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12-17-19, 10:59 PM | ||
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Thanks Judith and Liz!
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anyhoo, i did right click the properties on some of those files to see how much space, but you're right, i was hoping 1 T would be enough. i have a laptop that can hookup to the docking station. docking station vs. enclosure sounds good since i don't intend on keeping the older laptops. as it is, the keys are getting old/sticky and many apps were superceded with newer versions. on that second laptop with the bad keyboard, the reason the original keyboard began causing issues is that when i used the wireless keyboard, i would be typing, but the cursor would keep going to the "home" position and nothing from the wireless keyboard would register! it's so annoying! and the "beep" would go on because the "home" key was as if it was being pressed without any release.
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04-20-20, 08:06 PM | |
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after studying the issue, i've decided to move each of the 3 hard drives (2 from laptops, 1 from a desk top) to their own individual enclosure. my co-worker recommended this enclosure based on the types of hard drives i have: https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Exter...7419312&sr=8-4 he also recommended using a network attached storage (NAS) to store home videos that we've stored on one of the hard drives. If you save a lot of video downloads, do you save them to the cloud?
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04-20-20, 09:46 PM | |
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I never use the cloud. For anything. And I try to keep everything important on external hard drives, not left on my computer. Downloads are always mp4s and so don't take up much space unless you choose the very highest quality when that is available as on Vimeo.
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Hi Judith (or anyone who uses enclosures),
i finally removed a hard drive from a very old HP Pavilion desk top. it's so old, there weren't any youtube videos to guide me on how to remove it, but i was able to look at several videos and figured out how to remove it. Judith, i read your first reply in this thread, and back then, it was all foreign language to me, but i can now fully understand what you wrote. Rosewill brand was something i should have looked into, but since my friend recommended Sabrent, i got that. i'm reading some of the reviews on Amazon and reviewers were mentioning "partitioning" which i think refers to the enclosure software being able to read what's on the older hard drive - is that correct? Judith, it sounded like you were able to plug and play, but now i'm wondering if i need to first make sure that my chosen enclosure brand needs to have the latest updates on the laptop that i plan to plug this enclosure into? does that sound right? i'm reading people's reviews that they almost accidentally re-initialized the drive without first downloading the latest version of the Sabrent app. i might be saying all of this wrong, but here's where i read it on an Amazon review: https://www.amazon.com/product-revie...ews-filter-bar read reviewer "S. Fields" one-star review.
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02-21-21, 11:36 PM | |
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An enclosure is simply a case to hold a HDD or SSD. There is no software involved. Portable HDDs/SSDs may come with some kind of software but I have never used it. In fact the first thing I do with a new HDD is to format it, erasing any software that may be on it, and making it compatible with my computer, be it a Mac or a Windows machine which use different file systems.
When you partition a disk, you are dividing it into completely independent sectors or drives, so that it is like having two or more separate HDDs combined into one. Yes, when I've retrieved a hard drive from an old computer, I've simply placed it into an enclosure and plugged it in. Same with any "internal drive" I may buy, simply put it in an enclosure and plug it in. For larger 3.5" drives I prefer the Roswill enclosures with fans -- the larger 3.5 mechanical drives need good ventilation, however with smaller 2.5" solid state drives I like a Sabrent enclosure. The main thing is to be familiar with the different formats which are compatible with Macs and Windows machines and to remember that formatting necessarily involves erasing a drive of everything and anything on it. So if you want to keep the data on a retrieved drive, you need to plug it into a machine using the same file system (Windows or Mac), as that from which you retrieved your drive. Google is your friend here to learn about the different formats. Hope that helps.
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