External Hard Drive Advice

bensimon · #1 06-05-2006, 10:21 AM

I'm running Parallels Desktop and my VMs take up a ton of space on my hard drive. I think I want to keep them on e 60 or 80 GB? Thanks.an external hard drive, but need a recommendation as to a relatively inexpensive one that is also reliable. Probably like 60 or 80 GB? Thanks.

bookworm · #2 06-06-2006, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by bensimon

I'm running Parallels Desktop and my VMs take up a ton of space on my hard drive. I think I want to keep them on e 60 or 80 GB? Thanks.an external hard drive, but need a recommendation as to a relatively inexpensive one that is also reliable. Probably like 60 or 80 GB? Thanks.

I'm in the UK and my techi got me a caddy, put in a 60GB HD, and I use that as my backup. not the portable you can stick in your pocket but if storage is what you want they are inexspensive go here to see what I mean
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/search/ just type HD Caddy in Search/Quickfind.

Hope this helps

bensimon · #3 06-07-2006, 08:11 AM

what's the difference between a caddy and an external hard drive?

bookworm · #4 06-07-2006, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by bensimon

what's the difference between a caddy and an external hard drive?

Price really, the caddy comes without a hd so you choose which hd and what size you want, externals have the hd drive already installed, and they are more compact.What I did was have a new HD installed in the computer and use the old HD as my backup.Hope this makes it clearer.

Cheers

bensimon · #5 06-08-2006, 10:48 AM

thanks for the advice.

bensimon · #6 06-12-2006, 08:17 AM

I guess I could just keep an external hard drive always plugged into my laptop right? and just always access my virtual machine's off of it?

bookworm · #7 06-12-2006, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by bensimon

I guess I could just keep an external hard drive always plugged into my laptop right? and just always access my virtual machine's off of it?

My caddy is always connected to the comp, but not switched on, when I need it I turn it on, the comp gives the hardware ping and I just copy and paste anything I need to move onto it. I us as a backup, but anything on the external can be accessed and used when I need it.

Cheers

bensimon · #8 06-15-2006, 08:07 AM

perfect I think that's what I'll do. thanks for the info.