Upgraded the rig today

[GoldenRivet]

went and upgraded to a 1 terabyte drive with windows7 :yeah:

this thing is awesome... i have installed about a dozen video games that had previously been shelved due to lack of hard drive space and i have not even scratched the surface on this thing :rock:

[**................................................ ...........]

thats what the "bar" on my C: space looks like

where **=used space and ... = free space

highly recommended

[Gargamel]

Woot grats.... building my 3tb rig tonight too.... hopefully i can get these stupid drivers to work.

[GoldenRivet]

Woot grats.... building my 3tb rig tonight too.... hopefully i can get these stupid drivers to work.

THREE?

i only sprung for one... i figured i have lived with 120gig HD for so long i wouldnt know what to do with myself if i had 1TB let alone 3! :haha:

[UnderseaLcpl]

Despite how much I like you, I hate the hell out of you right now. My rig is so outdated, and I haven't the money to upgrade it. I can't even run SH5 properly.:cry:

[GoldenRivet]

Despite how much I like you, I hate the hell out of you right now. My rig is so outdated, and I haven't the money to upgrade it. I can't even run SH5 properly.:cry:

thats a bummer man... but we have all been through those dry spells before.

i remember in the mid 90's i was STILL trying to convince my dad that his old Tandy 1000 belonged in the Smithsonian.

[Gargamel]

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=178851


Yeah, Back when i was in college in the 90's, I had purchased a 6gb 5.25" HDD, for like almost $300. Cause they hadn't come out with FAT32 yet, I had to split it into 3 2 gb drives. I didn't know what to do with all that room, I actually rented out the space over the school network. $10 a month got you 100mb. I did package deals :D

[UnderseaLcpl]

thats a bummer man... but we have all been through those dry spells before.

i remember in the mid 90's i was STILL trying to convince my dad that his old Tandy 1000 belonged in the Smithsonian.

Now I hate you even more. You know what I had in the mid-90's? A frakking Apple SE! Then we "upgraded" to a Performa 400! I had to play "Red Baron" and the original SimCity for four years before I got the money to buy my own computer. Even then, I could barely run "Wolfpack".

It was a dark time.

[Castout]

You survived on 120Gb I thought my previous 250Gb was small :-)

Using a one Terabyte HDD with Windows 7 installed myself.

If you think that it's huge wait until you make a whole backup of your PC :D. I just did and it took 85Gb!:doh:

I may need to buy an external HDD

[GoldenRivet]

Now I hate you even more. You know what I had in the mid-90's? A frakking Apple SE! Then we "upgraded" to a Performa 400! I had to play "Red Baron" and the original SimCity for four years before I got the money to buy my own computer. Even then, I could barely run "Wolfpack".

It was a dark time.

Im at a loss...

here

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_k07pirzBU34/S1XuEqs17lI/AAAAAAAADXk/lJ7t-y2rM9g/s400/tiny-violin1.jpg

[UnderseaLcpl]

lol

[JSLTIGER]

I upgraded my rig with a 1TB drive about a year ago...the 250GB I originally built my rig with just became too small. I still am using it as my boot drive though, and it's chugging along just fine. After 1 year, I still have 743GB free on my 1TB drive, though it's not for lack of trying...all of my games are on it!

[bookworm_020]

Just upgraded myself! When you go from 40 Gb storage to 2Tb + 1 Tb external drive, you can really spread out!:D

Now I've just got to find some new games that can really push "The Beast" to the limits!

[kiwi_2005]

1TB :rock:

Though I struggle with lesser amount. I have a 250gb drive (2) 75gb drives and (1) 320gb drive. Freespace is at 67%. Ive ran out of appz to install. :roll:

[Betonov]

Now I hate you even more. You know what I had in the mid-90's?

Hahahahhaa :DL we didnt even know what a computer was in those times, they were as expensive as a car :DL

[Platapus]

Man, I still remember when DEC came out with the first consumer type external hard drive in 1982. It had 4 mega bytes of storage!

I thought to myself, no one person could ever fill up 4mb :nope: Maybe a company computer, but not the average consumer. I mean, 4mb was about all the data that existed in the world right?

My how times have changed. :har:

[Skybird]

Now I hate you even more. You know what I had in the mid-90's? A frakking Apple SE! Then we "upgraded" to a Performa 400! I had to play "Red Baron" and the original SimCity for four years before I got the money to buy my own computer. Even then, I could barely run "Wolfpack".

It was a dark time.

It was a great time! Things and gaming still had magic! Today, we have seen it all, nothing really new anymore, we buy games (or not), but we do not get surprised, fascinated anymore like we used to back then! The looks slightly change with each new title - but we have been there before.

I was running an Amiga 500 from 1988 until I think 1997. Typed my diploma paper and ran SPSS on the Win95 machine of a close friend of mine.

Last game that truly electrified me, was Oblivion (late comer I was), and before that: SBP. The Aha!-experiences come only every couple of years now. Back then, in the 90s, they kept tickling in almost every months, at least several times a year.

[Penguin]

My last upgrade, 2 months ago, when I got myself a new cpu and mb, included a nice 2 TB drive - in addition to my 1 TB and 750 GB drives + my external 300Gigs.
At the moment I would still go with 2TB, just the best price per GB.

Maybe I'm just a data messie :DL, but there is no such thing as too much harddisc space!

[Gargamel]

Hell, my first PC (Not counting the TI-99 I had, learned to program BASIC on that in first grade) was a Compaq suitcase, didn't even have a Hard drive, just two 5.25" floppies. Like a bad porno.

[Castout]

My first was a CGA that's all I remember and its OS was dos and came with a huge floppy disk drives. Two of them I think.

[frau kaleun]

The first PCs I ever used were the first ones our office ever got, when we upgraded from the old system where all we had was a terminal connected to the Unix server so we could access our medical management software.

Windows 95 and a 1 gigabyte HDD. (Yes you read that right.)

Having one at work made me want one at home. But no way I was gonna make do with a measly 1 GB hard drive. So I went all out, people, I went ALL OUT.

I got myself a whole 10 gigs of HDD to play with. YEAH BABY! :rock:

Two computers and many HDDs later, the 180 GB drive my current rig came with is now a secondary internal drive, with a 1 TB drive as the primary/boot drive and a 1 TB external drive that I was using for media and backup on the previous rig.

I tell myself there's no way I will ever run low on space now... but then that's what I was telling myself when I splurged on that 10 gig hard drive all those years ago. :haha:

[Sailor Steve]

Windows 95 and a 1 gigabyte HDD. (Yes you read that right.)
My Atari 520ST had no hard drive. I had a choice of add-ons: 20 MB or 50 MB. My friend said "Get the twenty. The fifty crashes all the time."

My first PC also had a 10-Gig drive, and I too thought it was enough, likewise the 160 that came with my current machine. And I too have a 1 TB external drive, and since I don't download movies I can't conceive of ever filling it up.

On the other hand, I just downloaded the Complete Bach and the Complete Beethoven, and they're about 10 Gigs each, so...

[frau kaleun]

On the other hand, I just downloaded the Complete Bach and the Complete Beethoven, and they're about 10 Gigs each, so...

Yeah, I don't download movies either, it's the music that takes up the space. At some point I realized I never played CDs on my stereo any more... it was easier just to pop them in the computer while I was sitting right there.

Then I realized it would be so much easier just to rip them all to the hard drive and not have to get up and go looking for them if I wanted to hear something.

Then I realized that in most cases I didn't really care about having a CD, just buying the download from Amazon was good enough.

Then I realized how easy (and in many cases, cheap) it was to buy music off of Amazon.

And that's how I ended up with a 1 TB HDD. :D

[Sailor Steve]

:yep:

I recently found a site that charges a fair price and lets me download gobs of stuff for a flat monthly fee. I still buy some stuff at Amazon I really want that they don't have, but mostly it's where I go first thing every morning.

The Beethoven set isn't available anywhere at any price. Well, Amazon does have one listed, but the guy wants $4000 for it, so that's not gonna happen.

[Feuer Frei!]

My first PC was a 486, and to be absolutely honest, i can't remember what sort of specs it had.
Only reason i got it was for gaming.
One thing i remember from that system was the fond (and sometimes downright headshaking) moments i had playing games like Civ 1, Armored Fist, Warcraft 1.
Warcraft 1 and Civ 1 played fine, Armored Fist though was an issue.
The game was a 4 or 5 floppy disc install :cry: