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[Closed] IT help pls

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ebay's deal of the day is a portable usb hd,750gb for £35, would this work as an add on drive to a pc for music/itunes, or would an internal one be better?


 
Posted : 02/04/2011 7:18 am
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It will work fine.


 
Posted : 02/04/2011 7:31 am
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cool ta...would there be any preferred option for my Level 42 collection?


 
Posted : 02/04/2011 7:48 am
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The /dev/null drive perhaps? 🙂


 
Posted : 02/04/2011 7:52 am
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would there be any preferred option for my Level 42 collection?

If you are using Windows 7 then:

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Posted : 02/04/2011 8:04 am
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Only time you'll find it slower than an internal drive is if you're transferring large amounts of data to/from it - otherwise it'll be fine for music storage and playback.

Have you considered getting two so you can have one as a back up - I'd be worried about having all of my music just in one place?


 
Posted : 02/04/2011 8:16 am
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xp...but I am kidding re the Level.

It's more about space to in lossless for hifi reasons, I only want to back up photos.

thinking about it I'd be best getting an internal drive and use the existing one as a back us. I want to try ubuntu (to try and get a bit more life out of aging pc) so it'd be a good time to do all of it I guess.


 
Posted : 02/04/2011 8:44 am
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It will have a normal HDD in it anyway, so you could just take that out & mount internally if its slow, (which it wont be).


 
Posted : 02/04/2011 8:49 am

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