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TNTrulez

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DVD burners are too expensive. I would rather get a new HD. I got 2 WD120SE for $122 a pop so it was good.
 

Hamburgerpimp

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DVD burners are too expensive. I would rather get a new HD. I got 2 WD120SE for $122 a pop so it was good.

That's what I used to think. A DVD burner does more than you think. It burns DVDr, DVDrw, CDr, CDrw and plays CDrom and DVDrom. Like I said, media is only $1 for 4.7G which is just over 20 cents a Gig. NO harddrive can touch that. Plus, they never crash. BTW, I got my DVDRW for $229 at Mwave.
 

T2T III

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Originally posted by: TNTrulez
Amazingly enough, it's not porn that's taking up the space. I think it's just the junk I download from ATOT links. :D
It's not pr0n - it's just several thousand .JPG files. ;)
 

TCPpacket

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Originally posted by: wje
Originally posted by: TNTrulez
Amazingly enough, it's not porn that's taking up the space. I think it's just the junk I download from ATOT links. :D
It's not pr0n - it's just several thousand .JPG files. ;)

general rule of thumb is that you can never have enough pr0n, hehe. you could start your own spice channel in your house. haha
 

BennyD

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dvd burner £300
50xdvd's £100 (trust me)
time taken to burn - craploads
loads of time at £5.00 ph = £100

235 GB = £500 + loads of your time
£/GB = £2.13 / GB


Western Digital Caviar 200.0GB HD - £300
Time taken - diddly

200 GB = £300 + no time at all
£/GB = £1.50 / GB

£2.13/GB vs £1.50/GB for HD
 

Booster

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I think you'd be better off not burning all of this 'stuff' to CDRWs since they're so small, but rather get a new harddrive. I've seen some pretty good 120GB for sale at less than $140, thus it wouldn't be over-expensive to get a couple of these, I think.
 

randomlinh

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300GB of porn images is a lot.. too many little files.

As for the dvd burner... me like because I have no need to store everything on the HD at all times. Plus, i get to use it to burn movies. And getting the burner for $160 helps too :) It all depends on what your particular needs are.
 

TekViper

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geez and here i am with 30gig of total hd space

hds free[5.33Gb (17.07%) [||--------]] used[25.88Gb (82.93%) [||||||||--]] total[31.21Gb]