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boykster:

--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on November 05, 2006, 09:01:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: boykster on November 05, 2006, 04:20:47 pm ---don't count on this....5-10 YEARS before you update your drive?  :laugh2:

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I still use a 4 gig drive that I bought in 1998 in one of my computers   :dunno

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Is that your primary pc?  I didn't mean to say that the drive will be un-usable in 5-10 years, but rather that it won't be your primary storage drive in that many years.

Shmokes:

For most usage, a couple of big drives striped will be just fine, but yeah, if you lose a drive, you may be screwed.  I had a software RAID5 (linux) go south on me a few years ago and I lost a bunch of movies  >:(

It is nice having so much storage available, and I can have a couple of HTPC's routed throughout the house to have movies available "on demand" at all times.....

Flinkly:
my 74 gig has held me till i started archiving movies.  after 6 movies, i've only got 10 gigs left.  i do have some roms on there too though, takin up space.

as for old hdd's, i still have my original 160 gb drive from 2000.  that's about 6 years...and i'll use it till it dies, which will be a while since it's in the arcade.

i guess i'll just get the better deal and look for the best gig per dollar...

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