Time for a new hard drive

**hedgerow** · 09-21-2008, 12:36 AM

Another thing to mention regarding the 32 vs 64 debate is 32bit Windows' inability to make use of anything more than (about) 3.5gb ram. Obviously the average home user isn't going to be using that much ram, but there are times when it might be nice to have the extra (games are the most obvious example). I'm using 64bit Vista currently to support 4gb and it's definitely worth it for me, but it did come with a few of the aforementioned headaches to begin with.

Originally Posted by Absolution

A terabyte is cool if you never delete anything ever.

Yeah, I have a terabyte drive and, after surviving on a 10gb IDE drive for a while and picking up more than a few cleaning habits, the chances of me using it all are miniscule. It's still nice to have though and it's good to know the space is there if ever I need it.

**MrTroy** · 09-21-2008, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by hydro

Another thing to mention regarding the 32 vs 64 debate is 32bit Windows' inability to make use of anything more than (about) 3.5gb ram. Obviously the average home user isn't going to be using that much ram, but there are times when it might be nice to have the extra (games are the most obvious example). I'm using 64bit Vista currently to support 4gb and it's definitely worth it for me, but it did come with a few of the aforementioned headaches to begin with.

Yeah, I have a terabyte drive and, after surviving on a 10gb IDE drive for a while and picking up more than a few cleaning habits, the chances of me using it all are miniscule. It's still nice to have though and it's good to know the space is there if ever I need it.

Same with me, I am running Vista Ultimate x64 with 4 gigs of dual channel ram. I have just over a TB of total storage space counting my external backup drive, but to be fair I just use it for data transfer and backing my system, my bottlenecks are my processor and my 3Gbps 7200Rpm SATA Hard drives, I can't image what Vista would rate an IDE 7200 RPM drive. Screenshot below.

Edit: P.S: 5.9 is the highest rating you can get on Vista