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[cicer]

So I just got a tax-refund check. Unexpected money, yay! Of course, it could go into savings, but what I really want to do is buy shiny tech goodies.

So! A question to those of you in possesion of external harddrives! I am thinking of getting one. Do you have any recommendations of particular products I should look at? Any you've used and really liked? Any I should definitely stay away from? I don't need a huge amount of space. I see there are some out there with, like, 300 GB, and I would never ever fill that much up. But I would like to be able to clear some of the junk off my PC and back up my files. Thoughts?

Also, I think I might be ready to cave and buy and Ipod. No, I've never had one. Yes, I am more behind-the-times than your grandmother. You don't want to know how long it took me to move from VHS to DVD. I am currently eyeing this one. It's awfully pretty.

In further Me vs. Technology news, my laptop has decided it won't create zipped files anymore. I don't know why. I installed WinRar a while back, and haven't tried to zip anything since, but apparantly the computer will no longer zip stuff now. I tried uninstalling WinRar, reinstalling it, and using other downloadable stuff, but nothing works. I think the compact.exe thingy is broken. Sigh. I have no idea how to fix this, so all my file-zipping may have to be done from my desktop from now on, unless someone out there has a brilliant idea.

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[ymfaery]

One of the MyBook things he mentioned; that was the $140 for 500GB that I was looking at.

160GB is okay, but if you want to seriously download video files and the like, you'd run out of room in about 2-3 months, I think. XD (Unless you burn them to disk and erase them from your hard drive.) And I think there might be 250GB drives for under $100 when they're on sale, and for decent brand name ones at that. You should shop around and see what's out there. :D

[cicer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't really download video files much, so I don't think I need that much space. Of course, if I had one of these, I might start! XD But even then I could just burn stuff to disks, since that's what I usually do. So I think I'd be all right with 160GB, but I'll have to think about it. I'm definitely going to wait a bit and see if things go on sale, though, since I'm in no rush to buy one. :) So far it looks like Best Buy and Wal-Mart have the best prices on Western Digital stuff, though...