What should I get next?

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:01 am

I recently volunteered my 20gig maxtor for working at work, and thusly in the first time in some years down to 1 HD, my 40 gig seagate.

so, what should I get, A new HD or a DVD writer?

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:05 am

You only have a 40 gig hdd? I mean I have a 36gig hdd as my main drive, but I also have like 800 gigs elsewhere.

You need another harddrive. Or not. What would you put on a DVD-r anyway?

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:15 am

House Hard drive Count:

1 10 gig fujitsu
1 17 gig fujitsu
2 40 gig seagates.

117 gigs of space in 4 computers.

like, what would I do with 800+ gigs of HD space?

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:41 am

[spoiler]an unimaginable amount of pr0n[/spoiler]

DVDs are overrated anyway.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:46 am

I currently have a 12Gig HDD in my 450, a 30 gig in my 450, a 40Gig in my laptop, and a 120 gig in my newest comp. I'm going to be adding a 250gig to it soon as I'm getting pressed for space with all the TV I've bene capturing lately.

The next comp I build will be designed to break the 1TB barrier.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 10:42 am

Currently I have two 120GB hard drives in my computer and a 30 GB + 80 GB drive in my server.

The 120s in my computer have 6 GB and 5 GB of free space each.

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 10:45 am

Just keep in mind that a DVD-r has 4.7 gigs of storage. If you're burning a video DVD you need double that space as temp space (once to encode the video to mpeg2, and again to author the image with vob files and whatnot). If you're pressed for space as it is it's going to be quite difficult to actually use a DVD burner unless you offload a bunch of random files onto them.

Having lots of hardrive space is good for videos. And CD images.

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:40 pm

If he survived with 60gigs, then why would he need much more?

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:33 pm

I'd definitely go for a nice large hard drive first.

Darkside Heartless · Post by **Darkside Heartless** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:31 pm

You guys have a ton of space, I only have less than 1.5 gig on a 20 gig hard drive

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:52 pm

i have 2x 80 GB drives

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 4:55 pm

What do you guys store on all that space? (Besides the obvious

) I've got one 80GB hard drive, and I've only used about 20GB of it. A DVD writer, on the other hand.../me drools

Seriously though, it depends on what you need. If you want massive storage space, go with the hard drive. If you want to burn your own DVDs, then get the DVD burner. If you want something cooler and less computer-nerd, go with another option.

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:21 pm

as previously stated, a dvd-burner will do you no good without hard drive space, and if you only want one to backup files, just use regular cd's. sure it takes more cd's, but why fork over all the money for the dvd burner if you arent making movies?!

Vertigo · Post by **Vertigo** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 8:57 pm

Top Gun wrote:What do you guys store on all that space? (Besides the obvious )

400GB of Anime
120GB of misc episodes
150GB of movies
120GB of games
40GB of various apps

No pr0n tho

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 9:53 pm

Lemme guess...you have a toilet and a wet bar in your computer room

.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:30 am

On this cable modem I can download as much as 20 GB in one day, that makes it really easy to fill a hard drive.

Vertigo · Post by **Vertigo** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 3:57 pm

Same.
I leech an average of 30-40GB/Week

And upload something around 15GB/Week

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 6:05 pm

Vertigo wrote:
Top Gun wrote:What do you guys store on all that space? (Besides the obvious )
400GB of Anime
120GB of misc episodes
150GB of movies
120GB of games
40GB of various apps

No pr0n tho

SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUREEEEEE

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:48 pm

Hard Drive it is then.

maybe I should have poll as to what brand.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:42 pm

fliptw wrote:Hard Drive it is then.

maybe I should have poll as to what brand.

Definitely Maxtor.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:39 am

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:01 am

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:57 am

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:28 am

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:34 pm

Maxtor

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:14 pm

I'm partial to Maxtor, but thats mainly because Maxtors have rebates on em around Christmas

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:17 pm

MD-2389 wrote:
fliptw wrote:Hard Drive it is then.

maybe I should have poll as to what brand.
Definitely Maxtor.

WD > Maxtor

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:27 pm

AceCombat wrote:WD > Maxtor

Only in your dreams pal...

What should I get next?

What for is buy fliptw?

What should I get next?