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Question

Saving my itunes to seperate hard drive.

by Sep 18, 2014 4:45PM PDT

To conserve disc space on my Brand new computer, I have been thinking of purchasing a separate hard drive to store my itunes and photos.

Is this possible, or can I run itunes just using the separate hard drive.

Could someone please advice this computer novice (I am 70 years old).

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Re: separate hard drive
by Forum moderator Sep 18, 2014 5:05PM PDT

I don't fully understand why you buy a new computer with such a small disk that it isn't even big enough for your current needs, let alone your future needs. How small is it? And how full already?

That being said, just buy a second hard disk (big enough this time) and put it inside the case. Don't use an external for iTunes. Don't use an external for storing anything. Just for backup. So if you have two (small or big?) disks inside your new computer, you might need even a very big disk (up to 4 TB) for backup. And one backup is not enough. So your next visit to the shop: 1 internal disk for your data, 2 external disks for backup.

Kees

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Notwithstanding the reply from Kees_B
by Forum moderator Sep 18, 2014 9:24PM PDT

it would have been nice had you told up exactly what sort of "brand new computer" you actually have.

Laptop? Can't usually install an extra internal in there.

Desktop? An extra internal in there would depend on the form factor. Small form factor machines generally have not extra room for drives.

iMac? No room inside there for an internal.

Share the details.

P

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Sorry guys
by stattovic Sep 21, 2014 5:25AM PDT

Sorry guys, I am not very technical on these matters, but here is my details, thanks to my sons help. I am 70 years old.

The laptop is a Lenovo Yoga
The disc space says: 377GB available of 427GB.

Apps 506 MB
Pictures 1.93 MB (so far have lots to add)
Documents 87.2 MB
Music 327 MB

Would you say this is big enough for my needs, and not to buy an external drive ?

Thanks

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by Kees_B Forum moderator Sep 21, 2014 5:40AM PDT

Well, the hard disk says "total 427 GB, available 377 GB". So that makes for 50 GB used (427 - 377), as you certainly can see (since you're 70, you learned subtraction at school).

With a picture on the average 2 MB = 0.002 GB, 500 pictures is 1 GB, so 188,000 pictures is 377 GB. That might be enough for the foreseeable future (depending on what you mean with "lots").

But since you don't want to lose all those pictures, you can consider to buy an external disk to make a 'backup'. In that way, if your hard disk crashes (and they sometimes) you still have a copy on that external disk. But that's up to you, of course.

Kees

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