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Shadowlinex

<div class="IPBDescription">I got my new 80gig hard drive today!</div> LET THE UPGRADING CONTINUE!!!

Today, i got my brand new Maxtor 80gig 8mb hard drive although i can't us it yet tell i get my new Ultra ATA/DMA 133 2 port controller from Newegg.

Got them preatty cheap too off of Zipzoomfly.com and Newegg.com.

NOTE: would of gone better but i'm running a limited income each month meaning i don't got a job =\

Recent Upgrades:
New motherboard = Asus A7V8X-X 6 pci slots & AGB of course! =$60
New CPU = AMD Xp 2600 = $100 with heatsink & Fan
New ram = 128 DDR (Hope to get 512 stick soon) = 20 - 40 bucks
New Video card = 64mb Asus Geforce4 MX SE (Really looking for something new)
New case = not that impotant = $50

twoflow

I just got my 250gb external Maxtor HDD. Hooray!

Shadowlinex

Wow, i'll never need that much space god that holds like 1000 games/or other content.

twoflow

<!--QuoteBegin-Shadowlinex+Apr 8 2004, 09:57 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shadowlinex @ Apr 8 2004, 09:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Wow, i'll never need that much space god that holds like 1000 games/or other content. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You'd be surprised how much "other content" I've got, guy!

Shadowlinex

lol thats great "wink wink"

LemurZoboomafoo

80 gigs, as I am sorry to say, and even MORE sorry now, is not a lot. Was not a lot two years ago. I got mine thinking it'd take me months to fill it up... Well it took about a week... Now I'm in the market for a 250 or a 300. So much porn, so little space...

Tequila

<!--QuoteBegin-Flint Paper+Apr 8 2004, 05:00 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Flint Paper @ Apr 8 2004, 05:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Shadowlinex+Apr 8 2004, 09:57 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shadowlinex @ Apr 8 2004, 09:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Wow, i'll never need that much space god that holds like 1000 games/or other content. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You'd be surprised how much "other content" I've got, guy! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Is there even 250Gb of Love Hina? I dread to think.

DOOManiac

80 gigs? What a puny puny hard drive. :P

<!--QuoteBegin-Shadowlinex+Apr 8 2004, 03:57 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shadowlinex @ Apr 8 2004, 03:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Wow, i'll never need that much space god that holds like 1000 games/or other content. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I learned to stop saying that after I said "wow, I'll never fill up this 20 gig drive!"

"I'll never fill up this 200 meg drive!"

"I'll never fill up this 40 meg drive!"

:P

Shadowlinex

$100 Bucks saying there is a 250gb love hina

i'm sorry to say 80gb fits me fine my current 40gb isn't even 25% filled up <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Dubbilex

My 60 gb HD is still going strong <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> I have around a third of it left.

Granted i don't archive movies or juarez or anything crazy like that, and do very little creative (i.e film) work. SO basically all I have is an awful lot of games and useless programs <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

LemurZoboomafoo

Whooooooooa, I just read your specs. Do you make 50¢ an hour, or are you just trying to torture yourself? Nothing at all you have on that list is even remotely new. It's all outdated by about three years. Do yourself a favor and get better hardware :<

LemurZoboomafoo

<!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Apr 8 2004, 05:35 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Apr 8 2004, 05:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I learned to stop saying that after I said "wow, I'll never fill up this 20 gig drive!"

"I'll never fill up this 200 meg drive!"

"I'll never fill up this 40 meg drive!" <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
DOOM, I once thought my 540mb drive was a bottomless pit.

twoflow

Well, you know, I got bored of having to delete stuff off of my 40gb internal, so thought I'd splash out. I'm also allergic to the innards of my PC, which doesn't help.

TEQUILA STOP REVEALING MY SECRET SHAME.

Shadowlinex

<!--QuoteBegin-Lemur|Zoboomafoo+Apr 8 2004, 03:40 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Lemur|Zoboomafoo @ Apr 8 2004, 03:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Whooooooooa, I just read your specs. Do you make 50¢ an hour, or are you just trying to torture yourself? Nothing at all you have on that list is even remotely new. It's all outdated by about three years. Do yourself a favor and get better hardware :< <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Allow me to quote myslef before other people don't finish reading my post.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->NOTE: would of gone better but i'm running a limited income each month meaning i don't got a job =\<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

twoflow

Get a job!

Shadowlinex

Plan on it after i get done with school this year, damn school why!!!

Plan on starting a hole new project with most updated equipment in the next year or two when i have a reallt nice income =]

twoflow

<!--QuoteBegin-Shadowlinex+Apr 8 2004, 10:49 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shadowlinex @ Apr 8 2004, 10:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> when i have a reallt nice income =] <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Get back down to earth!

Starchy

Hmm, i'll probably get an 80-120 GB Hard Drive. Really can't be bothered to buy more than one. But if it needs to be done, it needs to be done. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Paranoia2MB

120gigs for me + an additional 30 gigs from my partitioned drive. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Necrotic

Just to sound more oldschool than anyone else so far I can remember thinking I'd never fill a 720kb floppy disk, a 720kb floppy that already had the OS for my Atari8256 on it ;D

But yah, 80gig? Seriously man I have 240gig across two 120giggers and I have not alot of room left, next purchase will be the largest possible drive thats still cost effective, then its time for the IDE cards >_<

Tequila

<!--QuoteBegin-Flint Paper+Apr 8 2004, 05:41 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Flint Paper @ Apr 8 2004, 05:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> TEQUILA STOP REVEALING MY SECRET SHAME. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Maveric

"SWEET! 120 GB HARD DRIVE! THIS THING WILL NEVER RUN OUT!!!"

1 Month Later

"Whoa, 50% full and none of it's porn... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo--> How the hell did this happen?"


<!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
[*Shiver* 250 GB of Love Hina... *shiver shiver - spine leaps out of back and jumps into traffic* - shiver

250-300GB will be nothing when next month they'll release their 500GB HDD.]

Crono5

I think my HDD is a 160 gigger, but I forgot since I partitioned it to make room for my FreeBSD install that I never use. I should get to re-partitioning it back to full fer Windoze. Now that I think about it... Yeah, it is 160 gigs. Using 96.5 GB.

I should re-format soon.

Flint: Wth, why isn't that Naruto?

Swiftspear

I'm having trouble filling up my 120 gig right now, and after that I have another 80 gig I can at any given time plug in... So im happy for now.

Shadowlinex

OK from looking over the post i can see it that some people like to download/install a bunch of stuff they don't use to often and people who manage there space by deleting old gmaes you rarely play, music you don't listen too, and images you don't look at.

Me, i just keeep the save files from my uninstalled games in a compased folder tell i feel like playing them again. so a 80gb is fine for me and if i have too i can use my old hard drive too for a wxtra 40gb so I think i'm set for the time being.

Crono5

Pfft. Efficient hard drive spcae management is for n00bz. Real men just re-format when they reach the limit.

Sycophant

I managed to pick up some new toys during a Boxing Day sale a few months back. Got an 80gb drive for my server, and an 80gb drive and a new video card for my own computer.

Paid quite a bit up-front, but there was a stack of those mail-in rebates. I hate mail-in rebates. Still, between the two $50 rebates for the hard drives and the two $60 rebates for the one video card, I ended up with this stuff for next to nothing.

I was pleased. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Quaunaut

<!--QuoteBegin-Flint Paper+Apr 8 2004, 03:41 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Flint Paper @ Apr 8 2004, 03:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Well, you know, I got bored of having to delete stuff off of my 40gb internal, so thought I'd splash out. I'm also allergic to the innards of my PC, which doesn't help.

TEQUILA STOP REVEALING MY SECRET SHAME. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Love Hina is the single best comedy anime in exhistence.

I read the mangas, myself. Good stuff.

Phoenix_Six

I find it weird how making do with a little changes your perspective on what you really need...

I still call myself a gamer, but with my dinosaur computer, I haven't played any game for the pc that's less than two years old, outside of demos which run not as well as I'd like, if at all.

But somehow, 20 gigs seems to always be <i>just</i> enough. Sure, I usually have to burn the stuff I d/l often, and in 8-10 gb chunks, but not exposing myself to l33t upgrade options keeps me from torturing myself.

Not anything at all against upgrading often - far from it! Just that making do with less isn't as bad as it might seem <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

I watched a few Love Hina episodes last night after reading this. Gotta say, second time seeing them I wasn't overly impressed. I think it was the series as a whole which made it excellent (though getting familiar with the characters, and the inside/running jokes). If I showed just one episode to a friend, they'd likely call it - and myself - stupid. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

EDIT: Wish I was an english major...

Tequila

<!--QuoteBegin-Quaunaut+Apr 8 2004, 09:54 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Quaunaut @ Apr 8 2004, 09:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Flint Paper+Apr 8 2004, 03:41 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Flint Paper @ Apr 8 2004, 03:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Well, you know, I got bored of having to delete stuff off of my 40gb internal, so thought I'd splash out.  I'm also allergic to the innards of my PC, which doesn't help.

TEQUILA STOP REVEALING MY SECRET SHAME. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Love Hina is the single best comedy anime in exhistence.

I read the mangas, myself. Good stuff. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Dear God, the disease is spreading!

Shadowlinex

<!--QuoteBegin-Crono5788+Apr 8 2004, 07:32 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Crono5788 @ Apr 8 2004, 07:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Pfft. Efficient hard drive spcae management is for n00bz. Real men just re-format when they reach the limit. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Crono puts it best, but i like to save somethings not just yell wipe out and trash an entire hard drive of things i save over the years, but then again it is useless <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->