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Geek Culture / Yay! I just bought an external hard drive! (WD elements 400GB)

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Aralox
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Posted: 21st Sep 2007 12:00
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Would you believe it only cost me 170 bucks? Cheap as!
AUD, if anyones wondering.
Cant wait to fill it up with my stuff.
The reason i got one is because we have two comps, a laptop and a new uber comp with vista and everything. ive decided to keep all my important stuff in my HD so i dont need to keep moving my stuff everywhere.


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dark donkey
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Thats cheap. My bucks do mean mean £'s $'s?
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Aralox
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Quote: "AUD, if anyones wondering."

$170 australian dollars.


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Veron
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That's pretty cool, where'd you get it from?


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Jess T
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Nice find, where-abouts did you pick that up?

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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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yer, share with us


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Aralox
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Its a place in Notting Hill, Victoria, called computers and parts land. really cool place, we picked up a webcam for cheap there too.
http://www.cpl.net.au/


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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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aww damn VIC!!!


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Aralox
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which part are you from?
Im sure you can find it there too.


You know whats really strange? The HD smells wonderful.
Call me freaky but it smells like apple sherbet.


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Chris K
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Posted: 21st Sep 2007 13:43 Edited at: 21st Sep 2007 17:07
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Aralox
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Posted: 21st Sep 2007 13:49
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?
What wasnt?


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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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Quote: "Call me freaky but it smells like apple sherbet."

errr....is that a good thing or not?

NSW FTW!


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Aralox
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Posted: 21st Sep 2007 15:06
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Quote: "The HD smells wonderful."

Yes, it is a good thing.
currently im migrating all my stuff into it.

Ive been there just once, and i dont like sydney. Stuffy, dirty, old.
Deserted shopping malls except for the arcade, which is packed.
I like some of the suburbs around it though


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Sopo the tocho
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Western Digital´s HDs are the best so far!


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Ron Erickson
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Posted: 21st Sep 2007 15:16 Edited at: 21st Sep 2007 15:17
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I just bought a 500gb external HD on Tuesday for $120(USD)!
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8353881&st=hard+drive&lp=2&type=product&cp=1&id=1176507039221

Should make backing things up MUCH easier. So far, I am loving it.


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Jess T
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Haha, wrong thread Chris!

For external drives, you can Turn an old harddrive into an external drive. When doing research for it, I found that external drives were ~$100 more expensive than the same sized internal drives (ie, almost double the price for a 128GB drive).

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Chris K
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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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lol hahahaha
well i dont live in sydney, full of immigrants and its all crummy in most parts (not all)

im more west, about 60km out of sydney


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Aralox
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Quote: "I just bought a 500gb external HD on Tuesday for $120(USD)!"

No WAY! That is so unfair!
Just shows what you can achieve with a bit of heavy looking.

I dont think i trust myself to turn a harddisk into an external one, even though it costs heaps less.


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Quote: "I dont think i trust myself to turn a harddisk into an external one, even though it costs heaps less."


it's about as difficult as buying a 15 dollar housing, screwing the hard drive in, and then snapping the housing shut. It's about as risky as drinking water


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Aralox
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Yes, but a task like screwing a hard drive in for me is like trying to juggle water. Im not good with hardware


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Ron Erickson
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2007 05:06
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Quote: "No WAY! That is so unfair!
Just shows what you can achieve with a bit of heavy looking."

lol
Actually, I didn't look at all. I just took a drive to the closest Best Buy store and bought what seemed to give the most for the price. I didn't even bother looking at other stores


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Aralox
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2007 05:09
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You lucky duck!
I had to look through the green pages to find the deal i got.


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Ron Erickson
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2007 05:24
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To take it a step further, I didn't even have to pay for it. My work bought it for me because I have been using my personal laptop for a lot of business stuff. I told them that my HDD was getting full and I needed a new one. So, I went out that day and bought it with the company credit card


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Aralox
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You devious monkey


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