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[Legion]

I bought it myself. It ended up being 50 bucks. Not bad, for a 160 gig drive. Plus, its a good brand.

[Athena]

That's definately a good buy. Over here it's about 150 euros for a 160 GB drive.

[Blodo]

Couple of technical issues - instead of buying one 160gig drive id buy 2 80gigs. The speed would be better and not much more money taken in. Besides if a drive fails, youre only losing half of your stuff, that still better than all. Large drives do have a higher chance of failing.

And - how the hell can you trust a prebuilt computer bought "as-is" from the store? They dont even allow you to pick your own stuff, which means they can put anything in there and charge you shit. They usually cost about 20% more than if you were to buy the parts yourself then get someone to put it together (even a technician which would take money for it). Be smarter than those jackasses who put something in a box and call it "a working computer", register at a hardware modding forum, the peeps there would probably post a list of things with which you could get the best possible usability and speed for a price you choose.

You wanna know why? Example: Nvidia gf fx series was just a bit pumped up gf4mx, so you basically were getting an old card for a high price. You should care. You could get a much better card for that money.

[Hostile]

Well actually you'd be better buying one large hard drive and partition it into smaller parts so you can defrag alot faster and it isolates the drives. Partitions creates mini hard drives from on hard drive. It limits virus spawning, and allows quick defrag and virus scan on each partition(hard drive)

[Crazy Carl]

Yup, partitioning is my personal favorite. PowerQuest makes a pretty good partitioning program.

[Blodo]

Well actually you'd be better buying one large hard drive and partition it into smaller parts so you can defrag alot faster and it isolates the drives. Partitions creates mini hard drives from on hard drive. It limits virus spawning, and allows quick defrag and virus scan on each partition(hard drive)

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Isnt it obvious that one big drive has a lower performance rate than 2 smaller ones? Besides if the one drive should die youll still have the second one. And theres the benefit that if you use both drives at the same time the speed will be the same, not halved like in the case of partitioning one big drive. Large drives (200gb+) are inefficient.

[Tom]

Shhh blodo, i have 2x200GB and your making me feel depressed

[Athena]

Though you must keep in mind that a pc can only have 2 HDs attached to it. I bought an extra card so I can have more, but with that I forgot that there can only be a limited amount in the comupter case, after quite a time we were able to fit in 3 HDs.

[Legion]

Well actually you'd be better buying one large hard drive and partition it into smaller parts so you can defrag alot faster and it isolates the drives. Partitions creates mini hard drives from on hard drive. It limits virus spawning, and allows quick defrag and virus scan on each partition(hard drive)

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I know what partitioning is. I use a separate partition for longhorn/windows vista

[Tom]

Clever you

[Blodo]

Shhh blodo, i have 2x200GB and your making me feel depressed

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well better that than having one 400gb drive