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SirPokemasterMD
11-28-05, 06:23 PM
what is a good amount for a gaming pc
Scott9027
11-28-05, 06:25 PM
How many games do you like to have installed at once?

How much music do you like to have?

How many hours of TV or movies do you like to have saved?

It all depends on how you use your PC.
Mr.Guvernment
11-28-05, 06:26 PM
Exactly

- i beleive he 300g and 320g are the best value still for the $ vs G's ratio.
scoobydoo
11-28-05, 06:32 PM
as much as you can afford

games will just keep getting larger so having enough for the future is a good idea
Kevin007
11-28-05, 06:35 PM
300gb would be enough ..
Slayer2003
11-28-05, 07:56 PM
An average person would be able to get by with a 60 or 80 gig drive, having at least 4 of the newer game titles out, a reasonable amount of mp3's, and some short films/shows.

Now, to one attending LANs or having the ever need to download the entire internet, may need in excess of 500 gigs. Which I am 80 gigs shy of. :p

Most are able to get by on dual 120, 160, or even 200 gig drives.

Personally, I'm waiting for the 400 giggers to come down a bit in price so I can merge 2 computers into 1. But that's me :p.
darksparkz
11-28-05, 09:23 PM
Like 10GB would be fine for OS. Another 50GB would be fine for almost any game you play. So if you don't DL music or movies or any other large programs, a 74GB Raptor would be great. All depends on what you do.

There's this Maxtor DiamondMax Plus10 250GB for around $90, and the 300GB verison of that is $110.

Or you could RAID0 two raptors for a total of around 148GB but at a price of $240-$260.
stang8118
11-28-05, 09:25 PM
Well i myself don't really have any mp3's or movies on my system. All i have is 3 newer games, some random programs, and junk. I use about 15gb's of my 80gb HD.
Scott9027
11-28-05, 09:56 PM
I have a 20GB hard drive, and it's only 5GB full. It really just depends.
K15
11-28-05, 11:45 PM
The most, for the cheapest you can get. It makes no sense what-so-ever to spend 90 for 80 gigs, but not 110 for 160 gigs. Further, it makes no sense to spend 110 for 160 gigs but not 140 for 250 gigs. See?
So just use your budget and decide. Wasting 200GB is better than filling up 80GB and having to buy a new drive anyway. I bought a $110 160GB Seagate. I might have went against my logic and should have bought a 250GB drive, but my plan, perhaps, is to RAID 2 260GB Seagates. That will come later on, certainly if I need extra space, I will do that.
I tend to download the whole internet :p 3000MP3s, 5 or so full length movies, a bunch of shorter movies, tons of pictures and junk from the net. XP uses, what, 1.5GB? My personal files use about 60GB.
Rpkole
11-28-05, 11:56 PM
760Gigs here and at big lan partys i wish i had more some times
SirPokemasterMD
12-02-05, 06:30 PM
well i decided to get a 500gd HD so i wouldnt have to replace it later on and i do download about everything i can so will this amount suffice

EDIT: i got this hd to be precise 500GB RAID0 2 x 250GB Serial ATA-II 3Gb 7,200 RPM w/16MB Cache
Quailane
12-02-05, 08:48 PM
well i decided to get a 500gd HD so i wouldnt have to replace it later on and i do download about everything i can so will this amount suffice

EDIT: i got this hd to be precise 500GB RAID0 2 x 250GB Serial ATA-II 3Gb 7,200 RPM w/16MB Cache

Could you actually be precise? That is quite imprecise. I am assuming you bought two 250GB maxtor diamondmax 10's or maxline III's and intend to put them in raid 0?
Mr.Guvernment
12-02-05, 09:01 PM
why did you raid 0 them, - most SATAII drives these days are as fast or faster then a raid 0 anyways.
Quailane
12-03-05, 03:03 AM
why did you raid 0 them, - most SATAII drives these days are as fast or faster then a raid 0 anyways.

Excuse me? They are faster than a raid 0 of what, 5400rpm drives?

SATAII versions of the drives and ATA133 versions of the same drives perform pretty much equally.
EvilCloudStrife
12-03-05, 03:49 AM
this is a huge debate topic. there have been benchmarks and such. in theory there is more bandwidth with sataII compared to IDE so i can see what hes saying. If i remeber right, the sata drives perform better in all benchmarks then the IDE counterpart. I would only assume that SATAII would perform better then the sata due to more bandwidth but i could be wrong
Careface
12-03-05, 05:09 AM
i have dual 160gb barracuda's, but they are pretty much completely full >_< mainly due to the fact i have 128gb of anime, 10gb of installers, 14gb of games, 20gb of videos 42gb of movies, 9gb of music.. it all adds up in the end, but ill probably be getting a nice big 500gb and using it as an anime/movies/videos hdd

Careface*
AngelfireUk83
12-03-05, 07:22 AM
Well i myself don't really have any mp3's or movies on my system. All i have is 3 newer games, some random programs, and junk. I use about 15gb's of my 80gb HD.

Snap! me to I thought 80gb would suit me fine and it has I still have 65gb's left I only currently have 1 game installed. And about 1gb of my favorite MP3's which isn't much I can tell you about 211 in total all at diffrent bite rates. But I tend to try and get them at 128kb if not I burn them to CD for back-up then rip em at 128kb through WMP10.
tom10167
12-03-05, 10:21 AM
this is a huge debate topic. there have been benchmarks and such. in theory there is more bandwidth with sataII compared to IDE so i can see what hes saying. If i remeber right, the sata drives perform better in all benchmarks then the IDE counterpart. I would only assume that SATAII would perform better then the sata due to more bandwidth but i could be wrong


The debate is over. I went from a single Raptor to two in RAID 0. The difference, while noticeable, was very negligible.
thegreek
12-03-05, 10:58 AM
I would say get the FASTEST drive you can afford for the OS and SOFTWARE only.

Then get one or more drives for STORAGE to save stuff like movies, music, and other things you want to backup.
surjer
12-03-05, 07:13 PM
just get one of these and be done with it.. lol

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0215176
SirPokemasterMD
12-04-05, 06:44 PM
well im buying a Alienware computer and they only let you get that hd
-maddog-
12-04-05, 07:12 PM
well im buying a Alienware computer and they only let you get that hd



Build your own, those things are good but very $$$$$$$. 70g should be enough unless you have a ton of videos.
Mr.Guvernment
12-05-05, 02:23 PM
Alienware = Overpriced more then ANY company around for stuff you dont need

you can build a system for FARless and it will perform FAR better.
thegreek
12-05-05, 02:33 PM
well im buying a Alienware computer and they only let you get that hd
Network Attached Storage - A hard disk storage device that is set up with its own network address rather than being attached directly to the computer

This is usually an option and I doubt this is the only thing Alienware will let you buy.
-maddog-
12-05-05, 02:56 PM
Alienware = Overpriced more then ANY company around for stuff you dont need

you can build a system for FARless and it will perform FAR better.


The thing about Alienware is it has the high performance gaming machine rep., slap the logo on somthing and it is worth $$$ more. They do look and perform good though, but preformance vs. price.
SirPokemasterMD
12-06-05, 11:05 AM
i have a question is the hard drive the system or storage drive?
Quailane
12-06-05, 11:58 AM
Its the system drive if your OS that you are booting from is on it. Otherwise it is just storage.
deathman20
12-06-05, 01:34 PM
All depends on drives but yes bigger can be better :)

I came from a 36.7Gig Raptor, 80Gig WD, and a 160Gig Maxtor (5,200RPM)

To 2x 250Gig Hatachi's :)

And of course my 160Gig External Seagate I got too.

My small drive was my OS/Apps. It was around 15gig filled. Games drive might of had 10gig of free space if that. The storage drive, ya I always had issues of filling it up, along with my External drive also.

I have about a DVD worth of MP3's from all my CD's I got, Movies, might stick 1 or 2 on there if I go out of town for the week. I have loads of tutorial videos on there upwords of 80gigs worth. There on DVD also but I hate swapping stuff out. Textures for 3D work, thats another 2-3Gigs worth. Modeling projects, ya that can take up another 10gig at least. All apps I install right away when I reformat, yup theres another couple gig.

Space is taken away quickly trust me. So it was a good choice to go with the bigger drives :) Its even better if you can have all your games installed, and a copy of the game sitting on the HDD so you don't have to switch Disks at all wreaking your main copy of the game all the time.

Theres always ways to fill up the drive, its just how much time you got on your hands to do so :)
synthetic_fenix
12-07-05, 05:20 AM
I tend to agree with everyone here in that its all in how much you plan to store. I myself have two 120Gb drives in Raid0(striping) and have quite a few games installed since different lans i goto play different games. I also do a fair ammount of video editing so I need a good ammount of local system space. As for MP3 and Video storage I have a fileserver with a 1.2Tb Raid 5 array.
Feydd
12-07-05, 07:41 AM
I just got a new 80 gig to compliment my old 40 gig a week ago. Every night when I go to defrag them I see the white free space getting smaller and smaller :( . Get as much space as you can. You may not think you will use it all but as soon as you see all those free gigs it's like you need to find something to fill them with!