What to look for when shopping around for new pc

[Gee]

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

GEE just looking at your PC setup is stressful. Ya know if you got one of those Terrabite drives and combined everything that is important to you it would really make things much easier for you and it would only take up the space of the tower itself. Just a thought.

My best friend is an IT geek and we trade off for his PC skills and my mechanical skills. I help him out with his cars and he takes care of my computer needs. Otherwise the only people he deals with are his own family. Its a crack up watching him deal with his sisters telling them that the PC is working just fine so it must be the operator who is the problem.

It's not bad the way it is. At work we have several network drives connecting to the desktop G:. H: I: N: M: W: plus maybe one or two local drives C: and/or D: it's just a matter of remember what is were. It can be thought of as having all your eggs in one basket. Everything stored on a single drive and if that drive goes so does all the data to an extent. There ways to recover it depending on what happens but the worst case is it is totally gone. I would love to have a large hard drive to back up the data I have on the smaller drive that I feel is important onto. I would still run the seperate drive even if I had one large drive. Old school I suppose. I still use DOS when ever I can to copy data through batch files.

When I first got into PC tweenty years ago. I wasn't a geek or the stereo type and people didn't relate the cowboy boots and belt buckled, beer guzzling, pool playing, always had a new joke guy as a person that worked on computers. There were the pretty girls I tried to impress and helped, several friends and co-workers I would help out just because I thought I could. So everyone puts thier time in helping out with others person pc problems just becasue hell we all like to help people out. The hardest part is getting someone to ask for help. The exception is the home computer. No challenge finding someone who will ask for help there. This thread for example lol It changes after a while. The home computer is a different beast all together vs a place that has corparate computers set up to a standard. You have the same software, setup the same way, running on the same hardware platfrom form cubicle to cubicle. Consistent from one workstation to the other. The problem on one is the same on the other and fixed in the same way. Home pcs ran the gammet from TSR80s to the 3' tall tower 386 power house that had a cdrom and a zip drive for backups. Different software, drivers, you don't know what the hell they installed or did to the pc or when it was working properly the last time. Just a pita and always took longer to fix then what you figured it would. I just found it easier to skirt around the quesitons of what I did for a living and found the person was more then happy to talk about themselves then to hear about what I actually did. The one word every loves to hear more then any other is their own name. We all like to talk about ourselve no matter how humble we are. Once I was told that I found it was easier to get laid listening intently to the female that was about to steal my heart then taking about writing code in Basic. If they did find out and ask a question about it. I would let them know I don't know what could be the problem but would check into what it might be while I was at work and offer to get the next beer.

See look how I ramble on talking about myself. Sorry, it would appear that I am in a rambling mood and should probably go find something more productive to do. lol



Taking my own advice and signing off for a while, but wanted to say thanks for the input from everyone and your willingness to help out.

Guy