Hard Drive or Burner?

[burnup]

mmhh i'm planning to buy either a new 10 gig hard drive or a new burner! i can't decide which i should get.

i have currently a 4.1 gig HD :P

[Apostle 83]

You have to ask yourself how you'd use both... Would you be playing a lot of games? Go with the hdd... Download a lot of stuff, go with a cdrw-download to hd, then burn and delete.

[Brydon]

Get the burner as you can use it to backup all your files and that will also save you space. Once you got a burner you would never be without one http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Warthog]

I agree. Go with the burner. I'm the only one who uses my computer with a 6.4gb hd and I have a decent amount of space. I'm into gaming, mp3s, and trailers http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif. I have a burner and am VERY glad I have it. Have made a few cds and backed up A LOT. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[reddog4629]

Get the burner and some CDRWs first. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[jad1097]

How much space is left on your drive now? I would go with the hdd if less than 500MB's.
A new drive would speed things up a little bit too.

You can always get a burner latter, then again you could also get a hdd latter to.

Anyhow I would get the hdd. YOu can use your old one for backups.

[pickel]

Never knew what it was like with a burner. Now that I have one can't realize what I would be like without one. DEFINITELY.....
Get The Burner!!!! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

the pickel

[Warthog]

Duh....I feel stupid http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif. Of course you should get the burner because what is gonna happen to all your old files when you switch hard drives?? Yeah...that's what I thought. Get the burner and THEN get the hd. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[jad1097]

What is with the wise *** attitudes today?!!

I have copied the entire contents of one drive to another many times without losing a single F@%$^*g file FYI! Have you ever heard of Drive Image Pro? (http://www.powerquest.com/freestuff/index.html) Also FYI most if not all new drives come with software that does it flawlessly! Maxtors software being the one I have personaly used.

YEAH, THAT IS WHAT I THOUGHT! Now I am sure you feel stupid?
He asked for our opinions not our sarcasm! Please check your wise *** attitude at the door. I do not come here to have my opinion ridiculed by others. I just gave him my honest opinion without trying to be some kind of wise ***.

A burner does him little good if he has run out of space on his drive. A burner does not replace the need for a bigger hdd, however it may prolong it.

I do love my burner and use it quite often but I also have a 30gig and a 8.4gig drive installed in my box. And I would give up neither for a burner.

[Warthog]

ummmmmmm.....I'm sorry????

Geee...I wasn't even referring to your post. No need to have a hernia over it.

I thought we were trying to give advice. Everyone has a difference in opinion. It's ok, calm down....

Warthog

[pickel]

I'm sure I missed something here??????????

[Warthog]

Whatever....just telling my opinion.

Warthog

[alondra]

all the answers Ive seen were logical and respectfull,the only wild-*** attitude I see eminates from jad1097

[hmf]

If i have understood you have a burner!!!!!!, sooooo buy a new hd and go for at least 20 Gb (the price is almost identical) even if you have a 2X burner with some patience you could make backups.
I hade the same dilema 2 month ago and i went for both!!! (a 20Gb udma66 Ibm drive and a yamaha 8X4X24 IDE, the performance of these new drives are amazing!!!!!)

[NavyDood_ F/A18_Mech]

One word. BURNER You can burn to it, and leave it accessible just like a hard drive. You can close the session on a disk so you can use the disk in other computers and re-open the disk to write to it some more.

A large drive is all fine and dandy. But what if you have 10 gig worth of files, pics, documents etc.... and all of a sudden it crashes? Buh bye info.

This is just my thought of course. I have a 6.4 gig and only am using about 2.5 gigs. And I do gaming also. It's just that i don't leave the game on the system if I'm not playing it. Anything I d-load I burn to disk. All my MP'3 are on their own disks. I use a CD-RW to back up my address books, Fav folder, ICQ backup, game settings etc......

If you keep an eye out you can find hecka good deals on CD-R's. I just bought 50 cd-r's for $6.99 shipped. Think about it. That is .14 cents a disk.

Jim


[This message has been edited by NavyDood_ F/A18_Mech (edited 05-13-2000).]

[jad1097]

Yes I did make a wise *** post because of what I felt was a wise *** post directed at me. Why would he post twice to recommend a burner? Or was he just not content with his first post saying "Go with the burner"?
And the comment "Yeah...that's what I thought." sure the hell was not directed at himself. And shall I assume that he felt stupid to make a second post recommending a burner?

It is not my intention to insult people. I just state the facts the way I see them wether right or wrong it is how I see and interpret them. I do have the ability to comprehend the intention of what I read 99% of the time. Maybe I just look a little deeper at the intention of words and how they are used more than your average person. After all us being humans we are wrapped in words and they can be very powerful when used correctly or incorrectly. I will not get into this subject any deeper.

[jad1097]

YOu can get a 10.2 gig Maxtor drive for $92.5+ $9 shipping from here. (http://www.compgeeks.com/cgi-bin/details.asp?cat=Drives&sku=205-9142) OR a 13 gig Fireball drive for $98.95+ shipping here. (http://www.compgeeks.com/cgi-bin/details.asp?cat=Drives&sku=205-1366)

[jman01pa]

Definitley go with the hardrive. Did you say how much space you had available? I know you can download, convert and burn MP3's in one step but it is a whole lot easier to manage them from your hard drive. Pluse caching to your hard drive is alot faster and I believe alot less error possibilities.

I hope everyone is done b**ching at each other. I thought we were better than that here.

Good Luck either way.

J http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[catcow]

I've used both in the past and I would say go with the burner unless you have very large files to back up.

[alpha]

Jad, Lay off Warthog. I can see how he ment his post to be and it did not insult anyone. I know you're sound enough to understand the way he was thinking.

[wtp]

get the burner. Not only will 10 CD/RW hold more data than your current harddrive. It acts as one since you can erase and rewrite. I have one, and i'm happy! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

wtp http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[alondra]

Hi Guys
got a question, keep hearing reference to a "burner" just how is the info imprinted on the disk. Im sure not magnetic like a floppy, and I gather that it can be written over?? concidering getting one.
Al

[krusty the klown]

Alondra, you can get two types of disk for your 'burner' CD-R disks hold either 650 or 700MB and are write-once, read many times. You can write a disk-at-once, whereby the operation is single session and the disk cannot be written to again, or you can format the disk, so it can be used as a 'drag and drop' disk in explorer. You have a choice when you eject the latter type of format whether you 'close' the disk or leave it open, for future writes.

When the disk is closed, it should be readable in a standard CD ROM drive.

You can also buy CD-RW disks, that can be erased, etc. just like a 600MB floppy. These are supposed to be good for ~1000 re-writes, but I have found them unreliable. Some CD ROM drives can read RW disks with an appropriate driver (e.g. Adaptec UDF Reader). These disks are more expensive than CD-R disks.

The burner uses a laser to write data for all operations.

A CD Burner is probably the best piece of kit you can get for your PC (IMO). I would recommend buying a decent brand name (e.g. HP / Plextor, etc.), rather than some generic thing you've never heard of - you can end up throwing away a lot of disks that way http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

[shadow]

I wanna burner too! Is a 188mmx enough to use a burner? Will it handle 75fsb/37 pci?
Or should I put it in my non o/c'd PII350?

Now all I need is the money.
Anyone have some extra they don't need? http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[alondra]

KtheK
thanks for the info, I learn a lot from you folks out there
Al

[ceedee]

burner definately
big hd no use in acrisis
good bakups always useful