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Advice on buying External Hard-drive

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  • BOBS
    BOBS Posts: 2,871 Forumite
    closed wrote: »
    doesn't the laptop have hard disk space?

    external drives are best used for backup, not for masters, and there is nothing wrong with portable drives, the usb connection is the same

    yes she has loads on her laptop mostly copies of what is on sd cards. Thought external would be best place to store them all.
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  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    not if it ends up being the only copy, and fails
    !!
    > . !!!! ----> .
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