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[Basil Chupin]

On 31/01/12 00:16, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>> On 30/01/12 10:36, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>>> The 2.5 inch ones are small and portable. I have never experienced any
>>> issue with them.
>>
>> Good. Glad to hear that. But someone will take your advice onboard without
>> paying attention to the 2.5inch size and grab some cheapie 1T external
>> thinking that they will now be in heaven :-) .
> Well, larger externals with a power cord are cheap too. Anyway, I do
> not think anyone using an external HDD will have any issue.

Which is what I suggested to the OP to use rather than CDs or DVDs - but 
getting an external with its own power supply I consider to be essential 
and will save heaps of hassles.


> (Question: BTW, does this apply to the new SSDs?)
> If you mean whether external SSDs have any issues, I haven't used any
> myself, and do not recommend them, since they are not a mature
> technology.

Hmm, "mature" or not some latest systems come only with SSDs.

BC

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