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

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Lots and lots of TV shows. And easily 20+GB of music. And did I mention that I never delete anything?

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Once you get up to 80GB and larger, you can't kill a hard drive on just music, unless you're Ivy and have more CDs than God. Poorly-compressed pdfs of rpg game books can help things along (Six gigs of Dragon Magazine!) but even that, you'd be hard-pressed. No, it's entire seasons of TV shows that'll kill ya.

(Of course, now I'm vaguely tempted by the possibility of all this space I don't need. And I need to start considering a laptop purchase, as we'll need one for the cruise we're going on next March.)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Each TV show season is easily 3-4GB. But funny you should mention "more mp3s than God." Because I may not have listened to all of them, but I've got entire artist discographies for surprisingly prolific musicians. You'd be surprised how many albums Judas Priest, for example, has. And, like I said, I never delete anything, at least not until I listen to it and sort what I like or not. Um yeah, gonna get around to that any day now.

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

Once you take the plunge, you'll be filling it up with tons of shit.

Especially once you have a new computer that can actually do stuff, like watch HD-streaming movies.

I have movies, music, and games filling mine up.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's a fact: if you buy more space, you will develop a tendency to fill it. This has been true of Microsoft programs as computer hard drives have gotten bigger. MSWord takes up some redonkulous chunk of space these days. (I blame the stupid paperclip!)

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

I'm more concerned about the growing tendency of programs to actually require the Intel Core 2 Duo CPU chipset. 'Cause those upgrades are definitely not cheap.

It used to be that processors grew so fast the CPU speed requirement for programs was basically a non-issue, but when they switched to the multi-core threading tech back in Core Duo instead of just making stuff faster, they really changed the game for how programs optimally behave on computer systems.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::blinks::

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

CPUs actually matter now, and are much more expensive to upgrade (if they can be upgraded at all!) than just adding another hard-drive.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Better.

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

Sorry. -_-;

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, it's nice to know that you think my comprehension of computer stuff is better than it is. I must be faking it really good.

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Aw, I haz a lolcat.