Computer Question

[indiana_j]

Since the internet at home is a bit eeeehhh, I've known that I need to invest in an external hard drive if I ever want to download new music again.

Basically, I'm looking at something that's big enough to store all of my music on it (over 3,000 songs, so not a whole lot) and be able to download other things onto it from the Eee so I can truck it back to the house and upload it to the main computer.

What size should I get and what brand is good?

Comments

[silvanis.livejournal.com]

Depending on how much other stuff you want to move back and forth, a flash drive may be your best bet. You can get a 64Gb flash drive for around $100 or a 32Gb for around $40.

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

I think I'd like something that would actually house the music, along with allowing me to transfer things over.

[silvanis.livejournal.com]

I think you misunderstood me; I'm talking about something like this:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Kingston+-+DataTraveler+101+Generation+2+32GB+USB+2.0+Flash+Drive/1701018.p?id=1218282103423&skuId=1701018

3,000 songs should be about 10-15 gig, so that leaves you a lot of space for transfering files around. I used one to play my music at work without any problems (other than people thinking I have wierd taste) ;)

I'm just tossing that out there because then you don't have to worry about power cords or dropping it :)