Buy 400 GB or 500 GB

I was looking at Tiger Direct (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2273393%26Sku=TSD-500AS2) and there was a 500 GB drive for $120. The question is it better to buy a 400 GB drive, because the 500GB drive size is only 465 GBs. Comments?Buy 400 GB or 500 GB
Its hard for me to fill my 150gb honestly I would get the smaller one save some cashBuy 400 GB or 500 GB
[QUOTE=''LouieV13'']Its hard for me to fill my 150gb honestly I would get the smaller one save some cash[/QUOTE] It's easy for me to, which is a bad thing. Except it's 1.2TB with me. =(
[QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''][QUOTE=''LouieV13'']Its hard for me to fill my 150gb honestly I would get the smaller one save some cash[/QUOTE] It's easy for me to, which is a bad thing. Except it's 1.2TB with me. =([/QUOTE]

Total WASTE wtf do you have on there!? All I have is Vista and a bunch-o-games on my 150gb lol
[QUOTE=''LouieV13''][QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''] [QUOTE=''LouieV13'']Its hard for me to fill my 150gb honestly I would get the smaller one save some cash[/QUOTE] It's easy for me to, which is a bad thing. Except it's 1.2TB with me. =([/QUOTE] Total WASTE wtf do you have on there!? All I have is Vista and a bunch-o-games on my 150gb lol[/QUOTE] I have a bunch of music, movies, games, pictures. I really hate having to put in a CD or a DVD/HD-DVD, so I rip them all.
[QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''][QUOTE=''LouieV13''][QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''] [QUOTE=''LouieV13'']Its hard for me to fill my 150gb honestly I would get the smaller one save some cash[/QUOTE] It's easy for me to, which is a bad thing. Except it's 1.2TB with me. =([/QUOTE] Total WASTE wtf do you have on there!? All I have is Vista and a bunch-o-games on my 150gb lol[/QUOTE] I have a bunch of music, movies, games, pictures. I really hate having to put in a CD or a DVD/HD-DVD, so I rip them all.[/QUOTE]



I have all my musics on a second HDD in raid-0 and its a 250gb and its only got 3gb left :( thats just how much music I have XD
400GB is good enough for me.
[QUOTE=''LouieV13''][QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''][QUOTE=''LouieV13''][QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''] [QUOTE=''LouieV13'']Its hard for me to fill my 150gb honestly I would get the smaller one save some cash[/QUOTE] It's easy for me to, which is a bad thing. Except it's 1.2TB with me. =([/QUOTE] Total WASTE wtf do you have on there!? All I have is Vista and a bunch-o-games on my 150gb lol[/QUOTE] I have a bunch of music, movies, games, pictures. I really hate having to put in a CD or a DVD/HD-DVD, so I rip them all.[/QUOTE] I have all my musics on a second HDD in raid-0 and its a 250gb and its only got 3gb left :( thats just how much music I have XD[/QUOTE] Well, I definitely don't have that much music, unless you're music is 320kbps.
[QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''][QUOTE=''LouieV13''][QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''][QUOTE=''LouieV13''][QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''] [QUOTE=''LouieV13'']Its hard for me to fill my 150gb honestly I would get the smaller one save some cash[/QUOTE] It's easy for me to, which is a bad thing. Except it's 1.2TB with me. =([/QUOTE] Total WASTE wtf do you have on there!? All I have is Vista and a bunch-o-games on my 150gb lol[/QUOTE] I have a bunch of music, movies, games, pictures. I really hate having to put in a CD or a DVD/HD-DVD, so I rip them all.[/QUOTE] I have all my musics on a second HDD in raid-0 and its a 250gb and its only got 3gb left :( thats just how much music I have XD[/QUOTE] Well, I definitely don't have that much music, unless you're music is 1441kbps.[/QUOTE]

*Fixed
[QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''][QUOTE=''LouieV13''][QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''][QUOTE=''LouieV13''][QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''] [QUOTE=''LouieV13'']Its hard for me to fill my 150gb honestly I would get the smaller one save some cash[/QUOTE] It's easy for me to, which is a bad thing. Except it's 1.2TB with me. =([/QUOTE] Total WASTE wtf do you have on there!? All I have is Vista and a bunch-o-games on my 150gb lol[/QUOTE] I have a bunch of music, movies, games, pictures. I really hate having to put in a CD or a DVD/HD-DVD, so I rip them all.[/QUOTE] I have all my musics on a second HDD in raid-0 and its a 250gb and its only got 3gb left :( thats just how much music I have XD[/QUOTE] Well, I definitely don't have that much music, unless you're music is 320kbps.[/QUOTE]



I just rip em off all my CD's lol I got stuff from the 60's somwhere in there XD I always get CD's im a big metal/punk fan
[QUOTE=''X360PS3AMD05''][QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''][QUOTE=''LouieV13''][QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''][QUOTE=''LouieV13''][QUOTE=''ATLReppa770''] [QUOTE=''LouieV13'']Its hard for me to fill my 150gb honestly I would get the smaller one save some cash[/QUOTE] It's easy for me to, which is a bad thing. Except it's 1.2TB with me. =([/QUOTE] Total WASTE wtf do you have on there!? All I have is Vista and a bunch-o-games on my 150gb lol[/QUOTE] I have a bunch of music, movies, games, pictures. I really hate having to put in a CD or a DVD/HD-DVD, so I rip them all.[/QUOTE] I have all my musics on a second HDD in raid-0 and its a 250gb and its only got 3gb left :( thats just how much music I have XD[/QUOTE] Well, I definitely don't have that much music, unless you're music is 1441kbps.[/QUOTE] *Fixed[/QUOTE] 1.4mbps?
[QUOTE=''toad1956'']I was looking at Tiger Direct (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2273393%26Sku=TSD-500AS2) and there was a 500 GB drive for $120. The question is it better to buy a 400 GB drive, because the 500GB drive size is only 465 GBs. Comments?[/QUOTE]The 400GB one will also drop, by my calculations, to around 372 GB. Seagate is a pretty trustable brand, so this drive should last however long it takes you to fill it up. Might as well get the bigger one, unless you're really tight on cash.
Well, the price of 500GB drives has come down quite a bit lately. I just got two recently (one to add extra storage for my PVR cable box). The first one I got was the Seagate you linked. It ran very hot in my E-SATA enclosure, so I put it in my PC where it gets good airflow and got a Western Digital that runs much cooler for my PVR... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098
[QUOTE=''fourier404''] [QUOTE=''toad1956'']I was looking at Tiger Direct (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2273393%26Sku=TSD-500AS2) and there was a 500 GB drive for $120. The question is it better to buy a 400 GB drive, because the 500GB drive size is only 465 GBs. Comments?[/QUOTE]The 400GB one will also drop, by my calculations, to around 372 GB. Seagate is a pretty trustable brand, so this drive should last however long it takes you to fill it up. Might as well get the bigger one, unless you're really tight on cash.[/QUOTE] All Hard Driveshave about 7.37%less space than advertised, because they define gigabytes as billions of bytes rather than actual Gigabytes (1024x1024x1024) the way RAM is calculated. In addition to this, you lose some space due to formatting overhead, etc.