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Settle down now... Yep...I use Maxtor and WD in general, though I never had a problem with my ancient Quantum Fireball either. 3.2 gigabytes of reliability. This Maxtor 120 is the only one that's ever screwed me, and it as intermittent....it seems fine now.

It'd be a shame to lose that much data... My connection is too slow and I don't buy enough CDs to make a dedicated file server worthwhile. Also, what I have ripped is encoded as mp3, so full albums only take up about 50-75 megs each.

Velvet Acid Christ - The Dark Inside Me

I've alctually still got alot of open capacity. I got the twin 250s because I nearly lost everything in that 120GB with my previous computer...twice. Drive started clicking and corrupting system files. Of course, since I built the array I haven't had that problem, even with the problematic drive...

Armin Van Buuren & Ray Wilson - Yet Another Day

Boy Sets Fire - Still Waiting For The Punchline

Infected Mushroom - Frog Machine

Heh...You win alright. You win more than you bargained for (drama). Anyway, I used to run the drives seperate because I was lazy for about 6 months. I finally reformatted and built the array in...uh...august I guess.

Yep....at the moment, firewire is faster. I believe the next generation of USB is expected to out-do firewire, but who knows how long that will last... A: First you'll need to know what else you want in the way of sound, video, memory...number of slots available for different kinds of cards (PCI, AGP, PCI-E, RAM slots, etc) are dictated by the otherboard....as is the type and series of processors which will be available for that board. Ideally you figure out essentially what you want in the way of expansion cards, type and number of drives, memory, and processor and then look for motherboards which will suit those requirements. Then a power supply to run everything and a case to hold it all together. B: You probably could install iTunes on that drive (though I have never tried it) provided that was the only computer you were likely to use it on (it'll probably need to put some registry entries into the drive which has your operating system), the transfer rate of the USB/firewire link was high enough, and the drive letter of the external drive never changes. I wouldn't suggest it, personally. My own system currently contains: 2x 250 GB in a mirroring RAID-1 array (automatic replication of the entire drive in case one fails and a better seek time as it reads different sections of the same data set simultaneously off two drives) 1x 120 GB to which I manually back up my music and pictures at random intervals 1x 80GB external which I use for transfering stuff to other computers

Knows that the chain was decidedly unsexy. Wait a second, why would I be turned on by my own avatar?

Regarding the ADS enclosure....I have the small one at it cost about $50 from staples. If you have windows XP it will recognise it as a drive as soon as you plug it in. 2000 should be the same, but no guarantee.

Also has an excellent avatar. HaHA! Breaking the chain, fuckers!

9/10 because...well, yeah. But That better be a decent beer.

Is apparently having a nude love-in with the other hippies.

Most ramdomisers do that. My iRiver players tend to suck at shuffling too.

You can instlal a hard drive into a drive enclosure if you can use a screwdriver. Then it's just USB...plug it in and go. As for building a computer....a beginner can do it provided they do some research. Aside from making sure all components will be compatible, the most important thing to know is probably proper instllation of the processor. Not hard, but if you do it wrong, a modern Pentium can burn itself out in about two seconds.

Totally just burned that other guy.

Now has an excellent avatar.

Get an enormous, standard hard drive an and ADS drive enclosure. It'll be available if you ever want to install it into the system, that way. edit: I said standard twice.

Has no avatar.

I always had this problem where I could not remember procedures and equations. I had no problem understanding the actual concepts, it was just that my brain refused to remember the 'how to do it' part.

Indeed. It's something of a problem, because as much as I may enjoy the sciences and particularly physics, I hate math.

Oh don't be fooled. I have no formal training. Almost everything I know is based on heresay and the theories of people who may not have achieved any notoriety in their field. It is, nontheless, easy to confuse people with it.

I'm just basing that on people I have discussed it with. Causeality is easy, it's the quantum superposition stuff, and to a lesser extent the various branch theories you need to worry about.

2500, apparently.