6622A
Thu Feb 2 12:10:45 2012
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x28fc2e): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0x0, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.15.3/osfmk/i386/pmap.c:3572
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x34fb3b28 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x34fb3b5c 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x34fb3b78 : 0x28fc2e (0x59a47c 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x34fb3be8 : 0x2944ee (0x5090d24 0x1d10c000 0x0 0x5)
0x34fb3d78 : 0x255994 (0x5090d24 0x1d10c000 0x0 0x640e4)
0x34fb3de8 : 0x2589af (0x2e5cf7c 0x5090d24 0x1d10c000 0x0)
0x34fb3f38 : 0x2ab83c (0x509d0a4 0x1d10c000 0x0 0x3)
0x34fb3fc8 : 0x2a18da (0x5b446c0 0x0 0x10 0x5b446c0)
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Google Chrome He
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Disappearing Hard Drive Space After Yosemite Update

After installing OS X Yosemite my hard drive space has dwindled to basically nothing, rendering my computer useless. I had at least 50 gb (maybe more) of hard drive space before updating from mavericks to yosemite. Now, after using my computer for 30 mins or less I get an error message saying that my storage space is low. After a restart I will get about 600 mb of storage but then the cycle repeats. Since I have upgraded to Yosemite I have not saved or downloaded any large files but there is a significant amount of storage space (104 gb) used in the other category. It is not consistent with my usage. I initially had file vault encryption turned on but I thought maybe that was the cause of my disappearing hard drive space so I turned file encryption off and still no luck.
Please Help!
Problem description:
Hard drive space disappearing after installing OS X Yosemite.
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You are too low on drive space for iDVD to run properly. It is recommended that you try to have about 15-20 GB free for the application to run. See if you can delete anything to free up more space. Or, move more of your files to your external drive. iDVD needs to be on your computer's drive, so don't move it, or any of the iLife applications to your external drive.
You can create iMovies on an external drive, move your entire iPhoto and iTunes libraries to external drives, but I find iDVD works better if I create its projects on my main drive. I save all of my iDVD projects as disk image files and then move those files to my external drive for saving my projects. This allows me to delete the original iDVD project and the original iMovie project used in it, which gives more free space on my drives.

Insufficient Hard Drive Space in Windows 7 after upgrading from XP Bootcamp

I just upgraded from windows xp to windows 7 via bootcamp with success; however, I find the hard drive space diminished. I originally had 32gb partition for xp and continued to use that allocation space since my macbook pro has about only 120 gb total space. I never checked how much space I had from the beginning but now after I installed several applications such as norton, skype, yahoo messenger, etc., I have about 1 gb left free looking at "my computer". I've looked around and found that the minimal requirement for windows 7 is 16 gb. That does not make sense that I have 32 gb and am now left with just 1 gb with just basic programs installed and I do mean basic; no huge programs since I just use my mac as a "leisure" laptop. Please help! I tried googling and looking for answers in discussion boards and can't find an answer.

I don't ever recall seeing 16GB in all my reading. Okay, yes for 32-bit but that really seems... misleading unless Home Basic.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/system-requirements.aspx
As for how large, depends on a number of things like how much RAM, page file, hibernation, temp files, etc. More for 64-bit than 32-bit. The amount needed for rollback drivers, restore points, should also be taken into account. Thumbnails and cache, too.
I use 64-bit version, consumes 65GB, and I really don't have much, and all my data, installers and updaters and such are kept on another hard drive, not the system drive.
At least you can't normally "upgrade" from XP to 7, you have to do a custom clean install so you shouldn't have anything left behind or in Windows.old
I wouldn't install Norton. MSSE is fine, all you need (I did use beta's of Norton 360 v.3 and others too).
http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

Where can I put in more hard drive space on my laptop around Waterloo, Ont?

Hello, I was wondering, where can I get more hard drive space on my laptop, so then I can install Boot camp and still have enough space left for my other stuff. I don't want to loose too much space, I already lost about 9.7 GB to installing Leopard.
Does anyone live in Waterloo, Ontario?

I'm currently a student at the University of Waterloo (2B term starts in September). Here are some options for you:
1) Canada Computers at King/University.
2) CampusTech at UW
3) IST help desk at UW (for UW students only, I think)
Canada Computers is right at the corner of King/Uni. It's on the northwest corner of the intersection, slightly north of University. Look for a blue sign with yellow type within a 30 second walk north of the intersection. They sell all kinds of computer hardware, although they may or may not be able to do the actual transplant for you.
CampusTech is at the Student Life Centre, on the bottom floor (basement). Ask anyone at UW and they'll tell you how to find it. They're "Official Mac Certified", but I don't believe they sell hard drives. I bought my MacBook there and they did a RAM upgrade for me and so far it works well.
The CHIP (Computer Help Information Place) is on the 1st floor (basement) of the Math building at UW. You may have to be a Math student to use them, and if you're not under warranty they may charge you, but I had a problem with my keyboard shortly after buying my MacBook and went there and they fixed it for me. They have really short hours, though, so if you have a day job, this is probably not the best option.

Microsoft Word 2008 wonays no hard drive space available, which

I have 196 GB of free hard drive space as well as 4 GB of RAM on my MacBook Pro. No other applications are running. No volumes are mounted to the desktop. I am running the most recent Mac OS (10.5.8) and have installed all Microsoft Office 2008 updates.
Yet when I go to save a 7 MB Word Document--which is already saved to my hard drive--after making a small change, I get this error message:
"The disk is full trying to write to 'MacIntosh HD'. Free some space on this drive, or save the document on another disk.
Try one or more of the following:
*Close any unneeded documents, programs. and windows.
*Save the document on another disk."

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I purchased a Pavillion Dv4t about a month ago with a 320 gb hard drive. Upon first inspection, I noticed that the drive partitions, when added together, fell way short of 320gb. The C drive plus Recovery drive = 298 gb! I initially wondered if the missing space was a hidden partition containing vista, and that when I custom installed windows 7, I would be able to formatt that part of the drive to install 7. This does not appear to be the case as the install upgrade only showed the 2 partitions totaling 298gigs.
Does anyone know what that missing space is and how to recover it? Or is it something important that I shouldent mess with?
Has anyone else had this problem or noticed that they are missing this much hard drive space?
Also, I've run a hdd diagnodtic test wich showed no drive issues.
Thanks!

Capacity measurements
A disassembled and labeled 1997 hard drive. All major components were placed on a mirror, which created the symmetrical reflections.
Raw unformatted capacity of a hard disk drive is usually quoted with SI prefixes (metric system prefixes), incrementing by powers of 1000; today that usually means gigabytes (GB) and terabytes (TB). This is conventional for data speeds and memory sizes which are not inherently manufactured in power of two sizes, as RAM and Flash memory are. Hard disks by contrast have no inherent binary size as capacity is determined by number of heads, tracks and sectors.
This can cause some confusion because some operating systems may report the formatted capacity of a hard drive using binary prefix units which increment by powers of 1024.
A one terabyte (1 TB) disk drive would be expected to hold around 1 trillion bytes (1,000,000,000,000) or 1000 GB; and indeed most 1 TB hard drives will contain slightly more than this number. However some operating system utilities would report this as around 931 GB or 953,674 MB, whereas the correct units would be 931 GiB or 953,674 MiB. (The actual number for a formatted capacity will be somewhat smaller still, depending on the file system). Following are the correct ways of reporting one Terabyte.
SI prefixes (Hard Drive) equivalent Binary prefixes (OS) equivalent
1 TB (Terabytes) 1 * 10004 B 0.9095 TiB (Tebibytes) 0.9095 * 10244 B
1000 GB (Gigabytes) 1000 * 10003 B 931.3 GiB (Gibibytes) 931.3 * 10243 B
1,000,000 MB (Megabytes) 1,000,000 * 10002 B 953,674.3 MiB (Mebibytes) 953,674.2 * 10242 B
1,000,000,000 KB (Kilobytes) 1,000,000,000 * 1000 B 976,562,500 KiB (Kibibytes) 976,562,500 * 1024 B
1,000,000,000,000 B (bytes) - 1,000,000,000,000 B (bytes) -
Microsoft Windows reports disk capacity both in a decimal integer to 12 or more digits and in binary prefix units to three significant digits.
The capacity of an HDD can be calculated by multiplying the number of cylinders by the number of heads by the number of sectors by the number of bytes/sector (most commonly 512). Drives with the ATA interface and a capacity of eight gigabytes or more behave as if they were structured into 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, and 63 sectors, for compatibility with older operating systems. Unlike in the 1980s, the cylinder, head, sector (C/H/S) counts reported to the CPU by a modern ATA drive are no longer actual physical parameters since the reported numbers are constrained by historic operating-system interfaces and with zone bit recording the actual number of sectors varies by zone. Disks with SCSI interface address each sector with a unique integer number; the operating system remains ignorant of their head or cylinder count.
The old C/H/S scheme has been replaced by logical block addressing. In some cases, to try to "force-fit" the C/H/S scheme to large-capacity drives, the number of heads was given as 64, although no modern drive has anywhere near 32 platters.
[edit] Formatted disk overhead
For a formatted drive, the operating system's file system internal usage is another, although minor, reason why a computer hard drive or storage device's capacity may show its capacity as different from its theoretical capacity. This would include storage for, as examples, a file allocation table (FAT) or inodes, as well as other other operating system data structures. This file system overhead is usually less than 1% on drives larger than 100 MB. For RAID drives, data integrity and fault-tolerance requirements also reduce the realized capacity. For example, a RAID1 drive will be about half the total capacity as a result of data mirroring. For RAID5 drives with x drives you would lose 1/x of your space to parity. RAID drives are multiple drives that appear to be one drive to the user, but provides some fault-tolerance.
A general rule of thumb to quickly convert the manufacturer's hard disk capacity to the standard Microsoft Windows formatted capacity is 0.93*capacity of HDD from manufacturer for HDDs less than a terabyte and 0.91*capacity of HDD from manufacturer for HDDs equal to or greater than 1 terabyte.
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Freeing up hard drive space

I am trying to figure out how to free up space on the mac hard drive. If my iTunes library is backed up to an external hard drive, can I delete the library from the mac hard drive? How would I re-map iTunes so it launches from the external drive?
Next question: I store all of my photos on 2 external drives, but does the mac store a copy of the photos as I am editing them in Photoshop? Would love to understand how to clean this up, as I am down to less than 1GB of space on the mac.

How would I re-map iTunes so it launches from the external drive?
Hold down the option key while starting iTunes. Select the different library. Note, your external drive will have to be on when starting itunes in the future or else it will make an empty library on your drive.
Next question: I store all of my photos on 2 external drives, but does the mac store a copy of the photos as I am editing them in Photoshop? Would love to understand how to clean this up, as I am down to less than 1GB of space on the mac.
I don't use Photoshop but it isn't unusual for applications to make temporary buffers when editing files. I don't know if you can or would want to disable that.
1GB is seriously low. You should probably have 15+ GB free.
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Photoshop Elements 11 hard drive space system requirement?

I have a macbook pro with 4gb of memory in the hard-drive. I wanted to get photoshop elements 11 but the system requirements includes 4gb of hard-drive. Because some of my memory has been used up, does that mean I can not install photoshop elements 11 in my computer?

NPar1234 wrote:
I have a macbook pro with 4gb of memory in the hard-drive. I wanted to get photoshop elements 11 but the system requirements includes 4gb of hard-drive. Because some of my memory has been used up, does that mean I can not install photoshop elements 11 in my computer?
Just to get the terminology clear: you're not mixing RAM specs with hard drive space, are you?
Photoshop Elements 11 requires 1 GB of RAM and 4GB of hard drive space
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/release-note/photoshop-elements-11-release-notes .html#main-pars_header_0
MacBook Pros come with 8GB of system RAM. Older models had 4GB of RAM. Plenty for PSE11 or PSE12.
http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
Hard drives are usually are 128GB or 256GB or 512GB or higher. Again, plenty for PSE11 or PSE12.
What are the exact specs (RAM and hard drive storage) of your MacBook Pro and how much hard drive space do you have free?
Plus, bear in mind that Photoshop Elements 12 was released in late September and is now the current version. Adobe no longer sells PSE 11.

Deauthorizing to create hard drive space

I am going to give my computer to my wife, and want to create hard drive space. This is a computer we already share, but maintain separate music libraries on iTunes under each of our user accounts. In attempting to create disc space, I wanted to remove my music from the computer, but we share the same iTunes account. So if I deauthorize the computer for my account, her music purchased from iTunes won't play either.
I thought that as a solution I would deauthorize the computer for the account. Then delete my iTunes library, then using my wife's account on the computer (which would still have songs purchased from iTunes on it) I would reauthorize the computer so that the computer would play songs we purchased, but I could save disc space. My hope is that if my library isn't on the computer when I reauthorize it, it will still play her library (even if we have a few of the same songs). Also this will allow me to authorize the new computer that I will purchase soon.
I hope this is clear, and hopefully someone can answer this.
Thanks in advance.
Russell

Once you authorize five computers to play your music purchases, you can't listen to music you've purchased on a sixth computer until you deauthorize one of the already authorized computers. When you deauthorize a computer, you can't listen to any music that was purchased using your account on that computer. To authorize or deauthorize a computer, your computer needs to be connected to the Internet.
Each computer can be authorized to play music purchased with multiple Apple or AOL accounts. For example, if each member of your household has an Apple account and you share one computer, each person can choose whether to authorize the computer to play music purchased with their account. Similarly, multiple users can share the same computer and account and thereby use only one of the authorizations for the songs purchased with that account.
- source - iTunes Help
So, I don't think it is necessary for you to deauthorize the computer. If you move your iTunes Library to another machine, you simply authorize your account on that machine.
For further clarification, type in Authorizing or deauthorizing a computer in your search field after selecting iTunes and Music Store Help via the iTunes Help Menu.
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What should the minimum available hard drive space be?

i've got a 250gb hard drive on a macbook pro (march 2009) and only 23.93gb left. how low should i let my hard drive gb go for a smooth/reliable running computer?
thanks for the reply!

I agree with Gregory that keeping 10% of a 1TB drive free isn't necessary, but I certainly wouldn't let a 250GB drive get more than 90% full, and I wouldn't let a 30GB drive get more than 75% full, tops — not that I'll ever have a 30GB drive again.
Among other reasons to keep free space on your hard drive, any time you want to burn a CD or DVD, you need to have room on your hard drive for a disk image the same size as the capacity of the disc you're going to burn. And contrary to what Gregory has concluded from his unscientific experiment, there are many, many applications and operations that will bog down, freeze, quit unexpectedly or kernel-panic the computer if there is insufficient free hard drive space. Yes, having lots of RAM helps, but it isn't a substitute for judicious maintenance of adequate free space on one's hard drive.
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Managing Hard Drive space

My computer's hard drive space had been constantly shifting. For a few weeks, after removing files from my computers, I had been slowly losing hard drive space anytime I use an app, later to recovery bits of space. However, during this week, i went through a collapse of losing almost 300 MB of HD space. Then today, I lost 1 GB. I figure it might be from updating steam (although that was done the day before), but I am really freaking out from this. Can anyone suggest how I can manage my HD space?

your hard drive space will constantly chage in size depending on what you're doing.
if you have 2GB or 4GB of memory - part of your hard drive is being used as a swap file.
check your activity monitor and see how much swap file is being used by your hard drive.
mine show's zero because I have 16GB of RAM
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Does hibernation take any hard drive space?

Hi.
I am the proud owner of a brand new Toshiba I received for Christmas. I am asking this because last night my battery was running out of power and then my mom called me to the living room and eventually the battery ran out and the computer hibernated. When I turned it back on it went back to what I was doing when I left the room, working on my manuscript on Word. I am wondering if this will take up any hard drive space. That way I will know not to let it hibernate again and to be sure to plug the thing in before I leave the room.
Thanks for your help!!
Magali.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

In hibernation, data from RAM is dumped to the hard drive. Your hib file (it's a hidden system file usually located on C: as hiberfil.sys) will be equivalent to the amount of RAM you have on your computer. The hib file continually exists, in order to be ready to absorb your RAM upon hibernation. It does not increase or decrease in size over time. The drive wear is insignificant. It's basically a way to have your precise computer state perfectly conserved (as with sleep), but without draining battery or AC power (unlike sleep).
If you don't plan on using Hibernation I believe you can turn it off and free up the disk space - Look Control Panel / Power Options / Advanced Power Settings

Cannot get hard drive space back!

Hello.
My mac os 10.3.9 has 76.2 GB capacity and 1G RAM. It shows it has used 71.4GB and has only 4.8GB left.
I tried two ways to free more space. One was running the maintenance task by using "The Terminal Way", the other was using WhatSize to identify big files. I deleted at least more than 1G old useless files by WhatSize.
However, after restart the computer, I found the available capacity is still the same 4.8GB.
Could anyone tell me what's the problem? And how to free more hard drive space?
Many thanks in advance.
Sheng

Sheng,
Mac OS X 10.4: About installation options although it says 10.4, explains the function of the Previous System Folder. You may have multiple Previous System folder and in that case they will be named something like Previous System, Previous System1, Previous System2, etc..
They will be located on your Macintosh HD, and can/should be deleted when you determine that your system is functioning normally. Retaining these Previous System Folders will take up space and may adversely affect your system.
Just drag any/all of these Previous System Folders to the trash and empty the trash.
The Admin Account is the one that you are currently using. You can verify this by going to System Preferences...>Accounts> You should see "My Account" with your name, and "Admin" next to your name.
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