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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 12:12:10 PM   
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Any of you techie types able to recommend a decent harddrive?  I'm upgrading to Windows 7 soon and I'll be looking at getting a new drive specifically for games and docs etc.


What's your budget?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 12:24:09 PM   
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Any of you techie types able to recommend a decent harddrive?  I'm upgrading to Windows 7 soon and I'll be looking at getting a new drive specifically for games and docs etc.


What's your budget?


I'd prefer to keep it below £100, but I can stretch that a bit if it's needed.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 12:54:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Some of the best drives on the market right now are Western Digital.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 1:00:03 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 1:01:21 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 1:02:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's a nice SATA drive:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Barracuda-7200-12-Drive-Cache/dp/B0024FAN24/ref=sr_1_5?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1294837511&sr=1-5

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 2:39:45 PM   
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I'd plan to get two of them and mirror them so your computer doesn't chunk when it dies.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 2:45:57 PM   
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I had to reinstall windows on a new harddrive


Why Martin?


Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 3:11:43 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 3:49:26 PM   
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He couldn't switch off CAPS LOCK


Yes, Simon is right. The man at the computer shop also told me that it was a known fault with some versions of Windows and that I'd need to buy a new copy that wasn't bugged.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 4:18:40 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 4:20:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm soon going to be in the market for a big external HD to use as storage for all of our home computers.  I'm looking at the Western Digital models, possibly as big as 3TB!  

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 4:52:27 PM   
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136514

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LOG! - 1/12/2011 4:56:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		I find it suprising that IDE drives are more expensive than SATA. I'm in need of replacing my old IDE for my now repaired Pentium 4. (the one who's motherboard caught fire). It had an old 80Gig IDE with bad sectors....but still boots and is functional. Sooner or later it will go however and the 2nd IDE (a mere "15" Gig which tells you how old it is), got put into my modern system as a boot disk for XP.

Cheapest one i've found is over $50.00 which is more than i paid for a 500gig SATA!



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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 4:59:04 PM   
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LOG! - 1/12/2011 5:06:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		a big tease. The temp already went up overnight and the snow has turned to slush. This winter is seriously sucking.

High winds did knock out our power for a while. Double D fortunately got me up to do his duty so i was able to reset clocks and not be late to work.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 5:29:27 PM   
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SRT

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RE: LOG! - 1/12/2011 5:31:30 PM   
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Bummer that vol 3 is still not out. Hard to follow up a book like that!


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 5:32:13 PM   
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Pentium 4?!?!

Don't you think it is time to invest in a new motherboard?

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many-logs - 1/12/2011 5:53:08 PM   
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Pentium 4?!?!

Don't you think it is time to invest in a new motherboard?


It's my Win98 box.....used mainly for playing older games. I have a quad core machine for today's 'puting needs. (and a macbook, and a old P4 alienware i'm gonna try to learn sodering on.....oh and that old 486 i found on the side of the road and got running again....WINDOWS 3.11 rocks!)



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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 5:53:18 PM   
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a big tease. The temp already went up overnight and the snow has turned to slush. This winter is seriously sucking.

High winds did knock out our power for a while. Double D fortunately got me up to do his duty so i was able to reset clocks and not be late to work.


Everett got several inches.

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strange LOG! - 1/12/2011 5:54:19 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 5:54:34 PM   
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soggy log! - 1/12/2011 5:57:17 PM   
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Everett got several inches.



Getting home from Issaquah to Fall city last nite was....."interesting" Flurries and high blowing winds reduced visibility to nil yet some nimrods insisted on going over 50mph. (I was in full old fart mode and played it a safe 35-40)

By this morning though it was pure rain with the roads only slushy. Don't know why people around here are still all lady a ga-ga over things. The east coast is getting all the good stuff.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 6:00:10 PM   
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Here's one....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136514



Dag! That's a good looking drive. Unfortunately, I'm looking for an external, USB connected drive for backup and storage, so it won't be anywhere near as fast at that one. Been keeping an eye on them at Best Buy and the prices are slowly dropping after Christmas....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 6:21:12 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 6:34:39 PM   
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just for giggles.....i found an old 5.25 floppy drive and put it into the P4 machine. floppies are cool!

I don't know much about 5.25" 'floppies', Nik. Do you have a lot of experience with those?

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LOG! - 1/12/2011 6:48:06 PM   
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I don't know much about 5.25" 'floppies', Nik. Do you have a lot of experience with those?


I'm more of an 8inch floppy guy...........unless i'm working on hardware related issues.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 1/12/2011 6:50:43 PM   
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LOG! - 1/12/2011 6:55:36 PM   
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Explains a few things...


I have only satisfied customers up to this point.......

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