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Old 01-18-11, 11:42 PM   #1
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Default 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
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Old 01-18-11, 11:57 PM   #2
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Woot grats.... building my 3tb rig tonight too.... hopefully i can get these stupid drivers to work.
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Old 01-18-11, 11:59 PM   #3
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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!
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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 My rig is so outdated, and I haven't the money to upgrade it.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.
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Old 01-19-11, 12:02 AM   #5
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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 My rig is so outdated, and I haven't the money to upgrade it.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.
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Old 01-19-11, 12:06 AM   #6
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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
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Old 01-19-11, 12:14 AM   #7
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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.
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Old 01-19-11, 12:15 AM   #8
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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
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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

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Old 01-19-11, 12:28 AM   #11
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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!
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Just upgraded myself! When you go from 40 Gb storage to 2Tb + 1 Tb external drive, you can really spread out!

Now I've just got to find some new games that can really push "The Beast" to the limits!
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Old 01-19-11, 02:13 AM   #13
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1TB

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.
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Old 01-19-11, 04:42 AM   #14
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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
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Old 01-19-11, 06:42 AM   #15
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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.
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