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Balling |
posted on 30th Dec 11 at 14:33 |
quote: NEVER have your pictures in only one place! Whether that be an external or internal HDD. The drive will not warn you before it suddenly stops working. Getting data from a damaged drive can be an expensive affair, so be sure to have backup. | |
Dom |
posted on 30th Dec 11 at 13:09 |
quote: Cheap for 20GB. Personally would recommend Blaze if you need 'unlimited' storage, it's about £3 a month. | |
John |
posted on 30th Dec 11 at 13:08 |
Keep an eye out for box.net doing more 50gb free deals. | |
ed |
posted on 30th Dec 11 at 13:07 |
$5/year for 20GB. It's free to sync all of your Google Apps documents though, but that's not really what you need in this instance. | |
Dom |
posted on 30th Dec 11 at 13:00 |
quote: how much is insync? Doesn't list the prices. | |
ed |
posted on 30th Dec 11 at 12:40 |
Or you could use InSync which is the same as Dropbox but loads cheaper :) | |
ed |
posted on 30th Dec 11 at 11:53 |
Dropbox is free for 2GB - I'd use that and setup a shared folder for the pics. Portable HDD's are notoriously unreliable, plus they're feckin' slow to transferring large files. | |
Gary |
posted on 30th Dec 11 at 11:45 |
CCL do a USB case for any HDD, mine cost me about a fiver (plus a HDD obv) | |
Russ |
posted on 30th Dec 11 at 11:13 |
If a file doesn't exist 3 times it doesn't exist, your choice wether to have a single copy. | |
Rob E |
posted on 30th Dec 11 at 11:06 |
If its only pictures you want to store then have you considered getting a Pro flickr account? Unlimited uploads and it stores them online in the resolution you upload them. I upload all my keepers onto mine and they can be pulled back off to the PC any time :) Only problem is they convert .tiff to .jpg but only a problem if you use .tiff formatting | |
mantamark |
posted on 29th Dec 11 at 20:00 |
£40 was a good price, didnt see that, checking others now as mains powered ones seem cheaper than usb ones. | |
Haimsey |
posted on 29th Dec 11 at 19:57 |
Recently bought this for my mum's documents. | |
LeeM |
posted on 29th Dec 11 at 19:13 |
Portable hard drives are generally pretty reliable. Look into cloud storage though if you're worried, might cost a fair bit though | |
mantamark |
posted on 29th Dec 11 at 19:02 |
How reliable are they? should i keep all the pics on a laptop aswell as the portable, or is it safe to remove them from the laptop? | |
Russ |
posted on 29th Dec 11 at 18:51 |
i'd get the 1.5tb, can come in handy for other things should you wish to use it for something else in the future, thats a decent price too | |
LeeM |
posted on 29th Dec 11 at 18:50 |
Go for a 500gb, you'll soon find other uses for it. I got mine for uni work and stuff so I've got a backup but now it's half full of films so I can plug it into my Xbox and watch on the tv :lol: | |
daymoon |
posted on 29th Dec 11 at 17:57 |
Haven't checked prices lately, so can't comment on them. | |
mantamark |
posted on 29th Dec 11 at 17:54 |
Yeh i know its a massive space, i mean i have like 1400 pics on my phone, and thats only 5gb. | |
daymoon |
posted on 29th Dec 11 at 17:50 |
Will it store all of pics you have? 500gb is huge amount of space.. | |
mantamark |
posted on 29th Dec 11 at 17:49 |
I'm looking for a usb powered portable hard drive to store pics of the bairn on, as a backup and so we can transfer the pics to aunty / grandparents computers easily. |