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offline J198 from Maastricht (Netherlands, The) on 2007-04-22 03:20 [#02074534]
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Hi.

i have a Western Digital MyBook 250GB external drive. I have
all my music and photos on it and i am using it not only for
storage but also to load music from, in winamp.

I'm not sure whether this is ok. I've heard that they should
only be used to save things to, and that you shouldn't load
movies from them etc. since that will cause it to die
sooner.

Is this true or will it be ok? Should i run some kind of
checkdisk utility for it every once in a while and if so,
which one would you reccommend?

cheers

 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2007-04-22 03:37 [#02074535]
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NERD

 

offline J198 from Maastricht (Netherlands, The) on 2007-04-22 03:41 [#02074536]
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lol y?

 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2007-04-22 06:19 [#02074564]
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I guess I'm in a similar situation. I keep mp3s, videos and
one program (Synth Edit) on my external drive. I have had
problems with killing one by a small little cushioned knock,
but this one seems ok.



 

offline dave_g from United Kingdom on 2007-04-22 07:20 [#02074573]
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external HDDs are a bad idea for backup. If you are using a
laptop, you're pretty much stuck with one, but for a desktop
computer, you are MUCH better getting RAID.

with RAID you either have it on the motherboard or get a PCI
card and buy a 2nd HDD. plug the two discs into the raid
card/motherboard sockets and set them up to mirror.
with mirror, all the data on one disk is "mirrored" onto the
other one, so should one die the other has a copy
automatically.
this is the best because it is totally invisible to the user
and its all done automatically in real time, so a backup is
guaranteed. :)

I haven't answered your question though, sorry!

 

offline Saint Aime from United Kingdom on 2007-04-22 07:25 [#02074576]
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i have the same external disk as you, I use it for recording
8 stereo tracks simultaneously, no problems so far after a
few months solid use.


 

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