need an aditional hard drive.

[Indolentron]

got a 40gb one, which is nearly full, especially now that i have broadband.
taken from fatwallet.com:

Date Posted: Feb/28/2004 12:01 AM
Message Rating:

Ads for week of 2/29/04:

Best Buy:
Ethernet/USB 2.0 160Gb - XIMETA NetDisk NDU10-160 : $249.99 - $50 MIR = $199.99
IDE 120Gb, 8Mb - Seagate ST3120026A (5566988) : $139.99 - $50 MIR - $20 MIR = $69.99
IDE 200Gb, 8Mb - Seagate ST3200822A (6255526) : $199.99 - $50 MIR - $20 MIR = $129.99


Circuit City:
IDE 120Gb, 8Mb, 7200 - Western Digital WD1200JBRTL : $129.99 - $50 Mfg MIR - $20 CC MIR = $59.99
IDE 250Gb, 8Mb, 7200 - Western Digital WD2500JBRTL : $249.99 - $70 Mfg MIR - $40 CC MIR = $139.99


CompUSA:
USB 2.0 20Gb, 2Mb, 4200 - LaCie 300691 (#309777) : $129.99 (small/portable)
IDE 40Gb, 2Mb, 7200 - Maxtor L01J040 (#272571) : $89.99 - $10 IR - $30 MIR = $49.99
IDE 160Gb, 8Mb, 7200 - Seagate ST3160023A-RK (#304907) : $159.99 - $20 IR - $60 MIR = $79.99
USB 2.0/FireWire 160Gb, 7200 - Acomdata HD160U2FE-72 (#302567) : $229.99 - $30 IR - $50 MIR = $149.99
SATA $250Gb, 8Mb, 7200 - Maxtor L01M250 (#305076) : $219.99 - $20 IR = $199.99


OfficeDepot:
IDE 160Gb, 8Mb, 7200 - Maxtor L01P160 (447-679) : $158.84 - $50 IR = $109.84


OfficeMax:
USB 2.0 120Gb, 7200 - Western Digital WDXU1200BBRNN (2073-1914) : $179.99 - $20 IR - $30 MIR - $30 MIR = $99.99

im thinkin about getting the one in bold. is western digital alright, or would i be better off spending a little more on another brand?

[OtakingGX]

No you wouldn't. $60 is an awesome price for that drive and none on the list (except maybe the 250 Gb WD) will outperform it. Hell, at that price, I might just go pick me up one too!

[Indolentron]

cool, thx for advice.
although it will probably be a dif set of deals before i can afford one. im not sure. i dont know how much allowance my parents owe me, nor do i know whether they will make me pay the full price, or cover the rebate thing.

[Crusty B]

no offense or anything, but i dont understand how someone can go through a 40 gig HDD.

i got a 6 and 20 gig with a good amount of games on them, and i still got 8 gigs total free.

:dunno:

[Indolentron]

music, game demos, just a lotta games and proggies in general.
hmm...ima check to see what exactly is taking so much space

[Crusty B]

i got all that too.

i guess im just a clean freak when it comes to HD space.

[Indolentron]

3 gigs of music, 9 gigs of games, 2 gigs of demo installers, and other app installers, an additional 1.5gigs of installed programs, 2 gigs for windows, 1.5 gigs of stuff under documents and settings, 8 gigs partitioned for installing all teh shit that came w/ comp (no boot disk). 8 gigs free. now wtf... that adds up to 35 gigs.. wheres the other 5 gigs?

the sad thing is i have nothing better to do than add this stuff up

[Gibb]

Roboto, i bought that EXACT Western Digital drive from Fry's last weekend and it was a defect (i think). It made a high pitched noise constantly and made really loud clicking noises when it booted and shut down. I returned it the next day and saw that a Hitachi 160 GB drive (same specs as the WD, just 40 GB more) was there for only 20 bucks more. I just picked the Hitachi one up instead. It's incredibly quiet for the most part, but has these occasional weird noises that are quite loud. It seems fast enough for me.

I would try the Western Digital, cause the one i got was probably just a defective one, but if you have some trouble with it, the Hitachi one is pretty decent too.

I would definately avoid any Maxtor drives, as i've had problems with the 2 i just bought recently being slow and loud.

[Indolentron]

thx for tip.
i found out my parents didnt owe me as much allowance as i thought, so there will be dif deals than this whenever i have teh cash.

[OtakingGX]

Probably better deals. When I bought my 120 Gb Western Digital drive it was $80 after all rebates and such. Now they're $60 after rebate.

[Plaster]

no offense or anything, but i dont understand how someone can go through a 40 gig HDD.

i got a 6 and 20 gig with a good amount of games on them, and i still got 8 gigs total free.

:dunno:

My games folder alone is 23GB. That's after uninstalling SH3, TW2004 and Armed and Dangerous. Those 3 games take a combined 12GB. That's already 35GB. Now, considering most of these games are 3-5CDs and take nearly 30 minutes each to install, wouldn't it just be easier to have a larger HDD so you wouldn't have to uninstall them at all? ;)

[Indolentron]

i uninstalled kotor before finishing it, lol

[scottg26]

get the 80GB raptor...

[Indolentron]

arent those hella 'spensive?

[Rainbow]

WD 7200 rpm 8mb cache

Any capacity - all brilliant, and with a 3 year warranty

[Indolentron]

tha raptors are 10000rpm right? think about having a pair of those and a raid card, i wonder how fast yer comp would boot :P

[Rainbow]

Too expensive

[Maniac]

no offense or anything, but i dont understand how someone can go through a 40 gig HDD.

i got a 6 and 20 gig with a good amount of games on them, and i still got 8 gigs total free.

:dunno:
rofl, i got a 120 gig and a 6 gig for mp3's

I have used 60 gig of the 120 and about 1 gig for the 6

I have 35 - 40+ games installed, I just dont want to delete them then want to play them again and have to wait for the install process.

[ArchAngelCD]

Like said above, get a 7200 RPM 8Mb cache drive, the largest you can afford.
The Raptor drives are nice but too expensive.

[scottg26]

arent those hella 'spensive?
irrelevant. buy it now :evil:

[Mr Urt]

Personally I would recommend getting a WD hd (though imo seagate does make better hd's, but they're also more a bit more expensive). However, I would wait till there's real good deal on one. I've seen 80GB's for as low as $20+tax. Also, a word of warning, make sure you get a Special Edition WD, cuz they are the ones with 8mb caches.

[Emig5m]

no offense or anything, but i dont understand how someone can go through a 40 gig HDD.

i got a 6 and 20 gig with a good amount of games on them, and i still got 8 gigs total free.

:dunno:

My Music Video folder is 40gb alone but my Tv Capture Card and home video editing take up the most space (I normally eat up 40GB of editing/encoding DV video per 4.7GB DVD of finalized work). I also like to keep all my apps, utils, drivers, game patches etc on my harddrive so I don't have to deal with searching and swapping cd's on clean installs. I can eat up a 250 gigger in a heartbeat.