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| pffft c drive = solid state drive  !!!! |
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However, yes, i'll be getting a raptor seperately, the 74GB one (i currently only use 130GB on this HDD, mainly due to movies, so should be enough), and giving the old HDD to my dad probably who will hopefully buy it off me, cos he wants to buy a new one anyway.
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 The raptor is like £70 i think, i havent scrimped on any part so far so may aswell get a nice HD, 10k RPM...Zoooooom.
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| Only buying one Raptor is weaksauce.
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| but getting a solid state drive wouldnt be scrimping....... it would be spending obscene amounts of money hehe. |
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| Loads of people ahve several HD's in RAID. They're usually the torrent whores, and seeing as i have the 2mb connection that runs slower than my nan with some heavy shopping, im not one of them, so anything around or near 100gb is enoguh for me (Also i don't like having too much crap on them, find it slows stuff down, harder to find things and makes viruses happy as Larry) So any other comments besides the HD that wasn't even listed?
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| What on earth does overall storage space have to do with RAID? :x Hai there RAID 0.
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| awww you just made me think when i build my htpc im gonna have to buy another fecking license of smart security dang nabit. |
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cant justify £200+ for 32gb drive or £500+ for 54gb drive hehe |
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| Well those prices arent that bad considering you pay much more for a good graphic card, and how long can you have that before it's obsolete?  I was looking for buying an SSD, but since the transfer speeds are going up to 200MB/sec very soon, and the prices will rise on those first out on the market as well so I think I will wait a year or two more. |
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| Pfft, or for the same price, get a second 8800GTS!! (oh noes, i can't SLi them, cos nvidia are wankers who restrict that ability to nForce boards which suck)
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| Your storage is the slowest performing component in most rigs. It's surprising how many people don't pay attention to it though!
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I have about 4tb laying around here. |
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| Would be a bit crap if i spent nearly a grand on crap that didn't work properly though wouldn't it.
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