Thanks For the Memory

[urgeok2]

Has anyone bought memory for anything lately ?

thy're practically giving the stuff away !

I bought 3 4 gig Micro SD's the other day .. 16$ each
and an 8 gig PSP memory - for $65 !! i remember when the 4gig psp memory stick was about $170 ... way less than a year ago.

if i had hunted around i'm sure i could have gotten it cheaper too - that was the 1st place i looked.

[Despare]

Has anyone bought memory for anything lately ?

thy're practically giving the stuff away !

I bought 3 4 gig Micro SD's the other day .. 16$ each
and an 8 gig PSP memory - for $65 !! i remember when the 4gig psp memory stick was about $170 ... way less than a year ago.

if i had hunted around i'm sure i could have gotten it cheaper too - that was the 1st place i looked.

My camera uses those ProDuo sticks... I got a 2 gig for $50 less than a year ago and can get the same damn card for around $20 now. Same access speeds and everything!

[urgeok2]

its crazy ..

i also saw a compac flash - 16 GIG !!! for 50$

but it was a low rent manufacturer i'd never heard of before .. didnt trust it..

[Despare]

its crazy ..

i also saw a compac flash - 16 GIG !!! for 50$

but it was a low rent manufacturer i'd never heard of before .. didnt trust it..

Sometimes they have such low speeds they're almost useless.

[newb]

not memory but a 500 gig hard drive for $99.

I remember spending a couple of hundred bucks for something like 16 mb of memory about 10 years ago

[neverending]

not memory but a 500 gig hard drive for $99.

I remember spending a couple of hundred bucks for something like 16 mb of memory about 10 years ago

For an extra $50 you could have got an extra teragig at Tiger Direct. 1.5 TG $150.

[newb]

For an extra $50 you could have got an extra teragig at Tiger Direct. 1.5 TG $150.

I'm thinking the 500 gig is more than enough.


I could buy a lot of beer with that $50

[neverending]

You can never have a big enough drive.

[newb]

You can never have a big enough drive.

you been talking to my wife?

[urgeok2]

I'm thinking the 500 gig is more than enough.





i remember saying that about 200mb drives :)



i bought the 1 terrabyte... at the rate i'm going it will be full in a year ...
just of the photos i take - and thats not even shooting raw format.

[newb]

I figure I should be good for a while....if I have to add more....it will only be cheaper down the road.


holy shit its 1:30......I'm off to bed ....catch ya all later

[urgeok2]

I figure I should be good for a while....if I have to add more....it will only be cheaper down the road.


holy shit its 1:30......I'm off to bed ....catch ya all later

sounds like a good idea .. tired as hell - cleaned all day for the company that came over tonight ... i'm beat !

[_____V_____]

If you think thats cheap, wait 6 more months.

And Nighty night, both of you.

[ManchestrMorgue]

Even given the recent downturn in our dollar, memory is quite cheap in Australia too.

Recent purchases:

2x750gig hard drives for $106 each

8 gigs of Ram (4x2 gig sticks) for $150 (Patriot)

8 gig USB stick for $37 - Sandisk so a good brand.

I remember the first hard drive I bought. It was 40 megabytes and cost about $1000.

But RAM has really gotten cheap over the last 12 months. At the start of 2007 I bought 2 gigs of memory (2x1 gig sticks) and it cost me about $300. It was good quality, but this was the cheapest I could find it. Recently I got 4 times as much memory for half that price.

[missmacabre]

I got 2 1gig flash drives for free on College Orientation day. They gave you one for going around and having stickers put on a card all around campus. So a friend and I did that. He thought he lost his and we both needed one more sticker. So he went to the desk and they just gave him the flash drive. We move along to the last thing, a bbq, and they refuse to give him food unless he has his card. So I got my food, took my sticker off and put it on my shirt. He took the card to the bbq and got a sticker...... Then he found his card in one of his text books lol. So I put the sticker on my shirt on the card and got 2 flash drives since he got one already and had one at home.

[ferretchucker]

I've got pretty much all the memory I need for my computer. I've got a huge external hardrive they I put large files on if my internal one is getting full. I also keep them on there in case I need to go away in an emergency and the odds are I won't get to my computer again.

But as for other things, I got two 1GB flash memory sticks. I want more! When it comes to memory, you can never have too...er...what's the word I'm looking for?

[ManchestrMorgue]

I've got pretty much all the memory I need for my computer. I've got a huge external hardrive they I put large files on if my internal one is getting full. I also keep them on there in case I need to go away in an emergency and the odds are I won't get to my computer again.

But as for other things, I got two 1GB flash memory sticks. I want more! When it comes to memory, you can never have too...er...what's the word I'm looking for?

Heh 2 hard drives huh :)

I have 7 internal and 1 external drives. Total a bit over 4 terabytes.

You can never have too much memory :D

[ferretchucker]

Memory! That's word. Ah great, not I remember that but I forgot when my birthday is!

But 4 Terabytes! Holy shit! How much room you got? 3.9? :rolleyes:

[Vodstok]

allow me a geek moment:
Storage = Hard Drive
Memory = Ram

:D


that being said, my laptop is maxed out at 2 gigs of ram, but it screams even in newer games like Bioshock with all of the bells and whistles turned on (cant WAIT for 2 dx10 cards...), and I have 400 gigs of internal storage at my fingertips.

Plus a 1TB external hard drive that is 80% full...


Oh, and I know it was a typo, but I am living for the days of Teragig hard drives...

You could have different copies of the Matrix on that. Not the movie, the actual program. :)

Look at it this way: 1 terabyte is 1000 gigs.
that is:
1,000,000 megabytes
which is
1,000,000,000 Kilobytes
which is
1,000,000,000,000 bytes

which would make a teragig
1,000,000,000,000 gigs.


Holy shit :)


(for the record, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. I'm pretty sure that is what a bajillion million looks like)

[ferretchucker]

Okay, I have Memory on the hardrive! :rolleyes:

[ManchestrMorgue]

But 4 Terabytes! Holy shit! How much room you got? 3.9? :rolleyes:

Actually, probably about 300 gigs of free storage.

[urgeok2]

dont you ever burn your movies to disc ? :)

[ManchestrMorgue]

Actually I use a lot of the storage for things like photo and video editing.

Video in DV form takes up a lot of space, and I tend to keep a copy on my computer as well as a 'backup' on the original tapes. Photos I back up over multiple drives.

I do burn edited video to DVD, but it is obviously lower quality than the DV originals, and it is edited, so I like to keep the bits that I edit out of the DVD's that I burn.

Then there are apps, games etc that take up room.

And emulated systems - for example emulated amigas with hardfiles to work as virtual hard disks. One for each different configuration.

I could probably be more economical with my files, but hard drives aren't that much more expensive than blank DVD's really (for example, 750 gigs backed up over DVD's @40c each works out to about $60; whereas a 750 gig hard drive is about $100). But I find hard drives far more convenient.

[urgeok2]

only problem is i dont trust harddrives for long term storage..
moving parts - spinning fast - getting hot...

and they arent built to last - i like to have my stuff backed up.

not only that - but when they get full they dont run very efficiently and they take forever to defrag.

[Vodstok]

only problem is i dont trust harddrives for long term storage..
moving parts - spinning fast - getting hot...

and they arent built to last - i like to have my stuff backed up.

not only that - but when they get full they dont run very efficiently and they take forever to defrag.
There is a big argument for Vista, it defrags constantly in the background