[BoyElroy]

For all you MP3 hogs, Compusa is offering the Maxtor 160GB 7200 rpm 133ATA 8MB Buffer HD (Diamondmax Plus Ultra) with 133ATA card included for $169.00. They also give you a $70 manufacturers rebate to bring the cost of the complete kit down to $99!!!!!

Picked one up yesterday--thought about getting two, but stopped myself.

 

[bootman]

Come on, don't you want 320 Gigs of raid 0 goodness?

 

[austonia]

good deal thanks

I need more storage

i have one puter with 60gb x 2 raid

this puter has 80gb + 40gb drive

they are all fulll of MP3 and backups

currently deleting old MP3 catalogue of Napsgter/Kazaa crap

resupplying with UberNet high quality MP3's

 

[BoyElroy]

Hey Bootman--

I've already got about 550 GB of storage spread out in 7 drives. I just plain ran out of room and didn't want to go thru the hassle of replacing one of them

Its amazing that by next year we may see 500 GB drives being sold as standard eq. on new computers. My first computer cost me $2500 and came with a 10 MB hard drive. Yikes!


Austonia--


Agreed, I never much cared for virus ridden, low res. napster/kazaa stuff. I get all my mp3s off of newsgroups and recently got a great usenetserver account (unlimited downloads, 6 simultaneous channels and $14.95 a month) that's been filling up my drives at an alarming rate.

 

[minya]

Quote:

Originally posted by BoyElroy Agreed, I never much cared for virus ridden, low res. napster/kazaa stuff. I get all my mp3s off of newsgroups and recently got a great usenetserver account (unlimited downloads, 6 simultaneous channels and $14.95 a month) that's been filling up my drives at an alarming rate.

Are you happy with Usenetserver? How's the completion?

ATTBI's/Comcast's news server is quite good (it has EVERY group and the completion is usually excellent), but retention is a joke. On the lossless groups, it hardly goes back 18 hours. I'm considering picking up a Usenetserver account... I love Easynews (that web interface is the coolest thing EVER), but the 6GB/month just doesn't cut it...

- Chris

 

[BoyElroy]

Minya--

Hehehehe...I downloaded about 11 GBs over the past Memorial Day weekend. It's pretty addictive having six download channels running at the same time, 24 hours a day. The retention rate is pretty good and the completion rate is pretty good also. I keep a newsguy account (1 GB/day $10/month) just in case I need fills. Usenetserver carries more listings and more groups but the completion rate is slightly worse and retention a bit shorter (about 3-4 days for binaries).

 

[minya]

Quote:

Originally posted by BoyElroy Minya-- Hehehehe...I downloaded about 11 GBs over the past Memorial Day weekend. It's pretty addictive having six download channels running at the same time, 24 hours a day. The retention rate is pretty good and the completion rate is pretty good also. I keep a newsguy account (1 GB/day $10/month) just in case I need fills. Usenetserver carries more listings and more groups but the completion rate is slightly worse and retention a bit shorter (about 3-4 days for binaries).

Hah. Nice.

I can't afford multiple Usenet servers per month, though... so I guess I'll just stick with ATTBI's for now. As long as I check Usenet obsessively, I tend to be okay

- Chris

 

[MusicLover]

Quote:

Originally posted by BoyElroy For all you MP3 hogs, Compusa is offering the Maxtor 160GB 7200 rpm 133ATA 8MB Buffer HD (Diamondmax Plus Ultra) with 133ATA card included for $169.00. They also give you a $70 manufacturers rebate to bring the cost of the complete kit down to $99!!!!!

That deal is totally gnarly! I'm buying it!

 

[tanfenton]

Is this it: http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...00018&pfp=hpf2 ?

NGF

 

[BoyElroy]

Yup.

 

[BoyElroy]

Bump.

Deal's still on!

 

[wallijonn]

Man, I'm tempted. (And I don't particularly like Maxtor drives. I prefer WD because they don't "clunk" when you power them up or down).

I thought the max size seen by W2k/XP was 128 GB. Does a secondary partition have to be set up?

I also thought that the WD120GB/8MB for $99 was a steal. This just may make me go out and buy it.

 

[BoyElroy]

Hi Wallijonn-

Here's an excerpt from the serverwatch website that explains the size deal with XP:

Quote:

One of the ways that software communicates with underlying hardware is through firmware included in the Basic Input Output System (BIOS) chip (the other is directly via drivers). Some of this communication takes place as soon as the computer is turned on. One of the actions during this stage is reading files stored on the hard drive that are necessary to initialize the operating system. This hard drive access is handled through firmware code invoked by the interrupt 13. This code remained unchanged from the early days of PC BIOS until the late 1990s. The problem results from the fact that the code's addressing format limits the number of disk cylinders to 1024 (with the typical disk sector size of 512 bytes), which translates to 7.8 GB of disk space. This limitation is relevant only when the BIOS is being used for hard drive access. Newer operating systems (starting with Windows NT and Windows 98), once fully loaded, use their own storage device and file system drivers. However, since these drivers are not available in the early boot stage, the boot and system partition in Windows NT are limited to 7.8 GB. You don't really hear about this restriction with Windows 2000 or XP, though. The reason for that is a new standard, called Interrupt 13 extensions, that emerged in the late 1990s and pushed the drive size limit to 9 TB (which hopefully will be sufficient for the next couple of years). Post-Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft operating systems take advantage of the Int 13 Extensions, so the old limit is no longer an issue.