Computer & Laptop Accessories

[halfmooncay]

whats a good external hard drive to back up photos to.

[roparadi]

Well, pretty much any external hard drive would work for that.  My personal recommended brands from what Futureshop has right now are the following(and in order), Seagate(particularly FreeAgent), Lacie, Maxtor, and Iomega.

[halfmooncay]

Thank you for the response, I was looking at the Seagates, just trying to decide how big to go.

I've read the 500s seem to run cooler, and have less problems. I know any drive can fail, so this would just be a back up to free up space on my desk top, I also back all my photos up on disc( not nearly enough though). I can use it on 2 computers right? One is running xp the other a laptop is running vista.

[roparadi]

I haven't heard of any problems with the FreeAgent drives, myself.

You can use the drive on as many computers as you like, all you need to do is unplug it, move it near the other computer you wish to use it with and plug it in.

One thing I feel I should mention is that if you move files onto your external hard drive and remove them from your computer, it's not a backup, it's just more storage.  A backup is when you make a second copy of the data on a different device, such as an external hard drive or on DVDs.

[XL]

The topic of hard drives have come up a few times in the past....

• http://www.futureshopforums.ca/t5/Computer-Laptop-Add-ons/Good-Brand-Names-for-backup-harddrives/m-p...
• http://www.futureshopforums.ca/t5/Computer-Laptop-Add-ons/What-s-a-good-back-up-drive-for-pictures-a...

I love my Drobo.

[cbruner]

I use Seagate FreeAgent and Lacie, haven't had a problem with them to date. I use them to store jpgs, and camera raw files (.cr2). Have had them for over 3 years.

Hope that helps