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I've finally taken the plunge and figured out how to burn a CD, Bittorrents, and all that good stuff. I've been in a happy music frenzy for a couple weeks now. The problem is that I'm starting to run out of room on my hard drive and in my CD book. I have a ton of CD sleeves but they are just laying there loose.
Who has a creative way to store all this kick-ass music I'm acquiring?
Post by strumntheguitar on Jul 16, 2007 7:44:42 GMT -5
well, you could get an external hard drive for your computer to use solely for music. They're not too expensive, altho I don't have an accurate price. A lot of my friends use this approach, though.
a decent external will cost anywhere from $80 - to $150.00 - I have been looking around and comparing because a friend came to the house with his external and it was awesome to have all his music there at my fingertips to pick and choose from
Post by strumntheguitar on Jul 16, 2007 9:36:44 GMT -5
^^Thanks for the price verification on externals Meg, it's a bit higher than I was thinking, but still totally worth it I think. I plan on doing that when I run out of space on my computer, however I bought my computer with this in mind and it's rocking a nice 200 GB hard drive so hopefully I won't have to worry about it too soon
There are several externals here - I have been looking at the Western Digital Passport because that is the one that my friend brought over and it was so easy - just plug and play
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Jul 16, 2007 13:54:24 GMT -5
I say use DVDs for backup if you can get a DVD burner. 1 DVD holds about 4.4 gigs of data, compared to 800 megs on CD. I've been backing up my music onto DVDs for safekeeping, and I still have more than 100 DVDs in slimline cases for music alone.
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
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John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
strumntheguitar
Bleary-Eyed Bonnawook Sir Strum, Master of Rum
I've got the same problem as alyroo. Over the years I've managed to accumulate what I believe to be somewhere between 700-800 CDs. I've started ripping them onto my hard drive. I've got about 40 gigs on there now, but I still have hundreds to go, and I'm gonna run out of room. I've been thinking about the external drive. One of my friends just got one, seems pretty cool. I don't have a DVD burner and those aren't really cheap either (plus the cost of the DVDs). If I had to pick one or the other, which one should I get?
