From: JS on
You're welcome.

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JS
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"Brian V" <BrianV(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> All the information is helpful. Thank you very much. This is what I
> needed.
>
> I was going to contact Acer. Just havn't yet.
>
> Thank you everyone.
>
> "Adrian C" wrote:
>
>> JS wrote:
>> > PATA drives are old technology
>> > and you are likely to pay more $$ for a PATA
>> > than a SATA drive of the same storage capacity.
>> >
>> > Currently the new 2TB drives have a poor reputation
>> > for reliability so I would suggest adding an internal 1TB
>> > SATA and an external (with a brick/power module) 1TB
>> > USB drive.
>> >
>>
>> I'd suggest the above, but using the external drive as a mirror to media
>> data on the PC - i.e. purely as a backup. Whenever ya machine is on the
>> way to shutdown ye can run a script to copy music files to the external
>> drive. Good backup for music which may take many, many hours of ripping
>> to replace on disk failure.
>>
>> Also, this external hard drive can then be taken with ya to parties, and
>> used with a laptop, where ye can become DJ God...
>>
>> --
>> Adrian C
>> .
>>