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Help with college/moving/computers

Ok here's a question I'm sure some of you have had experience with. Here's the situation. I'm currently at college in Iowa and my family currently lives in Minnesota. I go home over the summer just for convenience as long as I can find a job, no problems so far. However, my family is moving to California (San Fran area) at the end of this coming summer. This presents extreme problems for hauling all my stuff back "home" over the summer. I have a car, but I'd rather not drive to California from Iowa if I can avoid it. My main issue is moving my computers (two of 'em at the moment). So I'm trying to think of how to solve that problem. I have been looking at laptops, but they are expensive, slow, and more importantly, it's really expensive to get the hard drive space I'm looking for. I have about 150 GB right now, and I use most of it (never mind what for). The other consideration is that I'd like to have a system to "play" with. I have my main desktop currently running windows and my other computer running freebsd, which is my testing/play machine for the most part. That way if I mess it up, I can still get my work done.

In any case, I'm sure some of you have dealt with this kind of thing before, I'm curious to find out what all of you did. I suppose I could always leave my stuff in storage over the summer, but I'm sure you understand how I'd rather now 🙂 Anyways, any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!
 
it costs $55 to ship a computer insured for $1000 fedex 3 day air (you have to ship air if you want insurance on computers)
 
just get a swappable drive bay for your hd's and lose one system. Then load up your car and have an awesome drive to the Bay Area on I-80..not so bad once you make it through Nebraska / Eastern Colorado which should only take around 10 hours
 
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