The Computer Megathread

[Nickelob Ultra]

ha ha

thailand

who lives there anymore

The hard drive manufacturers do apparently.

It's why the prices for a 1TB hard drive went from $80 to $200.

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[HelplessNobb88]

Did you not see the WD logo on the building? lol

[Ethan]

Otis, what chipset is your motherboard?

The way you've described it makes it sound like it's not new though, so I don't think it would be a Z68. If it was, you could've used SRT Technology :(

Any preference on size?

[Mulch]

Ethan is it possible to buy a external battery that I can keep charged and use it to charge my laptop? This thing only has about 2 hours of battery life and it urks me.

[Ethan]

Ethan is it possible to buy a external battery that I can keep charged and use it to charge my laptop? This thing only has about 2 hours of battery life and it urks me.

Some models have a battery that is as big as the laptop itself, and it sits underneath it, and you plug it in. I'm not sure if it's possible for all though.

[pecon98]

A quick question: What does having a RAID card help?

[Ethan]

A quick question: What does having a RAID card help?

Presuming that you mean HDD RAID.
It means that your hard drives can work in conjunction, in a number of solutions, like RAID 0 is using them together to imitate one big hard drive for twice the speed, the downside is that if one crashes you have to start over as files are split between the two. There are others as well.

[Legodude77]

So I wouldn't be able to buy a low-profile gpu, 1 normal ram stick, and a normal hard drive for that case?

[Ethan]

So I wouldn't be able to buy a low-profile gpu, 1 normal ram stick, and a normal hard drive for that case?

Yeah but why bother.

[Doomonkey]

the downside is that if one crashes you have to start over as files are split between the two.

Which is exactly why the other RAID technologies exist. So you can be protected from the corruption or loss of data.

[skill4life]

Where can i find the cheapest 1 exabyte hard drive?

[pecon98]

Where can i find the cheapest 1 exabyte hard drive?

Fry's electronics.
 

[Doomonkey]

Where can i find the cheapest 1 exabyte hard drive?

Just buy 1 million terabyte hard drives.

[Kira100000]

how good is this for the price wise

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533 

and this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500202

[Mr.jacksaunt]

Ok, I'm looking for a pair of 1067 mhz ddr3 memory sticks for my late 2008 MacBook, both with 2gbs each. (I don't know anything about memory so I might have gotten that wrong)
Preferably something that's cheap