Upgraded the rig today

GoldenRivet · 01-18-11, 11:42 PM

went and upgraded to a 1 terabyte drive with windows7

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

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

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

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

highly recommended

Gargamel · 01-18-11, 11:57 PM

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

GoldenRivet · 01-18-11, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Gargamel

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!

UnderseaLcpl · 01-19-11, 12:00 AM

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 My rig is so outdated, and I haven't the money to upgrade it.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.

GoldenRivet · 01-19-11, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by 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 My rig is so outdated, and I haven't the money to upgrade it.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.

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 · 01-19-11, 12:06 AM

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

Castout · 01-19-11, 12:15 AM

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

. I just did and it took 85Gb!

I may need to buy an external HDD

UnderseaLcpl · 01-19-11, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

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.

GoldenRivet · 01-19-11, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

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

UnderseaLcpl · 01-19-11, 12:24 AM

lol

Betonov · 01-19-11, 04:42 AM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

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

Hahahahhaa

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

Platapus · 01-19-11, 06:42 AM

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

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.

Skybird · 01-19-11, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

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 · 01-19-11, 07:34 AM

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

, but there is no such thing as too much harddisc space!

01-18-11, 11:42 PM	#1
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,724 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	Upgraded the rig today went and upgraded to a 1 terabyte drive with windows7 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 [................................................ ...........] thats what the "bar" on my C: space looks like where =used space and ... = free space highly recommended __________________

01-18-11, 11:57 PM	#2
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,272 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	Woot grats.... building my 3tb rig tonight too.... hopefully i can get these stupid drivers to work. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.

01-19-11, 12:00 AM	#4
UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

01-19-11, 12:06 AM	#6
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,272 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	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 __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.

01-19-11, 12:15 AM	#7
Castout Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Jakarta Posts: 4,794 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 6	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 . I just did and it took 85Gb! I may need to buy an external HDD __________________ My blog: http://exposingsingapore.wordpress.com/

01-19-11, 12:24 AM	#10
UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	lol __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

01-19-11, 06:42 AM	#12
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,101 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	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 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. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

01-19-11, 07:34 AM	#14
Penguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rheinische Republik Posts: 3,322 Downloads: 92 Uploads: 0	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 , but there is no such thing as too much harddisc space!