Right!The time has come.. - Page 2

punky · 21-08-2005, 15:08

If you don't touch it, its fine.

I can just never find any screws when I need them. I have pixies who come in at night stealing all my PC screws.

Graham M · 21-08-2005, 15:10

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Originally Posted by punky

If you don't touch it, its fine.

I can just never find any screws when I need them. I have pixies who come in at night stealing all my PC screws.

I have one of those too, i've worked out it's my brother tho

AndrewJ · 21-08-2005, 15:12

LOL My slave is in a cdbay unfastened and is very happy.

Graham M · 21-08-2005, 15:13

*hears a loud bang from Rochdale*

AndrewJ · 21-08-2005, 15:16

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Originally Posted by Zeph

*hears a loud bang from Rochdale*

I know my farts can be bad after a night of dodgy cocktails and curry meals. but mannn

**Maggy** · 21-08-2005, 15:40

Well that's it I'm going for it..I've just got 800mb of space left...

Can't do anthing unless I delete ALL my son's stuff.

After his crap results I might just do it and then ban him from the internet for the next two years.

AndrewJ · 21-08-2005, 15:51

one nice 300gb external I know someone with one of these and they are good but ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£180?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Maxtor.html

another one here top one for

ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£124

300gb again internal, nice cost difference.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/maxtor_ide.html

punky · 21-08-2005, 15:59

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

Well that's it I'm going for it..I've just got 800mb of space left...

Can't do anthing unless I delete ALL my son's stuff.

After his crap results I might just do it and then ban him from the internet for the next two years.

One suggestion from experience.

You'll always run out of space. No matter how big or how many HDs you get, they'll always get filled up. I remember getting a brand new top-of-the-line machine, with a 2 gig drive, and thinking how can I fill that up? But I did. I got a 250gig last time thinking that'll hold me for a little while. And it did for precisely that, a little while.

Instead of getting a new HD which will get filled up soon enough in time, you might want to consider getting an external DVD writer. DVD media is very cheap, you can get 4.7gig disks for 50p, so if your son wants to keep all this songs, videos pr0n or whatever, he can store them on DVD. Songs and video will play fune straight off the DVD, its fast enough. Likewise if you have stuff you don't want to lose, but don't use every day. And you can use it for backing up too. External DVD writers are also very cheap now. Also, you can still easily move data between PCs via DVDs, and now you have dual layer, meaning you can get 9gig on one DVD.

You might want to consider that, as a more long term solution.

Paul K · 21-08-2005, 16:18

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Originally Posted by punky

One suggestion from experience.

You'll always run out of space. No matter how big or how many HDs you get, they'll always get filled up. I remember getting a brand new top-of-the-line machine, with a 2 gig drive, and thinking how can I fill that up?

2Gig? Wow that big? My first machine had less than that by a loooooong way

As I see it you have 2 choices Coggy, block P2P software on the machine or do as sugested and get a burner and tell him to remove stuff from the hard drive with a certain time of downloading them as you will delete them from the drive after that time.
If you get a bigger drive you will only give him an excuse to download more stuff onto the drives. Personally I would restrict him to a certain amount of space and tell him if he exceeds it that you will delete his entire P2P collection.

**Maggy** · 21-08-2005, 16:32

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Originally Posted by Paul

2Gig? Wow that big? My first machine had less than that by a loooooong way

As I see it you have 2 choices Coggy, block P2P software on the machine or do as sugested and get a burner and tell him to remove stuff from the hard drive with a certain time of downloading them as you will delete them from the drive after that time.
If you get a bigger drive you will only give him an excuse to download more stuff onto the drives. Personally I would restrict him to a certain amount of space and tell him if he exceeds it that you will delete his entire P2P collection.

I already delete his pron when I find it...

Anyway I've just purchased a 250 GB external HD.Even he will have trouble filling that in view of the 3GB cap we have.I'm going to have to stop working just when the creative juices are so ripe...But hopefully it should arrive on Tuesday....

greencreeper · 21-08-2005, 17:28

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Originally Posted by punky

You'll always run out of space

It's psychological - the more you have of something, the less concerned you are with running out, so the more you use... Applies to everything - especially money.

**Maggy** · 21-08-2005, 18:39

Oh hell the Protestant work ethic will be trotted out next.

And I still wonder why so many of you seem against me getting an external HD?You lot usually lap up the gadgets.

Stuart · 21-08-2005, 18:45

I'm not against you getting an external hdd.

punky · 21-08-2005, 18:47

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

Oh hell the Protestant work ethic will be trotted out next.

And I still wonder why so many of you seem against me getting an external HD?You lot usually lap up the gadgets.

Bloody hell, I was only suggesting something else which might suit your needs better than what you have already decided on.

I'll keep my trap shut in future then.

21-08-2005, 18:48

Bit late now, but I hope you have a USB 2 port. An HDD, if it works at all, will be a bit slow on an earlier USB port.