new external hard drive
It’s my latest gadget! 
Met up with “J” yesterday (one of the ladies who do more than lunch) and we ended up over at my place. After a bit of vino and chatting she not only showed me how to organise my new iPod but she also convinced me that getting an external hard drive was much better than trying to back stuff up on CDs.
I mean, remember this post? I have not even attempted backing anything up since then. Just the thought of faffing about trying to find the right CD somewhere within the various boxes and then updating it, and repeating this painfully tedious process over and over again … well, nuff said.
And so after a very late lunch Nog and I went out for a walk to Fnac and I found this baby on special offer – 160 GBs for 70€. And it’s so small, just 12cm x 8 cm x 1.5cm. So I could actually carry around all of SB’s data in my handbag or jacket pocket if I wanted to. This is seriously cool.
Gosh, I just get more geeky every day.
This friend of yours. Does she have a twin-sister?
Ah, so you did buy the nero? Cool. I’d like to know how she organised it – do you mean optimising iTunes?
Welcome to casa az, Jeremy.
A twin sister? Umm… don’t think so.
Basically she showed me how to do a few basic things, ian, which of course made total sense after she showed me (unlike reading manual instructions). What does optimising iTunes entail? Not sure if we did that. eep!
Yes, I bought the ‘nero’ (aka iPod classic) and I’m very happy with it. With 80 GBs I’m sure it will more than enough space for me.
Meanwhile, my new mobile external hard drive has a ”one-click back-up” software programme that seems to work quite efficiently. After going through all my files this morning and tidying them up a bit I clicked on the back-up thing and now all of SB’s files are saved in this sleek little device.
Soooo much better than faffing around with a whack of CDs all over the place. I think it will eventually work out to be cheaper as well.
Very handy, In’t it?