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Every Guy Needs an Enormous External Hard Drive
One of the absolutely necessity of any nerd with a notebook PC is an external hard drive. I have been moving old games, rarely used programs, old archive files, Pr0n, downloaded movie files, photos from my digital camera to my external hard drive. This is to make way for a kick ass MP3 collection and to back up old data.
I have an Qps Que! 80-Gig external USB2 drive that rarely leaves my desk at home. It is plugged into a USB2 hub and when I can turn it on and access the data on it with the same speed and performance if it were an internal drive. USB2 rocks when it comes to hard drives.
It is sort of like a big ass thumb drive except this drive you rarely take with you. However I have taken it over to BBQ's place to drop of software goodies when he got a new PC. Then there was the time that Peter wanted to send in his notebook for servicing and he wanted to back up a lot of data. If you think about it that is about a hundred CD-Rs worth of data and it is fast and flexible. As long as you do not take and drop it the data is pretty save since it is not being accessed on a daily basis and I don't have to worry about moving it with my notebook.
When I was a wee lad in junior high I saved up and purchased an external 40 Meg LaCie SCSI drive. I used it with my old Mac LC and it came in quite handy in moving files to and from my friend's Macs and my school's computers. I still have a Mac SE with a SCSI port and if I still had the old external HD.
I am tempted to get a really freaking big external hard drive that can can store five hundred gigs or so. That would be so damn big that it would last me about a decade or so until we stop using magnetic disk based computers. By the time you fill it we would be using hologram DNA quantum computers and William Gibson crap.
Jake at May 12, 2004 
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I still have a working Mac Plus with a Rodine 20mb SCSI hard drive. I would like to put this antique on my LAN. Not sure how to do this but I'm sure it's possible. I'd probably have to use one of my old MODEMs.
Posted by: Randy Scott at May 12, 2004 10:13 AM
You only have one? I've got a couple. And it's USB2 and Firewire. And at work, I've got two 400MB externals in the office that we use for triage forensics.
When I was a wee lad in college, a friend loaned me a 5 Meg internal Winchester drive. I was blown away.. what was I going to do with all that storage?
Posted by: dunsany at May 12, 2004 10:51 AM
You mean 400GB externals? 400 megs is not that much.
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at May 12, 2004 11:00 AM
I was thinking of getting an external drive for backup purposes. Some of these solutions seem pretty cool.
Posted by: wuji at May 12, 2004 11:36 AM
I would reccomend it for backing up data and storage. It is much faster than buring CDs and DVDs.
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at May 12, 2004 11:45 AM
Yes, sorry.. 400G externals. And 400M would be enough if people didn't program such bloaty code. I got my start writing 6502 assembler (yes, 8-bit games). Entire games would fit under 100K. I know, I sound like an old fart.
Posted by: dunsany at May 13, 2004 9:30 AM
