   So a 20 meg drive can give a lot of helpful extras for
any desktop user, but as soon as you start to use it
properly, you'll be lucky to have a meg free at anytime.
From then on, its - get a new piece of software, and then
wipe something old off the hard disk to make way for it.

   An average user who can afford the extra cash for the
next step up, should go for a 40 meg drive. These can take
a lot of packages and fonts before filling up, and even if
you don't need all forty megs when you first buy it, you
probably will within a year.

   Beyond that, any more disk capacity is only required
for the specialist user, or for one with a lot of
software (Eh Dave?!!!). If you're going for a hard disk
that comes into this category, try and estimate how much
room you need, then add about 50 megs, and you should know
which disk to go for.

   Remember, if you do buy a hard disk, and then find you
need more capacity, its not the end of the line. The range
of external disks (mainly set off by the A3000) is quite
wide, and you will often get as good a buy as you did for
your first external disk.

COBRA