Upgrade or extra hard drive?

devils_vixen

Hi,

I have a Toshiba U400 Equium with 160GB. The problem is I only have about 1GB left on E Drive and about 14GB left on Vista. I would like to have more storage on this but unsure what is the best/cheaper option. Do I buy an extra hard drive or do I take Laptop to shop and upgrade. Can I even do any of these things? Only had this for 5 months and did not think I would need more storage now.
Obviously download more than I estimated:rolleyes:

Thanks in Advance

posted_2

What's it full of?

devils_vixen

Well the E drive is full of pics and movies although I made a video of xmas day and this is taking up 40GB! It was only 1hr 30mins! But I know as soon as I delete this, the GBs will disappear once more.
Vista drive got all the programmes and comp specifications including limewire

posted_2

Convert the avi to mpg, and burn it to a DVD. If you avoid (or compress) the movies, 160 should be plenty of space. If you need vast amounts of data, a 3.5" usb drive is the cheapest option.

456789

It would be better to get an external than upgrading the internal hd of the laptop

fermi

Buy a 1 TB external HD or something similar.

Not expensive nowadays.

knowledgepower1

fermi wrote: »

Buy a 1 TB external HD or something similar.

Not expensive nowadays.

I have not seen any TB for a laptop. Is there any?

[Deleted User]

knowledgepower1 wrote: »

I have not seen any TB for a laptop. Is there any?

500GB is the largest at the moment.

The physical Platter size and heat being generated are what's prohibiting the implimentation of them in a notebooks

MX5huggy

knowledgepower1 wrote: »

I have not seen any TB for a laptop. Is there any?

He said external so not in the Lappy!

isotonic_uk

I'd personally go for a NAS box, it means any other computers could get access to the files. if you go for external disk, try to avoid moving it around much, some of the cheaper ones just cant hack being moved around a lot and ruins the HDD.