[medicbear]

can someone advise me on external hard drives which capacity and how you calculate how much space you need ?

[floppybootstomp]

You can't really calculate how much space you need until you know what you want to put on it.

You storing pictures, music, movies, programs, documents - which?

500Gb is a good all round size and are selling at a reasonable price at the moment.

[medicbear]

yes all of the mentioned music . pictures . date . files thanks

[Ian]

In that case you may as well go for a 500GB like Flops suggested, you can get some good ones for between £50-60.

This one looks like a good buy

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128465

[Frodo]

I got one of those then got paranoid about my back up so got another one to back up the back up,it's now in a fireproof box with other things,they are that cheap these days it's just not worth taking chances with your files whether they are photo's you can't replace or music it took you years to accumulate.

[itsme]

Originally Posted by Frodo

I got one of those then got paranoid about my back up so got another one to back up the back up,it's now in a fireproof box with other things,they are that cheap these days it's just not worth taking chances with your files whether they are photo's you can't replace or music it took you years to accumulate.

"Fort Knox" springs to mind

[floppybootstomp]

Originally Posted by itsme

"Fort Knox" springs to mind

Aye, it does seem a little over the top.... until you lose something and it really causes you grief.

I remember storing a lot of WAV files, music I'd painstakingly ripped from vinyl and cassettes on an internal 250Gb Western Digital Hard Drive.

The drive was brand new, it died without warning at three weeks old.

Yes, it was replaced under warranty but those music files took me days, weeks, to convert. All that time wasted for trusting a mechanical device. Stupid, really.

[itsme]

Same thing happened to me this year, but I am glad to say I had a back-up This one went dead as a door nail>WD SATA HDD<Funny thing that was only three weeks old also.

It just tickled me that

now in a fireproof box

[Abarbarian]

This looks like a good idea .

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?...22999&doy=18m5

[bodhi]

That's a good find Abarbarian!! I like the look of that.