Got my new hard drive today

[Hahnsb2]

I've lost track of all the media I have.
Band of brothers HD
Family guy (all seasons)
Simpsons (all seasons)
Southpark (all seasons)
Dilbert(all seasons)
Futurama(all seasons)
Top gear (used to have all seasons)
Aqua teen hunger force (all seasons)
and a ton of other movies.

All media legally obtained, void where prohibited

 

[Will]

Oh, I didn't know you could put movies on a computer.

One of my brothers took 6 months off to play Civ2 some years back.

 

[maitee1]

I would partition that C: drive. Thats just me. It would decrease the seek times for when your files become fragmented.

I have 1 of my hard drives partitioned at 37Gbs for the C: and 250ish GBs for the media.

 

[Bob Ayers]

Seriously, what takes up tht much space on your computers that you need more than 40G?

The two things I save in several devices to keep from losing it are my yacht design files and my writing files--that can't be replaced. I have about 50MB of drawing files and 20MB of .doc files--and that's a lot of damned files. I have what looks to be 300MB of family pictures from 8 years. I have 1.5 gig of video. And 1G of music downloaded from Walmart dowloads. And the rest is TRS stuff. My whole backup is 4G--it's on a harddrive I put in a box and attach to my computer with a cable when I back things up. The current things I'm working on I put on a 500MB memory stick.

A 1.5T harddrive is insane. I'll be dead before I put 1G of my work in storage.

Photography takes up a lot of space on my laptop....especially due to the image RAW files size from a Nikon D300, which are about 16MB each:

 

[Jspafford]

I plan on partitioning it... I was going to before I installed but windows didn't give me the option.

 

[Shran]

All media legally obtained, void where prohibited

Forgot about that part, x2

 

[ryan]

Oh, I didn't know you could put movies on a computer.

One of my brothers took 6 months off to play Civ2 some years back.

my laptop has one of those funky HD displays too. very crisp

but i have more than 40 gigs of just music on my computer. hell, i have more than that on the ipod i carry around all day

 

[AllanD]

Some of the REALLY old farts remember cassette tape drives.

And the first Apple II floppy drives that buzzed (loudly) when they had read errors. Kinda like scraping fingernails on the chalkboard....

Jeez.... I'm old enough to remember DEC tapes on a Digital PDP-8M

anyone remember what "7470" (Note: Octal) means? Or More exactly "111100111000"?

Going from that (with an old teletype) to a PDP15 with 7" floppies?
Going to 5" floppies was "nice" going to 3-1/2" nicer.

Recently I added a 60Gig HD to my aging Pentium2-500 and it
was like moving from a phone booth to the entire state of kansas.
(the 60Gig is in addition to a 4gig(boot drive) a 10gig and a pair
of 13gig drives)

anyone have some "small" (40-120gig) drives that they'd
like to donate?

Shit... somewhere around here I have a copy of "Lunar Lander"
(written in Basic) on PAPER PUNCH TAPE! (makes for an
impressive coil of paper.)

AD

 

[MAKG]

Jeez.... I'm old enough to remember DEC tapes on a Digital PDP-8M

anyone remember what "7470" (Note: Octal) means? Or More exactly "111100111000"?

Hmm, my first was a DEC PDP 11/44 with -- yep -- the lovely DEC start/stop tape drives. That was DEC's first model that didn't have the current memory address in LEDs on the front panel. It had manual memory overlays (RSTS). Goodness gracious, what a PITA (virtual memory is SO much easier).

Wasn't 7470 the startup code for PDP <=10? You had to punch this in the front panel on those models, right?

 

[Hahnsb2]

Oh, I didn't know you could put movies on a computer.

Sure can, the Band of Brothers HD set takes up like 80 gigs alone! The average HD movie takes about 7-8 gigs, average non HD takes up about 7-800MB.

 

[AllanD]

Hmm, my first was a DEC PDP 11/44 with -- yep -- the lovely DEC start/stop tape drives. That was DEC's first model that didn't have the current memory address in LEDs on the front panel. It had manual memory overlays (RSTS). Goodness gracious, what a PITA (virtual memory is SO much easier).

Wasn't 7470 the startup code for PDP <=10? You had to punch this in the front panel on those models, right?

Yep, on the PDP-8M you set it with paddle switches that were in a row across the front.

We went from that to a PDP-11 to a PDP-15 finally to a crappy modem-timeshare system (that was perpetually busy).

There were a couple of seniors taking their first year of CompSci
that would simply lift the phone off the cradle when they wanted the computer (they's show up 20min early and want you to give up your schedueled time) and I lost more stuff that way because I didn't have
time to save it...
I'd love to cross path with those SOB's now, it's been 30 years
and I'd still like to kick the crap out of them.

As for movies... many DVD's are protected from copying
but they like CD-music are in essence just digital data.

So yeah you can put them on your computer.

My own goal is to have a pair of moderatly sized drives (250-300gig) on a RAID controller and have all my Music CD's saved to the computer as .wav files

AD

 

[ryan]

My own goal is to have a pair of moderatly sized drives (250-300gig) on a RAID controller and have all my Music CD's saved to the computer as .wav files

AD

you must not have many cds then?

 

[MAKG]

And you haven't been shopping for computers recently if you consider 1/4 TB to be "moderate." That's about as small as you can find these days, on spinning media; the only systems that come with them are low-end laptops. And some Seagate 1 TBs are going for barely over $100, not much more expensive than a 250GB.

I bought a 750GB SATA a few months ago when my ancient 60 GB hosed its MBR spontaneously. Spent $120 on that. It would be cheaper now.

 

[Will]

Will staggers away in confusion...

 

[naford]

You guys are rookies. I remember working on 20mb hardrives. 10 was removeable and 10 was permanent. It was biggger than a 2 drawer file cabinet.