I'm considering buying an external hard drive. My internal HD is 160GB, should i buy a 160GB EHD or something bigger, such as a 250GB? It's going to be used as a backup to the Main HD, so i want to be able to put everything on it, i will need, when i have a System Crash.
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Jump to Postit depends , is your current hard drive full?
what do you keep on it?
Jump to PostAs mentioned before, buy the biggest capacity drive you can afford at the moment. Prices are crashing on a daily basis and it definitely makes sense to invest in a large capacity drive. If I was in your place, I'd go for a minimum 250 GB HD, as it's fairly …
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jbennet
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it depends , is your current hard drive full?
what do you keep on it?
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if you have an opportunity to buy a larger ext drive, buy it.
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According to Defrag, C is 93% free space. I guess i should rephrase my question. Is a 160GB External Hard Drive big enough to store ALL the files from my present Internal HD and all i will add in the future? If anybodies interested, Walmart has a SeaGate 160GB External HD for $114.00 and a 250GB for $149.00. SeaGate is the brand that my puter has now. I had to change it 1 month after i purchased the computer, because, HP said it got infected by a Virus. I didn't know a Virus could leave signs of over-heating. HP con(vinced) my wife into buying Norton Internet Security 2006. Do i need to add how much i hate Norton IS 2006?
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As mentioned before, buy the biggest capacity drive you can afford at the moment. Prices are crashing on a daily basis and it definitely makes sense to invest in a large capacity drive. If I was in your place, I'd go for a minimum 250 GB HD, as it's fairly future proof, and with Vista around the corner. Vista, after a fresh install occupies ~8.5 GB disk space.
kosmoe
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Sounds like good advise to me. Now i just need to convince the wife to go the extra $40.
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