Backup hard drive advice
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Hi, i was wondering if anyone could advise me as to the best 100gb backup hard drive. I havent got a clue about computers so something easy to use would be great. My laptop and pc both keep warning they are nearly full, i just need something to save my photos and video clips to. Thanks in advance.
Do you know if your PCs have USB 1 or 2, or FireWire (iLink)?
If they have USB 1 and nothing else, you're going to find they are painfully slow to back up anything meaningful.
If they have FW or USB2, then you'll be fine and dandy, and can simply just look in PC World/Maplin/Amazon for an external HDD.
It'll come with the cables, power supply, and often, a lite version of some backup software, which you can install and let run the routine automatically or not bother with and simply drag and drop he files/flders you want to archive onto the HDD icon now showing as a removable device.
If they have USB 1 and nothing else, you're going to find they are painfully slow to back up anything meaningful.
If they have FW or USB2, then you'll be fine and dandy, and can simply just look in PC World/Maplin/Amazon for an external HDD.
It'll come with the cables, power supply, and often, a lite version of some backup software, which you can install and let run the routine automatically or not bother with and simply drag and drop he files/flders you want to archive onto the HDD icon now showing as a removable device.
misco.co.uk/go/storage
there are plenty of other sites
you can get 1TB of storage now
we use a maxtor device just plug it in the usb and drag everything across writes it in a few minutes
really is worth doing we got into a real fix when a computer got knicked and we are still suffering on some files two years later
Checkout www.hotukdeals.com/main.html for regular postings for backup/external disks.
For example:
www.hotukdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61856
www.hotukdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61850
KJR
For example:
www.hotukdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61856
www.hotukdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61850
KJR
It's not that hard to replace the the original hard drives for larger ones.
You don't have to replace the drive in the PC, you can add an additional drive (Drive D: for example). In the case of the PC you can do this yourself - honest!
Adding a drive inside the PC means no extra power adapter required... and it'll be cheaper than an external drive.
For the laptop I'd probably get someone to change the drive for you... but if you get a big enough drive on the PC you can always copy stuff to it!
You don't have to replace the drive in the PC, you can add an additional drive (Drive D: for example). In the case of the PC you can do this yourself - honest!
Adding a drive inside the PC means no extra power adapter required... and it'll be cheaper than an external drive.
For the laptop I'd probably get someone to change the drive for you... but if you get a big enough drive on the PC you can always copy stuff to it!
Thanks for your help everyone, the links are great, not looking to replace the whole hard-drive, just something to save piccies etc onto and leave laptop and pc a bit more space, will be buying one this weekend, the drag and add ones look favourite at moment as they look so easy to use
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