Topic: New Hard Drive

[gmax]

Thanks Bob, thats a great idea, i have a pile of those platters i could not bring myself to throw them out!

[Rik]

Or, if you want to be really secure, put some bolt cutters through the platters...

[Lona]

Thanks Bob, thats a great idea, i have a pile of those platters i could not bring myself to throw them out!

I have a pile of the platters as well. Think I have them singing "Smoke gets in your Eyes" and "Only You". 

[gmax]

No doubt about the wit of the Scottish!

[Rik]

I have a pile of the platters as well. Think I have them singing "Smoke gets in your Eyes" and "Only You". 

I would have expected it to be "Memories"...

[gmax]

I finished making my wind chimes

[Rik]

Time to start marketing them for Xmas.

[sam]

good idea 

[Michelle]

Thats great isn't it! 

[GillE]

I decided against getting a new hard drive and mounting it in an enclosure.  However, I've been told that Santa might bring me a new internal drive if I can tell him exactly what I want .  My computer has the following system hard drive specification:

 

Name    Maxtor 6V200E0
        Media Type    Fixed   hard disk media
        Capabilities    203GB
        InterfaceType    IDE
        Partitions    1
        Total Cylinders    24792
        Total Heads    255
        Total Sectors    398283480
        Total Tracks    6321960
        Tracks Per Cylinder    255
        Sectors Per Track    512
        Bytes Per Sector    63
        S.M.A.R.T Support    Yes
        Current Temperature    41C (105.8F)
Disk drive   
        Name    Maxtor 6Y160M0
        Media Type    Fixed   hard disk media
        Capabilities    163GB
        InterfaceType    IDE
        Partitions    1
        Total Cylinders    19929
        Total Heads    255
        Total Sectors    320159385
        Total Tracks    5081895
        Tracks Per Cylinder    255
        Sectors Per Track    512
        Bytes Per Sector    63
        S.M.A.R.T Support    Yes
        Current Temperature    41C (105.8F)
IDE Controller   
        Name    Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
        Manufacturer    (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)
        Status    OK
IDE Controller   
        Name    Primary IDE Channel
        Manufacturer    (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)
        Status    OK
IDE Controller   
        Name    Secondary IDE Channel
        Manufacturer    (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)
        Status    OK
IDE Controller   
        Name    Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
        Manufacturer    (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)
        Status    OK
IDE Controller   
        Name    Primary IDE Channel
        Manufacturer    (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)
        Status    OK
IDE Controller   
        Name    Secondary IDE Channel
        Manufacturer    (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)
        Status    OK
IDE Controller   
        Name    Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
        Manufacturer    (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)
        Status    OK
IDE Controller   
        Name    Primary IDE Channel
        Manufacturer    (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)
        Status    OK
IDE Controller   
        Name    Secondary IDE Channel
        Manufacturer    (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)
        Status    OK

What would be a good hard drive for me?  I'd like something to store video files on, so something in the 250 - 500GB capacity range would probably be what I'm aiming at.

As an aside, when I got the system report on my computer I noticed the following:

Memory Resource   
        Total Memory    1023MB
        Used Memory    529MB
        Free Memory    494MB
        Memory Usage    51%

At present I'm simply hooked up to the internet and running Firefox so I'm surprised that half my RAM should be in use.  Does this seem high to anyone else?  If so, what can I do about it?

Gill

[Rik]

At present I'm simply hooked up to the internet and running Firefox so I'm surprised that half my RAM should be in use.  Does this seem high to anyone else?  If so, what can I do about it?

I've got 600K in use atm, with Firefox and Outlook running, so I'd say it's about normal. Open up task manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del), and see what processes are listed. It's possible you could kill off some of those, or startup items, to free more memory.

[Simon]

It might also be worth running a spyware scan, Gill, just to eliminate anything nasty that might be claiming resources, and also check what add-ons you have with Firefox, as I believe some of these can be memory hogs.