Computer Question
Aug. 25th, 2011 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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?
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?
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Date: 2011-08-25 10:19 pm (UTC)In terms of storage size, I've got over 3000 songs on my computer and that's about 20 GB of data, so even the tiniest external hard drive should hold that. There are flash drives that can easily hold that much as well, but GB-for-GB they're more expensive--there's a price vs. size tradeoff and it's up to you which is more important.
If you're trying not to spend too much, you might think you should just buy the cheapest external hard drive, but a 320 GB model might only be ten dollars more than a 250 GB one from the same manufacturer. It's kind of like checking the price-per-gallon of milk--you have to do some math to find the best value.
To pick out something like this I'd go to newegg.com. They have a wide assortment of external hard drives, and a lot of options for filtering your search by the manufacturer, storage capacity, price, and so on. They also provide out-of-the-box pictures of most products, which I find helpful. Even if you end up driving to Best Buy, it can be useful to window-shop at Newegg first.