Thread: External Hard Drive ???
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Old 20-11-2004, 13:53   #29
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Re: External Hard Drive ???
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Originally Posted by Mike
Just to confirm the external drive is for a simple back up which could be taken away if necassry for safe keeping. I have just convert 7000 tracks to MP3 from my CD collection. Took me ages so I am concerned if my internal hard drive went up in smoke I would have to re do it all.

Thanks everyone for thier time and advice.

Regards to all and yes it is snowing in Oxford.

Mike
I have my hard drives mounted in removeable caddies which means that I can take them away from the system for safe keeping and take no room up when inserted in the system. I decided on this after my grandson mucked up my PC whilst playing on it. I take my normal drive out and replace it with one setup just for him. I have an old small drive that I use just for internet banking in another caddy. This method means that you can swap boot drives very easily for different operating systems or different types of use. They can be picked up for about £4 or £5 from places such as ebuyer (#72253) and you can use whatever HD you want in them.

You can use the various USB and Firewire external drives mentioned in other posts or external caddies to take your choice of HD.
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