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External hard drive for holding photos

Dark Rabbit · 2017-08-02 12:55:33

Hi, I need to remove 150GB of photos from my notebook to an external hard drive, in fact 2 (I want one as back up). I'm thinking 2x 500GB. Any recommendations of what to buy and where?

02-08-2017 12:55pm

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Dark Rabbit

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Hi,

I need to remove 150GB of photos from my notebook to an external hard drive, in fact 2 (I want one as back up). I'm thinking 2x 500GB.
Any recommendations of what to buy and where?

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#2 02-08-2017 1:04pm

Atlantic Dawn

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I've had a few WD MyPassport drives over the years, USB3.0 and none failed me yet. Argos have them.

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#3 02-08-2017 1:23pm

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I have a seagate 500GB and a Toshiba 1TB for a cuple years and both work fine. There is very little difference in price between 500GB and 1TB these days

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#4 02-08-2017 3:37pm

Xterminator

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one hard drive and one cloud backup.

would that not make more sense?

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#5 02-08-2017 3:41pm

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Best practice is probably 3-2-1 backup

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#6 03-08-2017 2:15pm

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I have a Synology 2 drive NAS with 2x2TB drives mirrored
Also have my pics backing up to Onedrive 1TB storage

Kinda expensive but IMO its well worth it
The Synology boxes are awesome

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