External hard drive

[billyo]

it's probably time to get a new comp, if your motherboard smoked, the fan probably went out and overheated..

[Musicman51]

I use those little pocket sized western digital hard drives. I keep two in my computer case. It only has karaoke songs on it, and nothing else. I also Have a big Western Digital harddrive that has the meter light on the front, which is my main hard drive that i cloned my other two from. It's a pain to update 3 hard drives every month, but it's part of the art i guess. But i haven't had one go bad on me yet. The oldest one is going on 3 years old, and it has indeed been dropped. Last winter while unloading the van, it somehow dropped out of my computer case. Didn't miss it for a couple days. It was laying under about 2 feet of snow. I walked very very carefully till i took the shovel and retraced my steps. Dried it up for a couple days, got brave, plugged it into my lappy, still using it for my shows today. They are tough little buggers really.

[RIKKI TIKKI]

I also use the Western Digital externals, in various memory capabilities, ie. 160 gb, 250 gb, and my main backup is a 1 tb drive that I store everything, or backup all my programs to. I have not had a failure as yet, in the last couple of years with this particular brand of external hard drive, but did have an internal hardrive go out on my laptop once a couple of years back, and that was when I started usng the externals as main kma library, and backing up at least two more times for peace of mind! I also carry a backup computer now, for those unforseen problems... and I also have players, and cdg's if a total disaster were to happen!

Here in Arizona we don't have as much problems with the cold, as much as its the heat! Used to live in the Phoenix area, and you could melt jewel cases if you left them in direct contact with sun in a locked up vehicle, or trailer! Now I'm in an area classified as high desert and the temperatures are more moderate, but temperature swings of 50 degrees are not that uncommon. Very hard on any equipment when you operate them after being stored in extreme temperature environments...

[Beavis]

i would invest in cryptonite online back up. theres no limit to how much you can store on there server. the only thing you cant store is videos.

[billyo]

i never had luck with WD, i must have returned 4 or 5 of them in a month, use them to cloned my original drive, bought 250g, hhd to clone my 80g, when i got done, the WD shows up the same amount as my original drive, all 4/5 of them.. i now used 250g seagate int. on my show laptop ( no kma files stored just my dj tunes )and another 250g samsung for my back-up laptop ( still no kma files just dj tunes )and 4 slim design seagate 500g ext. hhd where i have all my kma files, 2 back-up hhd..& 1 for ea. of my laptop for my show.and 1 main 500g free agent ext.where i have all my kma files stored just incase something happens to all my show drive.. it's been quite sometime now and still has no problems with them..