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.
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:
Can I come too ? :beam:
**** you :crying:
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…
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? =)
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.
The stars make the word look worse than it is. 
next time use darn or confound it :pleased:
Anyone wanna explain what RAID is?
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.
okay colin, because i know that it stands for either Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks.
If you are female and willing to travel to Australia…
sure! 
Aw, shoot! 
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. 
Oh cool - i get it now.
My Harddrive is 250gb and trust me its enough space. I gurantee wont even use that much.
