# New Computer, is this enough hd space? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [August 18, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810 "2004-08-18T05:27:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![2big2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/a9adbd/32.png) [@2big2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/2big2)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/21 "2004-08-18T14:53:40Z")
Yea, I was looking into those, but that nearly doubles the price for the same space. I haven’t had an HD crash since the Win98 era, so I guess I’d rather get the most bang for my buck. ---
**Author:** ![davidh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@davidh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/davidh)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/22 "2004-08-18T14:54:55Z")
Not for me :D, I get them wholesale and tax deductable through my dad’s company. I bought a P4 2.6/gig of ram/Radeon 9600XT/17"monitor for $1000 earlyer this year. It would have cost me about $2200 retail. Win! ---
**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/23 "2004-08-18T15:00:04Z")
> [@davidh.](#): > > Not for me :D, I get them wholesale and tax deductable through my dad’s company. > > I bought a P4 2.6/gig of ram/Radeon 9600XT/17"monitor for $1000 earlyer this year. It would have cost me about $2200 retail. > > Win! How about you, me, and lunch :love: ---
**Author:** ![Voetsjoeba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/24 "2004-08-18T15:00:47Z")
Can I come too ? :beam: ---
**Author:** ![2big2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/a9adbd/32.png) [@2big2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/2big2)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/25 "2004-08-18T15:03:45Z")
> [@davidh.](#): > > Not for me :D, I get them wholesale and tax deductable through my dad’s company. > > I bought a P4 2.6/gig of ram/Radeon 9600XT/17"monitor for $1000 earlyer this year. It would have cost me about $2200 retail. > > Win! \*\*\*\* you :crying: Er…btw the \*\*\*\*'s is **[edited]** ---
**Author:** ![radioxromance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@radioxromance](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/radioxromance)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/26 "2004-08-18T15:23:40Z")
> [@2big2](#): > > \*\*\*\* you > > Er…btw the \*\*\*\*'s is **[edited]** HAHAHAHA that’s great, I know you didn’t write the edited and stuff but that’s just so funny… ---
**Author:** ![Disco\_Stu1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@Disco\_Stu1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Disco_Stu1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/27 "2004-08-18T15:45:28Z")
I’ve got a media server and player in my house (server runs linux, /w samba and apache being the main use and the player runs WinXP MCE). We’ve got 4 250 GB hard drives with a RAID 5 Array hardware controller running. It’s freaking awesome. It’s mainly tons of TV episodes. Every Simpsons, Seinfeld, EVERY Star Trek (from the original through enterprise), ATHF, Sealab, Family Guy, X-Files… tons of others. Lots of movies and ummm _cough_ “back up” game ISO’s. (We play LAN games and have about 180 gigs of ISO images we mount with alchohol 120%). So if you download lots of media, sometimes mass storage is nice. ---
**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/28 "2004-08-18T15:47:23Z")
> [@Disco-Stu](#): > > I’ve got a media server and player in my house (server runs linux, /w samba and apache being the main use and the player runs WinXP MCE). We’ve got 4 250 GB hard drives with a RAID 5 Array hardware controller running. It’s freaking awesome. It’s mainly tons of TV episodes. Every Simpsons, Seinfeld, EVERY Star Trek (from the original through enterprise), ATHF, Sealab, Family Guy, X-Files… tons of others. Lots of movies and ummm _cough_ “back up” game ISO’s. (We play LAN games and have about 180 gigs of ISO images we mount with alchohol 120%). So if you download lots of media, sometimes mass storage is nice. How much do I have to pay you to get an exact copy of that in my livingroom? =) ---
**Author:** ![Disco\_Stu1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@Disco\_Stu1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Disco_Stu1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/29 "2004-08-18T16:13:09Z")
Lol. I live with 3 other CIS/CSE guys. That helps with the funds a lot. I think it is probobly about a grand all together. You don’t need an uber machine to run as a fileserver… The server is a 2 Ghz Athlon with 512 megs of 333 DDR. The hard drives were relatively cheap, as we waited for a Fry’s deal to pick them up. Around 500 bucks for 4 of the 250’s. The RAID controller wasn’t too bad either. The media player is another story. It’s a pretty beefy system, but it was kind of free because my roommate won another free UBER system from a contest. Win XP MCE was the only real cost. ---
**Author:** ![2big2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/a9adbd/32.png) [@2big2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/2big2)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/30 "2004-08-18T16:16:30Z")
> [@radioxromance](#): > > HAHAHAHA that’s great, I know you didn’t write the edited and stuff but that’s just so funny… The stars make the word look worse than it is. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/31 "2004-08-18T16:20:15Z")
next time use darn or _confound it_ :pleased: ---
**Author:** ![mdipi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mdipi/32/49_2.png) [@mdipi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mdipi)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/32 "2004-08-19T05:34:41Z")
Anyone wanna explain what RAID is? ---
**Author:** ![McGuffin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mcguffin/32/408_2.png) [@McGuffin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/McGuffin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/33 "2004-08-19T05:54:00Z")
As far as I know, RAID is a way to string drives together and make them seem as being one… or something like that. I was watching the Screensavers the other day and Yoshi had a two terabyte RAID setup, it was badass (it read in Windows as 1.8 terabytes). But it was all read as one drive. ---
**Author:** ![mdipi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mdipi/32/49_2.png) [@mdipi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mdipi)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/34 "2004-08-19T06:13:32Z")
okay colin, because i know that it stands for either Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks. ---
**Author:** ![davidh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@davidh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/davidh)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/35 "2004-08-19T07:16:39Z")
> [@senocular](#): > > How about you, me, and lunch :love: If you are female and willing to travel to Australia… sure! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Voetsjoeba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/36 "2004-08-19T09:42:28Z")
Aw, shoot! ☹ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Disco\_Stu1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@Disco\_Stu1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Disco_Stu1)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/37 "2004-08-19T14:20:12Z")
Raid 0 = Two or more drives functioning as one big one. Splits files in two and stores it on each HDD so it’s faster. Raid 5 (What I use) = Similar to Raid 0, but requires 3 or more drives to work. Same principle, but it partitions a parity drive to each HDD, so if one or two go out, you can recover the files using another HDD. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mdipi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mdipi/32/49_2.png) [@mdipi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mdipi)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/38 "2004-08-19T17:09:09Z")
Oh cool - i get it now. ---
**Author:** ![BullDog\_Flash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@BullDog\_Flash](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/BullDog_Flash)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810/39 "2004-08-20T02:56:42Z")
My Harddrive is 250gb and trust me its enough space. I gurantee wont even use that much. [Previous page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-computer-is-this-enough-hd-space/119810.md?page=1)