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Jan 19 2009
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4 reviews
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computers, shopping, hardware, storage, hard drives
• delovesto.com
USB Hard Drives are now so cheap, especially here in the USA, that nobody should have an excuse to be short of disk space for Documents, Music, Digital Photographs, Movies etc, or short of space to create backups of their systems or data. It wasn't long ago that additional Hard Drives cost a lost of money, but now the prices of Hard Drives have come down tremendously, and in addition the popularity of USB Hard Drives has further reduced the price of these "plug and play" devices.
When it comes to disk space, while you may think that 250gb or even 500gb is more than enough, consider that with the resolution of Digital Cameras and Camcorders increasing all the time, plus the quality of ripped music and videos, the space needed to store these is continually increasing. If buying a disk for backup, you ought to consider allowing enough space to allow for multiple backup copies of your files, rather than just a single copy.
Buy.com has a number of these devices, several of which are featured below. Since models and prices change all the time, I left a general link to Buy.com at the bottom of this post, rather than to specific models. A few months ago I purchased several 500gb USB Hard Drives for just over $100 each, however now for the same price you can get a 1TB (1,000 GB) drive, which is nothing short of amazing.