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I think 500MB is plenty to start animating.
A 640x480 image is 901KB (might as well call it 1MB just
in case) so a 60 frame movie will cost you 60MB for the
images plus the finished movie. I use animated gifs since
they seem to loop smoothly and I like loops (just about the
only way I can get more than a few seconds of animation
is to make it loop and watch it go round and round :-) My
average 60 frame movie turns out to be between 3MB and
10MB, depending on the number of things I move between
each frame.
As for choosing a hard drive I can only say bigger is better.
I have a 13GB drive and I think it only cost me about $200.
Just pick a reliable brand name, double the size you think
you will need, and do frequent backups...
PS: Any disk can crash so give some serious thought to those
backups. In theory you only need to back up hand-edited
files so even a floppy is better than nothing.
Richard Quick <Qui### [at] zdnetmail com> wrote in message
news:3839a965@news.povray.org...
> I am new to POV-RAY, and what I have seen of the animations, I am
> jumping in with both feet. But before I do, what am I going to be
> looking at for usage of space? I have a little 4GB HD with 1/2 gig
> free space left. Should I wait till I get a second HD, or can I go
> ahead, and hope that I do not run out of space? I have plenty of
> graphics from my other applications, creating stationary for OE.
>
> Also, I have only been on the PC since April 1998, and still consider
> myself a newbie. I have a Pentium II MMX 266 MHz, 64MB RAM, 4GB HD,
> 56Kbs U. S. Robotics modem, 32x CD ROM, ATI video card, and a
> SoundBlaster 16 audio card.
>
> What would be a good second HD to get for my machine? Ken, anybody?
>
> --
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Richard Quick
>
> P.S. God Bless you, and may the Lord season your dreams.
>
> http://www.cpinternet.com/~rmquick/
>
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