I just added 600gb of storage space to my computer.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

I went to Fry's to wander around, and just inside the door they had a big pallet of 320gb Seagate hard drives on sale for $80 each. So I bought two. I haven't added my total up, but I now seem to have almost 3 terabytes on my computer, on seven hard drives.

Wow.

Remember when 500mb seemed like vast, unfillable space?

Next mission- upgrade my power supply. Duh. :rofl:

[LeftyMom]

1. Dang, that's a lot of pr0n.

:rofl:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. No pr0n, but lots of graphics and a s**tload of multimedia

I do one hell of a lot of torrenting, and I'm also a usenet freak.

[LeftyMom]

3. kidding.

I added 320 GB a while back myself, since I was running out of room for music and video.

edit: also a impulse sale item buy at Fry's, but a maxtor external. I bought a 200 mg portable for my sister as well. Damn you sales! :shakes fist:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Shhhhh- don't say the "M" word too loudly

You'll have the RIAA coppers busting your door down.

I personally do not have so much as a single MP3 on my computer, and that's the story I'm sticking to.

Fuck the RIAA.

[Cobalt Violet]

5. I have one of those and I love it.

It's my first.

[DarkTirade]

6. I remember our first family computer... a Tandy 286.

We had a harddrive SO BIG that DOS itself couldn't handle it. It had to be split into two drives, either two 20 meg drives or 1 30 meg and 1 10 meg drive. We thought we would never fill it up.

[Maestro]

7. I've been thinking about upgrading.

Right now music and photos reside on a WD 500gb external drive, but I'd like to move everything over to the internal drives. I only have two 36gb drives in Raid O format.

[Kutjara]

8. When I started work back in the mid '80s,...

...I used one of the first-generation IBM PCs. It had no internal hard drive, so the company bought a Winchester drive for it. This device was the same size and shape as the PC case and could hold removable disks, which were essentially 12" floppies in a hard container. Each removable disk could hold...wait for it...one megabyte!!!

I remember saying to a colleague, "I can't imagine needing more than a Meg of storage." Yes, I am a true visionary.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. Nor will you ever use more than 640k of memory.

Those were the days.

[Kutjara]

13. Oh yes! And even with that little RAM and storage...

...my old PC crashed just as catastrophically and often as my shiny new multi-gigabyte behemoth does today. Good to see some old values have survived the march of time.

[Yavin4]

19. I Remember Punch Cards

I recall taking a programming class in college and for one assignment, we had to program using punch cards.

This was after walking barefoot in the snow up hill just to get to class.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

24. Believe it or not, punch card systems are still used.

...and I'm not talking Florida voting systems... :evilgrin:

[ContraBass Black]

9. Does it echo?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

12. I remember endlessly playing with DOS batch files

Personally I liked my echo to be on.

[liberaldemocrat7]

10. hehe I began with an Apple II with 48k bytes RAM and 2 150k bytes floppy drives.

Computers have improved very much in 30 years.

[TroubleMan]

14. A few months ago I bought a 320gb at Newegg for about the same price

So now I got and 80gb, 120gb, and a 320gb, but I'm going to need to upgrade the 80 early next year.

I remember back in the 80's when my friend got a 50 megabyte drive. I told him "There no way you'll ever fill that thing up!" LOL.

My old TRS 80 Level II had no hard drive and 16k memory. I had to load and save the games on a cassette tape.

[Sirveri]

15. Dang it, you just made me buy a 500Gb HDD online.

While having a 78Gb 10k RPM raptor is nice, my little 40Gb 5400RPM overflow drive is simply no longer providing the needed capacity for my needs.

[Wcross]

16. Is it an IDE drive or a sata?

I just ditched my old IDE drive for a 500gig WD 7200rpm sata II drive. I did it based on the recommendation of windows vista that rated my old hard drive as a "4.3" on the "windows experience scale". Now my computer is rated at "5.5". I love the Sata drive because you don't need to thread those heavy ribbon cables.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

17. One each, actually.

My OS drive was an older 80gb IDE drive set up for dual boot with XP 32/64. I cloned it onto the new IDE drive and resized the partitions with Partition Magic so I had room enough for a 210gb third partition. This drive is in a removable drive tray- now I can reformat the old drive and install Linux if I decide to play around with it.

The second drive is SATA, and it goes along with three other SATA drives already in place. I set it up as a single partiton for multimedia file storage (I do a LOT of torrenting).

The other drives are used as a networked file server and graphics file storage.

[Wcross]

18. Best investment I ever made was a new case!

I bought a coolermaster "cosmos" case. It has eight slide out drive bays (accessible from the side of the case) and the motherboard area is larger than a normal "ATX" case. It's over sized and easy to get around inside. It has an attractive brushed steel exterior and looks a lot better than my old one.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

20. I use an old server case I was given

It's very tall, very heavy, and I like it because it has five externally accessible drive bays instead of the usual four, as well as three internal. There was still another triple rack inside, above the power supply, but I removed that so I would have room to add twin fans. Even so, it's a little outmoded, and I'd love to invest in a good new case at some point, but it'll do for now.

[ghostsofgiants]

21. I am jealous.

Very jealous.

[Deja Q]

22. Nice. I use hard drives for backups;

CDs and DVD seem pointless, not to mention tight on space.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

23. I offload everything I can onto DVDs.

Kept dust-free and in a jacket, they can last almost indefinitely. Besides, they don't have any read heads to crash... :evilgrin: