Barihawk Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Ugh, I hate to resort to this, but I desperately need to backup irreplacable photos and files. Can anyone with vast amounts of webspace loan me 8 gigs for 2-5 days? My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. -Sir Arthur Wellesley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 couldn't you just burn them to a dvd or cd? If not I use http://www.gigasize.com which can store 2.5gb per file, and no limit to how much you can upload. You would have to register to get those sizes. 8gbs of data to upload will take you days to upload on any home conection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barihawk Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 How much do you think I could get an external hard drive or cheapo DVD burner from Best Buy? I don't know if you could install one on a Dell. My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. -Sir Arthur Wellesley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezcake Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 I would split them up into smaller parts, if possible. ==================================Retired tip.it moderator.Teaching and inspiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruiser Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 External HDs or burners are going to run at least $50, anywhere you get them because of the enclosure. Even our beloved Newegg lists their cheapest prebuilt externals at $50+. :? I'd definitely suggest you get your hands on one though if you have 8gb of photo's to back up. As for the Dell question, yes they'll work. Dell's are no different than any other system when it comes to plugging in an external USB drive. :mrgreen: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinslayer777 Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Try and first compress it with something like winrar (rarlabs.com) it doesn't sound like you compressed it. The other good idea is to break it up in parts. That's a massive file for someone to so generously host. You can probably get something reasonable priced things from newegg.com. While there shipping is great, it sounds like you need something instant. I saw a few things that'd work from best buy at around 80 dollars for a 160gig external. You can consider hosting it as a torrent and just getting a friend to download the torrent, unless it's private. some things like [ForbiddenSite].com allow 100mb things, that'd take a lot of uploading though. ____________Whoops to the below. Cruiser beat me, and i didnt pay attention to "external" I suppose the best option is to get some sort of storage device you might purchase anyway, like an ipod, or to get a dvd burner, preferably off newegg since i hate bestbuy with their aweful prices :P. I got a quality dvd burner for 40 dollars off newegg. Off newegg after a quick search i found a 25 dollar one, i have no idea to the quality - reviews are reasonable http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6827152074. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Lol good luck getting someone that will offer you that for free. Get yourself an external HDD or burn onto DVD. Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mementh Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 problem is and always will be (for now).. upload speeds.. you would need a good host to upload that long I recomend as others getting a small cheap external.. you can get a cheap one for like 80-120 bucks US.. The following statement is true. The previous statement is false. 60% of all statistics are made up 90% of the time andrew i love you & want you to have my babys!!! Finally, I get to save the Earth with deadly lasers instead of deadly slide shows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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