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Use DVD Shrink...it will compress something that would take up a dual-layer DVD into something that will fit on a regular DVD.

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Anyone get in on this? Curious to see what the pages look like and if you can use your own domain.

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I ended up deciding to go with 40GB. I don't play any games so it's just OS and programs. I checked my program files folder and my windows folder on my current computer (which has a lot of crap I won't be installing on the new one) and it's a combined 9GB. So, 40GB should be plenty for page file, OS ...

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No games...I'll have Photoshop, Dreamweaver, MS Office, Nero, Audition, and probably a bunch of smaller files.

Even with my page file on that drive and doing restores on that drive it seems I was way overshooting. Maybe 30GB? That's probably still way overkill but it will give me room to expand if ...

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I'm thinking 60GB would be plenty but don't want to have too little. Any thoughts? I'll have a 500GB HD so I'm thinking partition 60GB for OS & programs and the rest for files.

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Sure....Tag & Rename. It's an excellent ID3 tag editor....tons of options and it can create lists of your music in Excel. I've had it for about 4 years...great investment considering the $20 or $30 I spent has given me free upgrades all these years: http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

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I didn't say I got my movies on Tuesday and returned them Saturday. :)

I just said I made sure to ship my movies back Sat. or Monday. So, I always had 3 out plan (I just cancelled last month due to lack of movies I wanted to see and a lot of TV shows we watch....I'll be starting back up again soon ...

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I never had that problem with BB. I just made sure to ship my movies back Saturday or Monday and then on Tuesday I always got whatever new releases I wanted.

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I definitely like Blockbuster better. Almost as fast ship times and now you get a free in-store rental every single week. Netflix is ok but in time Blockbuster will catch-up.

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This will be used for general internet use, word processing, web editing, some graphic design, some audio editing and other basic tasks....I will not be using it for gaming.

Asus A8N-SLI Premium
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4400+
Thermalright XP-120 Heatsink w/ 120
Corsair XMS CMX512-3200C2 PC3200 (Can I ...

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zooner wrote:honestly, they seem a little expensive

But the prices include assembly. Do you know of any other websites like it? I couldn't find any.

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I have never built a computer before and I'd rather not make my first attempt my main computer (which I also use for my home business). I'm looking at this website to get it from: http://www.buydirectpc.com/

I'm specifically looking at the DA-900 on this page: http://www.buydirectpc.com/page-amd ...

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I'm looking for cases and have been checking out the Antec cases you're talking about. I'm curious...why do you not want one with a door this time?

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I've had it since I moved into my new house in July. I have the 5MB/2MB package. I'm month to month and I've thought about signing the 1 year agreement to get the 15/2 for just $5 more a month ($44.95). The only reason I haven't is I've had no complaints about my speeds. We have 3 computers, 2 ...

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Hell_Yes wrote:I have 7 drives in one box with an Antec 500 watt supply. No problems.

Can you point me to your case? Thanks.

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See this thread for more info: http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=192817

I need about 2-4TB of storage....but will only need about 2-3 until about a year from now.

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Nope...actually looking to make them all internal....I'm tired of having externals all over the place. For now I think I'll pick up a few of the biggest internal 7200 RPMs I can get and then will upgrade them when capacities get bigger.

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Not sure but that is alot of eggs to put in one basket. Id personally rather have a couple smaller ones that equal 1tera. Unless you raid it for redundancy but then you are talking some SERIOUS cash!

I have a mobile DJ business and want to store all my music as WAV so I can encode it to MP3 or ...

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I'm looking to get a computer that I can put 4-5 hard drives into. The only brand I'd prefer to stay away from is Dell but other than that I'm pretty open. I was checking out Systemax and it looks like a few of their systems can handle it but am not sure. Also, if I do get a system and have up to 5 ...

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Any idea when we might see them? I've seen some posts talking about end of '06 but I'd hope they'll be out sooner than that. Currently the biggest I've seen is 600GB....are they any bigger yet?

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Thanks for the input. I ended up with a Samsung Syncmaster 19" LCD for $270 from Buy.com--which I thought was a great deal. From everything I've read it seems that Dell, Samsung & Viewsonic are among the best. It has 8ms response time which is much faster than I need but I couldn't pass up that good ...

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Any suggestions for a good one? I'm looking for a 17" or 19". I don't need anything fancy...just something that looks pretty good. Trying to stay under $325 if possible.

Also, what refresh rate do I want? I don't do any computer gaming....the only thing I do other than word processing, surf the ...

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Any recommendations for good speech-to-text software? I found some posts using search but some were from '01 and '03 so I'm sure there's new stuff out now. The posts I read from then said the technology wasn't very good and it takes forever to train. Anyone know if it's still like that?

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Mark:

Thanks....exactly what I'm looking for...now I need to see if I can find something similar for a little less...or that somewhere else for cheaper. Was hoping to stay around $40 for it.

Cypher:

Thanks for the link but I'm just looking for an enclosure...not a full external hard drive.

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I did some searches and came up with a few good enclosures but some of the posts were from 2 years ago so thought I'd see if there's anything new since then. I looked on New Egg but didn't see exactly what I want...maybe I'm dreaming but this is what I'd like:

- 3.5" HD Enclosure
- USB 2.0 (would ...

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NP... Im an xbox mod freak so if you need any other help let me know.! :thumb:

Not sure if you'd know the answer to this but since you seem to know quite a bit about Xboxes....

My DVD drive died yesterday. I am going to replace it...couple questions:

- It has a Phillips drive...should I stick ...

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Jim wrote:Then please, for the love of God, do not watch 'Cannibal! The Musical.'

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Hmmm...wonder what it will be for paying accounts. I currently have 2 GB since I pay $20 a year (for pop access) but I'm guessing that will go up too? Not that it matters as 2GB is a lot of e-mail.

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I used to be a die hard IE fan but now I use firefox. I have to use IE once every few weeks as a website won't work in Firefox properly but other than that I have no problems.

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Check out Tweak UI to see if it will do what you're looking for.

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This is why I hate phone service. I've been using Vonage for about 6 months now for my side business....once the service works as good as my home phone (I do have some break-up problems) I will get rid of the home phone....I hate all the fees & taxes they charge.

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For the first month or two after I saw it I ate almost no fast food...then I slowly started eating it again.

I saw Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle a while ago and since then I think I've been there twice. Watching movies/TV has a weird way of affecting what I eat!

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There is so much talk about this movie recently...good & bad. In the last few days I've had 4-5 different people bring it up. I have blockbuster online so even if I rent it and I hate it I'll turn it off and it doesn't really cost me anything. I just want to see what all the commotion is all about!

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What problem do you have with Spellbound? I've been using it for a while now with no problems.

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Thanks....as I mentioned in my original post, I know there's technically no limit I just wanted to hear from people who've had experience with folders being 60-80GB (or bigger) to see if they had any problems with them.

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I'd be interested in this too. Especially if there was an automated way to run a ton of pictures through it so I wouldn't have to do them one by one. If Photoshop can't do it does anyone know of any other programs?

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Ever consider consolidating and putting them on bigger drives? I have 4 drives and am almost up to you:

- (1) 300GB
- (1) 250GB
- (2) 80GB

For all the audio files I have I'm going to have about a TB...then I'll need a TB of back-up for it. There aren't any TB hard drives available yet, are there ...

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I have SP2 loaded. Thanks for trying to help. I may just have to deal with it until I do a clean install of the OS.

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I've read online that Windows doesn't really have any size restrictions on how much data can be put in a folder. I'm ripping in all my music as WAV files (long story) so folder sizes are going to get huge. Does anyone have experience with really large folder sizes (like 60-80 GB per folder) to know ...

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About how long does it take to encode & burn something that's an hour long? I haven't used Nero alone for both for a long time but I'm pretty sure it was usually 4-5 hours to encode & burn something that's 1 hours--which is just crazy. The way I do it now takes about 30 minutes total.

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