What should I get just for transferring 500 cds?
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500 CD's averaging 15 tracks per CD is a total of 7500 tracks. The iPod Touch 32 gig holds approximately 7,000 songs. A 40GB MP3 player will hold approximately 10,000 songs, but they are hard drive based and aren't designed for rough usage. 40 GB hard drive players are pretty hard to find these days so she might have to sacrifice some songs. She most likely doesn't actually listen to 500 CD's on a regular basis and you can always set iTunes to auto-rotate the songs for for fresh content. An alternative to the iPod Touch is the iPod Classic which packs 160 GB (around 40.000 songs) of storage. They are but around $250. The iPod Touch is also available in 64GB for a higher cost (around $300). An alternative to those two iPods is the Zune HD which packs 16, 32, or 64 gigabytes as well. These are considerably cheaper than the iPod equivilent. They also offered a 120 GB Zune (non-HD) but the price will vary as they are no longer manufactured. Sony also makes highly-regarded MP3 players that are comparable to MS and Apple. Besides These three companies, I can't really recommend buying anything else. I've owned all different types of MP3 players from Creative, Toshiba, Samsung, Sandisk, and the MS Zune but none of them come close to the tight integration that iTunes and iPod have. Every time I hit the sync button I'm confident the iPod will have exactly the songs I want on it. With Windows Media Player or the Zune software, a lot of the time it will end up partially syncing and some songs will duplicate. Album art is also a nightmare on these. As much as I don't like Apple's business model, their software and hardware are pretty hard to beat.
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I'd say regular cd-rs, I've not heard of music only cds. I'm using Ridata 52x. Cannot answer your 2nd question
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Order an Apricorn EZ upgrade kit through Amazon. I switched from 120 gb drive to a 500gb drive and kept everything including my operating system, settings, bookmarks, emails, contacts etc without loosing anything. It takes a few hours to transfer all the data but just be patient. The Apricorn kit worked like a charm.
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Does anyone have any recommendations for purchasing an external CD/DVD drive? Will any one do?
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Email their customer support. They are fantastic and will help you get everything you need. You probably don't need what was on that disc anyway.
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It should work very well to copy files onto, and then load them into your new machine. Pretty much all files, pictures, documents, etc., should transfer nicely. As far as software installations, I don't think it's a good idea. You'll need to reinstall Microsoft Office, Chrome browser, Picasa Photos, and so on and on. Unless someone knows of a way to transfer these that I'm not aware of, I sure wouldn't attempt to do anything except reinstall programs with a fresh start. I don't think it would be a good idea to use any type of "backup" program to do that transfer either, unless you carefully experiment first. Make sure the backup software installs and runs on both computers, then try one small folder to make sure it goes smoothly. Personally, I'd use a straightforward copy of the files to and from the drive, either manually or using a program such as Second Copy. (I highly recommend that program.)
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If you are asking about optical media, there is no CD or DVD drive, so you have to get an external one. The hybrid 1TB disk is OK; not as good as a true SSD but it boots pretty fast. Windows Performance Information gives it a disk data transfer rate score of 5.9, and that's the lowest subscore, so that determines the overall 5.9 score for the computer. Not sure if that scoring mechanism is really fair for hybrid drives though.
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Any mid-size capacity SD will do, I don't recomend anything bigger than 8GB.
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You should get the box, but if I were u I'd get the down load version, never lose your cd or cd key that way
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You might check out Costco for your external drives. They have a great return policy and carry a huge selection at a great price.
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Regular and MP3. You can also use USB card. I didn`t try out how it works though. I just used it for regular CD
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I have copied virtual machine folders with multiple 80GB individual files (160gb total), through a USB 3 hub, without any issues. I wouldn't expect there to be any issue with a transfer of 500gb. Take care to keep the computer and enclosure stationary during the transfer as movement in the USB connection can cause unwanted disruption.
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Yes you would need to buy something to put the CD in, I hope that this is helpful. There are a lot of discs, but I like the program.
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I have not personally made a copy of that type of cd but as long as that doesn't have special protection on them is should be fine. If you can make a copy of the cd on your computer without special software then it should be fine.
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You only need to use the CD if you want to use their backup software -- for straight disk storage, you can just plug it in (with Windows XP, anyway).
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I use regular CD-Rs and they work. Have not tried to rip anything to a computer.
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You can use pretty much any USB external cd, DVD, or bluray burner or player. The drivers are usually preloaded so there should be no issues.