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Exteral Hard Drives....
« Thread Started on Jan 11, 2009, 2:03pm »
I have hust done a search for .jpg files in my D drive (PC as 2 HDD) where I keep all my pictures and was amazed to find that there are over 59,000.
I would like to copy these to an External hard Drive but have no experience of such.
Anybody use them and any recommendations?

Ta,

Dave
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« Reply #1 on Jan 11, 2009, 2:13pm »
Dave - there's lot on the market, all very similar, the main difference is that some require external power supplies and others don't and derive their power from the host PC. You should be able to get a 500 GB one for around the £70-00 which would give you loads of storage space, larger or smaller ones will vary in price accordinally.

Myself I use a 120GB HP Media drive which I keep all my personal files on and I take verywhere I go so I've got access to them, it doesn't need an external power source and its plug and play with either XP or Vista, I've got about 20,000 photo's and files on it and have used just over 10% of its capacity. I also have another 500 GB HP drive permanently docked to my PC at home onto which I regularly back everything up in case the protable drive gets lost or corrupted!

hope this helps, I'm pretty sure others will be able to give you some advice as well.

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« Reply #2 on Jan 11, 2009, 2:16pm »
Cheers Gary.....I'll have a look around and see what's on the market. Is it just a case of "drag & drop" to copy them over?
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« Reply #3 on Jan 11, 2009, 2:20pm »

Jan 11, 2009, 2:16pm, kidstypike wrote:
Cheers Gary.....I'll have a look around and see what's on the market. Is it just a case of "drag & drop" to copy them over?


Yes they work like any other drive on your machine, the only difference is if you want to unplug them ,while the PC is on, is that you need to disconnect them like a USB memory stick so that you don't damage them.

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« Reply #4 on Jan 11, 2009, 2:23pm »

Jan 11, 2009, 2:20pm, gary6419 wrote:

Jan 11, 2009, 2:16pm, kidstypike wrote:
Cheers Gary.....I'll have a look around and see what's on the market. Is it just a case of "drag & drop" to copy them over?


Yes they work like any other drive on your machine, the only difference is if you want to unplug them ,while the PC is on, is that you need to disconnect them like a USB memory stick so that you don't damage them.

Gary


Cheers...takes me to the limit of my technical capabilities but I think I can manage that
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« Reply #5 on Jan 11, 2009, 2:48pm »
Dave

I bought a Freecom 250gb external HD from Amazon earlier this year for £50. (after I had read about Gary's!). Really good and easy to transfer pics just like any memory stick. Is only 8 x 13 cm so very portable.

Try this link

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/qid=1231685380....20hard %20drive

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« Reply #6 on Jan 11, 2009, 2:57pm »
Cheers Derek,

I'll have to have a looksee and see what suits me best.

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« Reply #7 on Jan 11, 2009, 7:45pm »
This is a great thread!

A sad day today as i had throw my desktop PC into the skip.....damaged beyond repair by a virus :-[

As stated elsewhere i have removed my hard drive and i am running it (with external power supply) from my lap top for the time being (new PC ordered :) ).

Can i expand on the thread by asking if it is possible to attach an external hard drive to a wireless router (i use a Sky one) in someway so that you can access it from different machines (ie...a desktop PC and laptop)?

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« Reply #8 on Jan 11, 2009, 7:57pm »
Alan,
You've got my braincell spinning faster than an hard disk now!!!!
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« Reply #9 on Jan 11, 2009, 9:15pm »

Jan 11, 2009, 7:45pm, vertigo wrote:
Can i expand on the thread by asking if it is possible to attach an external hard drive to a wireless router (i use a Sky one) in someway so that you can access it from different machines (ie...a desktop PC and laptop)?

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Re: Exteral Hard Drives....
« Reply #10 on Jan 11, 2009, 9:53pm »
this thread reminded me of my new years resolution to remember to back everything up so have just purchased a hard drive from the supplied by Derek.

No doubt I will post on here again when I can't get the d**n thing to work ::)

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« Reply #11 on Jan 11, 2009, 10:06pm »
Nice one Dik.....should I wait and see how easy/hard it was to install and do?
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« Reply #12 on Jan 12, 2009, 8:15am »

Jan 11, 2009, 7:45pm, vertigo wrote:
This is a great thread!

A sad day today as i had throw my desktop PC into the skip.....damaged beyond repair by a virus :-[

As stated elsewhere i have removed my hard drive and i am running it (with external power supply) from my lap top for the time being (new PC ordered :) ).

Can i expand on the thread by asking if it is possible to attach an external hard drive to a wireless router (i use a Sky one) in someway so that you can access it from different machines (ie...a desktop PC and laptop)?

Alan


Alan - I don't think this is possible, you would need some sort of operating software on the drive to make it visible to the network/other machines?

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Re: Exteral Hard Drives....
« Reply #13 on Jan 12, 2009, 9:14am »

Jan 12, 2009, 8:15am, gary6419 wrote:

Jan 11, 2009, 7:45pm, vertigo wrote:
This is a great thread!

A sad day today as i had throw my desktop PC into the skip.....damaged beyond repair by a virus :-[

As stated elsewhere i have removed my hard drive and i am running it (with external power supply) from my lap top for the time being (new PC ordered :) ).

Can i expand on the thread by asking if it is possible to attach an external hard drive to a wireless router (i use a Sky one) in someway so that you can access it from different machines (ie...a desktop PC and laptop)?

Alan


Alan - I don't think this is possible, you would need some sort of operating software on the drive to make it visible to the network/other machines?

Gary


Thanks Gary

Sounds like more trouble that its worth to me ;)

Alan
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« Reply #14 on Jan 12, 2009, 9:18am »

Jan 12, 2009, 9:14am, vertigo wrote:

Jan 12, 2009, 8:15am, gary6419 wrote:


Alan - I don't think this is possible, you would need some sort of operating software on the drive to make it visible to the network/other machines?

Gary


Thanks Gary

Sounds lime more trouble that its worth to me ;)

Alan



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