How I Bought New Hard-drive

Few days ago, I figured out, I'm running out of disk space. I hate DVDs and CDs for general-data storing. I'm using them just for back-ups of the most important files. I had owned 4 hard-drives, 2x250GB, 80G and 60G when I found out I have no more space. Now, I'm running Mac OS X installed on PC and I'm saving money for Mac. That's why I refused to buy internal SATA drive. I wanna connect it to Mac in future. So I have chosen external USB2 drive. I wanted 1TB WD Mybook2 drive, but it had been currently unavailable. So I had chosen Seagate Freeagent desk with size 1TB, and price €110, that was shipped next day. 

I like the drive. It's pretty fast, nice, have some special LED effects indicating it's activity. It's not boiling, even after few hours of full-speed copying it's temperature won't be high. I like it. I've read few overviews that this drive usually dies after one month of usage, but I hope mine will be fine. 

The drive is absolutely cool. Fast, nice powerful. Only problem is with my jerky computer. I have about two-and-a-half years old computer, Celeron D processor 3GHz, 1 Gig of RAM and some cheap As-Rock motherboard. It was very cheap, cost about €350 at all. It's old, but I'm using it only for watching movies and as a music player. The plan was to connect new external drive to this computer and use it to store movies. When I plugged the drive in, it wasn't working. System found it, but didn't mount it. Sometimes it has been mounted, but data transfer was no possible. I thought that problem is on the side of new drive, but after some testing I found out, that no drive, but my USB sub-system is death. I've tested drive on other computer and worked fine, I also connected USB stick to defect USB on computer and didn't work. 

So now I have external drive connected to my laptop and using it thought network. It's much slower but still highly usable and I hope to buy Mac Mini in few months. I'm also thinking about buying one of these PCI > USB extension cards, but I probably won't do it, because I needs more drivers, and makes system unstable especially because I have system cracked to run on ordinary PC. 

It works, even if it's jerky, and I hope it will run for at least 2 years. If you wanna buy this external drive I can just recommend it, looks solid, it's small, silent and I hope will be reliable. 

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Me and My Saxophone.

I have played have saxophone since january '09. Pretty short. First idea to start playing saxophone came from my friend, who own one, I tried and loved it. From fall '08 I had been thinking about bought of some sax, my small dream came true, and I bought one for €200. For it's low price it has amazing sound. I have also joined musical school and I absolutely love it. 

Music is a gate to world, all you have to do is open it. Music connects countries, nations and worlds. You can express almost everything using just few bars of sheet music. Have you seen The High School Musical? I know, it's sort of fairy-tail, but the idea was interesting. Music had connected two people and completely changed their lives. Everybody should try it. I'm not very gifted, bud I hope I'm doing well. If I can do it, everybody can. If you are not sure what I'm talking about, just watch The High School Musical. 

Everybody should have some secret passion. This passion can really help you to become a better person, dedicated to something that have really value. Grow, getting better. That's what you are suppose do on this world. You, me, everybody. Don't try to make impression. Just get better. 

And now, I wanna share some informations about my saxophone.

I own old Weltklang tenor saxophone. I bought it for €200 in great condition just after general repair.  I'm using Czech metal mouthpiece Amati, usually Rico-Royal or Vandoren reeds, normally number 2 (sax players know, what I'm playing about. If you are interested and you have no idea what I'm takling about, just e-mail me). I like Weltklang's tone. It's not sharp as new Yamaha's tones. I can easily play full range. That's it. No big deal, but it makes me feel insanely great. If you are interested, there are few photos (made just by cell-phone camera, sorry for low quality)

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