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Keeping it simple, without the hype. PC tips and Internet advice for mom and pop businesses.
Keeping it simple, without the hype. PC tips and Internet advice for mom and pop businesses.
It seems like it was just a couple years ago when getting a computer with an 80 gigabyte hard drive was a big deal. Nowadays, however, 80 gigs fills up really fast, especially with movies, mp3 audios, and graphic downloads.
My main computer was filling up at an alarming rate with software downloads, digital products such as ebooks or video tutorials, and web images. Defragging took most of the night and in some cases, could not even be performed because I was down to 11-12% free space on my hard drive. I was constantly burning files onto CDs and trying to keep them organized. Since I do a lot of web work, much of this material consists of graphic images and special web scripts stored over several CDs. It can become a time-consuming pain to constantly search for files on CDs. Consequently, I was thinking about installing another internal hard drive. I was dreading having to crawl around on the floor, untangling wires, unplugging everything and taking my computer apart to install another drive. When researching the best hard drive to install, I found something really great: Seagate’s Free Agent Pro external hard drive. Here are some features:
- Free Agent Pro is super easy to install. You just plug it into your USB port and it’s done. You don’t have to take apart your computer to install an internal drive.
- Free Agent Pro serves as a portable storage device. If you’re traveling, just unplug the unit from your USB port and take it with you for use on another computer or your laptop.
- With storage capacities up to a terabyte, you can store huge amounts of data on the Seagate external hard drive. Word is, Seagate is coming out with an awesome 1.5 TB drive.
- Transferring files to Seagate’s external hard drive is easy. Simply go to your Windows Explorer program and move files to the external hard drive.
My days of digging through multiple CDs for graphics, software downloads and files are over. If your computer is filling up like mine was, check out Seagate’s external hard drives, especially the “Free Agent” line. The prices are reasonable and the ease of use is a huge time saver.
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Its very true that even the the largest of drives get filled up in no time. I was down to less than the minimum free space required for the defrag and someone suggested I try Diskeeper 08 which defrags even with very little free space. It actually did a great job on the drives, in a single defrag! I dont know if I'll use the automatic defrag feature, but its one awesome tool. Have you tried it?