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[Chr0n0]

I noticed when I got back home in Asia after finishing my studied in the states that everyone around here (at least my friends) uses 2.5" (Laptop) HD as a mean to exchange data with each other.

They literally carry them 2.5"s in their pockets (I'm referring to HD, not something else )
The casing and USB connectivity makes it really convenient too

So anyways, considering the price, its actually a lot cheaper than carrying USB flash drives ne?
Consider the fact that that the cheapest 512mb USB flash drive (generic brand) around here costs around HKD300 (almost USD 40)
I bought a Hitachi 2.5" 80GB 5400rpm 8mb cache yesterday complete with the USB casing for HKD 1115 (roughly USD 140), complete with 3 years manufacturer's warranty.

same ease of connectivity (both being USB, just plug-and-pray it works)
the HD is a bit over 3x the price of the mentioned USB drive, but carries over 150 times the capacity.
(well, the size factor? its comparable to my wallet... only much less thinner, since my wallet carries too much bills... ~.~)

I wonder why this method of data storage isnt widely (or perhaps not even used) in America? hmmmm

[agb]

I noticed the same thing when I visited my cousin in TW a couple of yrs ago. I think it's cool, but until recently it was not too practical. The drives maxed out at 40GB and cost about 600$ US. But now they are much cheaper and capacity has reached 120GB.

I don't really use it because I'm not in school anymore and don't have that much data to shuttle around. I use CF and SD for carrying data so that I can view them on my PDA (I watch a lot of my anime on PDA on the subway). However, if I was still in school and wanted to just carry data around between school and home machine, I'd use that. But for work, the spare space on the CF and SD is usually more than enough.

[myrle]

i'm attempting to clean it of all my videos and crap now ;_;

[agb]

I'll let Nyekobug take this one. I only have ~350GB of stuff on my Media center PC, about 10 GB free. ~30GB of stuff on my BT laptop, about 1 GB free. and 370GB on a external HDD, about 10GB free. Every thing else is on DVD's

Edit: Misread the original question, answered the opposite of what was asked

[yakuruto]

Right now is not so bad, 786MB free on C: (8GB total), 121MB free on D: (10GB total) and 1.43GB free on G: (189GB total). It's almost always like this, as soon as I free some space new stuff is available

The worst situation happend some years ago, before BT saw the light. I was downloading stuff and working on my old laptop when suddenly I had less than 1MB free (damn temporal files )

[qx123]

10 gig left...
Wan le Wan le

[yots]

17.3 giga in total
~3 giga free


i want a 100+ giga hard disk

[Misaki]

C: 23GB free (37 GB total)
D: 21 GB free (37GB total)
F: 16 GB free (185 GB total)

[darklord1324]

i only got 11.4 GB left 37.2 GB in total

[nyekobug]

I'll let Nyekobug take this one. I only have ~350GB of stuff on my Media center PC, about 10 GB free. ~30GB of stuff on my BT laptop, about 1 GB free. and 370GB on a external HDD, about 10GB free. Every thing else is on DVD's

Bwahaha, um, alot?

Computers have:
Primary:
(system partition) : 4.02GB / 15.0GB
(data partition) : 2.31GB / 54.5GB
(additional ext. drive) : 48.6GB / 189GB
(additional ext. drive) : 55.3GB / 114GB
(additional ext. drive) : 65.2GB / 279GB

VidServer:
(system drive): 88.3GB / 114GB
(media drive): 188GB / 189GB

FileServer:
(system/bittorrent drive): 20.8GB / 149GB
(cache drive) : 148GB / 149GB
(storage drive) : 1022GB / 1490GB (Teradrive!)

Usenet/Gaming:
(system/download drive) : 20.7GB / 111GB

Totals: ~1663GB / ~2853GB (42% used)

These computers are all networked together, and the Teradrive is only a recent addition, and yes, I do have access to all of this data from one computer :] And unlike agb, i don't have much backed up on DVDs, in fact, I'm backing DVDs up to the Teradrive ;D

-nyekobug

[Amarach]

C: 520MB/11.3GB
D: 210MB/7.25GB

*Passes around a collection plate*

[Camui]

181GB total space and 2.21GB free.

[driler]

C: 705Mb free of 18,9GB
D: 1,55GB free of 74,5GB

[isamudyson]

hmmmm

Fileserver
C: 33.1gb/37.2gb
D: 25.7gb/149gb
E: 46.6gb/149gb
F: 15gb/37.2gb
G: 20.4gb/37.2gb
I: 5.53gb/38.3gb

Laptop 1
C: 28.7gb/74.5gb
E:(ipod) 0.020gb/18.5gb
F:(ext) 6.16gb/37.2gb
G:(ext) 6.21gb/37.2gb
I:(ext) 173gb/298gb

Laptop 2 (mac)
C: 12.79gb/55.88gb

Primary
C: 34.1gb/93.1gb
D: 21.3gb/111gb

Personal comp at work
C: 24.2gb/37.2gb
D: 13.5gb/149gb
F: 4.45gb/18.5gb

Total: 470.76gb/1377.98GB (66% used)

30 dvd's Burned
another Ipod just to listen music on
1 40gb hd sitting there cause it can die today or a year from now.
and all are networked so view from one comp like nyekobug

[nyekobug]

isamudyson: (heh your name is hard to type out - i kept typing isamundyson):

Nice, gotta love having network shares on your systems. I actually have two iPods - an older 20G (which iTunes decided it needed to be "reconfigured" so it's totally empty) and a shuffle.

I wish I had an infinite-speed network connection, I'd start leasing out space on my server :].

For those of you living in the US, Newegg has some phenomenal deals from time to time on hard drives. I only have to say don't get Maxtors, 'cause I've been burned (literally!) by them and their extremely high power consumption/temperature.

-nyekobug

[isamudyson]

Nyekobug: yah My old Ipod is also a old 2nd Gen 20gb but only using it for storage because the battery life is only like 4 hrs now. my new one is a 4gen 20gb

Yeah Newegg very decent in prices. sadly they stopped totally having free shipping

[agb]

I wish I had an infinite-speed network connection, I'd start leasing out space on my server :].

If I had infinite bandwidth, I think I would fill my HDD even faster

[nyekobug]

If I had infinite bandwidth, I think I would fill my HDD even faster 

That is true... I'd probably fill mine pretty damn quickly too. Of course, I am *such* a packrat, I'd just get more drives... and more drives...

You know Fry's is selling a Buffalo Terastation for like $700 or so (up to gigabit-network storage solution, supports up to 1TB or various other raid configurations over four drives.

-nyekobug

[RyeCrimsonMoon]

20.2GB/70.9GB

Heh, and that's after I cleared up some space Of course, I'm downloading a lot now

[綺麗な氷]

Oh crap. Thanks for reminding me.
I only have 5 GB left.
I have a 120 GB HDD.
Hmmm....perhaps i'll unistall Visual Studio for now.