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PickaxeFairy Downloading to an external drive October 7th, 2009, 02:02 PM

Peerless dunno d00d, but I do know that I... October 7th, 2009, 02:15 PM

PickaxeFairy If it's any help or makes any... October 7th, 2009, 02:39 PM

Blackhorse 70V I wanted to decrease wear and tear... October 7th, 2009, 03:07 PM

Peerless well..if the external is USB2 then... October 7th, 2009, 03:47 PM

Blackhorse 70V Ah, the lag time; makes sense. ... October 7th, 2009, 05:55 PM

Remoc I've ALWAYS used an external usb... October 7th, 2009, 06:21 PM

Sleepless I use pretty much only USB2 and... October 7th, 2009, 07:07 PM

Peerless Kaspersky's in specific...v... October 7th, 2009, 08:01 PM

Sleepless Have you tried using a third party... October 7th, 2009, 08:36 PM

Blackhorse 70V I use TeraCopy, which definately... October 7th, 2009, 09:22 PM

PickaxeFairy Thanks for all your replies guys... October 12th, 2009, 01:42 PM

Lord of the Rings Issue with external drives. Some... October 12th, 2009, 08:35 PM

Peerless exactly...and when you need to... October 12th, 2009, 09:08 PM

Blackhorse 70V I'm sure we've all considered... October 13th, 2009, 04:50 AM

PickaxeFairy I have - yes.... it would save me... October 15th, 2009, 01:10 PM

ukbobboy01 Additional Drives October 13th, 2009, 09:11 AM

Sleepless I don't see why not. If you can't... October 15th, 2009, 01:18 PM

PickaxeFairy Thanks Sleepless :) Forgive me... October 15th, 2009, 01:50 PM

Peerless do you have 2 usb inputs? I run... October 15th, 2009, 03:02 PM

ukbobboy01 External USB Drives October 16th, 2009, 04:42 AM

PickaxeFairy Thanks for your reply Bob - much... October 17th, 2009, 11:14 AM

PickaxeFairy Little update if anyone's... December 5th, 2009, 10:50 AM

Lord of the Rings External drives tend not to be... December 6th, 2009, 10:22 AM

Sleepless I run 3 externals constantly. 1... October 15th, 2009, 06:01 PM

Peerless about the only time they are truly... December 5th, 2009, 11:28 AM

PickaxeFairy Thanks for the tips Peerless.... December 5th, 2009, 11:55 AM

ukbobboy01 Using External Drives December 6th, 2009, 05:06 AM

Peerless yep...the occasional signal sent... December 6th, 2009, 11:03 AM

PickaxeFairy You're not kidding! My OS... December 7th, 2009, 07:02 AM

ukbobboy01 Touble with Externals December 7th, 2009, 10:24 AM

Peerless did the drive come with an install... December 7th, 2009, 10:53 AM

PickaxeFairy Thank you ukbobboy01 for all your... December 21st, 2009, 09:13 AM

Peerless hmmm....well if AVG is actively... December 21st, 2009, 09:43 AM

PickaxeFairy It's not that I've never heard of... December 21st, 2009, 10:06 AM

Lord of the Rings Not sure if this is of any help... December 21st, 2009, 10:09 AM

Peerless post the specs for your machine... December 21st, 2009, 11:13 AM

PickaxeFairy Many thanks Peerless.... January 6th, 2010, 10:59 AM

Peerless who made the machine?....if its a... January 6th, 2010, 11:16 AM

PickaxeFairy Yes - it might actually help if I... January 6th, 2010, 11:34 AM

Peerless I can't seem to find squat on... January 6th, 2010, 01:53 PM

ukbobboy01 Upgrading an old USB 1.1 PC to... January 6th, 2010, 11:51 PM

Peerless that could be a viable option, but... January 7th, 2010, 06:25 AM

PickaxeFairy Thanks Bob and Peerless for your... January 9th, 2010, 08:45 AM

PickaxeFairy Thanks for your answers Peerless &... January 20th, 2010, 09:14 AM

Blackhorse 70V I had a computer with USB 2.0 on... January 20th, 2010, 01:16 PM

PickaxeFairy Cheers Blackhorse. :) So this... January 27th, 2010, 10:51 AM

PickaxeFairy When it came to it - I kinda... February 10th, 2010, 01:02 PM

Lord of the Rings That does sound very odd. On my... February 10th, 2010, 04:08 PM

Peerless seems as if the issue is pretty... February 10th, 2010, 02:04 PM

PickaxeFairy I agree with you Peerless.... ... February 10th, 2010, 02:15 PM

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Have you considered adding a 1 TB internal HDD?

I have - yes.... it would save me so much hassle....
Thing is though - I only have a 160GB drive and 2.01Ghz, 768 MB Of Ram - would the motherboard be able to handle it?
The engineer (from where I bought the pc initially) says not....
Obviously his word isn't set in stone and his opinion isn't necessarily bang on accurate....

What I have thought of doing is to buy two 250GB hard drives, download to one of them and back up to the other....

Good idea or not....?

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