How many songs can I store on my PC before it starts to affect my computer’s performance?

August 21st, 2009 | by songs |
Mochalex asked:


I have a Hewlett Packard s7700n with an AMD Anthalon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 2.00 GHz. It has 894 MB of RAM and 250 GB of storage, of which 226 GB are currently free. I’m running Windows Vista. Can anyone give me a rough idea of how many music files (songs) I can store on my computer before it starts to affect my computer’s performance?

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  1. 20 Responses to “How many songs can I store on my PC before it starts to affect my computer’s performance?”

  2. By kcdude on Aug 22, 2009 | Reply

    ANDRE

    More than you can count.

  3. By Lisa on Aug 22, 2009 | Reply

    ELVIN

    depends on how big your hard drive is….i have 1000’s

  4. By Christina A on Aug 25, 2009 | Reply

    CHUNG

    Depends on the size of your HD

    Just make a few CD’s & delete them once copied if you are worried.

  5. By thunder2sys on Aug 27, 2009 | Reply

    GREG

    storing songs wont effect your PC until you start running low on hard disk space. cant tell you how many files because it depends on the size of each file.

  6. By MUff!N on Aug 30, 2009 | Reply

    GEOFFREY

    As long as the songs are partitioned off from the operating system it won’t ever effect the performance of your computer no matter how many song you store.

  7. By SpyGirl on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    BASIL

    199,918.5 songs, if you try for 199,918.6 your computer will implode.

  8. By Scrooge on Sep 4, 2009 | Reply

    FRED

    The size of your hard drive, and how much you store on it isn’t going to affect your PC’s performance. Only when you get really really low on disk space will it become an issue, and you’ll know it. I don’t see you running out of space anytime soon, and you’ll need tens of thousands of songs before you’ll fill it up.

  9. By DooMFeaR on Sep 4, 2009 | Reply

    CONNIE

    if u have now 226 GB free, and if u have to partition C: and D: on C: are installed your OS, let here more than 700 Mb free space for OS, and to drive D: you can store more more songs.

  10. By R B on Sep 4, 2009 | Reply

    CHAD

    I also have 250 GB, and have about 1,700 songs. Its no as fast as new, but its still fast.

  11. By Yevgeny Pechenezhsky on Sep 5, 2009 | Reply

    ESTEBAN

    Assuming your songs are 5mb each on average, you can have 46,080 songs which will leave you with 1gb free hard drive space (I assume Vista will need that). BTW, there is no direct correlation between how much hard drive space you have and how well you computer works.

  12. By shtarkel on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    FREDRICK

    this is the formular 99% . HDS .3 /2

  13. By mavinakdel on Sep 9, 2009 | Reply

    ALFONZO

    Files stored on your HD do not affect your computers performance. Your computers performance is affected by the speed of your processor and your amount of ram. The faster and more the better. Your computer can slow down if you allow your cookies and temp files to accumulate. Also if you fail to keep your system defragmented. So…if you have a good amount of ram which it seems you do and a decent processor, keep ur temp files and cookies at a moderate level, keep your system defragmented you shoud not have a problem

  14. By Dork-on on Sep 12, 2009 | Reply

    ALPHONSO

    Once you cross the halfway point on the the total memory is when I start to notice. I have a PC at home.

    At work I use Mac. and they all have 250 GB and they don’t have any problems until there is less then 85-87. I try to keep it in the 90’s. There is on Mac I never use because it only has 32 GB left and it runs so slow.

    In short, Try to keep it less then half and when you get to the final 1/4th it really becomes a problem.

  15. By Milos K on Sep 13, 2009 | Reply

    BRANDEN

    A lot, man, a lot.
    IF, Lets say one mp3 is 5MB and you have 226 GB free, THEN, 1 GB is 1024 MB, so 204 songs in One Gigs, then multiply it by 226, it is a 46285 songs.
    It will be 2314 CDs (20 songs each of 5MB MP3).

    A lot

  16. By justinakajuice on Sep 13, 2009 | Reply

    DONN

    Well, you can fill your hard drive up to about 85%, but you should not go past that. You need the extra 15% in order to defragment. Your computer uses that to temporarily stick big files in while rearranging. If you go past 85%, you can always burn some cd’s/dvd’s and delete it off to go back under. Or you can buy a new hard drive and put it in there, about 75 bucks to slap another 250G hard drive in there, doubling your space.

    Doesn’t matter what’s on the HDD, all you need is a little bit free for cleaning purposes so you can have about 200 G’s of music which is about 68000+ songs…

  17. By doofyee on Sep 15, 2009 | Reply

    CLAY

    The best thing to do would be to put your music on a separate hard drive, or a separate partition on your current hard drive, so that it doesn’t affect your system performance. These computers come with big hard drives. Let’s say your hard drive is 250GB. You could allocate 100GB for your system and programs, so that leaves 150GB for music and other stuff, that’s about 37,000 songs!

  18. By Aadil Prabhakar on Sep 17, 2009 | Reply

    ALFREDO

    For proper functioning and keeping in mind the system restore files you will have to spare out 60 gb as you are running Vista, and that leaves 226-60 = 166 GB. I take the average size of songs to be 5 mb* so you can store 166000/5 = 33200 songs in the hard drive. people haev mentioned above that one files stored do not affect the computers performance, i think they have not heard of the term VIRTUAL MEMORY and SYSTEM RESTORE, for in my pc i have set at lest 1 gb as virtual memory and many gb of system resotre files.

  19. By Tom D on Sep 19, 2009 | Reply

    DESHAWN

    Because the size of each song is variable the question you need to ask is how much memory can you use storing songs.

    Given a specific amount of ram there are two important factors:
    How much overhead you allow for your operating system (I’d say twice th recommended minimum) and what applications you are running. Photoshop needs LOTS of space and converting an avi file to fllv requires lots of Gig to go.

    OpenOffice requires little.

  20. By Masto on Sep 20, 2009 | Reply

    ELDON

    Just make sure to leave free space on your HD that’s at least 10% of your total disk size. :) Songs (or digital content) don’t affect the performance as much as installed software does.

  21. By Cirric on Sep 21, 2009 | Reply

    BOYCE

    Hi. Look at the file size of your music. It will vary depending on the type with mp3s being one of the smallest. Use about 25% of the total storage as a minimum to keep open (25% of 250, in your case) and divide by the average file size and there you go.

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