%18 percent only? Wait up! There is Plenty of room still!

I would advice to just not store "any" track and be selective. That way you can maximize your storage capacity and have a well worth quality library at the end of the day.

18% of a 320g drive. Plus im on windows if i have said that i tried that long time ago. My radio show i use alot of generes

thats y i wanted know ideas if i should swap my 320 and put a 500-1TB drive or just leave it alone and get a external 2.5 500-1TB drive bro

I would honestly get a external if your looking to have a lot of genres and play on the radio. With the external you can just get a 1TB external it would be more beneficial.

if u have an e-sata port go external via e-sata..

No E sata port Dells dont carry that not that I know of bt I think I may just get a external drive

Man I wish windows could dual boot off a external drive like OSX

i choose to get an internal just cause it is less stuff to carry when i was upgrading mine. I ran into issues of wanting to edit track and prepare stuff on the road or in the car ect and have no place to plug in an external

True but a 2.5 drive on a windows machine only needs one USB port Macs 2 USB ports for power Im going to suck it up 500g is cool for 89 bucks

At home I have a 2TB drive to hold my music

K man do u have a prob,em with your rite platter. WHen u scratch the play head slow moves backwards

um ... no

Personally I would go with an internal. There is too much that can go wrong with an external. If its dropped, someone pulls the plug, and with itch touchy with usb irq settings as it is on Windows, I would want a little stuff in my ports as possible.

Well i just recommended a external only because its easier to upgrade to a external instead of having to do the work of upgrading your internal.

You can get eSATA via PC card or PCI Express card nowadays. The transfer speed is THE SAME as an internal drive. For real-time audio, I think that it's the only way to do external drives.

-KLH

i used external with a usb and all worked fine.... i really dont see why this extra speed is nesessary

I wouldn't say that at all. Especially with the newer apples and most dells. The dells have hdd bays that can pull out quickly, and the mbpro's hdd is located in the battery bay. So it's not necessarily easier.

the dell i have is quite ez one slide panel off and its right in front of yea

thxs for the input.

No to tramsfer my scratchlive files over to my external with my vault

the dell i have is quite ez one slide panel off and its right in front of yea

thxs for the input.

No to tramsfer my scratchlive files over to my external with my vault

I would buy an external hdd enclosure and large hdd. Put the replacement drive in the external and clone it. Then swap. It's the easiest way to keep everything the way it is.

if u are going to go internal go for at least a TB or even two . make a partition for the OS and one to store the music that way should a problem arise you would wipe clean the OS partition reformat it and reinstall the OS to it and still have the other partition intact with all ur VERY IMPORTANT VITAL FILES!

Going from 320 to just 500 GB is almost nothing! 750GB is more like it but u can do better. Also some laptops accept two hard drives at the same time...

Yea i seen mac has a external tray that replaces the dvd rom. My dell doesnt have the luxary :(

I hear what u sayin I got a 500g external 89 bucks CDN not bad I think

What u guys think of the SSD vs SATA drives?

omG! "external tray that replaces the dvd rom. My dell doesnt have the luxary :(" ????????????? what do u mean by this! There are actually MORE options for Windows computers than MAC's friend!

please explain this to me because i might be missing something...

Sorry for the misunderstanding

I will show u the item

www.mcetech.com

Some windows machines may have this but I know for my dell i cant find this anywhere

thats nice!

Do use MAC or PC

I thought about that, still am.



Definately SSD. Then you don't have to worry about if you drop it. Remember, it's very uncommon nowadays to find an evxternal drive that is 1 - 2 TB and not need external power. Thats an extra plug etc. that can go bad.

do u need to open up ur mac to install it? fast swapping would be nice for laptops. ex. pull dvd rom out and push hd bay in with comp off even better while comp on. =D

Its for MAC but read some forums that peps used it in there laptops. Jus have to measure your laptop where the DVD rom is placed claerance stuff like that

Dj Bacik I asume u are using a MAC dont macs use one usb cord for the 2.5 externals ?

Found a couple..

www.amazon.com

www.alltp.com

this one is for all desktops

www.gopcshop.com

www.superwarehouse.com

Nice

The first or second one would kinda work I will have to see the Dell Studio 15 spec and screw points, all that before investing in this

yea CD ROM is obsolete anyways.. GL!

It's not just a speed issue; it's also a bus issue. Having the USB bus saturated is what I worry about. The ITCH platform seems to really saturate the USB bus by itself. I'm apprehensive when considering adding another high-throughput device (like a hard drive). YMMV.

-KLH