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Definitely. I'm interested, although I think I'd like at least a couple speeds on my cycle. Did you get a shop to do this for you or a friend? How much were the other parts? I'm very interested in building a cheap, but excellent, roadbike for summer commuting!
Mac Pro Harpertown 3.0
Not brand new, but new to me. I picked up a fairly stock Mac Pro on the weekend. I quickly added 3 drives: 1 500GB and 2 1TB. I've got a esata port on order from Newegg for my external drives. I want to get some additional RAM but need to stop the bleeding on the spending.
Not brand new, but new to me. I picked up a fairly stock Mac Pro on the weekend. I quickly added 3 drives: 1 500GB and 2 1TB. I've got a esata port on order from Newegg for my external drives. I want to get some additional RAM but need to stop the bleeding on the spending.
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uh.. well.. i dont see it as a stupid question, when it was worded the same way by the original poster.. is that really so hard for some of you to comprehend?
Bought 60GB Vertex for 245$ shipped from newegg with 20$ rebate. Also bought some of the tools from ifixit.com since i been losing some of my torx set.
It will be placed in the Macbook Pro 17" Penryn Early 2008
imo that was a waste of money for that..
It's my money to waste with. I want the low latency, cheap and fast speed without any stuttering and so far, this drive is the only one that can meet all of my requirements.
Is it really any different than buying the more expensive raptor drives at considerably smaller sizes for improved speed? That's kind of the way I see it.
1x Iomega USB 1.5TB for files storage
1x Iomega UltraMax 1.5TB USB/2xFW400/FW800/E-Sata for video edits - what a beast hidden in that sexy mac pro design case
USB flash drive for quick file transfer
Also, some storage for my camera
Those are my most recent purchases ... aka this week.
Also got couple of Rosewill USB Hubs last week
1x Iomega UltraMax 1.5TB USB/2xFW400/FW800/E-Sata for video edits - what a beast hidden in that sexy mac pro design case
USB flash drive for quick file transfer
Also, some storage for my camera
Those are my most recent purchases ... aka this week.
Also got couple of Rosewill USB Hubs last week
Ive personally never filled more than 40GB at my peak. Not everyone needs terabyte drives.
It's a bit more than 60gb. it is 60GB for system use. there is a couple of more gigs that is reserved for wear leveling, dead memory cells and so on.
I got 2TB external drives via Firewire and eSATA. The eSata drive is faster than my internal drive.
Even with one year of using my laptop, i only use less than 50-60GB in my system drive, 10-15gb hasn't yet been offloaded to my external drives.
So yea, I can.
Beside, it is not worth for me to buy 120+gb if I won't use it more than 60gb, 120GB would cost me 400$. I rather pay 250 for now, bypass another year of SSD evolution since it seems to be following Moore's Laws. So a year from now, I can probably get 512GB for 400$ with faster speed.
Also got couple of Rosewill USB Hubs last week
I had that hub, it died on me a month later. Sighs.
Mine are doing good so far. They are a piece of beauty, hope they wont die on me that soon
Did you give it up or get injured?
I got back into skating much later in life after more than two decades away from it. It's a very different sport now with super low trucks and hard/small wheels and far more technical tricks than the 70s/80s stuff.
I find it harder, at my age, and overall but it's definitely a challenge. I got some venture low trucks (the pink and black ones in the group) and some 52 mm. hubba wheels and while I had a standard 7.5" inch street deck, it was too hard for me to control so I got the larger 8" inch deck for stability. For bearings, I am using the regular speed demons variety and not something super fast like Bones Reds or Swiss.
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Sighs, after finding out that mwave had ebay stores and 50$ rebate still applies, I bought Vertex 120GB from mwave's ebay store with MS Cashback of 32$ plus 50$ OCZ rebate keeping the price down to 333$ for me with 2nd day shipping and insurance.
Logitech Z-4's for my macbook!
i was going to get those today, but insead i bought the altec lansing speakers
and these things ROCK!!!! amazing sound, and i love the control settings i can change on the go
i was going to get those today, but insead i bought the altec lansing speakers
and these things ROCK!!!! amazing sound, and i love the control settings i can change on the go
What about Z-2300? Anybody know if it is worth 40$ over Z-4?
i skate, well just still, and use 8" decks. i have size 12 feet and so its easier to land tricks 'perfect' with a wider deck and its also easier to catch the board with flip sticks so i can add that little but more 'syle' haha.
i skate an 8" black blank deck, Thunder trucks, aesthetics wheels & some bearing from my buddies roller hockey skates and ive got black és Accels atm which are getting on.
i need to buy some new skate stuff. ill post them when i get em.
The co-op where I built it exists on donations so they have 99% of the parts needed at your disposal (I got lucky and found a really nice seat there, so the only thing I bought were tires because I needed an odd size). Before you start building, you volunteer 10 hours in the shop to get the feel of taking apart bikes, recognizing parts, etc. So when you start on your bike, you build it yourself and they help you out when you need it. I'd say your most expensive part will be your wheelset, things like cranks and bottom brackets can vary greatly in price.
If you don't live in an especially hilly place, you may actually consider a single speed. On my mountain bike I stay in the same gear 99% of the time anyway. The unkeep on a single speed is much easier; once the derailleur on my mountain bike was literally a fraction of an inch off (something bumped it) and it started jumping gears.
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