external hard drives

do you have an external hard drive?
yes and it isnt worth it
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Yes and it is worth it
44%
 44%  [ 4 ]
No but i could do with one
22%
 22%  [ 2 ]
No and dont want one cos my pc has enough mem
33%
 33%  [ 3 ]
     
Total Votes : 9
    
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Mitchell Delaney (minicaptain) Trainee
Joined: Apr 09, 2006 Posts: 79 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:17 am

hi everyone, just wondering, does anyone know if i buy an external hard drive(cos my pc only has 10gb memory so i want to boost it) is it simple enough that really you just plug it in to your pc?

and if so, will it act like an internal hard drive and store flightsim on it and everything?

also, does anyone know where i can find cheap ones?, (over 80gb)

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Greekman72 Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 5418 Location: Hellas
Answered
Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:10 am

Yes and its worth it.

I use an 200GB USB-Firewire one and i find it more than useful.
Store program,utilities,pics,music,data etc.
Transfer them to others PC's,use it for installation of programs to other systems without need to carry 50Cd's or 10 DVD's and much more.
I wont suggest though to use it for running programs through it.It is better to replace your 10gb one with the 80 and make your 10 one a storage place.

Keep on mind that every new HD needs format it in order to become functional.Then your system will recognize it and that was.

The price in my country is 56euros(71.2892$).

PS.Memory and Hard Drive Capacity are two different things.

Memory = RAM ➡

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM

Hard Drive-Disk ➡

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drive

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tomthetank Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 24, 2003 Posts: 3392 Location: Newport S/Wales
Answered
Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:47 pm

I dont use one at the moment as I have no need.My PC set up has two internal h/drives

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Ed Reagle (edr1073) First Officer
Joined: Jun 19, 2004 Posts: 473 Location: Stafford Virginia
Answered
Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:58 pm

around so I bought an enclosure for it and I store a bunch of different things on it. It is USB. even though I have a 250GB harddrive on my system there never seems to be enough space.

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Tailhook Chief Captain
Joined: Oct 12, 2005 Posts: 7013 Location: El Dorado
Answered
Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:35 am

I've toyed with the idea just to see what the fuss is all about. Circumstances have solved the problem for me.
I need a larger desk before I can even consider buying another peripheral of any kind.

No, I don't fancy the idea of placing a HDD on the floor.

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