PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

(^194) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide
Operating Systems File System
DOS FAT
OS/2 HPFS
UNIX/Linux UNIX File System/Linux File System
Windows 3.x FAT/VFAT
Windows 95 VFAT and FAT32
Windows NT NTFS
Windows 2000 NTFS
Table 9-3. File Systems
Application Disk Space Needed Recommended Extra Space
Audio (WAV) 1 minute–10MB
1 hour–600MB
MP3 music 1 hour–120MB
3 hours–360MB
Business/financial
software

30–70MB 60–80MB

Interactive

graphics/games

100–350MB 250–300MB

Multimedia e-mail 2–5MB

MPEG video 100MB–10GB

Streaming video 2MB–1GB

MS Office 500MB–640MB 200MB

Table 9-4. Disk Space Requirements for Common Applications