Adding Additional Harddrive

[RottiKid]

I am planning to add an additional hard drive to my computer. Right now I have a one Terabite drive. The hard drive will be used for system backup and for additional music & photos. What is the best way to accomplish this? Should I get something like My Book external hard drive? Maybe 2 if it is necessary. One for backup files and one to work off of with music and photos. Is there any down side to using an external hard drives vs internal? Which is better for Speed, Heat and ease of use. As you can probably tell I really don't know much about computers. Any recommandations will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much for all your help.

 

[MustISO]

If you have the room, go with internal. If not, go with external. Personally, I don't keep my externals powered on all the time, I just turn it on when I need to do a backup.

 

[0roo0roo]

unless its esata internal will beat the pants off external.

 

[KurskKnyaz]

Originally posted by: RottiKid
I am planning to add an additional hard drive to my computer. Right now I have a one Terabite drive. The hard drive will be used for system backup and for additional music & photos. What is the best way to accomplish this? Should I get something like My Book external hard drive? Maybe 2 if it is necessary. One for backup files and one to work off of with music and photos. Is there any down side to using an external hard drives vs internal? Which is better for Speed, Heat and ease of use. As you can probably tell I really don't know much about computers. Any recommandations will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much for all your help.

I had external drives, they are a waste of desk space , outlets, and you'll have needless wires running. Go internal.

I'm currently running 2 drives in RAID 0 for a total of about 700 gb and i have a 320 GB internal to back up important stuff.