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Computer Question and pimping some neglected doramas

Aug 19, 2006 03:59

First off a question to the lovely people of flist. I want to buy additional memory for my computer in order to keep dling all those lovely doramas. My laptop is PC, Inspiron 2650. How much memory should I get? What is a decent price? And what type of memory (I went to Amazon and got completely lost among memory types ( Read more... )

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winterspel August 19 2006, 10:36:14 UTC

If you are looking for storage for your doramas, I don't suggest buying memory for your computer. Rather, buy external hardrive(s). These will plug into our machine (make sure that you get ones that have the right connections. For ex. If you computer has a Firewire/IEEE 1394 port, definitely buy an external with Firewire - it's faster than USB, but most computers have a USB port).

I own 2 Maxtor II external hard drives, one is 250 Gig and the other is 300 Gig, and they are dual interface so they have USB/Firewire. Sadly both of them are nearly full and the 300G is only 4 months old. O_O One more word of advice. Buy as many gigs as you can, or buy more than one, because I promise you, you will fill it, if you end up loving doramas as I do. You can do google searches to research how consumer sites rate these hard drives as well, because you want reliable.

plazmah August 19 2006, 15:03:38 UTC

*seconds this motion* External harddrives will definately be an asset in dangermousie's case.

dangermousie August 19 2006, 16:44:33 UTC

Heh. I guess my obsessive nature is widely known :)

dangermousie August 19 2006, 16:44:06 UTC

Thanks for the recs. I have a USB port, need to check about IEEE. Where do you buy yours btw, and what is a good price, because I have no idea....

winterspel August 19 2006, 16:49:21 UTC

I've bought mine (as well as many of my electronics in general) off Amazon - they usually have a pretty good return policy if there are any problems, good prices and good selection. In general, you shouldn't spend more than $1/gig, but you can sometimes do better than that. Just shop around and I'm sure you can find some good deals, but definitely read consumer info (or even look at magazines at the bookstore if they have articles on external HD reccs). Many PC magazines do regular reviews of these products so you can see what is good and reliable now.

dangermousie August 19 2006, 17:07:29 UTC

Thank you! That is amazingly helpful. I don't need to get the memory this weekend or anything, so I am just going to go and look at some magazines this weekend and decide what I want and then get it later. Gosh, this hobby is the craziest one yet, in terms of things I end up buying :)

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