Little help?
Feb. 22nd, 2008 02:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snarklyboojumI am so inept at technology I should be scraping this entry on a cave wall somewhere with charcoal. Can anyone better at this give me some advice?
My computer is almost completely out of memory and I've already added extra. I'm most concerned about my music storage - I have a hell of a lot of data there just waiting to vanish on me, and I'd probably have a small nervous breakdown if I were to lose my music. I thought an excellent solution to this would be an external hard drive, where I could store my files and maybe even upload a few games. (Right now, all I have is Sims, and while it's addicting there's another extension coming out and I really want it but just don't have the room.) So I buy one. This one, on sale through another website.
I hate it. It's really not what I was wanting at all. The drive's more of a suitcase for your files than easily-accessed storage - it's the WD Synch synchronization that does it. I don't plan on taking it from one computer to another, I just want something I can store my files on, access and control them as if they were still in my computer and play random tracks when I want to. Does that make sense?
I want to sell the Passport and buy one closer to what I'm looking for but I really don't want to get screwed again. (I know I should have done more research before purchasing but I thought it would work. I'm a geek, but a lousy one.) If I were to purchase another model, would I get the desired usage or should I try something else entirely?
Drive size and capacity don't really matter. I'm aiming for inexpensive, user-friendly, and everything else I've already ranted about. ;)
My computer is almost completely out of memory and I've already added extra. I'm most concerned about my music storage - I have a hell of a lot of data there just waiting to vanish on me, and I'd probably have a small nervous breakdown if I were to lose my music. I thought an excellent solution to this would be an external hard drive, where I could store my files and maybe even upload a few games. (Right now, all I have is Sims, and while it's addicting there's another extension coming out and I really want it but just don't have the room.) So I buy one. This one, on sale through another website.
I hate it. It's really not what I was wanting at all. The drive's more of a suitcase for your files than easily-accessed storage - it's the WD Synch synchronization that does it. I don't plan on taking it from one computer to another, I just want something I can store my files on, access and control them as if they were still in my computer and play random tracks when I want to. Does that make sense?
I want to sell the Passport and buy one closer to what I'm looking for but I really don't want to get screwed again. (I know I should have done more research before purchasing but I thought it would work. I'm a geek, but a lousy one.) If I were to purchase another model, would I get the desired usage or should I try something else entirely?
Drive size and capacity don't really matter. I'm aiming for inexpensive, user-friendly, and everything else I've already ranted about. ;)
