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I can't afford it but I can dream:
| Qty | Item | Unit Price | Extended Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Full tower case | 150.00 | 150.00 |
| 1 | Athlon XP 2x00 and motherboard | 150.00 | 150.00 |
| 1 | 512MB memory stick | 40.00 | 40.00 |
| 1 | Dual Channel ATA133 controller | 25.00 | 25.00 |
| 8 | 160GB hard drives (total 1.28TB) | 130.00 | 1040.00 |
| TOTAL: | 1425.00 | ||
Sure, I coulda stuck more hardware in there, but I'm a pragmatic dreamer. By the time I need larger disks, they'll be cheaper.
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Drop the number of drives down to 2, double the RAM (duh), and your total comes out to only $685. Much more reasonable.
And you can always add more hard drives later. ;)
You're mean.
Plus, I'm guessing that Win98 might not know what to do with a drive that large. But maybe that's the controller's lookout...
*sigh* WAY too tempting.
Re: You're mean.
b) Win98? Augh. Give it a small partition and use the rest of the drive(s) for a real OS!
c)
That's a 120GB drive, including 27GB of "media", a RedHat 8.0 "everything" install, 1.5GB of swap, and a nearly-full backup of the drive that I upgraded from.
My point is that if you really do have the upgrade bug, You may not even need to go to a full 200GB. And if you're thinking of upgrading just because it's cheap, think back to every "but honey, it was on sale" joke you've ever heard, and reconsider a bit. ;)
Re: You're mean.
I don't know any "but honey, it was on sale" jokes.
Re: You're mean.
b) Wait a second, what exactly are you doing here? You're describing an entirely new system. That doesn't mean you have to retire your existing one. Put Win98 on it, and that'll be Jodi's. For the new one, buy two network cards, put SuSE (or another *nix OS with better dial-up support) on it, and configure it to autodial and route. It's not as hard as it sounds.
c) How many CDs do you have? My collection (admittedly ripped at probably 128k), mixed mp3 and ogg is about 500 (legit) CDs (according to "find ~/media/music/ -type d | wc"), and takes about 15-20Gb.
Don't misunderstand me. If you need the space, you need the space, but do you need the space?
Re: You're mean.
Re: You're mean.
find media/music/ -type f|wc
tells me I have 4488 files.
The bitrate should only account for a factor of 192/128 (1.5x). You must just have a lot more CDs than I do. Either that or ogg really does save a lot of space...
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