Posted by ChairmanOfTheBored on 10/25/07 01:41

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:46:29 -0000, Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com>
wrote:

>ChairmanOfTheBored <RUBored@crackasmile.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:04:25 -0000, Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com>
>> wrote:
>
>> >Who cares? - can you honestly say you're going to need 750GB of space for
>> >PS3-related downloads?
>
>
>> Purchased, DISC based games typically utilize 6 to ten GB of HD space
>> each. I can also DIVX, and then re-code my current DVD collection to
>> play on the PS3 from the hard drive, as well as my HD DVD collection.
>> Very much the same way I can make a 1GB file from one of my DVDs for my
>> PS3. Exactly the same, in fact.
>
>First off, the PS3 doesn't store all games you ever play on disk.

First off, one doesn't just "play" a game on the PS3. Even DISC BASED
purchased games DO get installed, you retarded fuck. Most take up
between 5GB and 10GB of disc space, and all require the disc be in place
to play. That does NOT discount the fact that HD space is required at
install time, and NO PS3 game plays strictly off the optical disc,
dumbshit.

> Older
>ones will get cycled off.

You're an idiot, and you know abso-fucking-lutely nothing about it.

> Second, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to
>just put up a dedicated file server or NAS-type device on your network and
>stream movies through the PS3 in that way?


Whether playing games or movies, SATA II is a far better, far faster
streamer than some lame NAS or USB attached storage choice.

You should likely attempt nit-picking in a subject area in which you
actually have an IQ that rises above 20 in.

> This would give you more
>flexibility,

I can plug in drive after drive after drive with a single button press
on the PS3, and a flip of a cable. But you just keep on trying to come
up with something, dipshit.

> while allowing much larger disk sizes along with the other
>benefits of RAID that you're already well aware of.

Sorry, but the PS3 does not support RAID arrays or mirroring, and I
have no need for it, and the PS3 has a proprietary, encrypted file
system. Come back when you have a clue.

>A 1.4 TB PS3 is just...well, silly.

Actually, all your baby bullshit assertions are.

> Games will still only be able to use
>the internal drive,

There IS NO INTERNAL DRIVE, DUMBFUCK! This eSATA drive is plugged
DIRECTLY into the port the internal drive was once plugged into.

> and even at 10GB/game, you're looking at 75 games.

Nope. The 80GB machine starts out with 10GB gone from the get-go.
Taken by the Sony. Not available to the user. Also, if you had any
brains at all, you would know that 80GB as declared by an HD maker is NOT
80GB formatted out. So, even at 10GB per game, there is NOT room for 75
games, and you seem to have conveniently forgotten all the other media
that the system is for, and will be having placed on it.

>Not only don't you own 75 PS3 games (there aren't that many out yet!) but
>I doubt you will ever play 75 PS3 games over the life of the PS3.

You may never get it. I OWN already, well over 200GB of MP3s. Then,
there are several Gigs of photos.

Are you starting to get a clue yet?

>> It also hold Photos, and MP3s, Etc., Etc.
>
>Again, a networked media server would be a better solution for this, yes?

Nope. The Sony does not recognize shared network media. It has its
connection to the net, but does not look for or make available, networked
storage mediums. While under Linux, however, any and all such mediums
would easily be available.

>Better accessibility, better flexibility, better reliability, better
>bragging rights (more hardware makes you a better person, at least in your
>eyes)

You have very little clue as to what the word better means in this
realm.

>> The drives were right at $100 each with a 5 year warranty. More than
>> that for the chincy, slow access, low capacity laptop drives it comes
>> with.
>
>And you need fast drives for streaming media....why?

Do you even have any clue as to how slow a laptop HD is?

> Even HD video
>encoded with divx will stream just fine over 100Mbps which is MUCH
>SLOWER than laptop drives.

You ain't real bright, boy The drive will get used up real quick. Mine
won't. Starting to sink in yet?

> No wonder your PS3 has heat issues if
>you were cramming a hot-running desktop drive in there!

What? Where's your brain, boy? The 3.5" drive has it's own power
source, you retarded fuck.

>Also with drives that cheap, seriously, why didn't you put up a 4 drive,
>RAID5 array in a dedicated networked box giving you 2+TB?

Weren't you just telling me how fast a laptop drive is?

NO NETWORKED MEDIUM ACCESS, dipshit.

> You could even
>use gigabit for extra bragging rights, and still do everything your mutant
>PS3 can do...just without the extra heat.

Take a closer look at the picture, dipshit. There is a Gbit NAS box
sitting right there on the right of the eSATA drives.

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