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10-05-2003, 10:59 PM
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Can you ever have too much space?
Ok well checking ebay i found some maxtors 200gb hardrives with some pci controllers, pretty cheap. So i was wondering could you have too much space? lol, i kno but i was hoping to get a 200 w/ the controller and my pops was gonna get me a 120 hopefully so that would be 440gb of space, and then another 200 and another and another....
 and my other question is what would you do with all that space? |
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10-05-2003, 11:04 PM
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If you work with videos in AVI format then 200gb should be average. For a normal home user 80gb is enough.
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10-05-2003, 11:17 PM
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more is better. I have a 160gb maxtor. The 200gb maxtor was on sale last week at $165 on staples. I was about to buy it but I still have plenty of space on my new drive. I work on websites and I make backup copies of them. As long as you have SP1 on XP and the registry fix, you can put a big HD (more than the 130gb limit) on your system.
The biggest HD I've seen was 1 terrabyte (4 250gb in raid setting=1000gb). This kid had thousands of ripped dvds in his p2p folder (650gb worth).
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10-05-2003, 11:46 PM
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No... you can never have too much space... I used to have 3 drives totalling 58GB and thought I would have lots with 120GB... well... I could use another.
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10-05-2003, 11:55 PM
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I love having space to backup data over the network, right now I have 450Gigs between 4 computers and will be adding another 156Gigs tomorrow night, well if FedEX makes it to my door.
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10-06-2003, 01:38 AM
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With almost 400 Gigs across my network, I haven't seen a "low disk space" error message in so long...
And I love it. |
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10-06-2003, 12:20 PM
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well since i am going to be a job soon i figured i would start buying stuff when its on sale. i love compusa, i could build 1000's of computers lol. anyway, how do i kno if i sp1?
and when i go to the site it says i need sp1a cuz sp1 isnt there anymore. |
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10-06-2003, 12:31 PM
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10-06-2003, 12:37 PM
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It depends upon where you are. At home, you can never have too much space. At work, having big hard drives on computers can be detrimental. It takes longer to reformat and users tend to fill up their hard drives with things they don't need. Also they tend to leave files on their hard drives that don't get backed up. I try to never put anything larger than a 20Gb hard drive at work.
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10-06-2003, 01:26 PM
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10-07-2003, 03:27 PM
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bumpyity bump bump
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10-07-2003, 04:19 PM
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i never use more than 40. I like my computer simple clean and efficient. I know someone who hosts warez. (thats bad). He has a total of about 1,000 gigs filled.
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10-07-2003, 07:36 PM
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A few years ago I thought I was doing fine with two hard drives totaling about 800mb. After that I had a 6gb hard drive and that was amazingly huge. Now I have a 60gb hard drive and I have 25gb left on it.
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10-07-2003, 07:46 PM
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I still like small drives... easy to defrag. (98se)
anywhoo big drives are nice if you are a media freek or in some cases a sysadmin.
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10-07-2003, 07:49 PM
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fudtone whatever your slowest HDD is on the ide channel is going to slow down the rest so you might as well junk the ones that are slow. like that ATA66 or the so called slow poke.
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10-07-2003, 07:52 PM
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10-07-2003, 07:54 PM
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10-07-2003, 07:56 PM
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Why have I never heard this before? Why is making it run slower? The main one is running at Ultra DMA 5 and the old one is running at Ultra DMA 4.
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10-07-2003, 08:06 PM
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Computers always go as fast as their weakest link. Same with ram. a stick of 2100 and 2700 will run at 2100.
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10-07-2003, 08:07 PM
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Well I guess I will be taking that hard drive out.
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10-07-2003, 08:15 PM
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What does get affected is the data transfer rate...older motherboard IDE controllers will clock down to the slowest transfer mode if one hard drive is a ATA100 and the other is ATA33 on the same IDE channel...but newer motherboard IDE controllers will allow each HDD to transfer data at it's given rate as long as they are set up correctly on a 80 wire UltraATA IDE cable and you aren't trying to access both drives at the same time. Cricket
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10-07-2003, 08:17 PM
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That's good news. I have an Asus A7V333 mother board. I belive it will run them both at full speed.
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10-07-2003, 08:24 PM
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10-07-2003, 09:39 PM
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10-07-2003, 09:55 PM
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ok well the way its going i am getting another 120 off ebay for 30 bucks, a 200 for 99$, and another 120 for my b-day, so thats 560gb of space. is there a way to format the drives so it would be c,d,e,f,g as the HDD, and then the cd's and such.
and please reply to above post^ |
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10-07-2003, 10:04 PM
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But in XP I think you can change them by right clicking and going into properties. Don't quote me on that, someone might have misinformed me on that also 
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10-08-2003, 08:36 PM
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by Blue_Gundam2002 Just download all the critical updates. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i would but all of it shows up on add/remove progz and its liek over 20, is there anyhting i can do about it. |
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10-08-2003, 08:44 PM
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There should be a list of critical updates, just download them. It may take a while if you have dial-up, but it will be worth it. |
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10-08-2003, 08:58 PM
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like each update shows up in the control panel as update
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10-08-2003, 10:04 PM
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this is an example from the newly d/l'ed
anyway those blank space things are them dam file size |
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