[Hippo]

Yeah, thinking about an external hard drive to buy with christmas money... (or maybe something else computer related)... This caught my eye (but no, its WAY out of my price range )...


http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=50489477&pfp=BROWSE



Now thats a LOT of space to put stuff in...


EDIT: I can edit...

[vyper]

Ah, so it begins.

[Tiara]

Meh, got a 180 GB external USB 2.0 HD for €75. Ten of those is cheaper and almost twice as much. And also, it's about 3 times smaller then that thing. So ten of the ones I have won't even take up that much room. And this one is helluva fast as well.

Sorry, not impressed. NEXT!

[Tiara]

It seems i can't edit my posts so i'll just post it in a new post;

EDIT: It was 2 times smaller, not 3. My bad. But still it ain't worth my money.

[Clave]

They are nice drives, the 1TB was a bit more than I needed, so I bought the 320GB

Oh, and Firewire 800 > pretty much everything, except those mad Ultra SCSI drives....

[Knight Templar]

Just think of all the pr0n you could fit on that...

[Primus]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
Just think of all the pr0n you could fit on that...

Damn, I was just about say that

[Clave]

I always try and think ahead....

But, anyway, having a full backup of everything is reassuring....

[Liberator]

CACHE: 8mb

It holds 976562500 MB and it only has an 8MB cache?

[Hippo]

I noticed that at first too... It can't just donate some couple hundred megs to it at least?

[Fineus]

Nice bragging rights though... "can I download everything from the LAN FTP? Yes, yes I think I can."

[Clave]

I just backed up my B drive to it - 20,000 files, 9.5GB - 5 minutes.

I don't really care about the cache.....

[vyper]

Prefetching 8MB data on a external drive.... why the comments guys? It's hardly going to be intended for use for running a game's swap space off.

[WeatherOp]

Why would anyone need that kind of space, to have every game in the world? I barely use 40gb.

[Hippo]

Actually, it'd be great for video capture, as you could write directly to it uncompressed, and then work from that...

[Taristin]

Pfft. I could do that with my 160Gb SATA drive.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
Nice bragging rights though... "can I download everything from the LAN FTP? Yes, yes I think I can."

[color=66ff00]At this point you no longer need to go to a LAN party, the LAN party comes to you.
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[Hippo]

You ARE the LAN... All of them, are on you...

[Thorn]

Originally posted by Liberator
CACHE: 8mb

It holds 976562500 MB and it only has an 8MB cache?

Hard disk cache isnt comprised of disk space. Its RAM. When the power goes off, it gets wiped. If you look at the circut board on the bottom of  an internal drive you can see the modules. Why the hell would you put a few hundred megs of ram on a hard drive anyway? For one, transfer rates arent to the point that it would be able to fill that up ever, and two, thats more than some computers have.

[.::Tin Can::.]

Just give me my 80GB and I'm fine...