Buying a New Computer

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Not that anything other than seagate and WD are easily found.

What are people storing that takes up half a terabyte? I'm sitting here with a feeble 160GB, 5400RPM hard drive, and even when I triple-booted (dividing HD space evenly between Mac, Windows, and Linux) I was able to replicate all my files and documents in each partition and still had plenty of space left. I suppose if you had a crapload of pictures or videos saved, that would start to add up, but still, terabyte hard drives just seem ridiculous.

I have 13.6 gigabytes of photos that I have taken.

My hard drive has several virtual machines(Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 2008 Server x64 Edition, Snow Leopard Server, and Mythbuntu, all legal).

I also keep video files from the past several years(including a lot of television shows) and many years of images, music and other videos.

276.1GB are used on my hard drive. I have a 500GB hard drive, so I have enough storage for now, but a 1TB hard drive costs around $100 now so I'd like to get a new drive for the extra free space.

My next computer-related purchases will probably be a 2TB external hard drive and a new router.

In principle, I agree. But on trips I shoot a LOT of video, and I take a LONG TIME to get around to cutting it into a video production of my trip, so I already have two external HDDs for saving that data (my laptop only has a 80GB HDD).

That was the case for the last few generations but right now NVIDIA isn't competitive at all.
AMD has already released 5870/5850 for the high end and 5770/5750 for the middle segment. 3 out of 4 of these cards yields landslide victory for AMD. The 5770 isn't too much faster but it still wins in terms of features. On the low end, AMD already had the upper hand with the 4000 series. (There has yet any G200 based mainstream parts from NVIDIA)
On the other side, NVIDIA's Fermi is still nowhere to be seen. Even the most optimistic analysts believe that they can at best paper launch a high end part before the end of the year. And don't expect real availability for upper mainstream parts before Q2 next year.


Won't call myself an audiophile but I'm pretty disappointed by the on board Realtek ALC889A. It's tolerable in stereo mode. The multi-channel mode though is a total mess up.


Raw? It will be a whole lot of photos if they're jpeg.


If you insist on buying from local shops then I've found the choices are usually very limited. You may have a hard time finding the model you want even if it's a Seagate or WD.


I'm still a bit skeptical about Seagate after the massive firmware failure earlier this year. So I'm sticking with WD for now. I'm quite satisfied with my WD Caviar Black and won't hesitate to recommend it.

Yup. In fact, its both. My canon is set to produce a raw and jpg with every shot, and I keep all my pictures. I should start backing them up to dvd perhaps.


I have a bestbuy right next to a futureshop, nearby costco carries some parts, walmart, london drugs has an okay computer department, and then there are the locally owned repair shops. Lots of selection. If I want something special like a 10k rpm drive, I'll get it online.


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I tend to favour WD myself, but I have a few seagates as well.

What's the deal with AMD?

I thought ATi and nVidia were the only real names when it came to GPU chipsets. When did AMD start making graphic cards?

AMD owns ATI.

I use up over 500GB worth of a hard drive separated on two computers, RAIDed and gaming I just do not like uninstalling/reinstalling where I could just switch on, boot, log in, play. Saved games and configuration files there anyway.

I also like to keep a few versions of my graphics drivers, in case a newer version stuffs up and I get low colours. I also download the drivers for other Operating Systems, I can never tell when someone will need a driver for a card that they can't download for some silly reason and I can just copy to their computer quickly.

I also have a VERY large backup taking 42DVD's, I've tried inserting one at a time, but this takes forever, so I use my RAID to copy all the images on there and run much faster.

A larger hard drive is justified if you are willing to, and know how to use it. For why purpose, I would be looking at a laptop/notebook with a massive hard drive for business use which will make use of the larger size.

I used to hate macs. But i got my first mac in june because i didnt want vista. Now i love macs and i dont think i am going back to windows/linux again =).

Macs suck

Windows 7 is repackaged Vista garbage.

Macs still suck

nerdfight!

Windows is still the same POS it always has been.