My Dell desktop does not have a cd burner, but I do have nearly 6000 pictures on it. I have been very lucky that nothing has happened to it yet. I want to know the best way to protect all my photos and free up some space on my computer. I am leaning more towards an external cd burner so that I can save the photos to diff. albums on diff. disks vs having one place to store them all (like an ext. hard drive) in case something should happen. Thanks! Any info is appreciated.
2007-01-25 05:44:39 · 9 answers · asked by Tara 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
I would get a external hard drive, save all pics, music and stuff on it and free up all that space in your internal drive.
2007-01-25 06:27:21 · answer #1 · answered by INOA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The external Hard drive would be faster to access and would keep everything in one location. But eventually it would get full and you would be back to the "where to put them" question.
If you do with a burner, spend the little extra and get a DVD, not a CD burner. Go for the 4.7 gig (4,700mb) of the DVD for storage rather then the 700mb top of a CD. Plus a DVD burner will also burn CDs, and let you watch movies.
A third alternative is to replace the CD drive currently in your Dell with a new DVD burner. The internal ones are half the price of the USB. So you might want to consider that also...
2007-01-25 05:52:33 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From an ease of use and a cost perspective an external hard-drive would be the way to go. The safety issue is pretty much up in the air. When a hard drive is sitting idle (not connected to any computer) there is very little risk of losing your materials. I would say that a properly stored hard-drive is as reliable as most discs available. If you are going to burn them to discs, try to use archival gold. The golds have a proven lifetime that exceeds what other disc companies were able to prove.
2007-01-25 06:00:15 · answer #3 · answered by Clint S. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
External hard drive has more space to keep things organized. It will also allow you to easily backup the files you keep on your hard drive. You can install a CD burner in your computer for next to nothing. That will just let you make copies of files. Then you have to make new ones when you make more files.
2007-01-25 05:51:48 · answer #4 · answered by blt_4 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it were me I'd have both. The extra hard drive can store any and all files you chose. this will speed up your computer. the burner is great to burn things you want to take with you.
2007-01-25 05:55:28 · answer #5 · answered by russell c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
see you later as your equipment meets the minimum criteria for the game you ought to be fantastic. curiously you have not reviewed this record because it ought to have obviously reported that a DVD ROM became required. better verify your equipment out adverse to the min criteria b4 you open the packaging and cant go back it for a reimbursement. in case you meet all different criteria then the exterior DVD ROM ought to remedy each and everything. Why no longer get an inner? they're more low-cost.
2016-10-16 02:26:35 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest that you buy a 2gb flash drive and download the pictures onto them. I am a photgrapher and that's what I did for all my photo's. I have 3 such flash drives and I have no problem uploading them or showing them on any type of pc or laptop.
2007-01-25 05:53:53 · answer #7 · answered by msorgen3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CD burner or DVD burner.
i wouldn't do another harddrive unless you were going to get 2 and keep one off site.
with CDs/DVDs it would be very cost effective to burn two copies, keep one at home and one elsewhere for those really important pictures.
2007-01-25 05:49:13 · answer #8 · answered by Act D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here's a link to them on ebay
2007-01-28 08:20:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋