>What are people storing on all these massive USB sticks? I'm not being snarky, it's an honest question. I can't even fill up half of my Macbook's 256GB SSD and I would consider myself a "power user."
An hour of HD video from a camera is several GBs.
A single 16MP photograph is around 10-12MB.
150 albums in a good quality mp3/aac encoding, can easily take around 15-20 GB.
Add some classic movies you have ripped to watch, at 0.7-3 GB a pop.
Several years worth of emails goes to another 2-3GB.
Your iPhone backups? Several GB's depending on the model and number of apps you have installed.
The OS is around 3-5 GB itself (Mac OS, for example).
20 common applications, can easily get to 2-3 GB.
And that's for common folks. For a pro-something?
A suite, like Adobe Creative Suite, with the templates and all, goes to 10GB+.
And if you want to install the whole of Logic Pro 9, that's like 70GB right there.
Eclipse or XCode? Another GB.
A few VMs to develop/test on? Several tens of GBs.
An hour of HD video from a camera is several GBs.
A single 16MP photograph is around 10-12MB.
150 albums in a good quality mp3/aac encoding, can easily take around 15-20 GB.
Add some classic movies you have ripped to watch, at 0.7-3 GB a pop.
Several years worth of emails goes to another 2-3GB.
Your iPhone backups? Several GB's depending on the model and number of apps you have installed.
The OS is around 3-5 GB itself (Mac OS, for example).
20 common applications, can easily get to 2-3 GB.
And that's for common folks. For a pro-something?
A suite, like Adobe Creative Suite, with the templates and all, goes to 10GB+.
And if you want to install the whole of Logic Pro 9, that's like 70GB right there.
Eclipse or XCode? Another GB.
A few VMs to develop/test on? Several tens of GBs.
You can do the rest of the math.