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[lhasa]

I'm going to start buying all my music via mp3's so need a back-up. Not so clever with computers so asking for a little advice.

Want exceptional quality and am considering an external solid state hd....good idea?....waste of cash?....recommendations?.....brand?....

[blackjack]

If you are in seoul go to youngsan and just buy a case that you like the look of (and is the same size as the harddrive read on)

There are two main options

3.5 inch- (desktop hard drive)
-need a separate power source
-come in larger sizes 320gig-1.5tb (hundreds of thousand if not millions of songs)
-more bang for your buck (cheaper per gig)
-not as portable, bigger and need a separate power source

2.5 inch- (laptop hard drive)
-portable small
-usb powered
-tend to look better
-more expensive
-smaller capacity ???-500gig
-less bang for your buck.

The question you have to ask your self is, is it going to stay in one place. are you going to be moving it from computer to computer/

The 3.5 and 2.5 inch hardrives themselves, are all pretty much the same The most common makers of harddrives are Seagate, Western digital, Samsung and Hitachi. People will say buy a **** drive but in general they are all very similar. I use both seagate and western digital (the seagate are a little louder).

The cases don't really matter. If you need firewire or esata get one that has a port for it. If the case fails the hard drive is still okay. Just choose one you like the look of.

SSD drives are about speed, you don't need one of storing music or movies.

some other things forget about firewire unless you have a mac or firewire card. If you are transfering large amounts of data you may look at esata but in generally forget about it.

here are some examples for 2.5 inch
http://search.danawa.com/dsearch.php?merge=&tab=goods&k1=2.5&iq=2.5&x=17&y=6

and 3.5 inch

http://search.danawa.com/dsearch.php?merge=&tab=goods&k1=3.5&x=0&y=0

[lhasa]

Thanks for that blackjack.

I'm leaning towards buying music through amazon.com....high bitrate mp3. But it says they only sell to US customers....can I download from Korea or is their a block?

[lhasa]

Think I found the answer....you need a US credit card and billing address....which I assume means you can download from Korea if you have them.

Any other sights worth considering?.....itunes would be nice but a pain with format and not so good quality

[blackjack]

http://www.mininova.org/cat/5

http://thepiratebay.org/music

[blackjack]

http://www.mininova.org/cat/5

http://thepiratebay.org/music

[blackjack]

http://www.mininova.org/cat/5

http://thepiratebay.org/music

[swigs]

Itunes is getting better with quality, and I think most of the stuff is now DRM free.

Also I think your allowed to download your stuff again if you lose everything. Or at least that's how I think it works... Don't know for sure.

[lhasa]

Yah that torrent stuff. How's the quality?? Downloading shifty??....spyware, viruses??

[Sapa]

if you can join a quality music torrent site like what.cd you can usually get top quality audio for download. I don't know much about other torrent sites. I get a lot of my stuff from warez-bb, they are direct download links, usually rapidshare.