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post #1 of 5
12/23/06 at 5:33pm
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Ok, so christmas is coming and i will be getting some money. I just got into torrents and my hard drive is running low. I have an E1705 with a 7200 rpm 120g hdd. I was looking into buying a 7200 rpm 250g external hdd and i have a question about it... If i buy an external hdd and put everything i use on it (games music photos videos programs, etc.) and only my drivers on my laptops hdd, will there be any problems and do you recommend doing that? Will it speed my computer up? Please give me some suggestions.
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post #2 of 5
12/24/06 at 12:30am
I would suggest keeping games on your internal if you plan on using a USB HD. Also, you should look into news groups (Usenet). it is waaaay faster than torrents, and you also dont need to worry about all the nasty stuff that come along with torrents.

If your looking for optimal speed (Or a RAID setup) for your laptop, look for an Expresscard eSATA controller and a couple SATA externals, knock out a RAID setup, then you can put games and such on it and not take a hit in performance at all (actually that setup would run faster than your internal).

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post #3 of 5
12/24/06 at 3:02am
I agree with deceptikon on this, keep it internal or on a native drive interface like SATA. There is a performance hit with external usb/firewire drives on hd speed and cpu use. try running RM clock and plug in an external drive, you'll see cpu load go up a bit even when the drive is idle. note that this is *cpu* load, not os load. it won't show up in task manager.
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post #4 of 5
12/24/06 at 3:19am
I am with Deceptikon. I use www.easynews.com $9.95 a month for 20GB and whatever you don't use gets banked up for next month. Way better then torrents, and lots more out there too. I avgerage about 500kb/s downloads from them.

It has everything you would ever want
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post #5 of 5
12/25/06 at 4:13am
I use Easynews for a secondary account, I dig the html web search you can use. Then I have an unlimited account from www.Giganews.com, using Newsrover. There are very, very few things I cant find with this combo of the 2 usenet services and newsrover.

Not to mention, the HD videos you can find on usenet is awesome. Try downloading a 15-20 GB movie on torrents heh.
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