How much hard drive space in needed for a Software upadate server

I'm buying a new Mac Mini and wanted to know if the 256 GB SSD would be large enough to support running a software update server.
I'm currently running a an older Mac Mini with a 500 GB drive.

How much free space is on the 500 GB HD?.

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    how can one find out how much hard drive space the apps and media are using?

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  • How much hard drive space left

    How do I find out how much hard drive space I'm using? My system profiler doesn't tell me didley.

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  • How much hard drive do I need on the Macbook Pro?

    I am buying a Macbook Pro 13" to use for email, internet, word processing and photo editing (in raw and jpeg).  It comes wtih 500 or 750 GB Seriesl ATA hard drive which is way more hard drive than I need.  I will keep most of my photos on an external hard drive and in a cloud and retain about a thousand photos on the Macbook's hard drive at a time for viewing and processing.  I would like to upgrad to the Solid State hard drive but want to choose the least amount of hard drive that would be sufficient for the applications I would like to run and the realtively small amount of photos I want to store on the Macbook Pro.  Do you think this would be sufficient?  Is the solid state hard drive so much better than the serieal ata hard drive that it would be a good investment?

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  • How much hard drive space does Tiger need to be installed?

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  • Late 2011 MacBook Pro - how much hard drive space used for OS, iLife, system files?

    Dear Community,
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    Thanks everyone for your help with this.
    After hours of trying to figure this out I located around 150Gb in total but found there was no way of removing references to the original owner whose "Home" file in Finder remained prominent.
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    K

  • How much hard drive space?

    Hi Gang,
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    Any computer will get pretty sluggish after you fill over about 85% of the hard disk up (less if you're burning DVDs etc). 
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    cheers
    mrtotes

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