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bort

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Need More SPACE!!
#8503383 - 06/09/08 12:24 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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well, i have about 5 thou songs on media monkey, and now im really running out of room on my (3 year? old) comp.
is there any chip/storage usb device i can use to gain like tons of more room?
thanks guys u rock
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Seuss
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Re: Need More SPACE!! [Re: bort]
#8503568 - 06/09/08 01:30 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Easiest is a large external USB/FireWire/eSATA drive. (Pick the appropriate connection type). Just be careful, as external drives are easy to knock over, kick, drop, etc, resulting in a failed hard drive.
Also, a lot of external drives come preformatted as FAT32... you probably want to redo that to NTFS (assuming you are running windows) or whatever your native filesystem type is rather than FAT32.
(FAT32 filesysytems: more ubiquitous crap put out by Microsoft that is so pathetic that even Microsoft doesn't use it anymore...)
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Re: Need More SPACE!! [Re: bort]
#8503582 - 06/09/08 01:34 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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i have a 500gig external hard drive. it hooks up through a high speed usb port. they also have 750gigs and i believe they may sell a 1 terabyte one now. it's nice and portable, you don't have to take your computer apart to deal with it.
only prob is a computer that old may be lacking a HIGH SPEED usb. it would still work, but be slow as hell. i took mine over to a friends house with an older computer without high speed usb so he could copy some of my downloads and it was taking 3 to 5 min to copy over a couple of albums at a time.
it's a really good investment if you need alot of storage, though. i have heard they can crap out, but mine is some brand called simpletech and has been working fine for about a year. i take it places, it's pretty durable.
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Re: Need More SPACE!! [Re: Seuss]
#8503587 - 06/09/08 01:35 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Seuss said: Easiest is a large external USB/FireWire/eSATA drive. (Pick the appropriate connection type). Just be careful, as external drives are easy to knock over, kick, drop, etc, resulting in a failed hard drive.
Also, a lot of external drives come preformatted as FAT32... you probably want to redo that to NTFS (assuming you are running windows) or whatever your native filesystem type is rather than FAT32.
(FAT32 filesysytems: more ubiquitous crap put out by Microsoft that is so pathetic that even Microsoft doesn't use it anymore...)
that reminds me, mine is ntfs
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bort

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Re: Need More SPACE!! [Re: rev 766]
#8503820 - 06/09/08 02:43 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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rev 766 said: i have a 500gig external hard drive. it hooks up through a high speed usb port. they also have 750gigs and i believe they may sell a 1 terabyte one now. it's nice and portable, you don't have to take your computer apart to deal with it.
only prob is a computer that old may be lacking a HIGH SPEED usb. it would still work, but be slow as hell. i took mine over to a friends house with an older computer without high speed usb so he could copy some of my downloads and it was taking 3 to 5 min to copy over a couple of albums at a time.
it's a really good investment if you need alot of storage, though. i have heard they can crap out, but mine is some brand called simpletech and has been working fine for about a year. i take it places, it's pretty durable.
where does it say in my computer how old it is?
how can you tell if your USB is suitable/high speed?
i use windows xp compaq computer, can you name a few devices that would work well with this?
THANKS!!
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Re: Need More SPACE!! [Re: bort]
#8505585 - 06/09/08 10:53 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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all these things i am not sure of. look around on your usb ports perhaps? i'm drunk. lost profusely on a game of quarters. my gf was playing but she was not drinking so i was drinking when she lost...DAMMNN. so mayber someone else k nows. if you just want it for storage, any old usb will work with the simpletech thing, it'll just take longer to retrieve the data.
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Re: Need More SPACE!! [Re: bort]
#8506725 - 06/10/08 09:38 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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there should be a manufacturer sticker on it with a date most likely on the back or bottom, I'd say the easiest way would be to look up your model and it'd say what your usb speed it, as far as devices that work with your computer, usb works with anything, internally, you will probably have IDE and two sata ports which are what your hard drive and DVD drives use to connect. Two to three PCIe slots, audio cards and Ethernet etc, and a AGP xsomenumber (also something to look up when you do the USB, it will be AGP x16 something around there) and that will determine what kinda video card you can put in there, there are also limitations for video cards on some motherboards so keep that in mind!
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