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Need some help making over a friends PC

S Freud

S Freud

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Ok so my buddy is sporting a rather old (but meets his needs) Sony Viao PCV-RX6790 Digital Studio PC, its only running 80GB of space and do that it uses two different ATA HD's suggestions? I plan to boost the memory. and maybe add a DVD burner, any suggestions?

thanks
nthedrk
 
Geil value RAM is great. 2 gigs for 200$ or 2 512's for 88. Comes with purdy blue heatsinks too 🙂. Burner, get a lite-on. good stuff. Hard drive, maxtor or seagate.
 
should have stated that different, I said that so I didn't get responses like "get a new comp." it meets his needs for the most part, he likes to snowmobile and record his sessions, then edit and splice things, that is why he is looking at upgrades.
 
Originally posted by: nthedrk
should have stated that different, I said that so I didn't get responses like "get a new comp." it meets his needs for the most part, he likes to snowmobile and record his sessions, then edit and splice things, that is why he is looking at upgrades.
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So it's taking too long to edit his video files?

I guess ram, CPU, and harddrive would be the areas to concentrate on.

Could you give some specs on the current computer rather than just the model number so we don't need to look it up?

Is he running out of harddrive space with only 80gigs and videos?
 
You should be able to find a 200-250 gig IDE drive in the $100 price range

LiteOn DVD burner = $40-50

You should be able to add 1GB of DDR for about $100
 
Originally posted by: nthedrk
Ok so my buddy is sporting a rather old (but meets his needs) Sony Viao PCV-RX6790 Digital Studio PC, its only running 80GB of space and do that it uses two different ATA HD's suggestions? I plan to boost the memory. and maybe add a DVD burner, any suggestions?

thanks
nthedrk
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Is he running RAID setup, is that what you mean by two different ATA HDs to equal 80GB of space?

Could you list out more detail spec of his PC? If he isn't running RAID, then just get him one of those giant Seagate drives. Oh by the way, I wouldn't buy Maxtor since Seagate just bought them out, who knows how things are going to be handled.

If you don't want to format and rebuild his HDs, then you can get external USB/Firewire drives to move "stuff" over to save space.
 
Specs for his comp are:
1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4
512MB PC2100 DDR
80GB2 Ultra ATA/100 HD
DVD-RW/CD-RW Combo Drive


if you need anything else LMK

when I look to my computer I see a drive D and drive C looking at the two one is 14GB and the other is 56GB
 
Originally posted by: nthedrk
Specs for his comp are:
1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4
512MB PC2100 DDR
80GB2 Ultra ATA/100 HD
DVD-RW/CD-RW Combo Drive


if you need anything else LMK

when I look to my computer I see a drive D and drive C looking at the two one is 14GB and the other is 56GB
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Seems like it's just a partitioned 80gig drive then?

He already has a DVD burner?
 
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Originally posted by: nthedrk
Specs for his comp are:
1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4
512MB PC2100 DDR
80GB2 Ultra ATA/100 HD
DVD-RW/CD-RW Combo Drive


if you need anything else LMK

when I look to my computer I see a drive D and drive C looking at the two one is 14GB and the other is 56GB
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Seems like it's just a partitioned 80gig drive then?

He already has a DVD burner?
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Correct and correct.

any idea what I should do about the HD?
Reccomended size?
 
Why is part of the plan to add a DVD burner then? Is his too slow or something?

As for the harddrive, I guess get whatever has a good price/gb.
Maybe something in the 200-300gig range?
 
yea his dvd burner is only an 8x recordable, he wants a faster one. do you really think that he needs an HD that big? I was thinking around 180 at the most. But if thats what you think I am sure that you would know more about it than me.

when you say partitioned drive, does that mean that it is one drive and its just seperated or what?
 
I have no idea what he needs, but I just shot that figure out as a popular size.

Just some examples off newegg:
120gig = $73 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144118
160gig = $78 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144203
200gig = $85 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144129
250gig = $95 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065
300gig = $119 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148061
320gig = $125 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144392

Those are $/gig
.61
.49
.43
.38
.40
.39

So looks like right around the 250gig mark is about the best deal. Going from a 120gig drive to a drive twice the size is only about $20 more.

At least that's the way I look at it.

I think I had all 8mb cache drives there from WD and Seagate so those should all be pretty solid choices.

How long does it take him to burn a DVD? I guess with a new burner only being $45 or so it's not a big deal to get a faster one, but make sure he has media that can burn faster than he's already going so it's not a waste.

As for the partitioned drive, it's just one physical drive and it's treated as two different disks.
 
Originally posted by: nthedrk
yea his dvd burner is only an 8x recordable, he wants a faster one. do you really think that he needs an HD that big? I was thinking around 180 at the most. But if thats what you think I am sure that you would know more about it than me.

when you say partitioned drive, does that mean that it is one drive and its just seperated or what?
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Imagine a pie, sileced into up into two to make the whole pie. The whole pie represents 80 gb, the slices consists of giant slice 56gb and the other 14gb.

Technicially you could add another hard drive no problem, but physcially can you? I've never open one of those Sony machines. Is there room for another drive. Might as well get 200 gb, since its no that expensive after rebates. See if you can get hold of owner's manual and found out before you start buying hardware.

If not, you're looking at external source. If he really wants new DVD burner, why not Its his money.





 
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