Thread: Right!The time has come..
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Old 21-08-2005, 14:23   #10
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Re: Right!The time has come..
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Originally Posted by Incognitas
I'm constantly deleting or backing up stuff because I just don't have enough space on my 40GB HD and with all the P2P gear my son keeps installing I'm regularly down to less than 1GB of space despite all my housekeeping.So I need more space and I'm thinking of getting an external HD.

Are they easy to use.Do they just work like the flash memory sticks or is there more to it than that?

I did find this one which I think I can just about afford..

https://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/...html?FRE-23237
i have a maxtor onetouch 2 USB2/firewire external jobber. it is 120gb, however i have dismantled it to see what is inside, it is just a normal 7200rpm maxtor diamonmax drive. so they are the same technology as normal hard drives, just with an external power supply and USB connection instead

write speeds are as fast as you would expect, though power saving can get irritating... after about 15 mins the drive spins down, and takes abuot 10 seconds to get back up to speed...

i have a laptop so there is no alternative than getting a external one though even if you have a normal computer, if you can't be bothered with the hassle of taking things apart, they make life very very easy

They work like flash memory, plug them in, power in, plug into USB and let the OS do it's job of detecting it. Mine appears as "Z:\" cos i'm weird like that... it comes up as another hard drive, rather than flash drives do and come up as a removable drive.

hope this helps
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