wendy-cake 0 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Hi frields! I was hoping you might be able to help advise. I'm getting a new computer and this time (THIS TIME!) I want to look after it and organise things better than before. It has 200GB of space on the HDD. But my friend told me it would be a good idea to get a 500GB or so external HDD to use for all my music and videos etc and keep the space on the main HDD clear. Well, I don't have anywhere like 200GB of stuff now (well maybe in the future), but was wondering if that was a good idea. I was after all planning on buying an external one for backups. Is there any advantage in using the main one over an external one? Or am I missing something? Thank you for any advice tips! Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 You can keep stuff on your main one, just keep backups on your external for when your main drive goes bad. If you only have one internal drive, I really don't see an advantage to keeping a pile of free space in it. If you do a lot of photo or video editing, or produce audio tracks from scratch, you might need the space for "scratch space" where the program will write temporary files while processing your work. There will be no real speed advantage unless you physically have two internal drives - one to read from while the program writes to the other. Since this is a new machine, you might consider the "upgrade" model with a 500GB if the price difference isn't great. More space is always good! Hope that make sense. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 On the subject of external HDDs, got myself a new Buffalo (they're actully making them look something like sleek now) 1TB one for 15000 yen. Nice deal. Link to post Share on other sites
midnightcharger2 0 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 ooooohhhhh 1TB for 15000. Gotta get me one or two of those. HDD space depends on the individual. I can easily use up 2TB of space because the amount of music movies and home videos I have. Others will never come close to using more then 40-50gb. It has been my idea that the more space the better. You can never fit a gallon worth of water in a shot glass. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 1TB. Meaty! They going for 15000, cheap hdds these days. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 dunno, I'd really hate to lose 1TB of files Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 >1TB one for 15000 yen. Nice deal. damn thats cheap! I need a bigger external, too much music!!! Need a new computer too though...hmmm.... Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 go on, splash out. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 15000 is very cheap. I think they are about 20000 in the shops where you might get points back I suppose. Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 My first PC had a 2G HDD (and a Pentium 120 processor running Win95), and I never though I'd fill it. Get the biggest HDD you think you can afford, but don't go crazy, bearing in mind you'll be upgrading to a new PC in 3-4 years' time, and can get a bigger one then if you need to. Link to post Share on other sites
wendy-cake 0 Posted October 16, 2008 Author Share Posted October 16, 2008 Thank you for the info. I think 200 is big enough for now. Any more I can use a backup. Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard 0 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 The new Buffalo ones are smaller than until and also a bit curvy. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 phwooooaaarrrrr Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Originally Posted By: wendy-cake Thank you for the info. I think 200 is big enough for now. Any more I can use a backup. You'll be fine! Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 Originally Posted By: klingon On the subject of external HDDs, got myself a new Buffalo (they're actully making them look something like sleek now) 1TB one for 15000 yen. Nice deal. 15,000 for 1 TB that's good, I was looking in sakuraya the other day was going to buy 1 TB EXT HDD, but was like 2+ man, so didn't get it, thought I would look somewhere else! If you don't mind telling me where did you get a 1TB for 15,000 yen? Baffalo are good I got a 500GB Baffalo HDD! Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 It was a local store doing a promotion I think, because yes that is cheaper than everywhere else. It looks like kakaku has the cheapest at just under 170000 and if you go to a shop they might be just over 20000. Still great value I think. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 Originally Posted By: keba My first PC had a 2G HDD (and a Pentium 120 processor running Win95), and I never though I'd fill it. Get the biggest HDD you think you can afford, but don't go crazy, bearing in mind you'll be upgrading to a new PC in 3-4 years' time, and can get a bigger one then if you need to. Pffft! young whippersnapper! My first computer was an Exidy Sorcerer, had cassette tape bulk storage, 4K RAM. My first IBM compatible computer (which they called THE PC, as if all the rest weren't personal computers!) had 480KB RAM and no HDD. Dual single sided 5.25inch floppies. First HDD I had was 20MB. As forthe rest, I agree, get the biggest you can afford (or two smaller and RAID them!) Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 My first comp was a ZX81 with no HDD and so little memory a calculator had more power, but it worked. Also it was only black & white. To load a program it used a cassete recorder, and if you didn't get the volume quite right it wouldn't always load. I also had a printer with it, which was like the receipt printers in shops only it used silver paper. At the time I thought it was great, hard to think the modern keitei is about a million times more powerful! Second was a commordore 64 with 64k of memory, no HDD, but it had a large floppy drive so at least it was possible to load things in quicker and save programs, also it was in colour. At school we used BBC micros, during computer class, all used basic program language, was no machine code much in those days. After that proper comps hit the market, I started then with a packard bell which came with a super massive drive of 1.2 gb, lol lol. and 4 mb of ram. But amazingly enough it stored the windows 3.1 operating system plus all the software on it and also had a CD drive too. Hard to think my keitei has 4gb of storage space on it, isn't it amazing how technology has advanced so much in really such a short time. What did others start with? And do any of you remember the computers I spoke about? Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Quote: and if you didn't get the volume quite right it wouldn't always load. Yes remember that. My mate actually had a ZX80, now that was powerful for its time! Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Originally Posted By: JA Pffft! young whippersnapper! Yes, I suppose I am. never got into the whole DOS thing, waited until W95 before I took the plunge. The internet was getting up to speed then too, before that, I didn't really need a PC. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 The Exidy was very picky with cassettes. I bought 4 before I managed to get one that was OK with frequency range and volume. Loaded every time, just was a pain waiting for the tape to run through to load the last program on the tape. IIRC (We are talking 1977, after all!) it ran CPM ad a very basic BASIC. Gee Wizz Basic, I think. Registered MSDOS V2 with my first MS-DOS PC and still waiting for them to advise me of the next upgrade! Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 10 PRINT "BOOBIES" 20 GOTO 10 Is that Basic? (I was very nearly a programmer) Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Yep, very basic BASIC. Classic endless loop, that! Would end up with more boobies than even you could cope with!! Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Memories... I remember wasting an enormous amount of time trying to program games and other pointless rubbish in BASIC at high school on the Apple IIe's there, then when all the uber-geeks started in PASCAL and FORTRAN, I went and took up a musical instrument. Link to post Share on other sites
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