Talk about overkill. I just bought a new computer; not because I really needed one, I just thought it might be nice to have something that would boot Windoze before I fell asleep and crashed my face into the keyboard. I opted for a nice new Gateway with one of the new Core 2 Duo (E6600) and a lot of other fancy stuff. Very fast, and it did boot Windows at an acceptable rate of speed; but here's the thing....

It came with a 500G disk drive. It also has a 120G portable media drive. I guess that would be so I can share stuff with my friends who also have a Gateway with a portable media drive (that would be none, as in 0). Plus, when my son saw it, he decided I should definitely have a backup drive and immediately supprised me with a 500G external firewire drive. I now have 1.12 TERABYTES of hard disk storage. So.....

Out of curiousity, I checked the drive capacity and usage of my trusty 5 yr old studio computer and learned that it was 80G and (after five years) had 65% free space. This includes photos of the grandkids, a couple of backups from my HD recorder, assorted music software, old tax records, a Fran Carrango mp3, and other useless and long forgotten stuff.

So the question is, what the heck do I do with 1 Terabyte of HD space. I guess I could try to store a picture of Fran's butt, or Donny's ego, or Diki's knowledge base.....nah, I'd need more storage than that.

Any (clean) suggestions.

chas

Whoops, almost forgot these.

It's time for your wife to take the check book away from you...You are now senile..

You're probably right, Fran...although I'd probably have felt better if you'd added a couple of those smiley faces.

chas

Curious as to why you didn’t use the Hibernate function on your old computer which saves an image of the ram, and which just takes a few seconds (Depends on the size of Ram) to load back in. (I suspect it was more then boot time that caused you to get another computer)
BTW Its not just size you get with a larger hard disc, but faster access and data transfer.
Also 1.12 Tb seems a bit small in this day an age

Bill

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I just got to see a picture of Fran for the first time a day or two ago.
I was amazed!
He looks just like Deano Martin when we was sober
Good looking fellow though
Bebop

Bebop, might be time to check that eyeglass prescription .

chas

1 Terabyte of HD space...........


Doesnt even come close to storing my EGO

It'll fit my knowledge base if you zip it first...

I suggest you take a serious look at some of the new soft synths and keyboards. That machine will run just about as many voices as you can possible play. Check out the demos for Ivory (for killer grand pianos), BFD for drums, GIGA Scarbee for basses (and many other things), StylusRMX for loops, Garritan Personal Orchestra (for, well, you guessed it!) if you can't afford the VSL library.

Many of these wonderful sample libraries are 30GB or more. You can fill up a HD quick like that...!