upgrading hard drive.

#1 skwannabe

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Posted 12 January 2006 - 07:24 AM

hmmm seems that i used up most of my hard drive. 60 gigs... not alot. i was wondering how hard is it upgrading hard drive? if its that hard should i buy those external hard drive? im looking for something over 120 gigs.

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Posted 12 January 2006 - 08:29 AM

Go for an internal one. Just get a 300gig one and use it as your secondary drive...

I got a 300gig segate the other day and installed windows to it... lets just say 300gigs is beautiful compared to 160gigs that I was using which was like the sex going from my 80gigs... which was huge compared to my previous 4.3gb hard drive... which is insane compared to a 40mb (megabyte!) drive I have.

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Posted 12 January 2006 - 10:09 AM

any good websites selling internal ones for a reasonably price??

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Posted 12 January 2006 - 10:17 AM

QUOTE(skwannabe @ Jan 12 2006, 01:09 PM)

any good websites selling internal ones for a reasonably price??

I use NewEgg.com and though it may not be the cheapest you can get it at, they're a pretty trusted source. You could also check the FatWallet.com forums, where they usually have good deals on stuff like that.

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Posted 12 January 2006 - 10:35 AM

woot.com was selling a 250 WD for ~55

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Posted 12 January 2006 - 07:26 PM

Newegg is so reliable...i ordered parts from many places and they never give me problems while right now im still waiting for a powersupply...it is pretty ez to upgrade but im in the market for an external one since i have a laptop xP

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 10:27 PM

prob take u 5 mins with a screw driver to upgrade the hd (suggested as slave), just need to format the thing.

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#8 Adionik

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 02:21 AM

Are you runnin' SATA or IDE?

I myself am considering getting this SATAII Heitachi 7K80 because i'm a poor bastard. 80 gigs for 53 bucks. *Shrug*

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822145082

If you can, go with SATA. I went from a Seagate 120GB 7200 GB IDE with 8MB cache to a Maxtor SATA and wowwwwwww the speed difference. From boot to full windows load is like 1:16? Something like that.

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 02:52 PM

QUOTE(Adionik @ Jan 16 2006, 05:21 AM)

I think you mean 7200 RPM.
Because... damn!
7200 GB is like 7 TB!

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 03:35 PM

No, I mean 7200 gigs.

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 04:07 PM

Wait, so you're saying that you have 7 Terabytes worth of HDD in your PC?!
Does the OS (Windows? OS X? Linux?) even recognize that much space?

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 04:49 PM

Yes.

lol.

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 10:15 AM

No, I'm sure you meant RPM.

Seagate 120GB 7200 GB IDE with 8MB cache

I don't see how your 120GB has 7200GB. And no, your typical PC won't recognize 7TB.

It's 120GB with 7200RPM IDE w/ 8MB Cache.

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 02:24 PM

It's a 7200GB, I know what i'm sayin'.

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 02:34 PM

Can you post a screenshot of your 7200GB (7TB) hard drive properties?
I REALLY want to see what OS you are using to recognize this HUGE AMOUNT of hard drive space.

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 02:35 PM

a great website to visit would be www.pricewatch.com! it has almost all of your computer needs too!

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 02:38 PM

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I went from a Seagate 120GB 7200 GB IDE with 8MB cache to a Maxtor SATA

One HD to another. So a Seagate with 120GB has a hidden 7080GB on it?

If you did have a TOTAL of 7.2TB, it was randomly and wrongfully placed in that statement. Since you were referring to a SINGLE HD.

Biggest HD, 500GB. You'd be needing 14 of those just to reach 7.2TB. Mind showing me your tower stacked with 14 HD's?

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 07:22 PM

yeh, check online for cheapest prices.

if u want, try ebay, they have really cheap 100 gb + externals,

u should get an external, I have a 200gb Maxtor 1 touch, it's really awesome ;D

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 07:57 PM

QUOTE(BlissX @ Jan 18 2006, 08:38 AM)

Mind taking a photo?

When you were talking about the Seagate, you were giving the details to a single HD and relating to another HD. You're referring to your PRIMARY HD. So, tell me how does a primary HD have 7.2TB of space?

Just look at it.
One HD to another. So a Seagate with 120GB has a hidden 7080GB on it?

If you did have a TOTAL of 7.2TB, it was randomly and wrongfully placed in that statement. Since you were referring to a SINGLE HD.

Biggest HD, 500GB. You'd be needing 14 of those just to reach 7.2TB. Mind showing me your tower stacked with 14 HD's?

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... i've seen his HDD, it's 7200GB

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 08:10 PM

So I take it that he has more than one computer.

And still, you two make it sound like it's a SINGLE HD.
Nonetheless, I'd like to see it the interior of that tower.