Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive
Hi: The HP mybook 500gb I bought is formatted fat32 and I didn't install the software that came with it. It was plug and play and you just copy and paste from your C drive. HTH, George R. Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: acart...@juno.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:29 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi Rogelio, I just bought a Western Digital Elements external hard drive from the walmart website for about the same price with about 640 GB. It all depends how much you are going to put on it. It has an USB cable and AC adapter. I haven't put it together yet, but I soon will. The only two things I wonder about is that there doesn't seem to be an on/off switch on it, and it came pre formatted but doesn't say what the format is. I guess I'll have to connect it to find out the format. Also, the instructions that came with it in the box aren't in English. :) Thanks to the list for the discussion about the Windows Backup utility. I didn't know that it existed until I read about it on here. I now have it downloaded an installed. AC - Forwarded message -- From: Rick Justice ricjust...@jaws-users.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:42:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive Message-ID: 4d8e893d03cd47d8bb34e8300397d...@rick References: 7861d055092c4f9cb0fdbf52e3030...@rogelio Hi Rogelio, The 160gb that you refer to is not memorey, instead it is hard drive storage capacity, there is a big difference. Yes, the price you paid isn't bad for that amount of storage. - Original Message - From: Rogelio Terrazas rogelio.terra...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 8:21 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive HTH,Richard Q. Justice-website owner www.blind-computing.com I just purchased an external hard drive with 160 GB of memory. I paid $79.00 for it . Is that a good price? rogelio.terra...@gmail.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Click here to become a professional counselor in less time than you think. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTOk5zoXfBACJPZNQI2O1H6aqZ1F6NsaEdxmBeeoYDcwUOyI37fBVO/ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive
Mark: I bought my 500gb at Circuit City but I think they are all closed now, but buy.com has all kinds of them on there web site, for less than I paid back in December. George R. Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: Mark torgersonena...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi Where did you buy your 500 GB USB hard drive? God bless, Mark -- Currently in Pendleton, Eastern Oregon Regional At Pendleton, Oregon Overcast, Light Rain 41°F Wind:NW-320° at - Original Message - From: Rogelio Terrazas rogelio.terra...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Mine is 500 GB which I will never fill. The one I bought doesn't have to be put together. I get it and just plug it in. That is probably the exchange for the less room. - Original Message - From: acart...@juno.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:29 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi Rogelio, I just bought a Western Digital Elements external hard drive from the walmart website for about the same price with about 640 GB. It all depends how much you are going to put on it. It has an USB cable and AC adapter. I haven't put it together yet, but I soon will. The only two things I wonder about is that there doesn't seem to be an on/off switch on it, and it came pre formatted but doesn't say what the format is. I guess I'll have to connect it to find out the format. Also, the instructions that came with it in the box aren't in English. :) Thanks to the list for the discussion about the Windows Backup utility. I didn't know that it existed until I read about it on here. I now have it downloaded an installed. AC - Forwarded message -- From: Rick Justice ricjust...@jaws-users.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:42:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive Message-ID: 4d8e893d03cd47d8bb34e8300397d...@rick References: 7861d055092c4f9cb0fdbf52e3030...@rogelio Hi Rogelio, The 160gb that you refer to is not memorey, instead it is hard drive storage capacity, there is a big difference. Yes, the price you paid isn't bad for that amount of storage. - Original Message - From: Rogelio Terrazas rogelio.terra...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 8:21 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive HTH,Richard Q. Justice-website owner www.blind-computing.com I just purchased an external hard drive with 160 GB of memory. I paid $79.00 for it . Is that a good price? rogelio.terra...@gmail.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Click here to become a professional counselor in less time than you think. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTOk5zoXfBACJPZNQI2O1H6aqZ1F6NsaEdxmBeeoYDcwUOyI37fBVO/ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help
Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive
Hi, George. Yes, all the Circuit City stores are closed now. Maybe Best Buys might sell external hard drives too but I don't know for sure. I have a nephew who runs a computer shop and I could ask him how much those drives run for as far as price. I don't know enough about that where I could give correct information. Rosemarie - Original Message - From: George Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:08 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Mark: I bought my 500gb at Circuit City but I think they are all closed now, but buy.com has all kinds of them on there web site, for less than I paid back in December. George R. Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: Mark torgersonena...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi Where did you buy your 500 GB USB hard drive? God bless, Mark -- Currently in Pendleton, Eastern Oregon Regional At Pendleton, Oregon Overcast, Light Rain 41°F Wind:NW-320° at - Original Message - From: Rogelio Terrazas rogelio.terra...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Mine is 500 GB which I will never fill. The one I bought doesn't have to be put together. I get it and just plug it in. That is probably the exchange for the less room. - Original Message - From: acart...@juno.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:29 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi Rogelio, I just bought a Western Digital Elements external hard drive from the walmart website for about the same price with about 640 GB. It all depends how much you are going to put on it. It has an USB cable and AC adapter. I haven't put it together yet, but I soon will. The only two things I wonder about is that there doesn't seem to be an on/off switch on it, and it came pre formatted but doesn't say what the format is. I guess I'll have to connect it to find out the format. Also, the instructions that came with it in the box aren't in English. :) Thanks to the list for the discussion about the Windows Backup utility. I didn't know that it existed until I read about it on here. I now have it downloaded an installed. AC - Forwarded message -- From: Rick Justice ricjust...@jaws-users.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:42:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive Message-ID: 4d8e893d03cd47d8bb34e8300397d...@rick References: 7861d055092c4f9cb0fdbf52e3030...@rogelio Hi Rogelio, The 160gb that you refer to is not memorey, instead it is hard drive storage capacity, there is a big difference. Yes, the price you paid isn't bad for that amount of storage. - Original Message - From: Rogelio Terrazas rogelio.terra...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 8:21 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive HTH,Richard Q. Justice-website owner www.blind-computing.com I just purchased an external hard drive with 160 GB of memory. I paid $79.00 for it . Is that a good price? rogelio.terra...@gmail.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Click here to become a professional counselor in less time than you think. http
Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive
Just browsing the daily deal electronics sites this morning, I saw a 500gb external hard drive for $69.99. So you can easily find them for under $100 all over the web. Gerald - Original Message - From: Rosemarie Chavarria knitqueen2...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:59 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi, George. Yes, all the Circuit City stores are closed now. Maybe Best Buys might sell external hard drives too but I don't know for sure. I have a nephew who runs a computer shop and I could ask him how much those drives run for as far as price. I don't know enough about that where I could give correct information. Rosemarie - Original Message - From: George Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:08 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Mark: I bought my 500gb at Circuit City but I think they are all closed now, but buy.com has all kinds of them on there web site, for less than I paid back in December. George R. Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: Mark torgersonena...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi Where did you buy your 500 GB USB hard drive? God bless, Mark -- Currently in Pendleton, Eastern Oregon Regional At Pendleton, Oregon Overcast, Light Rain 41°F Wind:NW-320° at - Original Message - From: Rogelio Terrazas rogelio.terra...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Mine is 500 GB which I will never fill. The one I bought doesn't have to be put together. I get it and just plug it in. That is probably the exchange for the less room. - Original Message - From: acart...@juno.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:29 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi Rogelio, I just bought a Western Digital Elements external hard drive from the walmart website for about the same price with about 640 GB. It all depends how much you are going to put on it. It has an USB cable and AC adapter. I haven't put it together yet, but I soon will. The only two things I wonder about is that there doesn't seem to be an on/off switch on it, and it came pre formatted but doesn't say what the format is. I guess I'll have to connect it to find out the format. Also, the instructions that came with it in the box aren't in English. :) Thanks to the list for the discussion about the Windows Backup utility. I didn't know that it existed until I read about it on here. I now have it downloaded an installed. AC - Forwarded message -- From: Rick Justice ricjust...@jaws-users.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:42:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive Message-ID: 4d8e893d03cd47d8bb34e8300397d...@rick References: 7861d055092c4f9cb0fdbf52e3030...@rogelio Hi Rogelio, The 160gb that you refer to is not memorey, instead it is hard drive storage capacity, there is a big difference. Yes, the price you paid isn't bad for that amount of storage. - Original Message - From: Rogelio Terrazas rogelio.terra...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 8:21 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive HTH,Richard Q. Justice-website owner www.blind-computing.com I just purchased an external hard drive with 160 GB of memory. I paid $79.00 for it . Is that a good price? rogelio.terra...@gmail.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing
Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive
Hi George, The world of hard drives is growing daily and there are many choices to think about. BRANDS I've spoken to many knowledgeable people in this field and the general consensus is that Western Digital and Seagate are the best. Their reasoning was that they were better constructed, ran cooler, and had been in the business many years. WARRANTY Seagate by far has the best warranty in the business with 5yrs. Remember, as in all warranties, it only covers the cost to replace the unit, not the information stored on it. So, if you have lots of important files, music, and photos they are on their way to cyber heaven. USAGE Personally, I have 1 Western Digital Drives and 1 Seagate. I prefer the Seagate. One Western Digital drive (160gb) I use for Norton Ghost exclusively. Norton Ghost is a program that takes a mirror image of your hard drive on a scheduled basis. If your internal hard drive fails, all one would have to do is run Ghost to the new drive. My second drive is a Seagate which is a 1 Terabyte which is also 1000 GB. I use this one for music and books of which I have a sizeable collection What shocked me was how small the Seagate drive is even though it's storage capacity is huge. It's only little over an inch thick and 7 inches by 7 inches. It can be stood on end and comes with a stand or you can lay it flat. If you choose to stand it on end, it takes up very little desk spance. I had a Western Digital 320GB and this Seagate is so much smaller at 3 tiimes the memory. OPERATION The Seagate comes with a great manager that is part of the set up process when you USB plug it in. I don't remember what format it comes in but there are two, NTFS and FAT32. In most cases you'll want to format in NTFS. If you format in FAT 32 it limits your file size to 4GB. This may not make a difference to you but if you are a gamer it may. You can have the Seagate Manager set up to a prescheduled time to copy files and even encrypt them. One unique feature is that you can schedule a time for your Seagate to hibernate just like your computer. I have mine set for 30 minutes. Because the discs in the drive aren't spinning, the drive stays cool. Maybe that's one of the reasons Seagate has a 5 year warranty. PRICES In the last year, the prices on external hard drives have really fallen as many members here have mentioned. Because of this get as much capacity as your dollar will allow because you will be surprised how quickly it will get filled and you may find that you want to kick yourself for not getting more capacity. I recently saw a 1 Terabyte Seagate for $100, now that's unbelievble BEST PRICE Of course, always Goolge to see the huge offerings by so many. There is a great place that I visit weekly called Sales Cirular.com, which posts tables of different items on sale in the newspaper from all kinds of stores. Just go to Salescircular.com and click on your state. You can then examine all the different categories and select the one that interests you. Then, just comparison shop. One last thing, when your current hard drive starts to get near full capacity, go out and buy a larger one and transfer all the current stored files to this new drive. Then take your now old drive and store it in your closet. Remember, there is no warranty on those priceless files that you have saved over the years and no way to replace them if they are lost. So, put the old drive in you closet and you will always have a back up. I'm not an expert. I just wanted to share what I have learned. Shannon Burle -- Original Message - From: George Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 08:02 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi: The HP mybook 500gb I bought is formatted fat32 and I didn't install the software that came with it. It was plug and play and you just copy and paste from your C drive. HTH, George R. Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: acart...@juno.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:29 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi Rogelio, I just bought a Western Digital Elements external hard drive from the walmart website for about the same price with about 640 GB. It all depends how much you are going to put on it. It has an USB cable and AC adapter. I haven't put it together yet, but I soon will. The only two things I wonder about is that there doesn't seem to be an on/off switch on it, and it came pre formatted but doesn't say what the format is. I guess I'll have to connect it to find out the format. Also, the instructions that came with it in the box aren't in English. :) Thanks to the list for the discussion about the Windows Backup utility. I didn't know that it existed until I read about it on here. I now have it downloaded an installed
Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive
Excuse my ignorance on this subject, but can these external hard drives be installed and used without sighted assistance? Are they good to go right out of the box or do they require special software which may not be JAWS accessible? Do they just plug into a USB port or must they also be plugged into an AC outlet? Gerald - Original Message - From: Shannon Burke southpaw...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi George, The world of hard drives is growing daily and there are many choices to think about. BRANDS I've spoken to many knowledgeable people in this field and the general consensus is that Western Digital and Seagate are the best. Their reasoning was that they were better constructed, ran cooler, and had been in the business many years. WARRANTY Seagate by far has the best warranty in the business with 5yrs. Remember, as in all warranties, it only covers the cost to replace the unit, not the information stored on it. So, if you have lots of important files, music, and photos they are on their way to cyber heaven. USAGE Personally, I have 1 Western Digital Drives and 1 Seagate. I prefer the Seagate. One Western Digital drive (160gb) I use for Norton Ghost exclusively. Norton Ghost is a program that takes a mirror image of your hard drive on a scheduled basis. If your internal hard drive fails, all one would have to do is run Ghost to the new drive. My second drive is a Seagate which is a 1 Terabyte which is also 1000 GB. I use this one for music and books of which I have a sizeable collection What shocked me was how small the Seagate drive is even though it's storage capacity is huge. It's only little over an inch thick and 7 inches by 7 inches. It can be stood on end and comes with a stand or you can lay it flat. If you choose to stand it on end, it takes up very little desk spance. I had a Western Digital 320GB and this Seagate is so much smaller at 3 tiimes the memory. OPERATION The Seagate comes with a great manager that is part of the set up process when you USB plug it in. I don't remember what format it comes in but there are two, NTFS and FAT32. In most cases you'll want to format in NTFS. If you format in FAT 32 it limits your file size to 4GB. This may not make a difference to you but if you are a gamer it may. You can have the Seagate Manager set up to a prescheduled time to copy files and even encrypt them. One unique feature is that you can schedule a time for your Seagate to hibernate just like your computer. I have mine set for 30 minutes. Because the discs in the drive aren't spinning, the drive stays cool. Maybe that's one of the reasons Seagate has a 5 year warranty. PRICES In the last year, the prices on external hard drives have really fallen as many members here have mentioned. Because of this get as much capacity as your dollar will allow because you will be surprised how quickly it will get filled and you may find that you want to kick yourself for not getting more capacity. I recently saw a 1 Terabyte Seagate for $100, now that's unbelievble BEST PRICE Of course, always Goolge to see the huge offerings by so many. There is a great place that I visit weekly called Sales Cirular.com, which posts tables of different items on sale in the newspaper from all kinds of stores. Just go to Salescircular.com and click on your state. You can then examine all the different categories and select the one that interests you. Then, just comparison shop. One last thing, when your current hard drive starts to get near full capacity, go out and buy a larger one and transfer all the current stored files to this new drive. Then take your now old drive and store it in your closet. Remember, there is no warranty on those priceless files that you have saved over the years and no way to replace them if they are lost. So, put the old drive in you closet and you will always have a back up. I'm not an expert. I just wanted to share what I have learned. Shannon Burle -- Original Message - From: George Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 08:02 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi: The HP mybook 500gb I bought is formatted fat32 and I didn't install the software that came with it. It was plug and play and you just copy and paste from your C drive. HTH, George R. Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: acart...@juno.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:29 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi Rogelio, I just bought a Western Digital Elements external hard drive from the walmart website for about the same price with about 640 GB. It all depends how much you are going to put on it. It has an USB cable
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External hard drives are good to go right out of the box. Just plug them in, Windows will recognize it and install the appropriate drivers, and you have an additional drive. Bruce On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:15:14 -0400, Gerald Levy bwaylimi...@verizon.net said: Excuse my ignorance on this subject, but can these external hard drives be installed and used without sighted assistance? Are they good to go right out of the box or do they require special software which may not be JAWS accessible? Do they just plug into a USB port or must they also be plugged into an AC outlet? Gerald - Original Message - From: Shannon Burke southpaw...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi George, The world of hard drives is growing daily and there are many choices to think about. BRANDS I've spoken to many knowledgeable people in this field and the general consensus is that Western Digital and Seagate are the best. Their reasoning was that they were better constructed, ran cooler, and had been in the business many years. WARRANTY Seagate by far has the best warranty in the business with 5yrs. Remember, as in all warranties, it only covers the cost to replace the unit, not the information stored on it. So, if you have lots of important files, music, and photos they are on their way to cyber heaven. USAGE Personally, I have 1 Western Digital Drives and 1 Seagate. I prefer the Seagate. One Western Digital drive (160gb) I use for Norton Ghost exclusively. Norton Ghost is a program that takes a mirror image of your hard drive on a scheduled basis. If your internal hard drive fails, all one would have to do is run Ghost to the new drive. My second drive is a Seagate which is a 1 Terabyte which is also 1000 GB. I use this one for music and books of which I have a sizeable collection What shocked me was how small the Seagate drive is even though it's storage capacity is huge. It's only little over an inch thick and 7 inches by 7 inches. It can be stood on end and comes with a stand or you can lay it flat. If you choose to stand it on end, it takes up very little desk spance. I had a Western Digital 320GB and this Seagate is so much smaller at 3 tiimes the memory. OPERATION The Seagate comes with a great manager that is part of the set up process when you USB plug it in. I don't remember what format it comes in but there are two, NTFS and FAT32. In most cases you'll want to format in NTFS. If you format in FAT 32 it limits your file size to 4GB. This may not make a difference to you but if you are a gamer it may. You can have the Seagate Manager set up to a prescheduled time to copy files and even encrypt them. One unique feature is that you can schedule a time for your Seagate to hibernate just like your computer. I have mine set for 30 minutes. Because the discs in the drive aren't spinning, the drive stays cool. Maybe that's one of the reasons Seagate has a 5 year warranty. PRICES In the last year, the prices on external hard drives have really fallen as many members here have mentioned. Because of this get as much capacity as your dollar will allow because you will be surprised how quickly it will get filled and you may find that you want to kick yourself for not getting more capacity. I recently saw a 1 Terabyte Seagate for $100, now that's unbelievble BEST PRICE Of course, always Goolge to see the huge offerings by so many. There is a great place that I visit weekly called Sales Cirular.com, which posts tables of different items on sale in the newspaper from all kinds of stores. Just go to Salescircular.com and click on your state. You can then examine all the different categories and select the one that interests you. Then, just comparison shop. One last thing, when your current hard drive starts to get near full capacity, go out and buy a larger one and transfer all the current stored files to this new drive. Then take your now old drive and store it in your closet. Remember, there is no warranty on those priceless files that you have saved over the years and no way to replace them if they are lost. So, put the old drive in you closet and you will always have a back up. I'm not an expert. I just wanted to share what I have learned. Shannon Burle -- Original Message - From: George Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 08:02 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi: The HP mybook 500gb I bought is formatted fat32 and I didn't install the software that came with it. It was plug and play and you just copy and paste
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They just plug into a USB port (some require external power via A.C.). Windows will recognize it, install appropriate drivers, and appear as an extra drive in My Computer/Windows Explorer. -- Chris Hallsworth e-mail: christopher...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 - Original Message - From: Gerald Levy bwaylimi...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Excuse my ignorance on this subject, but can these external hard drives be installed and used without sighted assistance? Are they good to go right out of the box or do they require special software which may not be JAWS accessible? Do they just plug into a USB port or must they also be plugged into an AC outlet? Gerald - Original Message - From: Shannon Burke southpaw...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi George, The world of hard drives is growing daily and there are many choices to think about. BRANDS I've spoken to many knowledgeable people in this field and the general consensus is that Western Digital and Seagate are the best. Their reasoning was that they were better constructed, ran cooler, and had been in the business many years. WARRANTY Seagate by far has the best warranty in the business with 5yrs. Remember, as in all warranties, it only covers the cost to replace the unit, not the information stored on it. So, if you have lots of important files, music, and photos they are on their way to cyber heaven. USAGE Personally, I have 1 Western Digital Drives and 1 Seagate. I prefer the Seagate. One Western Digital drive (160gb) I use for Norton Ghost exclusively. Norton Ghost is a program that takes a mirror image of your hard drive on a scheduled basis. If your internal hard drive fails, all one would have to do is run Ghost to the new drive. My second drive is a Seagate which is a 1 Terabyte which is also 1000 GB. I use this one for music and books of which I have a sizeable collection What shocked me was how small the Seagate drive is even though it's storage capacity is huge. It's only little over an inch thick and 7 inches by 7 inches. It can be stood on end and comes with a stand or you can lay it flat. If you choose to stand it on end, it takes up very little desk spance. I had a Western Digital 320GB and this Seagate is so much smaller at 3 tiimes the memory. OPERATION The Seagate comes with a great manager that is part of the set up process when you USB plug it in. I don't remember what format it comes in but there are two, NTFS and FAT32. In most cases you'll want to format in NTFS. If you format in FAT 32 it limits your file size to 4GB. This may not make a difference to you but if you are a gamer it may. You can have the Seagate Manager set up to a prescheduled time to copy files and even encrypt them. One unique feature is that you can schedule a time for your Seagate to hibernate just like your computer. I have mine set for 30 minutes. Because the discs in the drive aren't spinning, the drive stays cool. Maybe that's one of the reasons Seagate has a 5 year warranty. PRICES In the last year, the prices on external hard drives have really fallen as many members here have mentioned. Because of this get as much capacity as your dollar will allow because you will be surprised how quickly it will get filled and you may find that you want to kick yourself for not getting more capacity. I recently saw a 1 Terabyte Seagate for $100, now that's unbelievble BEST PRICE Of course, always Goolge to see the huge offerings by so many. There is a great place that I visit weekly called Sales Cirular.com, which posts tables of different items on sale in the newspaper from all kinds of stores. Just go to Salescircular.com and click on your state. You can then examine all the different categories and select the one that interests you. Then, just comparison shop. One last thing, when your current hard drive starts to get near full capacity, go out and buy a larger one and transfer all the current stored files to this new drive. Then take your now old drive and store it in your closet. Remember, there is no warranty on those priceless files that you have saved over the years and no way to replace them if they are lost. So, put the old drive in you closet and you will always have a back up. I'm not an expert. I just wanted to share what I have learned. Shannon Burle -- Original Message - From: George Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 08:02 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi: The HP mybook 500gb I bought is formatted fat32 and I didn't install the software that came
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George, 1. I can only speak for the ones I mentioned, but YES, they can be installed and used without the help of sighted assistance. 2. They are good to go right out of the box and there is available after simple plugging in the AC cord and USB. 3. They are Jaws accessible and set up is fairly easy. If I may be of any further assistance you can email me off list : southpaw...@verizon.net or call me at 760-574-7898. Shannon Burke - Original Message - From: Gerald Levy bwaylimi...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Excuse my ignorance on this subject, but can these external hard drives be installed and used without sighted assistance? Are they good to go right out of the box or do they require special software which may not be JAWS accessible? Do they just plug into a USB port or must they also be plugged into an AC outlet? Gerald - Original Message - From: Shannon Burke southpaw...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi George, The world of hard drives is growing daily and there are many choices to think about. BRANDS I've spoken to many knowledgeable people in this field and the general consensus is that Western Digital and Seagate are the best. Their reasoning was that they were better constructed, ran cooler, and had been in the business many years. WARRANTY Seagate by far has the best warranty in the business with 5yrs. Remember, as in all warranties, it only covers the cost to replace the unit, not the information stored on it. So, if you have lots of important files, music, and photos they are on their way to cyber heaven. USAGE Personally, I have 1 Western Digital Drives and 1 Seagate. I prefer the Seagate. One Western Digital drive (160gb) I use for Norton Ghost exclusively. Norton Ghost is a program that takes a mirror image of your hard drive on a scheduled basis. If your internal hard drive fails, all one would have to do is run Ghost to the new drive. My second drive is a Seagate which is a 1 Terabyte which is also 1000 GB. I use this one for music and books of which I have a sizeable collection What shocked me was how small the Seagate drive is even though it's storage capacity is huge. It's only little over an inch thick and 7 inches by 7 inches. It can be stood on end and comes with a stand or you can lay it flat. If you choose to stand it on end, it takes up very little desk spance. I had a Western Digital 320GB and this Seagate is so much smaller at 3 tiimes the memory. OPERATION The Seagate comes with a great manager that is part of the set up process when you USB plug it in. I don't remember what format it comes in but there are two, NTFS and FAT32. In most cases you'll want to format in NTFS. If you format in FAT 32 it limits your file size to 4GB. This may not make a difference to you but if you are a gamer it may. You can have the Seagate Manager set up to a prescheduled time to copy files and even encrypt them. One unique feature is that you can schedule a time for your Seagate to hibernate just like your computer. I have mine set for 30 minutes. Because the discs in the drive aren't spinning, the drive stays cool. Maybe that's one of the reasons Seagate has a 5 year warranty. PRICES In the last year, the prices on external hard drives have really fallen as many members here have mentioned. Because of this get as much capacity as your dollar will allow because you will be surprised how quickly it will get filled and you may find that you want to kick yourself for not getting more capacity. I recently saw a 1 Terabyte Seagate for $100, now that's unbelievble BEST PRICE Of course, always Goolge to see the huge offerings by so many. There is a great place that I visit weekly called Sales Cirular.com, which posts tables of different items on sale in the newspaper from all kinds of stores. Just go to Salescircular.com and click on your state. You can then examine all the different categories and select the one that interests you. Then, just comparison shop. One last thing, when your current hard drive starts to get near full capacity, go out and buy a larger one and transfer all the current stored files to this new drive. Then take your now old drive and store it in your closet. Remember, there is no warranty on those priceless files that you have saved over the years and no way to replace them if they are lost. So, put the old drive in you closet and you will always have a back up. I'm not an expert. I just wanted to share what I have learned. Shannon Burle -- Original Message - From: George Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29
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I know the one I ordered. I was told that I get plug into my USB and I am good to go. - Original Message - From: Gerald Levy bwaylimi...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Excuse my ignorance on this subject, but can these external hard drives be installed and used without sighted assistance? Are they good to go right out of the box or do they require special software which may not be JAWS accessible? Do they just plug into a USB port or must they also be plugged into an AC outlet? Gerald - Original Message - From: Shannon Burke southpaw...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi George, The world of hard drives is growing daily and there are many choices to think about. BRANDS I've spoken to many knowledgeable people in this field and the general consensus is that Western Digital and Seagate are the best. Their reasoning was that they were better constructed, ran cooler, and had been in the business many years. WARRANTY Seagate by far has the best warranty in the business with 5yrs. Remember, as in all warranties, it only covers the cost to replace the unit, not the information stored on it. So, if you have lots of important files, music, and photos they are on their way to cyber heaven. USAGE Personally, I have 1 Western Digital Drives and 1 Seagate. I prefer the Seagate. One Western Digital drive (160gb) I use for Norton Ghost exclusively. Norton Ghost is a program that takes a mirror image of your hard drive on a scheduled basis. If your internal hard drive fails, all one would have to do is run Ghost to the new drive. My second drive is a Seagate which is a 1 Terabyte which is also 1000 GB. I use this one for music and books of which I have a sizeable collection What shocked me was how small the Seagate drive is even though it's storage capacity is huge. It's only little over an inch thick and 7 inches by 7 inches. It can be stood on end and comes with a stand or you can lay it flat. If you choose to stand it on end, it takes up very little desk spance. I had a Western Digital 320GB and this Seagate is so much smaller at 3 tiimes the memory. OPERATION The Seagate comes with a great manager that is part of the set up process when you USB plug it in. I don't remember what format it comes in but there are two, NTFS and FAT32. In most cases you'll want to format in NTFS. If you format in FAT 32 it limits your file size to 4GB. This may not make a difference to you but if you are a gamer it may. You can have the Seagate Manager set up to a prescheduled time to copy files and even encrypt them. One unique feature is that you can schedule a time for your Seagate to hibernate just like your computer. I have mine set for 30 minutes. Because the discs in the drive aren't spinning, the drive stays cool. Maybe that's one of the reasons Seagate has a 5 year warranty. PRICES In the last year, the prices on external hard drives have really fallen as many members here have mentioned. Because of this get as much capacity as your dollar will allow because you will be surprised how quickly it will get filled and you may find that you want to kick yourself for not getting more capacity. I recently saw a 1 Terabyte Seagate for $100, now that's unbelievble BEST PRICE Of course, always Goolge to see the huge offerings by so many. There is a great place that I visit weekly called Sales Cirular.com, which posts tables of different items on sale in the newspaper from all kinds of stores. Just go to Salescircular.com and click on your state. You can then examine all the different categories and select the one that interests you. Then, just comparison shop. One last thing, when your current hard drive starts to get near full capacity, go out and buy a larger one and transfer all the current stored files to this new drive. Then take your now old drive and store it in your closet. Remember, there is no warranty on those priceless files that you have saved over the years and no way to replace them if they are lost. So, put the old drive in you closet and you will always have a back up. I'm not an expert. I just wanted to share what I have learned. Shannon Burle -- Original Message - From: George Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 08:02 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi: The HP mybook 500gb I bought is formatted fat32 and I didn't install the software that came with it. It was plug and play and you just copy and paste from your C drive. HTH, George R. Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: acart...@juno.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent
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Okay, another dumb question. If the drive works just by plugging it into a USB port, how come they all come with software? Every external drive I checked comes with some kind of software already builtin and/or on a CD. If that's the case, how do you know whether this software will be JAWS accessible before you buy? Or is installing this software optional? It seems to me that even though Windows will recognize the drive when it gets plugged in, you would still need the software for the drive to work properly. Gerald - Original Message - From: Rogelio Terrazas rogelio.terra...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive I know the one I ordered. I was told that I get plug into my USB and I am good to go. - Original Message - From: Gerald Levy bwaylimi...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Excuse my ignorance on this subject, but can these external hard drives be installed and used without sighted assistance? Are they good to go right out of the box or do they require special software which may not be JAWS accessible? Do they just plug into a USB port or must they also be plugged into an AC outlet? Gerald - Original Message - From: Shannon Burke southpaw...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi George, The world of hard drives is growing daily and there are many choices to think about. BRANDS I've spoken to many knowledgeable people in this field and the general consensus is that Western Digital and Seagate are the best. Their reasoning was that they were better constructed, ran cooler, and had been in the business many years. WARRANTY Seagate by far has the best warranty in the business with 5yrs. Remember, as in all warranties, it only covers the cost to replace the unit, not the information stored on it. So, if you have lots of important files, music, and photos they are on their way to cyber heaven. USAGE Personally, I have 1 Western Digital Drives and 1 Seagate. I prefer the Seagate. One Western Digital drive (160gb) I use for Norton Ghost exclusively. Norton Ghost is a program that takes a mirror image of your hard drive on a scheduled basis. If your internal hard drive fails, all one would have to do is run Ghost to the new drive. My second drive is a Seagate which is a 1 Terabyte which is also 1000 GB. I use this one for music and books of which I have a sizeable collection What shocked me was how small the Seagate drive is even though it's storage capacity is huge. It's only little over an inch thick and 7 inches by 7 inches. It can be stood on end and comes with a stand or you can lay it flat. If you choose to stand it on end, it takes up very little desk spance. I had a Western Digital 320GB and this Seagate is so much smaller at 3 tiimes the memory. OPERATION The Seagate comes with a great manager that is part of the set up process when you USB plug it in. I don't remember what format it comes in but there are two, NTFS and FAT32. In most cases you'll want to format in NTFS. If you format in FAT 32 it limits your file size to 4GB. This may not make a difference to you but if you are a gamer it may. You can have the Seagate Manager set up to a prescheduled time to copy files and even encrypt them. One unique feature is that you can schedule a time for your Seagate to hibernate just like your computer. I have mine set for 30 minutes. Because the discs in the drive aren't spinning, the drive stays cool. Maybe that's one of the reasons Seagate has a 5 year warranty. PRICES In the last year, the prices on external hard drives have really fallen as many members here have mentioned. Because of this get as much capacity as your dollar will allow because you will be surprised how quickly it will get filled and you may find that you want to kick yourself for not getting more capacity. I recently saw a 1 Terabyte Seagate for $100, now that's unbelievble BEST PRICE Of course, always Goolge to see the huge offerings by so many. There is a great place that I visit weekly called Sales Cirular.com, which posts tables of different items on sale in the newspaper from all kinds of stores. Just go to Salescircular.com and click on your state. You can then examine all the different categories and select the one that interests you. Then, just comparison shop. One last thing, when your current hard drive starts to get near full capacity, go out and buy a larger one and transfer all the current stored files to this new drive. Then take your now old drive and store it in your closet. Remember, there is no warranty on those priceless files that you have saved over the years
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Gerald, I'm sorry that I didn't make it clear in my first message. On the 2 drives I mentioned, both have the software built into the unit itself. It's pretty much plug and play. After the drive is connected and Windows recognizes it as drive under My Computer, just follow the instructions that the software provides. It is JAWS accessible and there is no need to make any kind of setting adjustments to the JAWS program. Hope this helps, Shannon - Original Message - From: Gerald Levy bwaylimi...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Okay, another dumb question. If the drive works just by plugging it into a USB port, how come they all come with software? Every external drive I checked comes with some kind of software already builtin and/or on a CD. If that's the case, how do you know whether this software will be JAWS accessible before you buy? Or is installing this software optional? It seems to me that even though Windows will recognize the drive when it gets plugged in, you would still need the software for the drive to work properly. Gerald - Original Message - From: Rogelio Terrazas rogelio.terra...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive I know the one I ordered. I was told that I get plug into my USB and I am good to go. - Original Message - From: Gerald Levy bwaylimi...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Excuse my ignorance on this subject, but can these external hard drives be installed and used without sighted assistance? Are they good to go right out of the box or do they require special software which may not be JAWS accessible? Do they just plug into a USB port or must they also be plugged into an AC outlet? Gerald - Original Message - From: Shannon Burke southpaw...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi George, The world of hard drives is growing daily and there are many choices to think about. BRANDS I've spoken to many knowledgeable people in this field and the general consensus is that Western Digital and Seagate are the best. Their reasoning was that they were better constructed, ran cooler, and had been in the business many years. WARRANTY Seagate by far has the best warranty in the business with 5yrs. Remember, as in all warranties, it only covers the cost to replace the unit, not the information stored on it. So, if you have lots of important files, music, and photos they are on their way to cyber heaven. USAGE Personally, I have 1 Western Digital Drives and 1 Seagate. I prefer the Seagate. One Western Digital drive (160gb) I use for Norton Ghost exclusively. Norton Ghost is a program that takes a mirror image of your hard drive on a scheduled basis. If your internal hard drive fails, all one would have to do is run Ghost to the new drive. My second drive is a Seagate which is a 1 Terabyte which is also 1000 GB. I use this one for music and books of which I have a sizeable collection What shocked me was how small the Seagate drive is even though it's storage capacity is huge. It's only little over an inch thick and 7 inches by 7 inches. It can be stood on end and comes with a stand or you can lay it flat. If you choose to stand it on end, it takes up very little desk spance. I had a Western Digital 320GB and this Seagate is so much smaller at 3 tiimes the memory. OPERATION The Seagate comes with a great manager that is part of the set up process when you USB plug it in. I don't remember what format it comes in but there are two, NTFS and FAT32. In most cases you'll want to format in NTFS. If you format in FAT 32 it limits your file size to 4GB. This may not make a difference to you but if you are a gamer it may. You can have the Seagate Manager set up to a prescheduled time to copy files and even encrypt them. One unique feature is that you can schedule a time for your Seagate to hibernate just like your computer. I have mine set for 30 minutes. Because the discs in the drive aren't spinning, the drive stays cool. Maybe that's one of the reasons Seagate has a 5 year warranty. PRICES In the last year, the prices on external hard drives have really fallen as many members here have mentioned. Because of this get as much capacity as your dollar will allow because you will be surprised how quickly it will get filled and you may find that you want to kick yourself for not getting more capacity. I recently saw a 1 Terabyte Seagate for $100, now that's unbelievble BEST PRICE Of course, always Goolge
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Hi, Shannon. I'm thinking of gettingsome kind of external hard drive because last summer someone on a music list I belong to sent me the Left Behind series with all thirteen books. He was planning to send them to me on DVD's but I don't have a DVD drive or player. That way I can free up space on my computer's hard drive. Rosemarie - Original Message - From: Shannon Burke southpaw...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi George, The world of hard drives is growing daily and there are many choices to think about. BRANDS I've spoken to many knowledgeable people in this field and the general consensus is that Western Digital and Seagate are the best. Their reasoning was that they were better constructed, ran cooler, and had been in the business many years. WARRANTY Seagate by far has the best warranty in the business with 5yrs. Remember, as in all warranties, it only covers the cost to replace the unit, not the information stored on it. So, if you have lots of important files, music, and photos they are on their way to cyber heaven. USAGE Personally, I have 1 Western Digital Drives and 1 Seagate. I prefer the Seagate. One Western Digital drive (160gb) I use for Norton Ghost exclusively. Norton Ghost is a program that takes a mirror image of your hard drive on a scheduled basis. If your internal hard drive fails, all one would have to do is run Ghost to the new drive. My second drive is a Seagate which is a 1 Terabyte which is also 1000 GB. I use this one for music and books of which I have a sizeable collection What shocked me was how small the Seagate drive is even though it's storage capacity is huge. It's only little over an inch thick and 7 inches by 7 inches. It can be stood on end and comes with a stand or you can lay it flat. If you choose to stand it on end, it takes up very little desk spance. I had a Western Digital 320GB and this Seagate is so much smaller at 3 tiimes the memory. OPERATION The Seagate comes with a great manager that is part of the set up process when you USB plug it in. I don't remember what format it comes in but there are two, NTFS and FAT32. In most cases you'll want to format in NTFS. If you format in FAT 32 it limits your file size to 4GB. This may not make a difference to you but if you are a gamer it may. You can have the Seagate Manager set up to a prescheduled time to copy files and even encrypt them. One unique feature is that you can schedule a time for your Seagate to hibernate just like your computer. I have mine set for 30 minutes. Because the discs in the drive aren't spinning, the drive stays cool. Maybe that's one of the reasons Seagate has a 5 year warranty. PRICES In the last year, the prices on external hard drives have really fallen as many members here have mentioned. Because of this get as much capacity as your dollar will allow because you will be surprised how quickly it will get filled and you may find that you want to kick yourself for not getting more capacity. I recently saw a 1 Terabyte Seagate for $100, now that's unbelievble BEST PRICE Of course, always Goolge to see the huge offerings by so many. There is a great place that I visit weekly called Sales Cirular.com, which posts tables of different items on sale in the newspaper from all kinds of stores. Just go to Salescircular.com and click on your state. You can then examine all the different categories and select the one that interests you. Then, just comparison shop. One last thing, when your current hard drive starts to get near full capacity, go out and buy a larger one and transfer all the current stored files to this new drive. Then take your now old drive and store it in your closet. Remember, there is no warranty on those priceless files that you have saved over the years and no way to replace them if they are lost. So, put the old drive in you closet and you will always have a back up. I'm not an expert. I just wanted to share what I have learned. Shannon Burle -- Original Message - From: George Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 08:02 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi: The HP mybook 500gb I bought is formatted fat32 and I didn't install the software that came with it. It was plug and play and you just copy and paste from your C drive. HTH, George R. Marshall marshall.geo...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: acart...@juno.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:29 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi Rogelio, I just bought a Western Digital Elements external hard drive from the walmart website for about the same price with about 640 GB. It all depends how much you are going to put on it. It has an USB
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Mine is 500 GB which I will never fill. The one I bought doesn't have to be put together. I get it and just plug it in. That is probably the exchange for the less room. - Original Message - From: acart...@juno.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:29 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi Rogelio, I just bought a Western Digital Elements external hard drive from the walmart website for about the same price with about 640 GB. It all depends how much you are going to put on it. It has an USB cable and AC adapter. I haven't put it together yet, but I soon will. The only two things I wonder about is that there doesn't seem to be an on/off switch on it, and it came pre formatted but doesn't say what the format is. I guess I'll have to connect it to find out the format. Also, the instructions that came with it in the box aren't in English. :) Thanks to the list for the discussion about the Windows Backup utility. I didn't know that it existed until I read about it on here. I now have it downloaded an installed. AC - Forwarded message -- From: Rick Justice ricjust...@jaws-users.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:42:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive Message-ID: 4d8e893d03cd47d8bb34e8300397d...@rick References: 7861d055092c4f9cb0fdbf52e3030...@rogelio Hi Rogelio, The 160gb that you refer to is not memorey, instead it is hard drive storage capacity, there is a big difference. Yes, the price you paid isn't bad for that amount of storage. - Original Message - From: Rogelio Terrazas rogelio.terra...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 8:21 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive HTH,Richard Q. Justice-website owner www.blind-computing.com I just purchased an external hard drive with 160 GB of memory. I paid $79.00 for it . Is that a good price? rogelio.terra...@gmail.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Click here to become a professional counselor in less time than you think. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTOk5zoXfBACJPZNQI2O1H6aqZ1F6NsaEdxmBeeoYDcwUOyI37fBVO/ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to:
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Hi Where did you buy your 500 GB USB hard drive? God bless, Mark -- Currently in Pendleton, Eastern Oregon Regional At Pendleton, Oregon Overcast, Light Rain 41°F Wind:NW-320° at - Original Message - From: Rogelio Terrazas rogelio.terra...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Mine is 500 GB which I will never fill. The one I bought doesn't have to be put together. I get it and just plug it in. That is probably the exchange for the less room. - Original Message - From: acart...@juno.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:29 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Fw: External Hard Drive Hi Rogelio, I just bought a Western Digital Elements external hard drive from the walmart website for about the same price with about 640 GB. It all depends how much you are going to put on it. It has an USB cable and AC adapter. I haven't put it together yet, but I soon will. The only two things I wonder about is that there doesn't seem to be an on/off switch on it, and it came pre formatted but doesn't say what the format is. I guess I'll have to connect it to find out the format. Also, the instructions that came with it in the box aren't in English. :) Thanks to the list for the discussion about the Windows Backup utility. I didn't know that it existed until I read about it on here. I now have it downloaded an installed. AC - Forwarded message -- From: Rick Justice ricjust...@jaws-users.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:42:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive Message-ID: 4d8e893d03cd47d8bb34e8300397d...@rick References: 7861d055092c4f9cb0fdbf52e3030...@rogelio Hi Rogelio, The 160gb that you refer to is not memorey, instead it is hard drive storage capacity, there is a big difference. Yes, the price you paid isn't bad for that amount of storage. - Original Message - From: Rogelio Terrazas rogelio.terra...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 8:21 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive HTH,Richard Q. Justice-website owner www.blind-computing.com I just purchased an external hard drive with 160 GB of memory. I paid $79.00 for it . Is that a good price? rogelio.terra...@gmail.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Click here to become a professional counselor in less time than you think. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTOk5zoXfBACJPZNQI2O1H6aqZ1F6NsaEdxmBeeoYDcwUOyI37fBVO/ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Visit the JAWS
