playing with some new computer parts
Sunday, 8. November 2009, 01:10:22
Yesterday, I was sure my hard drive was failing, but it seems OK now. I'm keeping an eye on it.
Why not use that as an excuse to buy some fun geek stuff. I went and got a 750GB hard drive and a USB enclosure. At some point I'll just install the hard drive internally, but for now it will be a portable backup storage device. My first computer hard drive years ago was 1.5GB, and I paid a princely sum for that. I remember the excitement when I got a 7GB one. Oh, I'll *never* use all that! There were terabyte drives looking at me from the store shelves today, but I got the 750GB. I'll *never* use all that! I got the usual Western Digital. Never had nuttin' else.
Below you'll see the sexy sleek black drive enclosure. Then you'll see the partition being written. I'm just doing one big partition for now to use it as backup storage. Later, if I put it into "production", I'll divide it up into swap and ext3. Geek fun on a Saturday night. Now I just need some geeks to play with.
Why not use that as an excuse to buy some fun geek stuff. I went and got a 750GB hard drive and a USB enclosure. At some point I'll just install the hard drive internally, but for now it will be a portable backup storage device. My first computer hard drive years ago was 1.5GB, and I paid a princely sum for that. I remember the excitement when I got a 7GB one. Oh, I'll *never* use all that! There were terabyte drives looking at me from the store shelves today, but I got the 750GB. I'll *never* use all that! I got the usual Western Digital. Never had nuttin' else.
Below you'll see the sexy sleek black drive enclosure. Then you'll see the partition being written. I'm just doing one big partition for now to use it as backup storage. Later, if I put it into "production", I'll divide it up into swap and ext3. Geek fun on a Saturday night. Now I just need some geeks to play with.
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WIDGETIZE
selurus # 8. November 2009, 05:17
With my SE W700i handset I initially had just a 64 mb card and soon that was not enough so I bought a 2Gb card. Then with the Nokia N73 I got a 2 Gb card with the phone but I could not take any higher cards. With my current phone I've got a 4 Gb card and the phone can take upto 8 Gb. :whistles: Guess I'll need to expand my memory soon.
Shaunak # 8. November 2009, 05:51
I prevented a friend from buying a 320GB Seagate FreeAgent, and built him a 640GB one for the same money. He was quite happy, but his sister wasnt. (The Freeagent was available in pink
slackwrdave # 8. November 2009, 06:35
Originally posted by selurus:
Wonder what's taking up all that room?
Originally posted by Shaunak:
I see these ready made portable drives at Staples (huge office supply store chain) that cost hundreds. They look just like a fancy HDD enclosure. I think Staples makes lots of money off people shopping with company money. When I'm shopping with my own money, the locally owned geek store is a better bet, which is where I went.
Originally posted by Shaunak:
Sounds like my mom when I got her a cell phone. I had to pass up a lot of superior models to get one that came in pink.
selurus # 8. November 2009, 08:00
I prefer watching guitar videos rather than reading tabs
hungryghost # 8. November 2009, 08:39
decodedthought # 13. November 2009, 09:53
why 750 +casing ??