Laptop running out of space!

2009-06-18 15:04:12

#1

Mitch: 16 more years; +877|6788|South Florida

It's a Dell with a 55gb harddrive. My girlfriend loves her movies and i help her get movies from warez but her lappy is full.

I already turned "disk compression' on.

I also ran a disk cleanup. CCleanered' some stuff.

Her movie folder is 20gb.

I thought about maybe raring her folder, so i tested it on 1 movie file. I set compression to BEST and let it run (1 movie took like 10-20 minutes) and the rar file when finished was 699MB!! No improvement. I dont really understand why it didnt shrink the file, but oh well.

Hmm.

Any other ideas? Maybe a compression idea? Erm. Maybe a donation to buy a dropbox 50gb account? Hehe!

edit: just realized that dropbox downloads all info to your comp. so it wouldnt work anyways

Last edited by Mitch (2009-06-18 15:05:24)

15 more years! 15 more years!

2009-06-18 15:06:41

#2

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6677|Finland

External HDD. gogogo.

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2009-06-18 15:08:26

#3

Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|7001|Toronto | Canada

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
External 1TB HDD. gogogo.

2009-06-18 15:13:44

#4

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6716|The Twilight Zone

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
External HDD. gogogo.

I'm not so fond of those anymore. My WD external died. Unless if you set raid and have all your stuff backuped

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2009-06-18 15:15:58

#5

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6677|Finland

.Sup wrote:
GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
External HDD. gogogo.
I'm not so fond of those anymore. My WD external died. Unless if you set raid and have all your stuff backuped

well I know many ppl using them for years without issues. There are always bad ones. They are basically internal HDDs in external enclosure. And not seeing lots of WD drives dying are we?

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2009-06-18 15:17:28

#6

Mitch: 16 more years; +877|6788|South Florida

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
.Sup wrote:
GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
External HDD. gogogo.
I'm not so fond of those anymore. My WD external died. Unless if you set raid and have all your stuff backuped
well I know many ppl using them for years without issues. There are always bad ones. They are basically internal HDDs in external enclosure. And not seeing lots of WD drives dying are we?

Well another thing is, if she wanted to take it on a trip and watch it in her lap then theres gunna be a cord with a big harddrive hanging out. It seems like it might be a pain in the ass to take around with the lappy

15 more years! 15 more years!

2009-06-18 15:18:17

#7

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6677|Finland

Mitch wrote:
GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
.Sup wrote:

I'm not so fond of those anymore. My WD external died. Unless if you set raid and have all your stuff backuped
well I know many ppl using them for years without issues. There are always bad ones. They are basically internal HDDs in external enclosure. And not seeing lots of WD drives dying are we?
Well another thing is, if she wanted to take it on a trip and watch it in her lap then theres gunna be a cord with a big harddrive hanging out. It seems like it might be a pain in the ass to take around with the lappy

The smaller drives are tiny.

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2009-06-18 15:19:14

#8

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6716|The Twilight Zone

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
.Sup wrote:
GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
External HDD. gogogo.
I'm not so fond of those anymore. My WD external died. Unless if you set raid and have all your stuff backuped
well I know many ppl using them for years without issues. There are always bad ones. They are basically internal HDDs in external enclosure. And not seeing lots of WD drives dying are we?

I think it has to do with power. It seems to be very unbalanced. The HDD still works but then its icon vanishes from My Computer like the power is fluctuating.

2009-06-18 15:29:05

#9

nickb64: formerly from OC (it's EXACTLY like on tv)[truth]; +77|5873|Greatest Nation on Earth(USA)

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or
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2009-06-18 15:46:04

#10

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,979|6894|949

She needs to have all the movies available all the time? Too bad. If she's not smart enough to figure out how to manage her storage system what makes you think she's going to be able to know how to decompress files? Tell her to: buy/rent a fucking movie; erase the movies she/you downloads after she watches them; get an external drive.

When you really think about it, paying $15 a month for a netflix account that you can get three movies at a time on is way more cost effective than spending 2-3 hours a day downloading movies. But hey, keep fighting the system!

2009-06-18 15:47:44

#11

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6716|The Twilight Zone

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
She needs to have all the movies available all the time? Too bad. If she's not smart enough to figure out how to manage her storage system what makes you think she's going to be able to know how to decompress files? Tell her to: buy/rent a fucking movie; erase the movies she/you downloads after she watches them; get an external drive.

When you really think about it, paying $15 a month for a netflix account that you can get three movies at a time on is way more cost effective than spending 2-3 hours a day downloading movies. But hey, keep fighting the system!

Netflix? I wan't to hear more. prolly not available in EU

2009-06-18 16:21:26

#12

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6969|67.222.138.85

Be a man

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2009-06-18 16:25:46

#13

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6716|The Twilight Zone

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Be a man

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6822136381

"Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVTRTL 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive - Retail"
I did not read "retail" but fail
What will he do with the HDD he uses atm? Reinstall OS, reinstall programs, transfer data,...
seems too much of a hassle besides if you have more than one PC, a spacious, external HDD is a big +

2009-06-18 16:59:11

#14

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6953|Devon, England

Get her a memory stick with like 64GB on, or whatever they do now.

USB should be fast enough to stream a video.

2009-06-18 17:02:13

#15

nickb64: formerly from OC (it's EXACTLY like on tv)[truth]; +77|5873|Greatest Nation on Earth(USA)

.Sup wrote:
KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
She needs to have all the movies available all the time? Too bad. If she's not smart enough to figure out how to manage her storage system what makes you think she's going to be able to know how to decompress files? Tell her to: buy/rent a fucking movie; erase the movies she/you downloads after she watches them; get an external drive.

When you really think about it, paying $15 a month for a netflix account that you can get three movies at a time on is way more cost effective than spending 2-3 hours a day downloading movies. But hey, keep fighting the system!
Netflix? I wan't to hear more. prolly not available in EU

I don't think so yet. Hopefully sometime, for you guys sake.

2009-06-18 17:18:08

#16

Noobpatty: ʎʇʇɐdqoou; +194|6616|West NY

Mitch wrote:
It's a Dell with a 55gb harddrive.

My desktop is the same as described.
So I bought a 500gb external HD

2009-06-18 21:26:07

#17

Brasso: member; +1,549|6893

.Sup wrote:
KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
She needs to have all the movies available all the time? Too bad. If she's not smart enough to figure out how to manage her storage system what makes you think she's going to be able to know how to decompress files? Tell her to: buy/rent a fucking movie; erase the movies she/you downloads after she watches them; get an external drive.

When you really think about it, paying $15 a month for a netflix account that you can get three movies at a time on is way more cost effective than spending 2-3 hours a day downloading movies. But hey, keep fighting the system!
Netflix? I wan't to hear more. prolly not available in EU

http://netflix.com

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2009-06-18 21:43:41

#18

SpIk3y: Minister of Silly Walks; +67|6402|New Jersey

You could always burn the movies onto physical DVDs. I have these binder pages that hold 8 DVDs each. I just take the binder with me if I'm going somewhere where I might want my movies. Other than having to buy and store the DVDs, there is a plus side - you can just pop the DVD in anyone's player, you don't need a cable to connect your PC to a TV or anything like that.

2009-06-18 22:08:17

#19

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6411|'straya

External HDD tbh. go with wd

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