Opinion....if you were gonna d'ld lots of mp3's ......

[msucurt]

appreciate the help. where could i find this program to partition without reformating??

[jad1097]

You could easily burn up 10 gigs(about 2000 songs) if you have or get high bitrate songs. I am going to have a 20-30gig drive dedicated for mp3's by the end of the year.

[thekingofpain]

Buy a cd burner (if ya dont have one) then...youll have another useful piece of equipment...and your hdd can be used for "other" stuff...
Partition Magic will allow you to create partitions without losing existing data...

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[Warthog]

Get a cd burner, like TKOP said.

You can then store 700mb of mp3s on a $1 CD-R.

Warthog

[msucurt]

thanks jad, kop, warthog. hear is the deal, i have a yamaha cd burner, but i download a great deal of songs on my HD just to listen to while i surf and work on the puter. I will create cd's, but i dont wont to have to burn those mp3's because they are taking up my HD. That is why i may decide to get an extra HD, just for mps.

[thekingofpain]

Well maybe a dedicated MP3! drive is up your alley, it dont have to be a rocketdrive since yer just jammin tunes in and out... (60gig Maxtors are alittle over 200$, that outta hold ya awhile)



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[Mr. Mojo Risin]

I bought a new HD for many things but I have to admit, MP3's storage was the most motivating reason. Right now I have about 1,200 songs ( 5GB ) and with a cable modem I see many more MP3's comming soon http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

I say go ahead and plan for the future, you can never have too much storage space. I tried the CD archiving thing but I am too lazy to put a diferent CD in everytime I want to listen to a song, hehe.

But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong...

BTW I bought a Maxtor 20GB as my second HD.

Happy Downloading http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Win_98]

Hmm harddrive are the most reliable thing, you could easily lose everything on it. You got 30gig right? that more then enought for all the mp3 in the world. You going to have to back them up anyway on to CD, free up space on your harddrive as well and save you from data loss in any circumstance, who know destruction by god, data corruption, harddive failure. btw cd are just as fast as your harddrive and a much more advanced media that will last you indefinitely where else a hardddrive is prone to die within 3-5 yrs. well you know I dont have anything to backup my stuff, all I got is this stupid floppy disk about 200 laying around, slow as turtle, worthless junk... hmm I think cd are awesome, it last a very long time! maybe 20-30 yrs heh so I need one badly hehe. **** im living behind the time in stone ages using only harddrive as a way of storage. Im thinking of getting cd writer very soon. I can even live with 2gig harddrive with a cdwriter! for some reason Im too lazy so I just crawl back into my hole.

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[spark25]

You can find Partition Magic here. (http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/index.html)

[msucurt]

if you were gonna download loads and loads of mps, would u suggest adding another hard drive to your system, or partition the one i already have (30.7 (7200) ata/100? If you would, please suggest what size HD you would go with, maybe a particular type....thanks fellas

[GroundZero3]

If you have a 30.7 gb hard drive i don't think there is any reason for you to go out and buy another hard drive. just partition the one you got. you can use partition magic or some program to do that so you don't have to reformat or anything.

JaYsin