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- St.Louis, MO, USA, Earth
Hello All,
I just had a 1yo seagate 80gb drive die on me and find that Im going to need more space soon but Im not sure what would be best.
At the moment I have 2 HDs, my boot drive is an 80GB SATA, and the 2nd is an 120GB ATA100 drive.
I tend to throw all my saved .exe's and whatnot on the 120GB drive cuz my boot drive gets formatted every 2-3 months.....
Here is what I have thought up so far...
Option #1
Buy a 36GB raptor and use it as my boot drive, allowing me to use my 80GB for more storage.
Option #2
Save money and buy an 7200rpm 80-120GB drive but between the 3 drives will end up having 60GB+ in spare/wasted space.
Option #3
Buy a DVD burner and burn about 60GB to cd and then spend another $30+ for cds that can get damaged easily.
At the moment, I'm going towards option #1 since I hardly use more then 40GB on my boot drive for fear XP is going to get messed up and need to do another format.
Any suggestions as to what might be the best bet? Perhaps something I havnt thought of?
I just had a 1yo seagate 80gb drive die on me and find that Im going to need more space soon but Im not sure what would be best.
At the moment I have 2 HDs, my boot drive is an 80GB SATA, and the 2nd is an 120GB ATA100 drive.
I tend to throw all my saved .exe's and whatnot on the 120GB drive cuz my boot drive gets formatted every 2-3 months.....
Here is what I have thought up so far...
Option #1
Buy a 36GB raptor and use it as my boot drive, allowing me to use my 80GB for more storage.
Option #2
Save money and buy an 7200rpm 80-120GB drive but between the 3 drives will end up having 60GB+ in spare/wasted space.
Option #3
Buy a DVD burner and burn about 60GB to cd and then spend another $30+ for cds that can get damaged easily.
At the moment, I'm going towards option #1 since I hardly use more then 40GB on my boot drive for fear XP is going to get messed up and need to do another format.
Any suggestions as to what might be the best bet? Perhaps something I havnt thought of?