National Geographic Packs "120 Years of Amazing Discovers" into a 160GB Hard Drive
National Geographic Packs "120 Years of Amazing Discovers" into a 160GB Hard Drive
Posted 12/30/2009 at 6:34am
| by Paul Lilly
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Don't worry if you're part of the dead tree fan club, we've seen the future, and paper-based books aren't going anywhere. Still, you may want to make some room on your bookshelf for portable hard drives, just in case National Geographic is on to something.
The non-profit science and nature nuts managed to cram "120 years of amazing discoveries, fascinating maps, and the world's best photography" into a portable 160GB hard drive. The Complete National Geographic collection includes every issue of the popular magazine digitally reproduced in high resolution.
At $200, it's also the most you're ever likely to spend on a 160GB external drive, and if that's too steep, you can kick it old school (and risk being labeled an old fart) with the 6-DVD version for $60.
Image Credit: National Geographic
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Paul_Lilly
December 30, 2009 at 2:43pm
To clarify, it doesn't look as the though the HDD version is a special Collector's Edition or otherwise differs from teh DVD package, other than the physical media:
"Partitioned hard drive includes separate space for 100GB of your personal files"
-Paul Lilly
kevinkrg
December 30, 2009 at 2:37pm
The Hard Drive HAS to be a collectors edition, otherwise you're just idiotic for buying it.
If your technical enough to know how to use it (doesn't take much, lol), your technical enough to know that yes, you can get a 160gb external drive and the dvd set for under $200.
The DVDs only make sense. It's the same data, and, WTF am I gonna do with a 160GB hard drive that I can't erase ANY of the data on because the data is what I payed for!
Then again, there would be some space left after the 120 years data, if you do the math, like you guys said.
Collectors editions are stupid. Unless your REALLY a fan of something. Then, it might be worth it. Oh geese, that was my rant of the day....
johnny3144
December 30, 2009 at 10:24am
think of the HDD version as the collector edition, and it all make sense.
Pyrophorics
December 30, 2009 at 7:56am
Uh, at best a dual layer is a little over 8.55gb so with 6 DVD that is only about 51.3. Why bother with a 160gb then? Besides, the DVD's are more secure IMO as a HDD is more likely to fail.
asus dude
December 30, 2009 at 7:04am
Theoretically you could just buy the DVD collection and a 160GB HDD and still come out under $200...
MeTo
December 30, 2009 at 8:14am
Actually i already have the portable HD. I could save even more and dump the DVD's on to my Portable HD. Years ago i bought this on CD's and they were poor quality scans. If the pictures spanned two pages you could see the crease where they laid it flat to scan. I would have to see a lot better product before i would buy again.
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