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Thread ID: 17711	2002-04-10 04:07:00	External Hard Drives	Guest (0)	Press F1

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42991	2002-04-10 04:07:00	How portable are external HDD. I am involved with producing and co-hosting a weekly radio show on a local community based radio station. I take weekly a partial selection of CD's to use for the show, is it practical to download all the music I need onto an external hard drive and just take that in and plug it in to one of the pc's in the studio?? Your comments would be apprecciatted. regards PP	Guest (0)
42992	2002-04-10 06:50:00	I would be more inclined to burn the selected tracks onto a CDRW. JM	Guest (0)
42993	2002-04-10 06:58:00	Talk nicely to your station tech and have a hot-swappable caddie installed at home and at the station. Caddie contains a hard drive, hot-swappable means no need to switch machines off/on when removing or inserting. Cheaper than the case required for an external hard drive.	Guest (0)
42994	2002-04-10 08:07:00	Thanks for your responses, problem is cost of burning cd's as they are not required I already have the music on cd but it is not convinient to carry large quantity of CD's and lp's when I could get all usable tracks on a hard drive. The other major problem is cost of installing anything at the station which is a volounteer organisation and relies on members for funding so any cost has to be born by individual show presenters (me). If I can get 3,000 tracks on a hard drive that can be hooked on to our existing network the cost to me would just be the cost of the hard drive and any cabling. Although having said that once the music is installed there is no reason why the drive needs to be moved is there! Good thinking 99..	Guest (0)
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