Is 32 GB for a laptop enough?

Question

On the description it says: 2GB DDR3L SDRAM and 32 GB storage. So is that enough storage, would I be able to download more than five things?

Answer 1

If you are planning on using cloud services to store data, then 32 GB is enough. On the other hand. if you wanna think about this, my camera takes about 5 MB photos so I could store about 7300 photos in 32 GB flash drive. Just remember that the OS takes of space, and things like google chrome, skype, or any other application all take out of that 32 GB storage. In general, I would say pass, but (im assuming what other people said about this being a chromebook being true) if you want that lightweight, portable and low spec computer built for word processing, then it's hard to go wrong with a chromebook so long as you use the cloud storage given to you. The only reason you would need the rest of that 32 GB is for downloading programs and using things when you are not connected to the cloud where you can just retrieve them whenever

Answer 2

32 Gb Laptop

Answer 3

32 GB of hard disk storage is hardly enough. Let's say you wanted to store photos from your phone? That's only about 1000 photos in 720p HD at most. And games? Play games? Well the RAM will not last you, but excluding software, about 2-8 games (depending how big the game is) will fill the drive.



I strongly suggest you get a laptop with a bigger hard drive. (And 4+ GB of RAM) but however if you cannot try to get a decent sized portable hard drive for yourself (100GB is about the minimum). Anyway, this is what I think, you could be using the laptop just to surf the web, or do tons of school projects without pictures (that's ok).



TL;DR? Well you can get it, just make sure the space is enough. Good luck and all the best to finding your ideal laptop.

Answer 4

That seems to be a chromebook..... And it's hard to say if 32 GB is enough because I don't know exactly what you will be downloading. Just to let you know if it states that it has 32 GB storage, then not all of that storage will be available for you to use as a small portion of it will be used for system files. Certainly it can hold more than five files depending on how big they are. It will hold several hundred music and quite a few videos and pictures. The more the storage space is used up though, is the slower your device will operate.

Answer 5

32Gb for a hard drive is really small. I'm guessing that they're using solid state drives in the laptop, but even that you want to be looking for about 128Gb.



If it's running Windows that alone can grow to about 16Gb in size over time, and so that would only leave a tiny 16Gb left for anything else.



If it's running something like Puppy Linux then that's not too bad as that only take about 500mb and I've run my laptop once with a flash drive that big when my hard drive failed and it was fine for a few months.



If it is a 32Gb SSD drive it will run very fast as there is no moving parts in an SSD but try and get them to change it for at least a 128Gb. I just put one of those in a customers PC who only uses it for basic web surfing and it only cost them £45 for a high quality 128Gb Sandisk drive.



If it's not an SSD drive then stay away from it 'cos 32Gb for a normal drive is so small. I don't even think you can buy them that small any more, the average normal drive is around about 1-2Tb which is 1024-2048Gb - and even if it is an SSD I'd stay away from it too.

Answer 6

It really depends on the size of your "things ".



You can fill any computer with stuff no matter how big its hard drive is. Think of it like a dump truck. There are small boxes and then there are larger boxes. The box is the harddrive. I can fill any box full(some just take longer to fill than others.) At some point the stuff in my computer just takes up space and I never ever will use the program again. That is why I uninstall it. To give me back the memory space by taking out the old junk.



So you have to be more specific when you say things. You need to know the size of each thing and doing a little addition should tell you how much you need. And you only want to fill it about 3/4 full otherwise the computer slows down A LOT. http://boostr.in

Answer 7

That amount of RAM and the size of storage is a tablet, what they used to call a netbook, or possibly a Chromebook. It will work but I wouldn't be trying to do five things at once on it. On the plus side, it should be fairly cheap (certainly under $200 - possibly half that, depending on if it is running Window 8 or an Android operating system).



It might work fairly well, as long as there is a way (micro SD card slot) to get additional storage into it.



If it's an iPad or a name brand tablet (such as a Chromebook) - you may have "free" or cheap storage for extra data on the Cloud.



But it's not going to work very well for anything beyond "light" use (email, watching YouTube, surfing the web, and simple games). It will probably work for taking notes in class and doing word processing for homework - but not if you're taking music or filmography courses involving a lot of special effects.

Answer 8

Yes, a 32 GB HDD is enough, as long as you plan to upgrade your HDD before even turning it on (which honestly, is not all that bad of an idea). I got a deal on a similar laptop and had a 500 GB HDD sitting around.......worked for me.

Answer 9

In this day and age that would be a small drive. If you plan to put games on it you will need to have a drive that is somewhere between 250 and 500 gigs in size because most games in this day and age take up at least 1 or 2 gigs of space.

And this isn't including the space your windows program will use.

Answer 10

That sounds terrible. Even my old refurbished Inspiron M5010 has around 170 GB of space and 3-4 gigs of RAM I think.

Answer 11

If it's a chromebook, or you are only going to use it for google docs, facebook, and general web use with a few photos, then it's plenty. Most phones only have around that much anyways.



However if you are going to use it for anything else such as editing videos, playing games (other than online games), or a lot of music listening, then you are going to want to look are at LEAST 250gb at the lowest possible budget end.

Answer 12

5GB of the hard drive will be taken up by your OS and all of the bloat ware that comes with it. A typical song is about 3 MB. Pictures vary in size depending on the resolution (my DSLR camera pictures are about 3GB)

If you download a lot of songs and pictures, that 32GB will be used up really quick.



I would look for something with at least 500 GB.

Answer 13

500 GB Hard Disk

Answer 14

Not even close to being enough storage. 32GB of storage is barely enough for most people using a smartphone. And the number of downloaded items means nothing. You go by the size of the download. I've downloaded files that were nearly 20GB. I doubt you'd be happy with this system.

Answer 15

No man, the minimum that you should get for a laptop is 120 gb.

Answer 16

32 gb is enough for basic requirement. But if want you want to install more programs and application it is not enough.

Answer 17

There would be no practical reason to have 32gb or ram in a notebook computer. Money would be better spend getting either more storage, or faster storage (ssd). If a faster processor is available, you could opt to get that instead of more ram as well.

Answer 18

Yes it depends on your requirement and data. 32 GB is enough if u can use only for official use.

Answer 19

No man, the minimum that you should get for a laptop is 120 gb.

Answer 20

Most computers don't come with less than 400GB memory these days. Are you sure it's not 320GB? Go for something with more storage capacity in case you download games or want to save a lot of photos/documents/music. My husband got one with a terabyte for $400 that works amazing.

Answer 21

32 GB for a PC Hard Drive is very small.

500GB is the standard size.

Answer 22

depend on your data 32 gb on internet purpose is enough if u are developer is not enough if Ur hobby movies collect not enough so that,s why depend on u what purpose use use laptop

Answer 23

How old is that laptop?Laptops that have been released in the last five years have at least 120gb of storage space,so that has to be a very old laptop.

Answer 24

Terrible. My old PC has 249 GB of storage.

Answer 25

32 GB of hard disk storage is enough for initial requirement. if you want to install more programs and application then increase your disk storage.

Answer 26

Yes

Answer 27

Yes

Answer 28

the windows 8.1 32gb laptops are for very basic usage 32gb about say 25 will probly be used up or so thats what my months uses youll need a 64gb or 128gb micro sd card if its windows 8.1 cromebook etc its usually capped at 64gb max

Answer 29

Going by the specs, it is an old laptop. even modern netbooks have around 200GB at least. the laptop that is mentioned in this question, it would only be good of browsing the internet.

Answer 30

I think it's not enough.Go for 120 gb or more.

Answer 31

not at all. windows will itself take near about 20 gb's

Answer 32

It"s not enough for a laptop. it's only enough for a phone

Answer 33

Not enough for laptop

Answer 34

It depends on how big the things you download. Personally, I think anything less than 320GB nowadays is too little. Try aiming for atleast 500 gigabytes.

Answer 35

Yes, if you use it only for office purposes..but it is not enough if you want to play games, use a lot of software..etc

32Gb is for basic requirment.I recommend you to increase your starge by minimum 100GB.

Answer 36

No, Its not enough for a laptop.

Answer 37

32GB is what comes with some tablets nowadays for PC,s or laptops its pretty poor. For notebooks its not great either.

Answer 38

Hi,



It depends on how you use the PC. If it is just for surfing, then yes it can be useful. But if it is for other computing needs, then it is not sufficient.

Answer 39

32gb Hard Drive

Answer 40

Its all depends on what you want to download but I personally think it not enough

Answer 41

Totally not if you're a gamer or a movie watcher.

Answer 42

That's probably designed for keeping most of your files in the cloud.

Answer 43

Its good enough if your old or just doing basic web surfing/ watching youtube videos

Answer 44

32gb Hard Drive

Answer 45

Windows 95 is literally better than that.

Answer 46

No it is not. I will be competely honest with you. If you plan to do anything ever with this computer besides soley search teh web then no its not.

Answer 47

32GB is not enough for a computer (it is if you live in the 1980s) that kind of size is for smart phone. get something bigger

Answer 48

If the laptop is only for kid it is enough.

Answer 49

No in todays life even 1TB isnt enough trust me

Answer 50

Is it a Chrome-book? If you are going to use cloud storage, then yes. If not using cloud storage, then no.

Answer 51

Oh god no, 32GB Space? Do not waste your money, a 500GB hard drive is fine.

Answer 52

Must be SSD, not roomy, and what "things" could it be?



Likely yes, good, enough.

Answer 53

this is too less for today's generation,should go for more.

Answer 54

yes it is enough for downloading and saving the work

Answer 55

If its ram, than you have mare than enough... If it is hard disk space. than no.

Answer 56

32GB storage? Way too little in my opinion.

Answer 57

just use an external hard disk

Answer 58

2GB RAM and 32GB storage? Where did you find this antique?

Answer 59

it sounds older than dirt..don't bother...cheers

Answer 60

Probably not. I would say 500gb is good.

Answer 61

Depends what you want to use it for?

Answer 62

noo

Answer 63

enough to use

Answer 64

Never I think so .

Answer 65

i got 5 tb still not inuff for me.......god bless u !!

Answer 66

chrombook

Answer 67

if your talking about hard disk then no..

Answer 68

No

Answer 69

No

Answer 70

no not really

Answer 71

NOOOOOOOO

Answer 72

No.

Answer 73

No..

Answer 74

NO