I have a pc with XP, I am running on low disk space, will an external drive like the buffalo Mini Station help me?
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Absolutely, it allowed me to store my entire hard drive on it plus extra space
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that depends on your needs, if you are low on disk space because of non-program/app related files (ie: media(pics, videos, movies, music...etc) documents(ie: word, pdf/e-books, presentation files...etc)) then yes, moving as much of those files off of your system disk to external drive like the buffalo will certainly help you, if you have a ton of games, programs, apps installed and those are what is taking up most of the room, then you need a larger internal drive for your PC and the buffalo will not help you there...
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Yes it will give you more disk storage space, but be sure you have an available USB port on your computer for it to interface through. If you have a desktop computer and an available bay inside the unit you could also consider just adding an additional hard drive inside the unit.
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Absolutely. I have an older Dell running XP with an older Buffalo external drive attached (that's why a secondBuffalo drive to a second PC) that has maybe 20,000 photos plus tons of other files on it. Assuming you havea fee USB port, an external disk is the way to go especially on older PCs with a smaller C drive.
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It will help you if you place files and videos and music on the external drive because it will free space on your internal drive. You will have to connect the external drive anytime you want to access the files though.
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This particular drive is an EARS drive meaning that it is an advanced format drive which won't run by default in XP. Western Digital has set up a page to help users get it working in XP however I'm not an XP user so I'm not sure how straight-forward the steps are. You might be more interested in a EADS drive which should work fine out of the box for you. Unfortunately the 1.5 TB EADS drive costs 99 while this 2.0 TB EARS drive costs 89.
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this is just a flash drive, even though a very large one. I would think your current computer needs a more capacity, like a 1 TB external drive...
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I've been using 120gb with another 120gb as extra storage. I therefore think 500gb is ample, especially if you can always get external storage later for backup. I run windows8.1.
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move some files to a small flash drive such as: Patriot Spark 64 GB (USB 3 and very tiny)
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None. You can buy an external USB drive or share a drive from another computer. We use our portable for that purpose.
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I cannot answer this for sure but if your USB ports have always worked god and your running anything from Xp forward I would order it if it was me.
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If the problem is because of lack of space, transfer applications to the external card
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geez you all are so ignorant. the actual space is 64GB but a filesystem is needed to keep track of the files on the disk. how else do you expect it to work without a filesystem?
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I see no reason why you could not unless it's on an older desktop running XP or the such. I'm using it as a archive disk and not a boot disk. I know some systems will only see these larger 3 TB and 4 TB disk as external USB items but I have not had that problem with the companys Dell systems or the high end clients that I've built. Here is a little diddy from Western Digital about the subject matter that may help you: http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2754/~/hard-drives-greater-than-2-tb-do-not-work-on-existing-operating-systems
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No - I recommend getting either an external DVD/CD reader, or an external hard drive such as a Western Digital passport that you can store larger files such as installation media, etc. and run those from the external drive.
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I dunno if it's a formatting thing, but I tried to plug in my portable 120GB external drive, and it blanked. My 1GB stick came up with a menu though, so there's gotta be a size limit somewhere, I just don't know where it it.
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I've heard yes. However, it takes 32 gig - not much room to actually run any other programs or store files once all is said and done. I didn't get a chance to find out because mine died about 2 weeks ago. Working off a laptop until I decide what to do. Not sure I'm blaming ASUS for that one as I go through machines very fast, lucky if I get 2 years out of anything...
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I run a 32-bit Vista system. Formatted a 4tb drive GTP/NTFS, connected via eSata and it is both fast and reliable. USB does not work.
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You can purchase a free standing drive unit that connects by USB. I have one and used it to load programs.
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I don't think it matters as long as you have enough space. I have everything on an external drive because i do interviews off of Skype for my podcast, and store everything off of the laptop itself.
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it should, its essentially a tiny remote drive, the file system can only be viewed in a browser tho, then its just a matter of dragging and dropping to your desired folder