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@=XDC=FluffyBunny wrote:
damb £600ish thats quite a chunk out of a very nice full system 😕
Aye…but I already have a couple of nice full systems…and a media centre, and a web server so what else am I gonna spend it on? 😀
@TurksMeister wrote:
pah… of course not…
ummmm *Turks wonders off*
Well better I use it to improve my hand eye co ordinatation, than for it to sit under my desk gathering dust 🙂
hand eye co ordination? Just call it porn like the rest of us Turks…bloody stundents etc..
@Wipers wrote:
This would keep you going for a while…
😉
oooh, nice find Wipers. That’s pretty much exactly what I wanted 🙂
Seagate do a 400GB firewire / USB2 for £152.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Seagate_External.html
@TurksMeister wrote:
or theres this… half the price you are quoting (bottom one)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Maxtor_External.html
Ive got a maxtor external and it serves me well 🙂
Did you do maths at school Turks?
my quoted price £650ish
Maxtor price £500half the price??
Cheers though, I didn’t realise the 400GB externals were that cheap…might buy a couple of them and use windows RAID for 800GB…that should keep me going for a couple of weeks. Anyone want to buy a pair of 300GB drives?
Aye, the capabilities of graphics cards are tied into DirectX so much these days that they only introduce new features with new releases of DirectX. How long has it been since 9.0c was released? Shader model 3 was the last major change in graphics cards and that was supported by the 6800s which were released in 2004 if I remember correctly. A 2 year cycle is fairly reasonable in the computer industry, most people who want to stay up to date change their CPU at least that often anyway.
@XDC-snell wrote:
Oh and AMD have purchased ATI http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5210276.stm
Interestingly (well, if you’re a geek) industry pundits are saying that in a couple of years AMD and Intel are going to start producing CPUs that have integrated graphics functions as good as, or better than anything a seperate card can do. Intel are working on this in-house, while AMD have merged with ATi.
@The Inquirer wrote:
x86 is about to take the biggest left turn since the 286 -> 386 transition, and GPU-like functionality will be the key.
@XDC-snell wrote:
Or buy a cheap pc and build your self a file server 😀
This is my file server 😛
it’s a 2K3 box that basically just has an OS drive and then this archive drive (2*300GB in RAID0) in it.
@XDC-Insane wrote:
kin L.. You should burn the films, games, art, etc etc to DVD.. believe me If i used yuor data storage I’d need.. ummm more than 5000gb lo
I can’t be arsed with DVDs though, they get lost and scratched and you have to put the disk you want in…. this way I have instant access to everything, and I can stream any video or music over the internet to wherever I am.
It’s mostly video (300 or so GB), music (100GB ish) and comics (100GB ish) the rest is just general crap, games, operating systems etc…
I think I’m going to get an external 300GB drive and put everything except the music and video on that. That should give me some breathing room for a while.
all entirely legal of course
@=XDC= MadHippy wrote:
@Deicist wrote:
Get an external storage array and stick it on there!
I was actually pricing up Scsi external storage arrays and found a place that does them for about £1 per GB… unfortunately I need about a Terabyte so that’d be a grand and I don’t have that kind of budget. Buffalo do a nifty thing called a terastation…but in RAID 5 it only gives you 750GB(ish) for £650. I’m trying to not spend very much…although I think I’me going to have to bite the bullet and splash out some serious cash 🙁
Ah cheers for that Lens, looks like an interesting tool…
Unfortunately this is all data I need. So, my curreent options are:
Buy 4 300 GB drives and put them in RAID 5 on another machine, copy all the data over and then sell my 2 current 3GB drives… this only gives me an extra 300GB though, which I’ll fill in less than 6 months or so.
Buy a decent RAID card that lets me do online expansion, then get 4 HDs in RAID 5… same as before but when I run out of space again I can expand my array rather than move the data elsewhere.
Use Linux, which offers software RAID with online expansion (I think). Unfortunately I don’t know much about linux, and I don’t want to trust all my data to it.
The cheapo option…. break my data up and move some of it to another drive. This might cause issues down the line though…
Anyone got any other suggestions?
You Know Direct X 10 (which that card doesn’t support) is due in a few months right?
nice card though 😀
Ha, John Tito originally started posting on news groups nearly a decade ago mate… his last post appeared in 2001. I think it’s you who’s using a time machine 😀
@=XDC= Dutchman wrote:
I need things explained, ask Max, I can’t go on assumptions like if this dude is Superman then his clothers are superstrength too
His clothes were made from the super strong fabric found in the ship when he originally arrived on earth.
Or, alternatively
Supermans invulnerability extends outwards from his body a couple of mm or so, his clothes are within that field.
