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offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-02-01 10:42 [#01057232]
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So yeah, my powerbook has reached the deadly stage of "your
start up disk is almost full"

So, yeah, I need to clean it up... but I also just need more
space. Audio files are probably the culprit...

anyways, does anyone know any good models? Most space for
least amount of money is preferable... but it needs to be
quality... dont want it dying on me.

What do you think is reasonable?

Thanks for the help!


 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2004-02-01 10:54 [#01057234]
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use your iPod ;)

 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-02-01 10:56 [#01057237]
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ipod = full

 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2004-02-01 11:02 [#01057239]
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delete it

 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-02-01 11:04 [#01057242]
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thats the worst idea ive ever heard.

 

offline Jedi Chris on 2004-02-01 11:08 [#01057249]
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Go on, do it....think of the space you'll have!
;)

 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2004-02-01 11:10 [#01057250]
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Maxtor makes an external 300gb drive with USB and Firewire
interfaces. Their internal hard drives have never let me
down soooo.... something you should look into maybe.



 

offline xlr from Boston (United States) on 2004-02-01 11:29 [#01057267]
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Zeus, I would recommend the OWC mercury elite firewire
drives. Me and my friend adam have used them for intense
video editing for the past two years and have had no
problems. They are built well, and very mac friendly.

Other World Computing

 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-02-01 11:32 [#01057269]
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xlr: hmmm, I checked that out... I didnt see any 7200
RPM's... thats a minimum requirement... :-/


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2004-02-01 11:33 [#01057272]
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Now you wish you'd bought a PC yeah?

Hehehe

 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-02-01 11:33 [#01057273]
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nevermind

i smoke crack

 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-02-01 11:33 [#01057274]
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nope

just wish I had more money!

 

offline xlr from Boston (United States) on 2004-02-01 11:55 [#01057296]
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They definitely have 7200 RPM drives, and higher there.
Mine is 7200.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-02-01 11:56 [#01057297]
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yes. hence my crack smoking confession...

 

offline xlr from Boston (United States) on 2004-02-01 12:14 [#01057312]
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hehe. gotcha

 

offline Phobiazero from the next Xltronic (Sweden) on 2004-02-01 12:24 [#01057323]
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there are lot of options out there, but whatever you buy
make sure it has Firewire. USB 2.0 is even slower when it
comes to HDDs (even tho USB2 is faster in theory).

i have this one: http://www.emagictech.com.tw/fd6354-1.htm

it comes w/o hdd, but it's more flexible.

 

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