First time buyer for External HDD
Hello! I am looking for some kind of storage medium for about 5 plus years of family pictures and other personal items to keep in a firesafe box. I've never been in the market for this so I'm not sure were to start. I'm guessing 80Gb or more and an external HDD, but if anyone has any other suggestions, that would be great. Also, we have a budget of about $50 or so, but I'm more concerned with quality so that can change. Thanks in advance!
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Have you considered an off site storage provider like Carbonite for data back ups?
http://www.carbonite.com/
Us the IC Marketplace. A quick search turned up a few nice options in your price range.
http://icrontic.pgpartner.com/rating_getprodrev.php/product_id=60886502/id_type=masterid/st=product_tab
Forget above post. This item will more than work! Thank Cliff and Magic.
We had an external in the other day that had packed in, lucky for him it was the case electronics that failed and not the drive.
What you are looking for is redundancy. I back up all my photographs to an external drive, which is unplugged from power and from the computer when not in use. I also have a second backup on another computer. For optimal security, I really should keep the external drive at another location.
I realize that now. My HDD in my desktop is only 160GB and I'm nowhere near capacity. I guess I'm a little behind the tech.
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/System_Drives/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=eep&cs=2244&sku=A2373913