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I feel really stupid and blonde posting this, but...
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...my hard drive is running out of space (as in, drastically). Over half of what I have is music, so as I save for an external hard drive, I want to know:
If I put all my music into zipped folders, will it all still play in Windows Media Player/whatever else I feel like using?
It's probably obvious, but I want to check before I do it and discover it doesn't.
If I put all my music into zipped folders, will it all still play in Windows Media Player/whatever else I feel like using?
It's probably obvious, but I want to check before I do it and discover it doesn't.
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As for an external HDD, is it worth it? Will you really NEED an external one to take with you places, or would an internal one do the job just as well?
Mist - I could do that, but that would take a very large amount of time for it not to work.
*is stupid and doesn't know these things*
You CAN replace hte laptop drive with a bigger one though, most likley, and copt the data over.
How much space you wanting?
For about £70 toal you can get 200gb:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=17961563502&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=40468
£40 will get you 80gb:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=17961602298&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=83110
Enclosures:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=74822
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=17961533465&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=50954
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Thing here is, if it fails, you can easily replace the HDD. If the enclosures fan fails... don't leave it! Replae it straight away! (I have been foolish enough to leave it once before.)
This is what I got told to do - put all music and other stuff on to a DVD/CD. This also means that you won't lose everything if the laptop crashes.
I'm still gonna have to do some saving. Fuck.
I've *somehow* managed to get my free space up to 8.90GB by deleting a load of programs I'll never use, and figuring out which of my downloads I could delete. Still less than 25% of free space though. Sigh.
Edit: the reason I'm not just deleting all my music/DVD-ing it is because a) my stereo is broken, and b) my mp3 player deletes stuff when it syncs with my computer if I've deleted it off here. I can probably figure out how to make it not do that, but I'll be fucked if I'm doing that right now .
I don't see why. Clearly you would only test on one file, and not the whole lot. It would take like two minutes.
Anyway, other people have made suggestions so :hyper:
Yes, but why would she zip every file individually? That just makes no sense! And also bears no relevance to the result. It is like zipping and then running notepad, then expecting to be able to do the same with Half Life 2 because they are both programs!
But I'm not going to do that now.
Very pointless. If your music is already compressed - MP3, MPC, Ogg, etc, then it'll not get any smaller in a zip file.
If your music is not compressed(a full-length .WAV file), then there are a variety of codecs available that will enable you to compress your music in a lossless format(40-60% reduction in size) or a lossy format(90% reduction in size).
:banghead:
I was suggesting an answer to her original quesiton, which was "would it work if I zipped my files". You could find the answer with a very small set of files (or just one) in less time than it would have taken to post this thread.
She didn't ask about how well it would perform.
But it's better to have too much spac than not enough. And you may use it; you never know.
Disk is always 90% full.
I'm not gonna use 250GB in a year.
I think I need one. I keep getting messages saying the memory on my computer is low.
Hence why I was asking about it .
But when you see the light and get a good stereo hooked up to your computer, you'll stop using inferior compression techniques and go to lossless, which will immediately increase the disk space used four-fold .
memory is different to disk space. If you need more memory then buying an external hard drive won't help you at all. You'd have to get more memory instead.
If you're getting "disk nearly full" message though, then go for it.