IS there a disadvantage to pressing "compress this drive to save disc space " with 5 users on my pc ? What difference will i get whilst looking for files ?
Cheers in advance.
Cheers in advance.
2GB left on my hard drive(284 gb used)
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You'd be better of using the 'drive cleanup' to get rid of crap rather than compress the good and crap together. You might find a load of temp stuff and restore points. Uninstall program's you just don't use anymore too.
In general compressing will slow it down, better off putting in a second drive and moving music & photos etc. to the new drive.
In general compressing will slow it down, better off putting in a second drive and moving music & photos etc. to the new drive.
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A 1 terrabyte HD will cost you around 50 quid now....that will give you more than three times the original size of your HD to play in
A 1 terrabyte HD will cost you around 50 quid now....that will give you more than three times the original size of your HD to play in
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Yep, get a 1tb hdd usb 3 from amazon for 55 quid iirc, got mine and its ace
All storage on there such as pictures videos etc , that leaves yr laptop hdd for system files and programmes
All storage on there such as pictures videos etc , that leaves yr laptop hdd for system files and programmes
Buy two drives and back stuff up to the third. Do it religiously, as hard drives go tits up easily. Bigger they are, the more you'll lose.
I'd get rid of the clutter
Buy a usb external 500 GB Hard drive and plug it in and share it load all teh films and music on there
Buy a usb external 500 GB Hard drive and plug it in and share it load all teh films and music on there
I've got a smaller portable hard drive than those mentioned above - what is the lifetime of these things?
Mine is a couple of years old now - do these need replacing every few years?
Mine is a couple of years old now - do these need replacing every few years?
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Monsieur - I use CCleaner (free version) regularly. First time you run it you will be amazed at the space saved (temp files etc.) You can choose to keep Internet history or not/cookies or not etc.
As Ianf says, bigger drives dying loses you more data; they are quite cheap so get a spare that is backed up less often. How long they last is a "piece of string" question, but they do die eventually (1-10-100-1000 months?)
You could consider putting a larger disk in the PC itself (I'm up to 500GB and that is filling up!) but I am considering a signing up to a cloud service or setting up FTP online with my network disk (dual RAID) although if thieves take that I'm stuffed (my old house was burgled this week, so was a friend's - UK must be in desperate times as both were occupied at the time).
Most of most peoples data are photos and music; I guess once they are off the PC I will be good for years with the 500GB.
My 2c (as we say down here)
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Monsieur - I use CCleaner (free version) regularly. First time you run it you will be amazed at the space saved (temp files etc.) You can choose to keep Internet history or not/cookies or not etc.
As Ianf says, bigger drives dying loses you more data; they are quite cheap so get a spare that is backed up less often. How long they last is a "piece of string" question, but they do die eventually (1-10-100-1000 months?)
You could consider putting a larger disk in the PC itself (I'm up to 500GB and that is filling up!) but I am considering a signing up to a cloud service or setting up FTP online with my network disk (dual RAID) although if thieves take that I'm stuffed (my old house was burgled this week, so was a friend's - UK must be in desperate times as both were occupied at the time).
Most of most peoples data are photos and music; I guess once they are off the PC I will be good for years with the 500GB.
My 2c (as we say down here)
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Thanks for that - think I'll get another portable one and backup onto that as well.
My currently portable drive is always connected and always on - assume thats what I should be doing?
My currently portable drive is always connected and always on - assume thats what I should be doing?
My eternal drive is off and unplugged unless I'm backing up. Theory being it's much less likely to get infected and hopefully will last much longer. I also keep a second drive off site. Yep, I did once loose everything 
