My friend Sam and I were talking about storage solutions the other day. We all want to add extra storage space to our computers. Nowadays, various multimedia files eat lots of hard drive space, especially when we do video editing. DV editing is a killer of storage space; one hour uncompressed AVI video file takes around 13GB.I'm using a Sony VAIO PCG-Z1VCP notebook (PM 1.6GHz, 1GB, 60GB) with external LG DVD writer and external 60GB portable Creative hard drive. Sam is using a desktop (P4 2.8GHz, 1GB, Sony DVD writer) with 3 hard drives (no more space for additional hard drives). Both of us need some external storage solutions. Although DVD writer can solve some of our problems, it's not an ultimate solution. An external desktop hard drive would be the best option. External hard drives can be added into our existing systems very easily. And desktop models are most cost effective in terms of $ per gigabyte.
In next posts, I'll introduce some hot external desktop hard drives we're considering. For all available models of external hard drives, clich here.
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sam
hehe, I will mention it next time. By the way, I forgot how big are your current hard drives.
sam has three hard drives, they are 80GB, 120GB and 200GB. But this sam is very bad, he always downloads the softwares, new released DVD movies, and games from emule or BT, and at the moment, his three drives are all full. He is thinking to buy an external hard drive in the later of this month, that he could not only share his files with his friends, but also, enjoy the files anywhere in his entertainment-based home office system.
Yes, you are right. Every entertainment home network need one like this, is this extrenal drive including a power supply?
hehe, Sam, you already got 400GB storage space! You are a hard disk killer!
Yes, this external hard drive does have a power supply. I think most desktop external hard drives need power supply.
I think for home entertainment use, a network hard drive may be a good option, like the D-Link Network Attached Storage I mentioned before. It will be much easier for data sharing.
If I buy a normal extrenal drive, and set it shared in the newtork. (options in "My Computer") Could the external drive to be shared by the Router and Access Point? And I will leave the computer which has the external drive connected on.
Yes, I think if you leave your computer on all the time, you can share it without a problem. But it won't work if you turn off your computer.
Thanks for your support!
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