New Laptop Plus New External Hard Drive

kah22

Guys I’d appreciate some advice.

I’m looking at purchasing the Dell Studio 15, it comes with ‘Intel® Core™ i5-430M (2.26Ghz, 4Threads, turbo boost up to 2.53 GHz, 3MB cache), Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English, 350G Hard Drive.’

Now its main uses will be to back up my films. I’d like to store them all on Hard Drive and it occurred to me that if I start putting films onto the computer in no time at all it could end up stuffed full of movies so I’m thinking of buying an additional hard drive.

I see that Dell are offering an ‘Iomega Prestige Portable Hard Drive - Hard drive - 500 GB - external - 2.5" - Hi-Speed USB - 5400 rpm - buffer: 8 MB at £79’. However, a quick view at Amazon show Hard Drives coming in at a lesser price and some of them seem to store more. With gift tokens left over from Christmas I was thinking of purchasing the Hard Drive via Amazon but I’m not really sure of what would be the best buy. So any suggestions as to what I should opt for? Budget say £80 top.

A second thought also crossed my mind, and I’m thinking of this with my money saving hat on. At present I’m working with an old Dell Inspiron 510m laptop, must be five or six years old now, but that said it still has 17G of disk space left and for what I need it does me fine. So question could I opt to keep the old machine and just add the additional Hard Drive for my films or is the machine to old to handle new equipment. If I did go down this road are there any difference in the type of Hard Drive I should buy? Again any recommendations would be appreciated.

Many thanks for your advice

busenbust

Some external drive recommendations here, with inter-related threads

closed

kah22 wrote: »

So question could I opt to keep the old machine and just add the additional Hard Drive for my films or is the machine to old to handle new equipment. If I did go down this road are there any difference in the type of Hard Drive I should buy?

Old machine should be ok (I think it has usb2 ports, if not, a £10 pc-card will convert it), no difference in hard drive to buy, just get a large capacity.

What do you mean by "my films"?

kah22

closed wrote: »

What do you mean by "my films"?

DVD's I've bought and want to make back up off for personal use, surely you didn't think I meant something else?

closed

Just clarifying.. Could be home movies, DVD's, downloads etc.

What's the point of backing them up?