Ok, Im a student about to graduate in a bit more than a year. At this time its extremely important for me not to lose any documents im working on, allong with all the photos i take for our school yearbook. So i need a good backup option.
I currently have an old pentium 3 laptop with a 30 gig hard drive, its been up and runing for app. 5 months and works well, i use an ftp client so i can separate my folders from my parents and siblings. Problem is:
Space is quickly running out
I'm not sure if its the best option as i guess a laptop is not meant as server computing.
Running remote desktop is hell slow
Upload times are a bit slow (i can live with the upload times though).
So these are the options ive thought about.
-Getting an external 300 Gig HD on my destop
-Attaching a 300 gig external to the laptop i have running
-Buying a crappy old computer, that is better than the 1.1 ghz 256mb laptop i have running with a 300 gig internal hd (this will probably use more power than a laptop though which im not too happy about)
-Getting one of those external ethernet HD's (they seem to cost a lot of money though)
-Getting an extra HD inside my comp and just do backups on it (my least favourite as i dont have many spare HD ports and if something were to go wrong inside my comp, this option isnt the safest)
What do you guys suggest/use?
I currently have an old pentium 3 laptop with a 30 gig hard drive, its been up and runing for app. 5 months and works well, i use an ftp client so i can separate my folders from my parents and siblings. Problem is:
Space is quickly running out
I'm not sure if its the best option as i guess a laptop is not meant as server computing.
Running remote desktop is hell slow
Upload times are a bit slow (i can live with the upload times though).
So these are the options ive thought about.
-Getting an external 300 Gig HD on my destop
-Attaching a 300 gig external to the laptop i have running
-Buying a crappy old computer, that is better than the 1.1 ghz 256mb laptop i have running with a 300 gig internal hd (this will probably use more power than a laptop though which im not too happy about)
-Getting one of those external ethernet HD's (they seem to cost a lot of money though)
-Getting an extra HD inside my comp and just do backups on it (my least favourite as i dont have many spare HD ports and if something were to go wrong inside my comp, this option isnt the safest)
What do you guys suggest/use?
