I was thinking about the same thing... what about external Hard Drives? If you use them once and do not deal with them again (unless your main computer is broken), it's safe to assume they will last for a very long time. If they are not DOA, they will die from old age or after a few months/weeks...
The whole purpose of what I was asking is simply to avoid installing Windows and a lot of different programs.
If what I was sugesting was possible, you will only need to copy files to the same hard drive, nothing more.
Unless you like to spend several minutes installing things after doing...
Imagine the following scenario:
Two Hard Disk Drives in the same machine.
First drive, XP SP3 installed. Several programs installed, plus personal files. Several directories such as C:\Windows\system32, etc.
Second drive, Vista installed. But not using any dual boot setting. Both were...
I couldn't agree more. :laugh:
Some people said to me all those complaints were because of the "earlier production drives"...
But the 750 GB drive was not released yesterday. And even if that was the case, it's no excuse for so many defective and unreliable units. And the Seagate 7200.11...
Interesting comments quoted from the podcast 29 (you can heard in the 30 minutes/half of the MP3 file) regarding bigger drives:
Q: Is there any particular brand that you think is better than any other on hard drives?
A: I would say that all of the drives are, at least today, not great...
While this is a single comment on the 2 TB drive page (Newegg), a long time before I read what the guy said I was thinking about the same thing.
First, the Samsung 1 TB drive (HD103UJ) received a high number of complaints from people stating those drives were faulty, so many critics that I...
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