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My external hasn't shipped yet. Excuse me, I ordered super shipping. If you wanna get that thing across the country by the end of today, you better get a move on.
Thursday, 24-Oct-13 14:25:20 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I don't like external hard drives. The only one I ever bought was a Toshiba 500gb and it started to crap out a week after I got it. What's worse is I had so much data on it that I couldn't store it anywhere, and Toshiba refused to transfer the data were I to send it in for warranty.
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@mashuga31 Same thing happened with my Maxtor external HDD, but once I replaced it it worked alright and is still going more than 10 years later
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@mashuga31 This is the first one I've bought. I didn't know what company to go with, but Buffalo had good reviews so I bought a 1TB drive from them. I'll be keeping my most important files backed up just in case, as I did with my internal.
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@mashuga31 The only time I bought one the connector base ended up on the floor and I stepped on it and broke it by accident. :( Fortunately I already had my laptop back with all its data still intact. (All it had was a system backup on it.)
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@mrmattimation @pony @redenchilada Wow, looks like I'm not the only one with bad experience xD Oh well. If you ever get a corrupted directory, I found out (after tedious trial and error) that you can recover it by adding the entire folder to a rar archive. You can then get back all of your files by exporting them.
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@mashuga31 ...Well, it was mostly user error.
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@mashuga31 oh wow! that's a cool trick!
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@pony You bet it is xD I had thousands of files in that one directory and was like "I am NOT going to lose all of this stuff!"
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@redenchilada True, but they're still more vunerable as a point in case. I'd rather have a laptop with a big harddrive. (Money is just an issue as is always.)
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@mashuga31 some laptops put the HDD next to hot spots though which destroys it over time so you gotta be careful with that too I think
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@mashuga31 I need a new laptop at some point. Don't wanna buy it until I'm sure what kind of specs I need it to have, though.
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@dropsterdash mine did at least, but it was a model from about 10 years ago.
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@pony I shall be digging up whatever info I can when I can get a new one finally, but thanks. :)
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@redenchilada I'm not even close to sure what I need. Inkscape requires a lot of patience on larger projects with this one just because of how long it takes to do anything. xP
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