Hanxter

i had a dream the other night someone stole my external drives with all my music on them... some 20,000 albums +/-...

i knew i could buy new drives but it occurd to me the time i spent infringing on coprighted material is well over 5 years...

then i thought of all the many programs i have on this thing, Xara 3d, Xara 3d xtreme, Cool Edit Pro, MMJB 10 Plus, Acoustica Label Maker, DVDX Fab Platinum, DVDX Copy Platinum, Adobe Audition to name a few and more all with cracks and/or key generators... (not one of which i ever paid for either)

at $12 - $15 a pop my albums alone would be worth 1/4 of a million (anyone wanna buy them?)

so, really, what is your computah worth to you should you ever lose yer stuff???

MexicanOnABike

as far as music and software goes, i have many backups so it's not worth too much. but my personal work and w/e i don't have backed up is worth a ton to me!

for the computer, it's like 1500$ and for the things on it, like another 5000$ or so. but like you said, if i took all my mp3s and software even backedup, it would be pretty high. 10,000 to 100,000$. (individual songs on itunes are like 99cents each right? well i got over 5000 songs. + the albums that are backed up, .. )

__________________

- Movie Reviews - Ratings-

MikeSty

Well, my computer cost close to $1300 when I built it (P4 3.0gHz, 1GB DDR2, etc). This was over 2 years ago. Recently I got a $400 monitor. I also added a $100 250gb external hard drive last year. I've had to replace the video card and the motherboard after some unfortunate mishaps.

Music M:\ is 6.83 GB, looks like 1,100 songs. So.. whatever that is.

Then I have a V: drive filled with 100GB of movies, and then there's some spill-over on N:

Then there's the warez...

Plaid13

Hum well the hardware is worth about... $1500 or so.
The Music is worth... next to nothing. dont keep much on my computer. Or any movies on it. But.. my collection of goats gone wild stuff is just priceless.

Realisticly everything on my hard drives is pretty easy to replace. I burn copies of anything that i really want to keep. But the most annoying thing would be my stored paswords and accounts for diffrent things. Someone logging into my messanger and talking to people i know and stuff would be the most annoying. But i kinda doubt anyone would be interested in that. I dont keep any credit card info or personal info stored on the computer so that wouldnt be too bad.

I would gladly take $2500 in trade for it as is. Would give me a chance to update the system and find new and more exciting episodes of goats gone wild to download.

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/we9_CdNPuJg"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/we9_CdNPuJg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

Cynthetiq

nothing.

everything I use is replaceable to something that is "better" within 3 days.

__________________
I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not.

Crack

5k at least.

but the fines and fees I would be charged if someone were to take a good luck at everything on my PC is probably worth about 20-50 thousand dollars. So I think I'll keep it for now.

__________________
Crack, you and I are long overdue for a vicious bout of mansex.

~Halx

Jetée

more than my home

__________________
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

skier

my hard drive just bricked a few days ago. i have a backup from a few months back but everything since then is gone. i've been a pack rat with my computer, i've been "collecting" for over a decade. those fragments of memories would be worth upwards of a thousand dollars to me.

in terms of the computer itself, it's a 2500$ machine hooked up to a 4000$ home theatre system with 5000$ worth of software and at least that much in media. i'd be a little miffed if i lost all that

__________________
"Asking a bomb squad if an old bomb is still "real" is not the best thing to do if you want to save it." - denim

uncle phil

wanna buy a duck?

__________________
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Fob_Magi

The actual computer(s) are not worth much...

1 - 6 yr old PC w/ 17" CRT, (orig $2300) --- Maybe $300
1 - 4 yr old Celeron 2.4Ghz laptop, (orig $700) --- $200
1 - 1 yr old PD 820 w/ 19" LCD, (orig $1300) --- $800

~ 1 TB of various external HD's --- $400

~500 albums --- $6000

Software --- $35k

9 years of porn --- Priceless

__________________
Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward.
Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both.
For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, "If I live I will kill you, if I die you are forgiven".
Such is the Rule of Honor.

LoganSnake

The actual machine isn't worth much anymore, but the contents of my hard drive would take a while to replace.

I've got about 28GB of music, 133GB of anime, 60GB of movies, 3GB of pictures.

Random files that I've saved over the years are somewhere in 70GBs. Not to mention many programs that I would be too lazy to redownload, etc.

__________________
Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past. Wisdom is knowing that you'll be an idiot in the future. Common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot now. - J. Jacques

Dilbert1234567

cold hard cash for all my computers, it's about $8000 (including depreciation) but as for the files. the client data is priceless, at a minimum, if i loose it, I'd stand to loose tens of thousands of dollars of business. then the 5.6TB of 'stuff' would take a long, long time to re-rip and re-encode.

__________________
Donate Blood!

"Love is not finding the perfect person, but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen

cyrnel

Hardware: Whatever. It's a never ending cycle of upgrades anyway. It'd be disruptive, and I'd hate to replace all the shop equip & misc stuff, but life would go on.

Software & data: Don't go there. No, no, no. It's what I do so I'd be sunk. Customer disasters have made me paranoid to the point my home and office arrays continually sync. Anything I'm on the hook for is in two+ locations depending on importance and change frequency. Failing that, time to forward calls to my insurance co and take an unplanned vacation. /me high-tails it to destinations unknown

__________________
There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

laconic1

My hardware is probably worth $1000. Software isn't much, if I'm running Windows them I'm only out the cost of my Windows license. If I'm running Linux I'm not even out that much. I have about 1100 songs, so $1100 for that. I actually just deleted my entire porn collection, 4 years and 150 GB worth, so I don't even have to worry about losing that.

Baraka_Guru

I would be replacing:

Pentium 4/HT 3GHz
Windows XP Home
Dell 16 inch Trinitron CRT monitor
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
80GB ATA Hard Drive
6x DVD 16x CD/RW combo drive
256MB ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 3D video card
...with no digital-only media files

with this (its closest Dell equivalent):

Pentium D Processor 935 with Dual Core Technology (3.2GHz)
Windows Vista Home Premium
Dell 19 inch SE198WFP Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
320GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
16x DVD+/-RW Drive
256MB nVidia Geforce 7300LE TurboCache

...for a total cost of $859 plus taxes... so....

My computer is worth under $1,000 to me.... but its replacement would be far better than what I have now. Can't say I'd miss it.

__________________
Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot