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	External Hard Drive - Added 400Gbyte, in 3 minute's started by Festus33
	December 23rd 2007 at 9:38 PM Post #1
	Festus33 600 yard Member 740 Posts Group: Members Member Since: February 25th 2006 Location: Mukwonago, Wi., USA Current Sled: Da "Prowla"and "Tigger" Miles Last Season: 1293.6 Miles This Season: I'm Ready
	I've been running an 80Gby hard drive, for the last 2 yr's. For the past several month's I've only had about 11% freespace on My drive, Can You Say SSlloooowwwwww!! Originally I was thinking, Add another 80Gby internal slave drive, Be Happy!! Stopped at Wally World, all they had was a 160Gby WD internal for $79.00 Thought I dont want to spend that much! Went home cruised EBay, ended up finding an 400Gby USB External drive for $79.00 + shipping. Pretty much spent $90.00 delivered to the house. Drive arrived, I plugged it in , transffered a bunch of file's, and ended up with 86% freespace on My internal drive, and still have 83% freespace on the external. I figure it's worth the $90.00, and the 3 minute's it took Me hook it up. Rick Let's Take All the Warning Label's Off, and let Nature Sort it Out !!! 1990 A.C. Prowler 440 Improved 1987 A.C. ElTigre 440 Ice Sled w/a 90 motor www.johnmaster.net (Snowmobile Traction Product's) mpsalvage@msn.com ( Snowmobile Salvage and Part's) Rating: 0 Quick Edit Edit Topic
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	December 23rd 2007 at 10:07 PM Post #2
	arcticcatmatt Spleen Splitter arcticcatmatt had a bat in the bedroom at 2 a.m. Updated 5 minutes ago 11324 Posts Group: Moderators Member Since: November 25th 2001 Location: Berkshire, NY, USA Current Sled: 96/97 ZRT 600 Miles Last Season: 100 Miles This Season: 462
	Sounds like what I did in my backup thread I have in this part of the forum. But looks like your using it as a main drive? I am using mine purely as a backup just in case this thing craps the bed on me again I won't lose all my "good stuff" Check out my site and join up! www.adventurehiker.com Triple Triple Triples are like some slightly overweight chicks, weight doesn't matter as long as she's high in performance baby! Rating: 0 Quick Edit Full Edit
	December 23rd 2007 at 11:03 PM Post #3
	Psgroi Go for the snow 315 Posts Group: Members Member Since: January 5th 2006 Location: Hamburg, NY, USA Current Sled: Yamaha SXR700 Miles Last Season: 450 Miles This Season: 250
	You may find that using an exturnal HD thru a USB connection is a little slower than internal becuase of the transfer rate of USB vs an internal ATA drive but it will certainly do the trick. Can beat the cost per megabyte. "If it were easy, anyone could do it." 2001 Yamaha SXR700 2004 Artic Cat F7 Firecat (2)2001 Polaris Indy 500 Edge 1985 Polaris Indy Trail Rating: 0 Quick Edit Full Edit
	December 24th 2007 at 12:53 AM Post #4
	srx_600 Scars Are Only Souvenirs srx_600 thinks dell computers are a fricken joke and they suck!!! Updated Last Thursday at 1:02 PM 562 Posts Group: Members Member Since: April 29th 2007 Location: Springfield, South Dakota, USA Current Sled: 97 Powder Extreme/98 SRX Miles Last Season: 260 Miles This Season: 1628
	I use my strictly for backup as well. My connects through firewire, which is apparently faster than USB but i cant tell a real big difference. They sure can be a life saver though, thats for sure. "If you were given the opportunity to turn your life around, if someone looked you in the face when you had no hope left and said- 'This is it my friend. Your grace period is almost up. You have three days to do something to turn your life around. Three days to put down that bottle, throw away those pills, make your amends, and move forward with living. What would you do? How would you use your Three Days of Grace?" http://www.adventurehiker.com/ Rating: 0 Quick Edit Full Edit
	December 24th 2007 at 7:13 AM Post #5
	Festus33 600 yard Member 740 Posts Group: Members Member Since: February 25th 2006 Location: Mukwonago, Wi., USA Current Sled: Da "Prowla"and "Tigger" Miles Last Season: 1293.6 Miles This Season: I'm Ready
	Pretty much just using it as a slave, all the main prosessing still take's place on the 80gig internal. I've already noticed faster operation, by moving all the excess stuff over. Rick Let's Take All the Warning Label's Off, and let Nature Sort it Out !!! 1990 A.C. Prowler 440 Improved 1987 A.C. ElTigre 440 Ice Sled w/a 90 motor www.johnmaster.net (Snowmobile Traction Product's) mpsalvage@msn.com ( Snowmobile Salvage and Part's) Rating: 0 Quick Edit Full Edit