oh c'rap, 400GB! I once set up an ftp server at my home using my regular dsl line with a simple ftp program. Everyone could upload all their files in there, or download it. It was pretty slow, though.
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most i have now is 180GB, 120GB + 60GB. 600GB is just, amazing. I know they just recently came out with 200GB hard disks and they are expensive. With all that space, what do you use it for? pron? I've barely used up 40GB in all.
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My main machine has 160 gigs (2x80gb raid-0) plus 120 gigs (single drive) for a whopping total of 280 gigs. I've filled 3/4 of it and there's no pr0n! Then again, I have nearly 4,000 mp3s and over 50,000 photos!
It annoys me whenever I hear people saying they want more HDD space for their music!
Serioulsy, a friggin MP3 is average 4MB. Even, EVEN if you had like 200 songs, you are not even crossing 1GB!
I just don't get what's with people these days. Same thing with those insane MP3 players with their huge GB. No really, 20GB? You must be half-assed to use 20GB of MP3s, seriously. If I calculate right, and I'll even be GENEROUS and say your songs are high quality average 6MB, you will need 3333.33r of songs. We don't even have this much out each year!
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i used to have over 30,000 mp3s before i formated the wrong hd (on raid), but now i think i have about 10,000... most of the stuff i recovered and redownloaded.
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Of course, that's assuming that all the music is in mp3 format. WAV takes up much more, and is a preferrable format for editing and burning. The same high quality song in .wav is probably 50MB, and that's just cd quality (16bit, 44.1kHz).
Also, I'd say there way more than 3333 songs out each year. There's so much out there that many people don't realize because in on an Indie label, or it's not mainstream, or it's not released in certain areas, etc. Probably at least a third of the cds I buy are imports, and most of them are not mainstream or major-label (Sony, BMG, etc.). And let's not forget the local heros who are playing the local dives, have no record contract, but are recording themselves and placing their music on the web for everyone. Free music is great promotion if the music is remotely good. 20GB for an mp3 player might seem extreme, but it's gotten cheap enough where going smaller doesn't really save any money.
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I agree, though I just found it rather weird as hell that 20GB is needed for little MP3 files. I dunno who can possibly DL over 10 000 in his life!
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I dunno who can possibly DL over 10 000 in his life!
It's called queing downloads and leaving it download while you sleep. You can easily hit 10,000 files in a very short time.
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Case=$180
DVD-ROM=$50
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You mean you have the time to single handedly search for 10000 MP3s, click on each to queue and DL through the night?
Not very convincing!
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I see, but you would be DLing songs you didn't even want, so in the end that still does not entirely justify or make sense to see such huge MP3 player sizes.
Yes newsgroups. You see there is a little program out there called Agent. It has this funny little search engine in it that lets you go through about 20,000 posts looking for key words. Then you mark the headers for retrieval hit download and go to sleep. Very very effective I would say. I rarely use Kaza or Direct Connect becasue that [-peep-] is to slow. Nothing will ever replace Napster in its prime.
Top Processor=$799
Mobo=$150
RAM=$300
Video Card=$500
HDD=$120
Case=$180
DVD-ROM=$50
DVD-RW=$300
Putting it all together and hearing several loud pops=Priceless
No download cap but upload is limited to about 130kbps
Top Processor=$799
Mobo=$150
RAM=$300
Video Card=$500
HDD=$120
Case=$180
DVD-ROM=$50
DVD-RW=$300
Putting it all together and hearing several loud pops=Priceless
Yup...no capacity cap at all. Just speed caps. My newsgroups are offered through my ISP and I used to get downloads as fast as 700kbps but now I'm lucky if I get 200kbps. I guess more people signed up and the bandwidth has decreased.
Top Processor=$799
Mobo=$150
RAM=$300
Video Card=$500
HDD=$120
Case=$180
DVD-ROM=$50
DVD-RW=$300
Putting it all together and hearing several loud pops=Priceless
15MB, average 64 songs per GB. You still don't need 20GB to fit around 200 songs, if you're such a music fan!
Anyways I can't argue, I can only rant, I mean god knows the amount of songs some have and the time to listen to each one of these thousands.
Sometimes it's more about having the music than listening to it. It's there when you need it. I barely listen to the mp3s I have, but the last party I threw I had the music, so I didn't have to think about it. Now I'm burning some to cd so I can spin it when I DJ in 1-1/2 weeks. Now, I'm a bit more selective so I don't have that many mp3s, but I also know I could have more if I kept up with it, and that would make the crowd happier. I will eventually buy the actual cds, but this gets me by in the meantime.
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I got almost 3 GB of MP3s with 676 numbers (some are 20 minutes long). I have them all in a playlist for Winamp on random so I hear almost always other songs each day.
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