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What should I get next?
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:01 am
by fliptw
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?
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:05 am
by Tetrad
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?
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:15 am
by fliptw
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?
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:41 am
by Vindicator
[spoiler]an unimaginable amount of pr0n[/spoiler]
DVDs are overrated anyway.
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:46 am
by Avder
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 10:42 am
by Krom
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 10:45 am
by Tetrad
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:40 pm
by Mr. Perfect
If he survived with 60gigs, then why would he need much more?
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:33 pm
by MD-2389
I'd definitely go for a nice large hard drive first.
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:31 pm
by Darkside Heartless
You guys have a ton of space, I only have less than 1.5 gig on a 20 gig hard drive
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:52 pm
by AceCombat
i have 2x 80 GB drives
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 4:55 pm
by Top Gun
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:21 pm
by kurupt
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?!
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 8:57 pm
by Vertigo
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
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 9:53 pm
by Top Gun
Lemme guess...you have a toilet and a wet bar in your computer room
.
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:30 am
by Krom
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 3:57 pm
by Vertigo
Same.
I leech an average of 30-40GB/Week
And upload something around 15GB/Week
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 6:05 pm
by AceCombat
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
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:48 pm
by fliptw
Hard Drive it is then.
maybe I should have poll as to what brand.
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:42 pm
by MD-2389
fliptw wrote:Hard Drive it is then.
maybe I should have poll as to what brand.
Definitely Maxtor.
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:39 am
by Tricord
WD
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:01 am
by BUBBALOU
WD
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:57 am
by Krom
WD
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:28 am
by kurupt
WD
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:34 pm
by Warlock
Maxtor
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:14 pm
by Vindicator
I'm partial to Maxtor, but thats mainly because Maxtors have rebates on em around Christmas
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:17 pm
by AceCombat
MD-2389 wrote:fliptw wrote:Hard Drive it is then.
maybe I should have poll as to what brand.
Definitely Maxtor.
WD > Maxtor
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:27 pm
by MD-2389
AceCombat wrote:WD > Maxtor
Only in your dreams pal...