Comments | viridian5: Too Much, While Elsewhere Nothing

viridian5

Too Much, While Elsewhere Nothing

Apr 28, 2013 18:46

Aw, man. I'm running low on hard drive space due to a large MP3 collection, eight years of photos (and you know I take a ton of photos), and all my fic website's files. I may have to invest in a zip drive, since every time I saved things to a CD they didn't stay saved. I'll have to find out how they cost. I'm starting to cull my digital photo ( Read more... )

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chorus_of_chaos April 28 2013, 23:28:37 UTC

we may be talking about something similar since I don't know "zip" drives but I love my external hard drive, you can sometimes luck across a little used one with college classes wrapping up. I saw a terrebyte drive on clearance at walmart a couple weeks ago for 69$ (I think it was toshiba, which Ive had good with in the past.)

Im wary of cd dvd disk backups to, I usually make 2 just in case

viridian5 April 29 2013, 16:34:53 UTC

I don't know where to even look for a used one.

This is stressing me out so badly it's making me feel sick. (It doesn't help that I'm PMSing.) I'm supposed to be working on the current piece of GH--which is late--but instead I'm obsessing over how I have no room to put in much of anything new on my computer.

chorus_of_chaos May 4 2013, 00:30:21 UTC

would a few thumb drives help? granted its 4 gigs here and eight gigs there but I have some I could part with and send you.

viridian5 May 4 2013, 07:31:40 UTC

Running some functions of a free 30-day trial of a computer checkup program has given me much more room, but if those are spare thumb drives I could certainly use some for backing up some files.

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7veilsphaedra April 28 2013, 23:29:31 UTC

A friend of mine speaks highly of Dropbox as a means of backup storage. She uses it for all her graphics and photo files, just in case something ever happens to her hard-drive.

ryuu_no_hime May 6 2013, 11:15:14 UTC

I also second Dropbox as being full of awesome and is my personal favorite of the cloud storage services out there right now. If you are interested in getting an account, hit me up for a referral link because it'll give both you and me an extra 500 MB of space.

Other free options for online storage are Google Drive (5 GB free) and Amazon (also 5 GB). Also, if you can manage to stand the extremely painful uploading process, you can store up to 20,000 songs online through Google Music, which can then be redownloaded to another computer should your current hard drive crap out on you.