mobilizing large files

[ctbook]

Hello All and Happy New Year!

I have a few large files, the largest a 7 gig archive of a radio program I like. I need to burn it to some media get it off my desktop computer. DVDs have larger capacity, so can I burn the folder to some DVDrs and move it that way? My lappy has a combo drive so will the files be transferrable? The desktop comp has a DVD burner. Is this the best way to do this since I cant do ftp by myself?

Thanks,

ct

 

[jelifah]

Happy New Year to you as well!

I assume you have a DVD Burner, so yes of course you could burn those items to DVD, or CD if the chunks or small enough. If you don't have dual layer media you could split the data, I am assuming the 7 gig radio program is in multiple pieces.

As a side note: I would HIGHLY recommend buying an external hard drive case, 2.5 for laptop drives or 3.5 for desktop drives, and then buying a hard drive or using an existing one. Not only does it give you the portability of a lot of data, but it increases the flexibility of your other drives lying around. I currently have a 2.5 case, and am getting ready to buy a 3.5 external case for my standard drives. I went with the 2.5 initially because the thing is tiny enough to slide in my pocket, and the 2.5 cases can be powered straight from the USB 2.0 port so you don't need a power cord. It's just so convenient and easy to drop drives in these cases and look at the data, and helps with data recovery when a system won't POST.

- Jelifah

 

[mircea]

Do you have a home networking? That's the easiest way. All you need is a network card on each computer (the laptop should have one built in) and an inverted Cat5 cable to do a direct network, without hubs, routers or switches. If you want both online and in network, all you need is a router and 2 normal Cat5 cables.
I had a laptop that I would take to school and then come home and transfer to my PC files. I moved over 30GB of data in just one transfer more than once this way. Much faster too (6000 Kb/s a good DVD - 29000 Kb/s with a networking transfer)

 

[Blain]

Go Here... Compress & burn.

Oops, You didn't say what format the 7GB files were in.

 

[ctbook]

Could I compress the files and use firewire to xfer? Inverted cat5? If I compress, what format is the best for this? Zip?

Thanks

 

[ctbook]

they are mp3

 

[mircea]

Originally posted by: ctbook
Inverted cat5?

Sorry it's called crossover

Normal cable has both ends the same. If you connect that to a HUB or something there is no problem. But if you connect 2 computers directly, just the CAT5, you need to crossover one end so that the PC's can talk to each other. This is needed because half the wires transfer TO and the other half FROM, so if you leave the cable normal, you will have the one networking card sending data to the sneding part of the other networking card instead of the recieving end.

 

[ctbook]

And since they are mp3 can I compress that into something else?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: ctbook
And since they are mp3 can I compress that into something else?

Probably not worth it if you're just going to uncompress them on the other side. 7G is not a lot of data these days. Even at "only" 100Mbps, it would take just 10 minutes to transfer it all.

 

[artikk]

Firewire is fast. You could do it that way. If the video streaming(from a camcorder) is not enough to stop it, a 7gig file won't.