What are you getting for Black Friday?

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What are you getting for Black Friday?

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Post by makryger » Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:31 pm

i'm thinking of getting a 2TB drive to back up my movie library... it's starting to swell up quite a bit.
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Post by bmblank » Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:22 pm

I'm thinking of picking up a tv. Been using my projector, but I'm building a new house and there isn't really a place in the living room for it.

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Post by Crash2009 » Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:24 pm

Hard drives, yea, that sounds like a great idea. It is surprising how quickly you can fill a 2TB. Nothing for me for Black Friday, I just blew the budjet on a couple Echo's.

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Post by STC » Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:32 pm

I need 32GB memory for a virtual box.
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Post by barnabas1969 » Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:23 pm

makryger wrote:i'm thinking of getting a 2TB drive to back up my movie library... it's starting to swell up quite a bit.
If your hard drive is swelling, you should stop playing with it so much. :lol: You could also try applying some ice.

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Post by trooper11 » Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:18 pm

I have a few things on my need list this year, but its mostly storage related:

3 or 4TB hard drive
128GB+ SSD

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Post by STC » Tue Nov 20, 2012 12:25 am

Well there you go...
I'm getting in there before stuff sells out :shock:

Early Black Friday online deal from Newegg.ca :
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3 1600 CL9's

$120 shipped (Canada), instant discount (no MIR - I hate those).
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Post by Motz » Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:04 pm

Hopefully a Sony Nex camera if I can find one cheap.

Probably a 32GB or 64 GB SD card if they are cheap, and a 1TB or 2TB external drive for my WiiU. That is about it. pretty easy this year.
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Post by staknhalo » Wed Nov 21, 2012 5:15 am

Best Buy has a 40 inch Toshiba LCD for $179. Have to decide if I want to deal with the mob that will be there :/ Also, CompUSA is having a 120GB Vertex 3 SSD for $50. If I do go out I might as well get that too.

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Post by STC » Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:47 pm

Motz wrote:...and a 1TB or 2TB external drive for my WiiU.
CRAZY-BONKERS!
70 Bucks for 2TB 7200 64MB.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822148834
One of these in a box would work nicely.

I bought two.

That's about it for my BF shopping :lol:
-Not even Friday yet lol.
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Post by makryger » Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:05 pm

3/5 stars worries me...
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Post by STC » Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:31 pm

Yeah I looked at that, but I don't think there is anything different from other cheap drives. Amazon has them at 3.5 stars.
2 year warranty.
I'm going to throw them into a storage server box for duplication.
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Post by adam1991 » Thu Nov 22, 2012 12:18 am


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Post by STC » Thu Nov 22, 2012 12:32 am

Wow, that's nice.
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Post by RealCodeGuy » Thu Nov 22, 2012 3:25 pm

Crash2009 wrote:I just blew the budjet on a couple Echo's.
Same here, two Echos for me.

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Post by .Nico » Thu Nov 22, 2012 4:41 pm

What a shame we don't have Black Friday in the Netherlands. Now I'll have to wait 'till Christmas!

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