5. Choosing The Size Of Hard Disk

Hard disks are also cheap so buy as big as you can afford. You may find that a 500Gb disk costs hardly any more than a 200 Gb one. If you want to cut corners here bear in mind that many software packages need hundreds of megabytes of disk space. Add up the amount for all of the software that you are going to install and leave enough room for your data.

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