SKMetalworks

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Went to Fry's today and picked up myself a 1T external hardrive for 110$. About a year ago i paid 100 dollars for a 500gb internal hardrive and had to spend another 20 for a case. This should last me a while

NA6C-Guy

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What brand? I got a Western Digital 1TB for $100 on Newegg like 2 months ago. Great backup drive, and is pretty fast.

SKMetalworks

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Western digital. I wanted it today though.

NA6C-Guy

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I haven't had an issue yet. After the initial format, it stays plugged in and gives me no trouble. Only bad thing I have heard is some say they have problems with the plugs becoming loose. I don't plan to plug and unplug mine often, so I'm not worried.

magnamx-5

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at least its not seagate omg i have read nothing but bad reviews on them seems the slightest bump destroys them. I have always been a WD fan there **** just plain works in my book

y8s

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staples had some 1TB maxtor external drives for like $18 after instant savings. brick and mortar only though.

External Maxtor OneTouch Hard Drive Clearance at Staples B&M $20-$65

jdmaddox88

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Sick deal, I couldn't even find the stock nnumber on the website they link though.

Joe Perez

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Hmm. Couldn't find the $18 link either, though Fry's has a 1TB SimpleTech drive for $86 currently: FRYS.com | SimpleTechnolgy

Fireindc

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Lol, same thing here. Mines the "Elements" one. It was sure needed for the massive amount of torrents i dl.

NA6C-Guy

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I need it for a double redundant backup for 6-8 years of music and ****. I would die if I lost it. Though technically I have lesser collection copies (old with less stuff) on like 4 other HDD's I could round up and save 80% of it anyway. I'm amazed that even with the hundreds of thousand of pictures, tens of thousands of videos and tens of thousands of songs. I only use like 1/3 of the space. Having a TB is like the goddamn future! Even the thought of that 6-8 years ago would have been madness. I remember thinking 10GB was more than you could even need 8-10 years ago, now a single game or torrent can fill that up easily.

Joe Perez

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Hell, my first hard drive was 20 megs, and back then we thought of it in terms of "that's enough to hold over fifty floppies!"

I can remember using the giga prefix in a humorous manner, as though a gigabyte was some unfathomably large number that was just too unrealistic to comprehend.

NA6C-Guy

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I can't recall my first computers storage. It was a early/mid 90's Compaq junk, so it was probably ~ 1gig. I can't recall things that far back. I remember playing Flight Sim 95 on it when it first came out and thinking I was flying a real plane. Graphics could never get any more advanced!

y8s

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Amazon.com: D-Link 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure: Electronics

get that and two big drives and you'll feel a lot better than a single drive backup solution. I love mine... I have it sync my "my documents" nightly to back those up also. hell I just point my itunes to that drive instead of holding everything locally. I can share the library with multiple computers as "slaves" kinda.

NA6C-Guy

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I'd do that if I could afford it now. Hopefully the 2 600GB internal drives (both sharing mirrored data) and the 1TB external will keep me safe. Never thought I would have 1TB storage, let alone 2.2TB in a fairly budget minded desktop. Then I forgot I have 2 laptops playing backup duty as well as a netbook with at least my music library on it. I probably have 6 copies of data between all of my machines

Cococarbine3

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Dang. I miss my PCjr. And DOS. And the plethora of shareware. And my 8 inch floppies.

And this game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDdQ9aTSpeI

jayc72

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Got it, love it. Like a lot of their products it is very hack-able, there is a wiki for it.

y8s

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the damn thing has a bittorrent client!

NA6C-Guy

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I'm always amazed to see games like that and then see the release date. 1994!? '94 doesn't seem like so long ago. I remember technology being further along than that at that point. One of my favorite games though is Scorched Earth. I used to play that for hours. Then you have GTA released in '97. I would have sworn it was much earlier than that. '97 seems like yesterday and we were playing games that looked that bad!

samnavy

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I ended up with a 250gb Maxtor 2.5" drive. It took me about 2 hours of walking to the ready-rooms on the ship to have it filled to the brim with good ****. I was selective at what I copied... definitely nothing Hustler would be interested in.

PS: A mod can delete the "Support the Troops" sticky since I'm already out here. Thanks for the offers in that thread though.

Joe Perez

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Two hours?

Damn.


I think it bears keeping for posterity. In fact, I may archive it.