Hi All

I need to copy / move my music collection (about 18gig) and trying to find the best and cheapest way of doing it – I could use an external drive but they all seem a bit too pricey for me!

Alternatively I guess I could use a few DVDs

Any thoughts?

Wyn

have both devices (i assume pc to pc?) got ethernet? there is an ethernet cable (i think its called a crossover cable) that should connect both right up i think

http://www.computing.net/answers/networking/transferring-data-via-ethernet-cabl/33173.html

a couple of dvd-r's will do it though. but will take hours to write all that data

Take the hd out and put it the other machine as a slave and copy it over then put it back where it was sposed to be.

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Originally posted by lsdweb

I could use an external drive but they all seem a bit too pricey for me!

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Agree with danozeman. DVD's can be flakey, and I'm guessing a coaster with 4bg of your music on, would make it a pretty bad bad.

If the machine the data is going to, or coming from then buy a cheap enclosure, they are cheap as chip but they can really help out in a fix!

blake's got it - ej45 cable, or a usb, or firewire - depends upon what you're transferring from - if its between two pc's should be fine with one of the cables. Also, it will depend how your music collection is stored (or was ripped) - from sonicstage or i-tunes may have copyright protection that will prevent the data from working properly after transferring it. Good luck

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Originally posted by tomprescott
blake's got it - ej45 cable, or a usb, or firewire - depends upon what you're transferring from - if its between two pc's should be fine with one of the cables. Also, it will depend how your music collection is stored (or was ripped) - from sonicstage or i-tunes may have copyright protection that will prevent the data from working properly after transferring it. Good luck

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Originally posted by lsdweb
Hi All

I need to copy / move my music collection (about 18gig) and trying to find the best and cheapest way of doing it – I could use an external drive but they all seem a bit too pricey for me!

Alternatively I guess I could use a few DVDs

Any thoughts?

Wyn

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Every time I hear topics like this I can't help thinking of what I heard about Apollo 11 landing on the moon. The onboard computer on Eagle had 64k of memory. And you need to move 18gigs of music. How mad is that?

I think the first questions should be where are you moving it from and where are you moving it to? Do you have a home network? Are both computer connected to it? You may be able to simply use your current network to do it but aren't aware of how it is done.

I've got a home network and it sits on an network drive so i can access it from my media centre PC and other PCs. I want to be able to move it without disconnecting the network drive.

I didn't realise those drives were so cheap - I'd been looking at UK suppliers only!

And as for the Apollo landing, most of my music is probably from that era! :-)

can get 16GB flash stick for £15 now and can use that as many times as you want - my prefered option for sure

18gb is a not lot these days --- it could be fitted on three 8GB SD cards.

I just rescued 175gb of data for customer using an external USB drive --- only about 75kb was word document files the rest was all music and vids.

[Edited on 19/7/09 by britishtrident]