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10-12-2006, 09:42 PM
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H.S. Freshman Team
Join Date: Dec 2000
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New hard drive - advice
Hey guys -
Looking at buying an additional hard drive. Currently I have the original 75 gig as well as a 160 gig WD internal drive I added prolly a year or so ago. Both are getting full so I'm looking at getting some additional space. I'm thinking I want a larger external drive to archive a lot of the music/videos and to backup everything because I honestly would be devastated if anything happened to all the stuff I have on my computer. Just wondering if anyone knew of any great deals goin on or had any recommendations. Looking to not spend a ton... preferably under $100 but I really dont know what to even expect price-wise. Thanks for any help! -zums oh yeah - one question re: external drives... is there any sort of lag or anything when playing music and/or videos from an external drive as opposed to an internal drive? Things such as going to the next track and there's a pause while it queues up - that would kind of bug me if that is the case so I guess I would use it more as a backup and storage for older files rather than transferring much of my data there... again I have no experience w/ external drives so help me out! |
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10-12-2006, 09:57 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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If you wait until Black Friday there were some pretty good 250 gig drive deals last year. Buy an enclosure kit and I'm sure you'll be under 100 easily.
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10-12-2006, 09:59 PM
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lolzcat
Join Date: May 2001
Location: williamsburg, va
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Man, you should have asked this earlier. There was a 250gig drive for $50 during the woot-off today.
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10-12-2006, 10:09 PM
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I dunno how much I would necessarily want to trust a refurb'd drive. Otherwise I almost ordered one and an enclosure kit they had. |
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10-12-2006, 10:11 PM
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lolzcat
Join Date: May 2001
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True. refurb'd is a bit chancy, but for that price...  ...I ended up not ordering anything in the woot off.. I was tempted by a few things, but in the end I've found that often woot deals aren't really THAT great and I use it more for "unique" items than cheap ones.
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10-12-2006, 10:12 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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They have a wireless router for 17.99 that I'm tempted to order. Only thing that I've missed thus far that pissed me off was some deluxe remote control for 9.99.
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10-12-2006, 10:14 PM
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lolzcat
Join Date: May 2001
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I haven't been watching as closely as I usually do.
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