With technology improving by leaps & bounds & people going ga-ga over the new electronic gadgets that come out daily into the market, the size of most of the electronic items is going to diminish to a large extent in a very short span of time. These developments in technology & mass production of the gadgets is helping to bring down the cost of production (consumption too) drastically.
I went out in search of a storage medium which can be used to transfer data (around 25 GB)from my present work place to the new one. First, I thought of getting DVD's written but then got my eyes on a portable hard disk of 80 GB capacity with cost in the range of Rs. 4000/- ($85). It looked like a great option for transferring the data without any hassles as it doesn't need an external source for power & connects through a USB port (USB port is really a universal port now a days). It actually uses a laptop internal hard disk which is converted to an external one using a casing. The size of this fully functional unit is of a small PDA or a small telephone diary.
There were other attractive options also available where a hard drive with a capacity of 200 GB costing around Rs. 4000/- was available but this one needed external power source which sometimes becomes too difficult to get. This is actually useful if used as a dumping drive (for any stuff you get). There are cheaper such drives available in US (250 GB costing $70).
I have the 80 GB now & in 5 days I have dumped around 55 GB of data into it (movies, songs etc.). Let's see how much more material I get for dumping in. May be in days to come, one will get 500 GB space in the same size and price but right now it seems to be the best option. It actually is a great device, a must have in todays world where one gets so much of data to deal with.
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