The 'Can You Answer My Question?' Thread

[AustrianAndyGull]

Cheers Dave, i'll forget the hard drive thingy as I've got absolutely no idea what you're on about!

But I will try and get everything stored onto DVD as my pc has a dvd writer thingy.

[chunkygull]

You can buy a spare hard drive and put it in an enclosure to make an external hard drive and backup anything important to it. All my most important stuff like pictures of my kids or documents is spread over several hard drives in different locations and I regularly update them all. I've had way too many customers over the years who thought they'd lost their data (some did unfortunately) and seen how upsetting it can be.

In your case the video files would probably end up being too large in total size to use a USB stick although you could copy them to a number of dvd discs, dual layer discs if you have the right dvd drive can double the storage space of a normal disc. Easiest method is an external drive though.

i would quite like to do the external hard drive thingy. but it sounds a bit complicated. i have had a little search on the www but it hasnt really made sense. is it expensive or cheap? is it complicated or easy.

if i was to use blank dvds, which make is best? do the discs hold data infinitely or do they lose it eventually so that various medias cannot read it? i read somewhere this happens.

i bought a dvd recorder recently and copied everything i was keeping on my sky planner to the recorders hard drive, i want to transfer all my vhs stuff to the hard drive through the tv eventually, this is simple enough. i did want to put everything to disc but if the disc wont keep it for good then i dont know what to do.

is it possible and would it be a cheap, easy option, so that i can keep my stuff for good to take all the programmes i have recorded and transfer them from my dvd recorder onto hard drives?

cheers.

[Southampton Gull]

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It's just a matter of undoing a few screws, slotting in the drive and then connecting via USB to your pc, it's kids stuff. You can do the same thing with bigger hard drives.