Friday, February 25, 2011

How much HD space does one guy need?

So today another external hard drive that I bought came in.



This time it's a 2 TB Western Digital external. Amazon dropped the price on it (it used to be $120) but I got mine for $86, which is cheaper than what I paid for my first 1.5 TB external ($90) so I knew I had to buy it.


Here is what my current HD situation looks like (click for fullsize):


So in total I have a grand total of approximately 4.5 TB of space spread over 2 WD externals (a 1.5 TB and 2 TB), 2 internals (two 500 GBs), and an SSD (60 GB).

But it's not going to stay that way for long.

Besides the price, I bought the new 2 TB external for two reasons:

1. I wanted to rid my PC of those old 500 GB internals because they are getting old + slow
2. I will be building my mom a new PC and she's perfectly happy with the internals that I'm taking out, so I needed a place to put the stuff I currently have on them

And so there you have it. I have too much space.

7 comments:

  1. I've got one better. Bought relacement memory that despite meeting all the motherboard requirements isn't compatible in the end. So I've got 4 gigs / $150.00 worth of "paper weights". Can't return them due to Newegg's policy in which is in short "if opened your screwed". So I don't supose you need or can use for someone else's PC repairs http://goo.gl/OZia. If so I'll mail them to ya at no cost/charge.

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  2. What do you mean when you say it isn't compatible? Does the computer simply not recognize them?

    Both of the RAM slots on my motherboard are occupied so I don't need them, but thanks for the offer!

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  3. First I'd get the post code 96 Cmos fault. After making sure they were installed properly windows would crash when trying to load. Set it to a PC repair shop & they couldn't get it to work either.

    Oh I doubt you need old DDR memory. Was just curious if anyone you know needs such.

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  4. Hmm, I can't really think of any use for them at my house.

    Maybe you can play frisbee with them (or sell them on ebay)

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