I just bought an external (USB) hard-drive yesterday due to finally filling up the 80 gigabyte one that came with the computer. I'm fairly impressed so far. It only set me back $179AUD and it has a capacity of 250 gigabytes. It's a Western Digital 'My Book'. Does anyone here have or use an external drive? If so what are the features etc.?
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Exernal Hard Drives Who's got one, compare, etc.
#2
Posted 04 March 2007 - 12:34 AM
My dad has an external hard-drive. Methinks he uses it for backing up files and storing all his photos.
I think it's something crazy like 600 GB.. Set him back too much..
It seems very functional from the minimal use I've had of it. Which isn't much. There isn't really much they can do.
This one's just plug in and then go.. Pretty easy!
I think it's something crazy like 600 GB.. Set him back too much..
It seems very functional from the minimal use I've had of it. Which isn't much. There isn't really much they can do.
This one's just plug in and then go.. Pretty easy!
#3
Posted 04 March 2007 - 06:45 AM
Agatio: are you keeping all the stuff on your comp on your comp's hard-drive, and filling up the external one with new stuff, or putting all your old stuff on the external one and filling your comp up with new stuff?
Its just that my Laptop is very nearly full, and is working pretty slowly as well because I have so much junk on it. If i were to buy an external drive and shove all the junk on that, would it significantly increase the speed?
Its just that my Laptop is very nearly full, and is working pretty slowly as well because I have so much junk on it. If i were to buy an external drive and shove all the junk on that, would it significantly increase the speed?
#4
Posted 04 March 2007 - 10:20 AM
My computer came with 160 gb, so I don't (yet) have a use for an external hard drive. I do, however, use USB Flash Drives (notably the Sandisk "Cruzer" micro model, 1 gb).
#5
Posted 05 March 2007 - 04:23 AM
Wiflewood, on Mar 4 2007, 11:45 PM, said:
Agatio: are you keeping all the stuff on your comp on your comp's hard-drive, and filling up the external one with new stuff, or putting all your old stuff on the external one and filling your comp up with new stuff?
I put all my music, videos, ROMs and pictures onto my external, so as to free up space (about 64 gig) on my hard-drive, and also for the benefit of being able to take it to my mate's place and share / watch Family Guy, South Park, music etc. I kept my pr0n off the external though, don't want people getting their hands on that ;p .
#6
Posted 05 March 2007 - 11:32 AM
Of course not ;)
Does it significantly improve the speed of your comp?
Does it significantly improve the speed of your comp?
#7
Posted 05 March 2007 - 11:39 AM
I used to. Of course, this was so old it used SCSI cables, and I used it with a now >12 year old computer. Before that, though, it was used with a fossil--one of those original Macs. Needless to say, I wasn't the one using it. ;)
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