Fuck yooooouuuuu Buy.com!!!!

[trinityvixen]

I nearly choked when I saw this come up in my e-mail.

As it happens, I was transferring files off my computer last night and I ran into a little snag: my 500 GB external hard drive was full. I deleted a few seasons worth of shows I didn't need to watch again (or that I had purchased in the interim or that darkling1 had). But full! Jesus. I have my old hard drive, and my 320GB portable one is still going strong...

BUT 1 TB!!!!! It's a good thing I have this irrational bias for Western Digital or I would have had a heart attack when I scrolled down to this.

I think they're onto me at Buy.com. I seem to get an awful lot of my daily e-mail taken up with digital storage options. In the same e-mail, I was told about this, which I still want despite the fact that this was supposed to take care of my travel-storage needs. (But the new one is so small.) And now that I'm using a 2GB SD card to watch things on my portable DVD player, this sort of thing (and this) have suddenly been added to the mix.

Buy.com, don't you know my kitty was ill? I can't afford to be tempted like this. Especially not as I'm of this particularly unfortunate mindset where this sort of ridiculous, needless purchase isn't tempting except in moments where I've already tossed that much or more out the window. (Damn you, kitty bladder obstruction! YOU ARE SAPPING MY WILL POWER!!!) I can resist anything until I've already spent as much or more on an expense that I couldn't help. (taxes, vet stuff, rent...)

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I have an 80 gig hard drive, and an 80 gig external drive whose only purpose is to back up the contents of the hard drive. Apparently, I'm doing something wrong. I can't figure out what I'd do with a terabyte of memory.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Compumachines storage: ur doin' it wrong.

No, you're not. You just probably do delete things on occasion. Me, not so much.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Why delete when the marginal cost of storage is so small?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Exactly! And there was a very good chance that I was going to watch Smallville season five again. Really, no, a very good...chances were better than 5 to 1 that...

Okay, there was no reason to have that saved. Or Prison Break. (But I, uh, kept Prison Break. Because I might just finish the series, even though season three was terrible from what I saw.)

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Well, the reason both the hard drive and the external drive are full is because one backs up the other. I also have an ancillary music backup on the iPod. Let's see, probably 80 or 90 gigs of it are music, and another 100 or so for television shows (since I only follow some by downloading, like Heroes).