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 had to buy an external hard drive with a CD/DVD, storage, and burn ability. I use the latest Word, Power point, and data program; they work very well and fast. I am very satisfied.
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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.
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Yes, downloads are available, but you can also buy a USB CD/DVD drive for under $25. Always good to have a CD/DVD drive anyway. Another alternative if you have a network is to have another computer "Share" their CD/DVD drive and use that.
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I was able to transfer all of my floppys to my computer using this drive. You should be able to then transfer or burn them to cd or dvd.
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For pictures, I use Verbatim CD-R discs without any fuss. They transfer directly from my Canon camera without any drama. I'm sure you'll get a more complete better answer from a more knowledgeable computer user
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You can get an external dvd drive that you can hook up -- they are pretty cheap these days. Ofcourse, you could use another machine that has a drive and put it on drop box.
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I used a 1T that I already had; it was more than enough.The external HD depends on how much data you stored in it.250 should be enough, in my opinion.
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Does anyone have any recommendations for purchasing an external CD/DVD drive? Will any one do?
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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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Order the disks from HP. Then use an external drive or a dock with built in cd/dvd drive.
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Unless you need super fast access or archival protection for your collection I would use a mechanical HDD. The extra expense and smaller capacity of the SDD would be a limiting factor.
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Why use a Cd changer when you can rip all of those CDs onto one mini thumb drive and be done with it?
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Ditto the last answer. File transfers require a PC or equivalent. The port of the CD unit is "Read-only".
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I am not sure of a 500GB as I don't have one that size to test, but I have used an old 40GB IDE WD drive and it worked fine.
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If this is a relatively new computer with an up to date operating system, nothing other than using any disc that came with the drive and an open slot in the case for mounting. Windows should do the rest.
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Not sure about color but you want the fastest RPM's 7200 or more drive possible for large file transfers. If you have lots of files you may want ot consider high storage deives that offer up to 5-6 TB per device. I have two of these 3TB drives in by NAS in a raid 1 configure and sore lots of multi media files about 50GB of video movies