Finally got my harddrives!

Talez · Post by **Talez** » 01 Aug 2006 09:23 pm

Thanks a lot Nintek. 2 weeks later.

Ah well. It feels good to be a member of the terabyte club and to have some space again

asmodeus · Post by **asmodeus** » 01 Aug 2006 11:05 pm

Meanwhile I'm only up to about 450GB - still, I haven't managed to come anywhere near filling it up, but I'm sure I'll manage.

Ultimately, I want to create a lossless archive of my CD collection (one of my CDs has died despite excellent care, so I'm a little concerned), but I'm guessing it'll take up somewhere between 300 and 400 GB, and growing each month.

Spoonfan · Post by **Spoonfan** » 01 Aug 2006 11:08 pm

I'm up 700GB, or "point seven terabytes" as I like to call it.

selfish · Post by **selfish** » 02 Aug 2006 12:41 am

i am struggling here with 40 gigs on this laptop
what the fuck was i thinking really
anyone know the best place to get laptop HDDs?

Muzza · Post by **Muzza** » 02 Aug 2006 03:56 pm

LOL, I was so tempted to purchase a few things from Nintek, then Ive read some customer feedback over at the whirlpool forums.

All I can say is Im glad I didnt! Terrible service from what Ive read.

mech · Post by **mech** » 02 Aug 2006 04:05 pm

I've got a terabyte at home, but it's split up over two computers - my main one and a media server.

I'd love to put 4 or so terabytes into a box and rip all my DVDs to it

Got my house networked and Xboxes in my lounge and bedroom so I could watch DVDs from anywhere... would be awesome.

Talez · Post by **Talez** » 02 Aug 2006 04:27 pm

Muzza wrote:LOL, I was so tempted to purchase a few things from Nintek, then Ive read some customer feedback over at the whirlpool forums.

All I can say is Im glad I didnt! Terrible service from what Ive read.

Well all I can say is that the people I dealt with at Nintek were civil and polite but they just lacked communication. When they have stock I usually get things the next day so long as I order at a reasonable time (before 2pm WST).

In general though I take accusations that CS are rude (ESPECIALLY on whingepool) with a grain of salt because with most people you only get out with what you put in.

Talez · Post by **Talez** » 02 Aug 2006 04:45 pm

Holy shit these fuckers are fast.

And thats just a single drive to boot.

selfish · Post by **selfish** » 02 Aug 2006 07:53 pm

laptop HDDs anyone?
ANYONE?

please?

Froggy · Post by **Froggy** » 02 Aug 2006 08:02 pm

A guy at work runs a lot of our office stuff from home, he has several terrabytes in his front room. He coded his own tivo and then made his own hardware to go with it, has his house all hooked up, when somebody calls first the call goes through his number database to see who it is, if it's not in the database it goes to answering machine and he finds out and adds to database, if they are in it, it flashes on each monitor in the house (one in each room) who the call is and who it would probably be for. He is crazy.

unfnknblvbl · Post by **unfnknblvbl** » 02 Aug 2006 08:53 pm

I only have 460GB in my rig, spread across four drives.

I really want about 500GB-1TB in a NAS box, so I can remove some of the weight of this machine, and not have to worry about interchangability of the contained data between different OSes.

Pity that wouldn't be as fast as a natively installed drive though

Talez · Post by **Talez** » 02 Aug 2006 09:59 pm

unfnknblvbl wrote:Pity that wouldn't be as fast as a natively installed drive though

True but what are you going to be putting on it? TV Shows? Movies? Music? Those aren't exactly bandwidth intensive.