External hard drives?

[donutsweeper]

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I know next to nothing about computers. I would like to get an external hard drive or a zip drive or something that I can back up my files with. I would be backing up word docs, photos and a bunch of .avi files (tv shows and movies). Anyone have any suggestions as to what device would work best for this? Any info- like what brands are good or which ones should be avoided or what storage size is ideal would be appreciated.

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[captain-tiv.livejournal.com]

Depending on how much stuff you want to backup and how much space it takes up, I highly recommend an external hard drive. Nowadays, you can get a flash drive that's got enough gigabytes to handle a complete systems backup and they're a wee bit cheaper but much easier to misplace. I would suggest getting an external drive that's a terrabyte big at least. The one I have is 120gigs and I got it ages ago. It still works. :)

Western Digital is one of the bigwigs in the external harddrive world. Mine's a Seagate which is another big name in the external harddrive world.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've heard of Seagate. And that's a good point about the flash drive.