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11/23/11 at 5:03pm
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Does it degrade sound quality? Basically, I don't want to fill my laptops hard drive with music as I have upwards of 500GB of files. So could I use an external hard drive to store my files and still get the same sound quality?

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post #2 of 5
11/23/11 at 7:55pm

:| This is akin to asking if you pick up a half dozen hot bitches in your hoopty, will they become less attractive?

 

I hope you are trolling.

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post #3 of 5
11/23/11 at 9:19pm
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Does it degrade sound quality? Basically, I don't want to fill my laptops hard drive with music as I have upwards of 500GB of files. So could I use an external hard drive to store my files and still get the same sound quality?

Try it and report back the result.
 

 

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post #4 of 5
11/23/11 at 10:19pm

Last time you e-mailed somebody a photograph, did the quality decrease?

 

Or also, when you copied a document to another hard drive or a flash drive or e-mail, when you opened it up, some of the words became misspelled?


Edited by mikeaj - 11/23/11 at 10:38pm
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post #5 of 5
11/25/11 at 10:49am


This made me giggle. 

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Originally Posted by notsureiftroll View Post

:| This is akin to asking if you pick up a half dozen hot bitches in your hoopty, will they become less attractive?

 

I hope you are trolling.



In all seriousness - no there will be no degradation of quality or anything of the sort. A hard-drive storing music files is not the same thing as, for example, a turntable playing back vinyl. The drive in a portable enclosure will be identical to the drive in your computer in terms of how it operates and connects - it just happens to have its own case in this situation. The only thing I'd view as a possible problem would be noise - some external drives have very small and very noisy fans attached to them. This can get very annoying. Very quickly. Just look at what you're buying and you should be fine. Also ensure that you figure out whatever power solution for the drive - some can draw their power from your computer (which can increase portability, but drain your battery life faster); some require a wall-plug. Keep that in mind if you're going to be moving this thing around a lot.

 

 

 

 

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