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I Bought HL2 Today
« on: November 16, 2004 09:10 pm CST »
Turns out it need 4.5GB to install...I don't have it.

I've got 9 hard drives and not 4.5GB.  I'm pathetic.

Good news though:  It comes on 5 CDs but I can edit it to run off of a DVD.
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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2004 09:59 am CST »
HOLY CRAP  Batman thats a huge freaking Game. Go get a new HD Part. Seagate on newegg 62 bux with 5 year warranty like I was telling you.
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2004 02:45 pm CST »
holy crap... that is a monster!

Is the minimum ram spec 1 gig?
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« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2004 05:36 pm CST »
thats too weak, Final Fantasy XI is 6 gigs....

oh yeah how can you have 9 hard drives in 1 cpu? thats insane!!!!!
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« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2004 07:40 pm CST »
EQ 2 is said to be up to 10 gigs  :? i gotta get a new comp.
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« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2004 07:47 pm CST »
That's the base install.  Games have a tendency to get large around me.

Prime examples:
- Quake 1:  1996, came on 16 floppies--Quake 1 folder now:  1.00GB
- Half-Life:  1998(or around), came on one CD--4.21GB @ end of CS 1.5

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I've got a $400 hardware RAID controller in my machine.  It has eight ports on it, so my machine can handle 12 hard drives total.
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« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2004 08:56 pm CST »
How much space total right now?
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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2004 10:18 pm CST »
totals up to 990GB
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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2004 11:02 pm CST »
go buy a hard drive with 300gigs on it ^^
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« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2004 02:38 am CST »
Hmm... Pop an other PCI HD controller card in there and slap in a couple of those 250 GB drives for backup space... maybe on RAID, then use one of the faster sets of HD's for the games.

2 motherborads a go (before I rmaed for cheaper options) my motherboard came with 4 SATA Channels, 4 IDE 100 and 4 IDE 133, as well as 2 floppy drive channels.  (that is 4 sata ports on board, 2 ide 100 ports on board, ad 2 ide 133 ports on board.)

Of course... power consumption may be higher that way, so I opted for a cheaper more power efficient board for a while... and now I have:
DFI Lan Party NFII Ultra B
Got it for the hardware specs, not the name or the glow in the dark bullcrap or the overclocking options (limited.)
-4 sata channels
-2 ide 133 channels
-2 ide 100 channels
-2 floppy drive channels.
-gigabit lan port
-10/100 lan port
-400 FSB support
-3200 ram support @ dual channel
etc...

Not bad, but still not PCI-Express... which I sort of regret!
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« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2004 07:05 am CST »
You won't find PCI-E on a Socket A motherboard and never will.

Anyway, to "slap in a couple of those 250 GB drives" takes precious money that I don't currently have.  If I had it my way, I'd replace all those 120's I've got with 250's or 300's.
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« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2004 02:16 pm CST »
I have one HD, and it's 20 gigs.  :roll:
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« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2004 02:40 pm CST »
Im running a sweet 10 gig right now.
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« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2004 06:03 pm CST »
A 120Maxtor and a 160Seagate.
The Segate is partioned between Windows and whatever other programs I have.

The Seagate is my back up, which is about 60Gigs of Files. So, needless to say it will be a while before I get interested in Harddrives again.
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« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2004 06:19 pm CST »
im running on 120 gigs
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