Typical installation size on thumbdrive

fdenzer
I'm planning to download and install Zotero on top of portable Firefox on a thumb drive. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who could tell me the size of a typical installation, together with an estimate of the size of a "typical" amount of data that might be expected to accumulate over the course of a couple of years worth of research in grad school, so that I can select a sufficiently large thumbdrive. (Or maybe it's a moot point and even the smallest thumbdrive currently available on the market would suffice?)

Thanks, Felicia
  • noksagt
    edited April 28, 2007
    Nearly any drive will work. Portable Firefox + Zotero and no data or anything else is 25 MB.

    Size of reference metadata + PDFs + page snapshots can vary wildly. 1 GB is a reasonable estimate (perhaps 200 references a year for ~5 years & the largest thing to store being ~1 MB PDFs for each reference).

    Do note that you can easily move Portable Firefox to a larger drive & you probably will move your data (the longest warranties on thumb drives is ~3 years).

    Also note that Zotero plans a server you can keep data on (or you can keep it on third-party servers or use third-party synchronization routines), so you may not use it in the same way you do now in the not-too-distant future.
  • fdenzer
    Fantastic! Thanks so much for the rapid response - just what I needed to know. (And I'm definitely looking forward to that forthcoming data server.)

    Regards,
    Felicia

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