Is my hard drive really small?

[fbhjr]

At work today we were getting the upgrade to this year’s version of the CAD program we use. The guy doing the install told me I didn’t have enough hard drive space.
“Can you delete some stuff off of it?” he asked me.
“Don’t know,” I said. “The only stuff on it is what the IT department installed. I keep all my stuff on this 500 gig portable.”
We looked at the drive. It’s a 40 gig drive. System and programs took up 35 gig.
“That’s a really small system drive for a CAD machine,” he told me. “Maybe we can make some room on the data drive.”
We looked at the data drive. It was 20 gig.
In the end, we had to reduce the virtual memory the system uses. The recommended amount was more than half the drive space.

It is strange that the hard drive in this CAD “workstation” are small by today’s standards. The fact I remember when 20 meg was big is irrelevant. This machine could have a 500 gig drive for less than $100, so why does it have 60?
I can’t swap it out without a total reinstall and that would involve the IT department. So, it looks like I’m stuck with a small drive.
Please don’t laugh at me about it when you see me. Keep in mind my personal drive is quite large. It is only my professional drive that is small.

Comments

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

The laptop that I have on loan from one client is similar - it is so small/slow that I have a tough time running the latest PCB design tools on it, but I've managed to get it to work even when the client's IT department couldn't. My own laptops are much bigger, but the client has specific requirements about network access and access control software, so I use this PC when connected to their networks.

Besides, they say that it's not the size of a man's hard drive, but what can he do with it, that counts.. ;-)

[saeble.livejournal.com]

you could probably use a firewire or another internal slave drive for a scratch disk/VM disk without major surgery

[pallid-regina.livejournal.com]

I'm curious...why do you put all of your posts behind a cut? I get the photo-heavy ones...???

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I'm lazy.
The form I use for posts has a cut, so I use it.