If you are an average computer user, just using it for email, music, and work you should have at least 120 Gigs. For people that like to watch movies, and have a huge music collection and like to record TV shows to their computer, I suggest going for the 250 Gigs, and for those that have a vast multimedia collection, 500 Gigs or even more is best.

This sounds way to much.

Footprint for Windows - is around 3gb.
With Office, Adobe Photoshop + Illustrator, Corel Draw, several media programs, assortment of utilities - add another 10gb
A few large games, Tomb Raider legend (7gb), Titan Quest (3 gb)
so this still only comes to 23 gb


TV programs - 22 episodes at 350mb per episod...

If you are an average computer user, just using it for email, music, and work you should have at least 120 Gigs. For people that like to watch movies, and have a huge music collection and like to record TV shows to their computer, I suggest going for the 250 Gigs, and for those that have a vast multimedia collection, 500 Gigs or even more is best.

This sounds way to much.

Footprint for Windows - is around 3gb.
With Office, Adobe Photoshop + Illustrator, Corel Draw, several media programs, assortment of utilities - add another 10gb
A few large games, Tomb Raider legend (7gb), Titan Quest (3 gb)
so this still only comes to 23 gb


TV programs - 22 episodes at 350mb per episode = 7.5gb per season ... so 10 complete seasons would be 75 gb
so this still only comes to 98 gb

Music - 10 artists, 10 albums each - 100 albums total at 100 mb per album = 10,000 mb or 10 gb

so... for most people 120 gb is quiet enough