computer problem ? big anoyance

[Saltheart]

Back about early to mid 90's I had a big SCSI system with a total of 1 T HD space (which was huge then) . I did a lot of downloading siftware from a news server using a robot. SCSI drives were expensive then.

Now I have about 1 T total with half as an expernal drive. I put all the pics , movies etc external and just use the internal drives for day to day. I also unplug one drive as a Master backup that I can just clone over when I get into deep crap.

Anyway , I bet all my files only total about 100G now and if you take out the full length motion pictures I bet its less than 30 G. I have to laugh at myself now having easy Terabyte capability now and having almost no use compared to 15 years ago when I paid a fortune to have that same space and used up every bit of it. Funny how things go. I think one big contributor was when @home network went belly up and cox had to use their own servers. Download rates from news servers was cut by more than a factor of 10. What I could do in an hour or 2 now takes all day and night. I always figured those things would improve over time but in fact that aspect has gone the other way.

BTW , SBNews is a great robot for downloading off the news servers. Very easy to use , very low price and I think 30 day free trial to test it. You can mask files , load handreds of user groups for download at one time , you can run about 5 downloads at once limited by your ISP not the program. You can dupe check , etc , etc.

Sorry for the tangent but I freaked when I read Raven had just 40 Gig.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Saltheart

Sorry for the tangent but I freaked when I read Raven had just 40 Gig.

well the expensive computers got destroyed and this is a temporary replacement that cost just 200 clams

i have some that i will try and resurrect during the winter
if i can make the time

[vineyardblues]

Raven, I have XP , Vista, windows 7 , office 2010
Send me a PM and I will swing over

[Saltheart]

Originally Posted by Raven

well the expensive computers got destroyed and this is a temporary replacement that cost just 200 clams

i have some that i will try and resurrect during the winter
if i can make the time

The system I use now , a Pentium 4 3.2GHz copper core prescott whatsadinky cost me $299 refurbed from dell outlet maybe 6 years ago. They have made that dell outlet much harder to use by changing the search windows. that's really unfortunate. You used to be able to zero in on just what you wanted or keep refreshing until what you wanted appeared in the outlet. I still think Dell outlet is a good place to buy , just harder to do it now IMO.

I hope you get your system up and running the way you want it Raven. The computer is an everyday tool for me now. When its on the blink I get really irritated.

[Raven]

seems to be running ok now

it sucks when ya loose operating systems disks too
(they were melted) because then yer screwed when
asked to insert disk.... for the whatever file


noted : VB & thanks

thanks all ! for the assistance