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[amazonian]

I need to store approx 22 gigabytes of data from my laptop and wondered if someone could advise me on the best thing to store it on?
Disc, memory stick, hard drive or w.h.y I have simply no idea.

Cheers

 

[Steve B]

Scrap the craptop and build a proper PC Warehouse 

[dbug]

Scrap the craptop and build a proper PC Warehouse 

No different to a modern laptop spec, apart from a floppy disk drive, and who uses one of those now?

To the OP - easiest local storage is to use an external hard drive - large capacity ones are very cheap now.  Remote storage available of course on the net.
HTH

[Mister Rog]

Personally I use an external drive that is powered by the USB port. Most of those available are way bigger than 22Gb. I like USB powered as this avoids the hassle of carting around a power supply. Obviously this drains power from the laptop battery.

Stick with a big name well known brand. I use Iomega, but I'm sure others are just as good.

I also use a some free software called FreeFileSync so that the files/data on external drive and computer drive can be kept identical if this is required. If you want to be really ultra cautious, get TWO external drives and synch them all.

[TheBoy]

I'd probably go with a 2 prong approach of storing in different places.  So external HDD **PLUS** something else not flash based. If the data is quite static, dvdr and store in your mums house etc. Or a cloud account.

[amazonian]

Thanks for the info lads.

 

[Entwood]

Whatever you do ... do NOT use a "memory stick" or a cheap flash memory card like the ones you get for cameras/phones etc .. they are notorious for failing for little reason .. a memory stick can lose everything on it simply by being dropped on the floor !!

If you value your data store it on good quality, reliable media. Personally I use an external hard drive as the primary backup and all photos and other long term, important, but rarely accessed data is also burned to DVD.

[omega2018]

google drive free for first 15GB. ideal if it is data you change often and want the latest version backed up.  if just to store then hard drives.  keep on 2 separate ones though and check them every few years.

[zirk]

Back it up twice, first back up on External HD or SSHD, dont use SD Type cards for Back Ups. Second, back it up on a Secure Cloud Storage.

Here you go for the secong option, your Free 100GB Cloud Storage - https://degoo.com/g/VQvkN4X

[baggers]

Seen quite a few memory sticks fail, I use the Sandisk sticks (touch-wood) never had one fail.
If it's important back up in more than one place. 

[baggers]

Scrap the craptop and build a proper PC Warehouse 




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No different to a modern laptop spec, apart from a floppy disk drive, and who uses one of those now?

To the OP - easiest local storage is to use an external hard drive - large capacity ones are very cheap now.  Remote storage available of course on the net.
HTH

I use my floppy 

[baggers]

Need a bigger alphabet 

[TheBoy]

Need a bigger alphabet 

You need a bigger cctv system.  The one here is rammed with 6Tb disks

[TheBoy]

a memory stick can lose everything on it simply by being dropped on the floor doing nothing !!

Fixed

[TheBoy]

Seen quite a few memory sticks fail, I use the Sandisk sticks (touch-wood) never had one fail.

You don't use enough then

I've RMA'd yet another only this afternoon.  Reputable supplier, so fingers crossed its not a fake.