Low diskspace...what am I to do?

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 2:58 am

hey, i found some great stuff at outpost.com (Fry's Electronics store) and at newegg.com.

but the problem is i dont know what to get. should i go for the full 120 or just stick with 80 or something?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 4:02 am

Bah to outpost.com

<a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.a ... 1">Samsung 80GB 7200RPM @ $92</a>.

Newegg.com is really good. I've ordered tons of stuff from them, including that model of hard drive. Works great.

~klinky

FirestormXIII · Post by **FirestormXIII** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 9:47 pm

I need to get a new HD for my laptop (I'm running on 9GB right now, be thankful you have 18), but laptop HDs don't really come as big as I'd like.

Can anyone enlighten me to external HDs and their pros and cons?

FirestormXIII · Post by **FirestormXIII** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 9:48 pm

Oy ve, that should have been 18) not 1 8)

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Jul 21, 2002 12:29 am

Unless your laptop comes with USB 2.0,Firewire or SCSI then you're screwed what with getting a external hard drive.

If your computer only has USB 1.1, then you're going to get bottlenecked big time.

Check out <a href="http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/revi ... html">this review</a>.

The first image is the IDE drive hooked directly to a IDE channel. Second is it hooked up through a converter into a USB 2.0 port. Third is it hooked up to a USB 1.1 port.

When hooked to a USB 2.0 port it's about half as being hooked direct to a IDE channel. USB 1.1 on the other hand is over 20 times slower then using a IDE channel.

~klinky

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 10:30 am

no really im not joking... RENT a hard drive or use someone elses.

at my place all the computers in the A cluster use the same admin passwd...

so just connect to the vpn using PPTP and get an ip from dns dhcp...
then go like:

\\myVictim\c$
Login: administrator Password:password
c$\winnt New Directory pub
c$\winnt\pub Copying Files
attrib \winnt\pub SYSTEM HIDDEN SPECIALHIDDEN

FirestormXIII · Post by **FirestormXIII** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 6:32 pm

Wow, he's not kidding. Looks like we've got a 733t HaXX0r on our hands here...

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 2:09 am

FirestormXIII wrote:Wow, he's not kidding. Looks like we've got a 733t HaXX0r on our hands here...

No kidding...yeesh

Anyway.....

I GOT A NEW HARD DRIVE!!!! I'M SO HAPPY NOW I WANNA KISS SOMEONE!!! (wait...no i dont....) i just phased back to reality....and....wtf did i say!? eww!!!

good call on Fry's people. I got a 80GB (7200 RPM, 8MB cache) all for just $100!!! If you live near a Fry's in CA, then I suggest you go. They have dirt-cheap EVERYTHING!!

(how did i get the money you ask? well begging everyday for the last half year, they gotta do SOMETHING

)

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 2:58 am

Actually, a network file server isn't really such a bad idea. Using a switched Fast Ethernet network will bring you good results, and building a file server is cheap.

As an example...

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trythil@lothlann media $ df  
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6              1734348    115804   1618544   7% /
tmpfs                     1024       156       868  16% /mnt/.init.d
/dev/hde2              4955412   2950796   2004616  60% /usr
/dev/hda7              1942556    193624   1748932  10% /var
/dev/hde3              4947380   1640716   3306664  34% /home
/dev/hdf1             80408392  35068352  45340040  44% /media
/dev/hde1              9958552   6597568   3360984  67% /mnt/windows_e
/dev/hda1              4192752   3209664    983088  77% /mnt/windows_c
//jupiter/jupiter_d   17912320   9466880   8445440  53% /mnt/jupiter_d

Nearly all of those partitions (except for the tmpfs filesystem) are usable in some form or another (well, assuming I create a directory I have permissions to) and a good portion of them (nearly half) are network mounts.

There's two more that COULD be mounted here, but that server isn't on.

I have an 870 exabyte NAS. I'm not joking.

I think you got your units wrong. (Actually, I'm damn sure you did.) The exabyte is a HUGE unit.
Show me free-space reports on every node.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 3:00 am

(Why can't we edit posts here?)

Oh yeah. As far as speed goes...

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trythil@lothlann Downloads $ time cp j2sdk-1_4_0-forte-ce-3_0-bin-win.exe ~

real    0m11.893s
user    0m0.010s
sys     0m1.580s
trythil@lothlann Downloads $ ls -l j2sdk-1_4_0-forte-ce-3_0-bin-win.exe 
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     66656883 May 11 00:33 j2sdk-1_4_0-forte-ce-3_0-bin-win.exe
trythil@lothlann Downloads $ pwd
/mnt/jupiter_d/Downloads
trythil@lothlann Downloads $ mount | grep jupiter_d
//jupiter/jupiter_d on /mnt/jupiter_d type smbfs (0

That's not too bad -- 66 megs in 11 seconds, especially considering that my network setup at the moment is a bit hosed.