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I'm curious what is considered to be a "solid" amount of hard drive space and RAM for a new computer?
I currently have a 1tb primary drive on my home computer with a secondary 460gb drive. The secondary drive is full, the primary drive is 1/4 full. A 2tb would seem like plenty to me, but I see on Amazon I can buy all the way up to 8gb.
For ram, I'm thinking 32gb.
This will be for a personal computer, used for some sound recording, standard web browsing, and some software compiling. No CAD applications or gaming.
It would depends on what your needs are. You can always add more RAM and storage as you go so there's really no reason to buy more than what you need. From the info your post, it sounds like 8-16GB RAM and 1TB is more than adequate.
1% of Home Users need 32GB. Even if you were running CAD.
Those that do 3D modeling.
90%, like you, could easily get by with 8GB. Only Gamers or Auto-Cad'ers would need 16.
Agree with Jaypee on HD.
I have 2 engineering clients, both of them have 10 PC's give or take, all of them have 8GB of RAM and function very well. 32GB for the OP is ridiculous overkill. 8GB is a reasonable starting point. Also OP, do yourself a favor and get an SSD for your system drive, and whatever size you want for a storage drive.
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