Best size for external hard drives

I also agree with gman and ferguj1 linny,i would suggest thou getting a dedicated drive for the wii,that will free up quite a bit of space,and 1 for the ps3,unfortunately i'm addicted to 2tb,theres 1 on the wii and the ps3,also a internal 2tb streaming my movies and tv shows,all western digital after my recent seagate problems

Thanks Guys. well think ill maybe get 1 or 2 TBs to store just games and films on.
Like Gman i do tend to hoard - ive learnt in the past that if you delete it then you'll want it and have to aquire it again - time consuming! But yes i do tend to download and try and put the finished film game in one file and get rid of all the rar files etc - which i realised took up a lot of space previously.
Thinking about my previous post all my avi and iso files are all on this pc so can be stored on 1 expansion drive and just copied from that to the drive they need to go on.
Problem is you start in this game and get carried away as Gman said.
Boys have their own drives so they can play films via xbox's and i have my HD with films so we can watch them via the bluray so technically have the same film backed up onto a) pc b) seperate hd's and wii has its own 1tb drive - Wheelo lots of the games on there really are so old and never played - so yup maybe i should restructure them!
So think ill wait now until next month and see what the "Big man" brings me maybe i can go purchase some 1 or 2 tb HD's and tell the kids no more downloads for a couple of weeks
Maybe i also need to look at the backup from my pc and tidy that up as well as some of the files on the pc that really are so old they are not needed. Thing is you look at small files and think they dont take up much space, but suppose if you do that to 100's of files it soon adds up!

Wheelo a bit like everything i suppose if its not been seen/played/used/worn etc for 12 months they do say dispose of it

God how did we ever cope before all this new technology

Yep Linny, it's a bit like cleaning out the toolbox The minute you throw away that connector, bit of wire or whatever? even though it's been in the tool box for the last year or more, you can be sure you'll need it within 48 hours & you'll be off to the local D.I.Y. yet again !

Everytime I clean out the toolbox, I remove everything, decide what to dump (which is normally nothing) & end up putting it all back again only in a different order. A psychological cleanup I guess....

Hard drives are no different I suppose? We do tend to keep an awful lot of crap? That said though, one mans crap is another mans gold?

Just on a side note too Linny, now or for the first 2 or 3 months of 2012 is the worst possible time to be buying HDD's. It will likely take that long before the criminal price hikes due to flooding start to decline.

Originally Posted by Gman496

Everytime I clean out the toolbox, I remove everything, decide what to dump (which is normally nothing) & end up putting it all back again only in a different order. A psychological cleanup I guess....

sounds familiar!!! i do that with the wardrobe ! move the clothes around so it LOOKS like ive had a clear out.

Well i did it i deleted over 100GB of films from pc - well they are on other devices !
as for HD's the likes of argoos have sold out of anything 500gb + in this area and i really have not got the time or energy to go shopping for something that realy is Not urgent - kids will have to be told no!! and put pc etc into hibernation for a while Cant do online as now wont get it until about Jan what with holidays and by time they ship etc.

I myself have 1 2TB drive, 2 1TB drives, and 2 500GB drives.....so far. I forgot where it was, it may have been here a while ago, but there was a discussion about how large of an external drive would be good to buy, and the same question came up...."How much are you willing to lose when it fails?" Most of the consensus was agreed that anything more than 2TB may be a bit too big....for now. Give them a few more years, and the larger HDD's may be better built.

Linny, if you are running a 32 bit system, then the largest drive your OS can see is a 2 Tb drive. You need a 64 bit OS so that it can see a 2 + Tb drive (as 3 T or 4 T) . If using using a 32 bit OS, then the OS will format a 3 TB drive as a 1 Tb section and a 2 TB section (or any combination to arrive at 3 Tb). Using a 64 bit OS will allow you to manage drives larger than 2 TB easier (but it may not be worth the effort to reformat your pc with another OS just to get to use a larger than 2 Tb drive (easier). Just my thoughts.

Merry Christmas !

Thanks guys. Endo ive got a 64 with windows 7. Have looked and the price of a 2T is quite expensive so will probably get a 1Tb then get another 1 latervin the year as and when needed. Only need it now nad again for backup so decided a 1tb would be best

Originally Posted by Linny40

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