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Sep 22, 2005 | 01:56 PM

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I just spoke to a buddy of mine who has had a PC in his Integra for about 2 years now and has yet to experience a problem. Even so I've checked out the solid state and for the price of some of them I'd rather spend the money twice a year on reg hard drives. It'd still take about 15-20 years of buying 2 hdd's a year to equal the price of 1 2 gig solid state.

LOL where the hell are you shopping? I got a 1 gig flash drive for 65 bucks.

Seriously though, if you really wanna save money, look for old drives in classifieds on computer forums. You can probably buy a dozen or so for less than a hundred bucks. Anything bigger than 5 gigs ought to be enough for Windows and a decent amount of apps. Maybe 10 gigs if you want to keep a bunch of music on there too.

Sep 22, 2005 | 07:51 PM

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Flash drives are great but Windows itself needs 4 Gbs to run. Soooo that means for a decent amount of apps and some music your looking at least 20 gigs. And the solid states I was looking at were not flash drives or usb memory sticks, they were solid state drives that are internal to the PC, those are major bucks. 2 Gbs was something like 1500.

Sep 23, 2005 | 12:06 AM

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Eh, I guess. If you're really serious about building a GOOD car PC on the cheap, you should be looking at using a Linux-based setup run off of a 512 MB - 1 GB CF card. The configuration would be a lot of work, but if you've got any geeky friends, they should be able to help, and the results would be well worth it.

But I just like to tinker, so that's just me