A couple of months after buying a new PC, and I've only got 17% of my disk free. Ok, so that's technically more than I had free on the old PC, but the drive is twice the size. And because it's a faster and fancier PC, I'm installing more stuff. (How much space did the Half Life 2 Orange Box take up?? Worth it just for the glorious Portal, obviously).
So, having just got another 15 quid of Amazon vouchers (£583.67 now), I've just ordered another drive. 320gig should last me a little while.
Problem is, with my fancy box for my guitar, I can record my guitar doodlings. Record those at CD quality, making sure I record both pairs of outputs (the one with the effects and the clean one), and that's about 345Kb/s. Or 20Mb a minute. Or 264 hours on the drive. (Allowing for 320gig drives not really being that big). About 11 days. And given that if I ever get around to trying to record something approaching a proper song, that's 3 or 4 guitar parts, each one taking 3 or 4 attempts before I get fed up, and we get 16 hours. Which would be quite a long song, I guess. And my fingers would probably explode.
But then there's all the other stuff I'll shove on the drive too. I give it 6 months at most before I need another one. At which point, they'll probably be 1/4 of the price or something silly.
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