• The site migration is complete! Hopefully everything transferred properly from the multiple decades old software we were using before. If you notice any issues please let me know, thanks! Also, I'm still working on things like chatbox, etc so hopefully those will be working in the next week or two.

Looking at external hard drives......

Below Average Joe

Below Average Joe

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Like the title says. I am not a computer guy, so I am unsure of where to start or what is good. This will mainly be for pictures for the "just in case" happens to our current computer. Any insight would be great. Thanks.
 


solid state drive for sure. size is up to you, but i have a 500GB that i can't even start to fill up because i don't store giant files (like movies).

i have a seagate. between them and a couple of the other top brands you can't go wrong. you'll probably end up spending $75-100 depending upon the one you get.
 
you can buy locally for that price and you won't have to wait.

but yes, anything similar will be fine. they all kind of work the same, anyway.
 


Thanks for the help guys. This will help when we decide to purchase one. Probably after our taxes arrive. I feel like this is a smart purchase. I'd hare to lose sensitive documents/pictures.
 
don't spend a lot....sure storage size is nice,but chances are you wont even scrape the surface with just pictures.

I'ld go with a USB stick. Takes a lot of pictures to fill 16gigs.....and dirtycheap$$
Then when you go to the relatives, you can pocket the drive and torture them with the slideshow.:th_wtf:
 


If its just for pictures you also get a terabyte of storage on Flicker. Unless you have an issue with cloud storage that is.
 
Make sure its USB 3.0. Even if your current computer doesn't have 3.0, your next computer will...its MUCH faster. USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with 2.0 so don't worry about that. 500gb is plenty for just pictures and documents. Might find a 1TB on sale for cheap tho.
 
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