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Question

2008 Emachines w3623 - need compatible external drive

Sep 17, 2016 11:42AM PDT

Hello, I want to get 7 years of photos off my Emachines W3623.

I would prefer to offload the photos onto an external hard drive, but not sure how to buy one that is compatible with the USB connector ports on a 2008 PC. I am not sure what search terms to use. I looked at the tech specs for the PC but don't know enough USB terminology to do a search.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Red Alert. You wrote "store"
Sep 17, 2016 11:55AM PDT

While almost any external at the shop will do, you wrote "store" and this is the beginning where folk discover externals are not really storage. They tend to lose content faster than internals so this is only used when you have your backups all done.

So yes, almost any drive will do but don't get yourself "storing" your last copy of what you can't lose on an external.

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Thanks. What backup method do you prefer?
Sep 17, 2016 11:59AM PDT

Thank you - that is helpful. What backup do you most recommend?

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For me, my picture collection fits on a 32GB memory stick.
Sep 17, 2016 12:08PM PDT

These are cheap so I have 3 copies at any one time. 2 on sticks and one on my HDD.

I also sync them with another PC so I'm up to 4 copies now.

As I have more to backup I use a pair of 2TB USB drives and rotate them so I have a current copy, older copy and what's on my work horse PC.

Finally a few select projects are on all these and DropBox.

-> All this is to make my files "hard to kill."

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thanks again
Sep 17, 2016 12:15PM PDT

thank you for helping me not to overthink this Happy

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External hdd
Sep 17, 2016 2:25PM PDT