>IMHO 16 GB for FreeBSD systems seems like more the enough - my current 'desktop' with 1500+ packages installed takes 12 GB ... and most people do not have that much stuff installed.<p>I use my FreeBSD system as an actual computer and not as an expensive and needlessly power hungry front end to a terminal emulator so my install has 219GB of data on freebsd-zfs.<p>I think how you use computers and how the vast, overwhelming, majority of users use their machines may be a little different.