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karnac

(564 posts)
11. I would stick with what you have HOWEVER
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 11:12 PM
Apr 2012

I would definitely be concerned about the age of your hard drive. That is definitely the most likely thing to fail at some point. Being that you have 139g and not 13g of storage chances are you already replaced it once already.

If it is not too old you are good to go. Keep in mind that *new* IDE(which is your interface) hard drives are now fairly rare and worth more than your machine. 50 bucks or so. You can find cheap low usage ones on craigslist but it is hard to tell if it really is low-usage.

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