I have an incredibly large collection of music. I always had a lot of CDs over the years. The first one I ever bought was Green Day’s Dookie. They piled up over the years, as did the MP3s once that technology became widespread. As a student of music in college, and a music journalist now, my collection continues to grow exponentially. My computer’s hard drive became totally full and bogged down by all of my music. I realized I needed a whole new form of data storage for my extensive collection. I researched a whole bunch of external hard drives, and decided on the one I wanted to buy. Then I looked for the best deal. I actually found a 500-gigabyte external hard drive on sale at Circuit City for almost one hundred dollars less than everyone else was selling it for. It was the best thing that could have happened to my computer. It runs so much faster now with all of that music on the external hard drive. I even digitized my entire CD collection. I even have enough room on the external hard drive to store all of my graphic design work and my photographs. I cannot believe it took me so long to get one in the first place.