Space is starting to become an issue. Only 100GB on my Programs partition, left and I can see that going very fast.

I'm after the largest hard-drive I can get without it being slow, and not too expensive.

Interested nannal is interested.

Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB. About £45 I think.

A 2nd internal Hard-Drive or External? and which type of connection? (SATA, IDE)

I see that as the problem tbh, but yeah Spinpoint F1 1TB drive ftw

+1 for the Spinpoint. It's one of the best value drive around, it's fast and it's quiet. 1TB should be enough for your needs.

Think it's more £55, though.

What's the current sex : pounds exchange rate like atm?

Depends where you go. In some parts of the world it can be as low as a couple of pounds an hour, whereas others it can be hundreds. Of course, this assumes only a timebased measurement of "sex", a quality based measurement may also need to be considered.

we could always use hedonic calculus

(Utilitarianism is the shit) (Peter singer could jesus 2.0)

Sex sells quite well in Dubai. I do believe it's a criminal act punishable by death too.

So should dragging my threads off topic into discussions about the cost of sex.

But thats a very important issue

I didn't start it, in fact, Nannal suggested it and Skillers put it forward

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/166989

bout myself one of those ^

My had drive just showed up, is installed and has 1.36TB or exactly 1 Fuck-tonne of room and provides me with

"<@wynney> lots of pirating optionzzzz"

1.81TB FTW.

Specific names/links please?

Also, what is 'cache'? I see hard-drives with say 16mb cache, or 32mb cache.

huum met's what could i have bought (and then misspelled bought)

Consider the cache as fast memory on your hard disk drive. For small file transfers it massively speeds up the time to copy. Imagine it like a DIMM for your HDD. It's volatile but speedy.

Yes yes, I meant more.

Also, why do some list RPM, and others not? I know what it is, but is it a bad sign if they choose not to list it?



It would probably help if I knew a bit more about memory. DIMM?

DIMM like RAM.

Here you go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIMM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache

Also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_buffer

Thanks.


Also, in the discussion for the disk Nannal linked to, it talks about having 500GB per 'platter' and that there are three platters.

What is this about? What are platters? What relevance do they have for me?

Imagine them like CDs. It's like having 3 CDs one on top of another, each one is 500GB in size. You get more performance by having more GB per platter, as it reduces the rotational latency found in all mechanical hard drives. Solid state hard disk drives don't have this problem.

Is there any way I can find out the number of platters on a hard drive I might buy?

I found that the best way is to read a review, as it's not often stated how many platters there are in the drive specification. Sometimes you might be able to find out by reading the product description. Manufacturers tend to tout it as a major selling point if the drive contains a surprise small number of platters for example.