Backup drive

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mrbagrat

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After hearing TOO's comment on how two of his seagate drives failed within one week, I've decided to buy a backup drive. One question though-how big are backups usually? I'm getting a 320gb main drive, how big should the backup drive be?
 
are you using a backing up utility or just going to drag and drop the files? I'm not sure how back up utilities compress the data, but what I do is gather all the files that I can't lose and zip them and put the zip file on an external drive which I only turn on to update the back up when needed
 
I would get maybe an 80GB drive, as you wont have anything more than that that you cant get again. Just something cheap.
 
I just found and old 40gig in my closet. 7200 RPM tho. Would that work for just backups? Like, not compressed archives? How much do backups take up?
 
mrbagrat said:
I just found and old 40gig in my closet. 7200 RPM tho. Would that work for just backups? Like, not compressed archives? How much do backups take up?
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It depends how much you want to back up. However, I'd say that 40GB is fine for backups.
 
Only back up what you cannot afford to lose, something like family photos should take priority over say easy to get mp3s. After all my photos and videos and other irreplacable documents are compressed in a zip, it takes less then 40 gigs so you should be fine with that, unless you have a lot of stuff that you can't lose
 
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