Is 80 GB hard drive for laptop good enough?

Hi, I think you will find 80GB a bit restrictive after a while. The list of your requirements will not use a lot of hard drive space but if you add video to the list then you will soon exhaust 80GB given that almost half of that will be taken up with your OS.

Using XP will not use as much of the hard drive as will Vista, but XP will soon be going out of support once Windows 7 becomes the standard.

I would prefer to see a hard drive of between 120 GB and 160 GB as a minimum.

Dell laptops are lame unless you just want to leave it on a desk all day. If you want to take it to different places, consider an IBM.

120GB dirves, dual core, dual pointing devices, shock detector built in. V good screens and can take a beating without breaking. I have had 4 IBM latops and 3 Dells and the Dells and the IBMs are way better.

About 2 months ago on my Dell D630 the motherboard fried for no apparent reason and corrupted data on the hard disk. I needed a new motherboard and a new hard disk. Fortunately, I had backed up the entire thing the day before so I didn;t lose any data and my company paid to replace the motherboard and hard disk.

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80gb sounds good enough, if ur gunna use XP vista try some liek 160 or 250 what ever u want but you should buy an external HD for ur music and docs and pics just incase the HD fails in the notebook, i repaired this guys desktop, he had for a 1yr and the 500gb hitachi sata HD stop working, i had to order him a new one and he lost everything on that HD that failed most of it was pics he never backed up, so u should for sure buy an external, make ur external like 250 or higher, i have a 160 and have 35gb left, lots of music pics and movies on it.

80 Gig Hard Drive

80GB is good enough for normal vista or xp operating systems. If you are having any specific graphic or music research programs then you might require a larger disc.

Your biggest space killers in that list will be music and photoshop. Even so, as long as you aren't storing videos on it, you should be ok with 80 GB. Extra space never hurts though :)

thats depends. if you are going to download movies and music, or install a load of games, or if you are going to put a bunch of pictures on your pc. i'd say no. you should find a computer with at least 120gig