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Postby xtc-1957 » Tue May 10, 2005 11:11 pm

I need some advice...and I appreciate that you guys/gals have always steered me in the right direction in the past.

I'm at work so I don't have all the details but, I have a Dell Dimension 2400 at home and apparently I've used up all the memory from the 3500 songs I've downloaded off the Hub!

What is the easiest, cheapest way for me to either add memory or transfer things? I believe I saw on here last week a thread pertaining to external drives. Is that something that I can get?

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Postby MARV » Wed May 11, 2005 1:31 am

The easiest thing to do would be to do what I did and that's buying an external hard drive. You can get an 80 gig hd at Staples for well under hundred bucks. I bought mine exclusively for digital music. You can do the same. Or put all your multimedia good
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Postby 1981baby » Wed May 11, 2005 4:19 am

if you are just using the hub for your source of music and you have a cd burner you may just want to buy a 25 or 50 pack of cdr's and burn 700mb's of songs whenever you get low on space. you'd be able to play the songs on your dvd player or in your cdrom
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Postby FreeWave » Wed May 11, 2005 6:53 am

External hard drive $150ish

Internal hard drive $60-90 (adding these to your system as SECOND drive is really easy)

Dvd burner $80-100 and 40 cents a 5G disc on sale

All are good to go but an internal hd would be the cheapest option and you coul
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Postby Frau_Blucher » Wed May 11, 2005 7:19 am

I'd definately go with external if you have USB2 or Firewire. The portability across to another computer or independence if your computer goes down is invaluable. It's a very small premium over internal (if you even have the space). The best to get are th
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Postby MARV » Wed May 11, 2005 8:36 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>I'd definately go with external if you have USB2 or Firewire. The portability across to another
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Postby xtc-1957 » Wed May 11, 2005 12:28 pm

Excellent! I knew you all would have the answer(s).

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