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xoder ([personal profile] xoder) wrote2005-02-01 12:13 pm
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I just bought my new computer bits.

Athlon 64 3400+, 1GiB DDR3200 RAM, 250 GB HDD, 16x DVD+/-/DL burner, GeForce 5200 w/ 128MiB DDR VRAM

Muahahahahhahaha!

Ed, Tom, could one or both of you give me some tips on partition allocation in Gentoo?
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[identity profile] ellf.livejournal.com 2005-02-01 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
But not ellF, hmm? Not the boy who's been using gentoo for much longer than Ed has? NOT THE BOY WITH THE BALD HEAD, HMM!!>?

*sigh*

[identity profile] ellf.livejournal.com 2005-02-01 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
By the way, jerkface, here's my setup, with a 200GB drive:

10gb /
80gb /usr
20gb /opt
80gb /home
10gb /var -- lots of gentoo code and tarballs get dumped in /var by default

Cheers.

[identity profile] xoder.livejournal.com 2005-02-01 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you very much sir.

[identity profile] xoder.livejournal.com 2005-02-01 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Or maybe Peter's very forgetful.

Oh, and maybe he'd like someone local, should anything go terrifically pear-shaped.

Regardless, your opinions are welcome as well!

[identity profile] codepoet.livejournal.com 2005-02-01 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
ummm... I'll have a look at the breakdown of space usage next time I'm in linux. er, remind me.

(the cat5 jacks on Library4 don't work, so I'm in winxp for the wireless)

[identity profile] anubis-rit.livejournal.com 2005-02-01 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow the video card sux huge ass, other than that sweet setup.

[identity profile] xoder.livejournal.com 2005-02-01 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Trust me, I won't notice. I've been living with a 16MiB Rage 128 All In Wonder for the past 7 years. I will drool like I have not drooled since the n64. (Anyways, that's what Birthdays and Christmases are for!)

Nice.

[identity profile] mughi.livejournal.com 2005-02-02 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
But for all that, did you go SATA and at least raid 0?

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[identity profile] vacindak.livejournal.com 2005-02-03 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
But I did!

Athlon 64 3500+ (Winchester core), 1 GB DDR400(PC3200), Abit AV8, Geforce 6800, 600GB of SATA RAID 0 (+ 100GB of boring normal IDE storage).

*grin*

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[identity profile] xoder.livejournal.com 2005-02-03 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
The mobo supports it (which for some reason I missed when I was shopping), I'll just take care of it later as an upgrade. SATA drives have to drop in price at some point, right?

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[identity profile] vacindak.livejournal.com 2005-02-03 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I paid $190 apiece for the two Maxtor 300GB drives. Both 7200rpm with 16mb cache.

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[identity profile] xoder.livejournal.com 2005-02-03 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Very nice. I eagerly await the price drops to come (frankly, I don't have $400 to drop on storage right now)
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