My hardive is almost full and I would like to know what other things you can buy to store pictures, movies and whatever else. Thank you for any answers.
2007-03-22 05:07:25 · 4 answers · asked by mike t 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
The first answer offers pretty much all the options, however, odds are that a DVD burner is the best option not only for as a storage tool but also as a virtually limitless backup option.
Blank DVDs are as cheap as 20 cents per 4.38GB & will better insure relable backup (& transportability) should there ever be a hard disk failure.
A new DVD burner costs as little as $30 :
http://www.nextag.com/dvd-burner/search-html
Even if you get another hard drive, I suggest you clean up your existing hard drive of space consuming movies & put them on DVD so you may even watch them on a console DVD player (view them on your TV) if you wish.
regards,
Philip T
2007-03-22 05:24:37 · answer #1 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could maybe burn some of your albums to DVD and that could help free up to 4Gb of data. Also as storage space become cheaper and cheaper, some websites are offering on line storage. Gmail accounts can have 2.8 Gb and counting and there are plenty of websites such as Xdrive that provide up to 5 Gb of storage for free. If you would like more storage on your computer you can always get additional internal or external hard-drives. If you want to protect your files from hard-drive crashes, you may want to considering a RAID array. When I was facing space issues I just got a new internal hard-drive that I dedicated for pictures and videos.
2007-03-22 05:22:30 · answer #2 · answered by Grant F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get an external HD - I got a Seagate 300GB drive for ~$170.
Easy to use, holds a lot of music and pictures.
Other options are flash drives (don't hold a lot, so you need a bunch of them). CD/DVD ROMS - similar issue to FLASH drives. Either is a pain when your looking to find a specific picture. If you want to keep your whole music library with say itunes in one place - the external HDD is the only way to go.
2007-03-22 05:14:08 · answer #3 · answered by Fester Frump 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another hard disk
An external (USB) hard disk
A USB memory stick and other forms of flash memory (such as CF, SD, Sony Memory Stick, etc)
Optical media (DVD-R, CD-R, etc)
Dedicated network fileserver
Floppy disks
Remote storage space (over the Internet)
2007-03-22 05:11:47 · answer #4 · answered by David D 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋