Verbatim portable hard drive
Whilst I was in the local Asda today i noticed they were doing portable hard drives made by Verbatim for £50, these were 500 gig and run from the USB on the mac thus requiring no external power. I was wondering if these would be any good to use for my itunes library as Im down to 2.9 gig on the mac at the moment and am looking for alternatives.
If I was to buy one is it a matter of copying the itunes library over to the portable HD and directing the library to that for playback / ripping?
Any help much appreciated
Cheers
Lee
Here is a link to the device that they had in the store
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My one is not powered from the USB hub though, it has a mains adapter.
I now use a NAS drive for my music (even though it is not on my network) as I wanted to have an ethernet connection rather than use USB.
I was more interested in a drive which is powered by USB which is what attracted me to the one in the Asda. I will have a ponder about one over the next day or so.
Whats the concensus about the files on the exisitng HD, should I duplicate them onto the portable HD or move them entirely?
Cheers
Lee
What are the differences between an SSD and a HD...?
What are the pros and cons? - I assume cost is a pro for the HD - the 240GB SSD I recently fitted into my TFS sat on the current £1/GB SSD sweetspot rate. Clearly these portable HD offer vastly better value. So what are the pros of the SSD i bought (other than it's neatly hidden from view)?
Thanks dave.
Will use it to back up my ripped CDs (I don't want to have to do that again), and some important work stuff that'll allow me to sleep easier in my bed.
One final thought, can an hdd be used to record live tv from a dtv's pvr USB port...?