Re: OT: External storage solutions?

In article <LKDOh.16893$lD4.2310@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jeffrey MacHott <Raguleader@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So, it looks like I'm shipping out to Basic Training with the Air Force
in a few weeks, and I am planning to leave my computer with my little
brother and buy a new one when I finish Basic. The problem is, I have
about 200 gigabytes of assorted crap I want to take with me, and so I'm
looking for some reliable (preferably affordable) method of taking that
stuff off of my computer, packing it in a box with some other assorted
essentials I'll want to have near me when I finish Basic, and mailing it
to wherever I am for my tech school.

Pretty much the only things I can think of are burning everything to a
DVD (a bit of an unwieldy solution, though I'll probably do just that
for the really important stuff as opposed to the stuff I just kinda want
to keep), and buying an external hard drive (or an internal drive with a
solid enclosure), but I've been warned that many hard drives do not do
well in the mail.

If that is true, I wonder how Circuit City, et al, manage to
sell external HDs through their websites?

.

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