Hi everyone. I have been reading a few threads here that mention the amount of hard drive capacity that is needed for the average home user.
This what my reply was to another thread:
Originally Posted by setishock
Why do people have this love affair with terabyte drives? How the heck do you back them up? If it goes blooey then you have a terabyte of data and irreplaceable memories gone.
I would strongly recommend a couple of 500 giggers and raid them.
This what my reply was to another thread:
Originally Posted by BK_123
The only situation that you'd need a 1TB or more would be for a file server on network in a workplace or another similar to that, Two 500GB drives would be fine. The only 1TB drive I have is the external hard drive my family has to backup important files, All the drives in my house in computers and laptops would be 640GB and under and I have my own portable hard drive that I use for various things including backing up my files and that's where all my files get stored.
What do you think about this?
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