About Time I Got an External Hard Drive

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Nov 14, 2007 | 08:44 PM

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douglasb

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Originally Posted by David Lock

Are CDs reliable for long term back-up?

As others have said, any storage medium can potentially fail. How you store the backup can influence this. I've been helping a friend convert some of his vinyl music collection to CD and he's found that storing the CDs in sunlight ensures that they fail pretty quickly.

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Thanks. This post from someone who remembers trying to use 5 1/4 inch floppies to back-up

240 kb??? What were they? When a floppy was a floppy!! dl

I remember them as 360KB - however you could make them DOS bootable, put a copy of Lotus 1-2-3 on it, and still have space for some spreadsheets.

Nov 15, 2007 | 08:48 AM

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Will clearing the internal PC drive of all photos and music speed up the PC to any degree??

Nov 15, 2007 | 05:59 PM

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Went into MAPLIN to get a 250Gb for £49:99 ...... sold out

They had 1 500Gb for £74:99 .... but I think 250Gb is enough for me for quite a few years?

Nov 16, 2007 | 09:58 PM

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Thanks to everyone who posted ..... I've just got one

It's an IOMEGA 320GB Dektop Hard Drive - Staples £50.

Doesn't 'look' like it comes with any SoftWare .... but I may be wrong, haven't connected it up yet.