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heya,
time to back all my shit up. it's long overdue.
basically at the moment i'm terrified of losing years worth of samples and projects. i'm looking for a cheap, quick and relatively easy way of making sure everything is saved and can't be lost if my PC fries itself.
i'm running XP (2.8ghz, 1mb ram, 120g hdd). i have about 50 gigs worth of stuff that needs to be saved. hopefully in september i will be buying a laptop just for gigging, so i've been thinking about getting an external. if i do go down that route i might need to play samples from it during live sets etc. so i'm guessing a firewire one with a high rpm is best?
another short-term option that was suggested to me was buying an internal hard drive and copying everything to it, then uninstalling it and keeping it somewhere safe. this is what i'm leaning towards at the moment as it will be cheaper, and i'll probably get plenty space on the laptop anyway (and will doubtless be loading live sets onto CD for gigs).
is there anything i should look out for or consider? i know very little about computing but could probably figure out IDE installation (friends will certainly be able to help!)...
thanks a bazillion
Worried of East Midlands
time to back all my shit up. it's long overdue.
basically at the moment i'm terrified of losing years worth of samples and projects. i'm looking for a cheap, quick and relatively easy way of making sure everything is saved and can't be lost if my PC fries itself.
i'm running XP (2.8ghz, 1mb ram, 120g hdd). i have about 50 gigs worth of stuff that needs to be saved. hopefully in september i will be buying a laptop just for gigging, so i've been thinking about getting an external. if i do go down that route i might need to play samples from it during live sets etc. so i'm guessing a firewire one with a high rpm is best?
another short-term option that was suggested to me was buying an internal hard drive and copying everything to it, then uninstalling it and keeping it somewhere safe. this is what i'm leaning towards at the moment as it will be cheaper, and i'll probably get plenty space on the laptop anyway (and will doubtless be loading live sets onto CD for gigs).
is there anything i should look out for or consider? i know very little about computing but could probably figure out IDE installation (friends will certainly be able to help!)...
thanks a bazillion
Worried of East Midlands