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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Computer System: Storage

What options do you have? List the size, speed, type and price of each hard drive option.
What are the differences between the options?
Go back and look at the system requirements for the software you need to be able to run? What are the storage requirements? (i.e. of all the software you specified as being used on your computer, what's the total hard drive space requried?)
Which option are you going to select? Why do you only need the included hard drive option and not need one of the upgrade options? or vice versa, why do you need to upgrade? How does that help make your computer a "goldilocks" computer for you - just right - not too little, not too much? You need to strive to be somewhat specific; don't just say, "The included option meets my computing needs."

-I have 4 options
*250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) [Included in Price]
*320GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) [Add $45.00]
*500GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) [Add $90.00]
*640GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive [Add $100.00]
-The difference between these is storage space. 250GB-640GB
-20GB will be required to run Microsoft 7
-I chose the 320GB hard drive. I will want to save videos, music, and pictures to my hard drive( I have a lot of pictures because of my wife and 5 year old daughter). I went with the upgrade because I never want to run into a situation where I will completely use all the space on my hard drive, and I would like the ability to upgrade software with out worrying about having enough space on my hard drive. I currently have a full hard drive on my laptop and it sucks!

1 comment:

  1. Agree that HD space is important; and having one that's too small is NOT cool - a real pain.

    I'd consider the price points on this one. $45 gets me from 250 to 320GB, but only another $55 doubles that to 640GB. IF you're going to use this as your primary machine and it's going to be where you store ALL of your media, I'd consider going all the way to 640GB.

    -cmd

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