Well .. I decided to let you all have a little freebie of one of my 50 Tips and Tricks for the Average User. Enjoy!
What will be your 'File System'?
People often go directly to the main hard drive for storage, but the problem with an internal hard drive is it limits how much space you can have depending on how much money you wish to spend. You an get a lot more bang for your buck with external drives. Also, if you deafult to the hard drive, space gets filled up very quickly especially if you work with images, sounds, and other types of media. A widely used technology would be the USB flash drive. Most cost around $20 and can hold a Gigabyte of space, which is fine if you are dealing with text documents. But if you only rely on USB Flash Drives, you are limited to what you can store. A whole new type of storage is an External Storage Drive. Basically an external storage drive plugs into your computer via USB or Firewire, and can hold large amounts of files. Storage drives can run up to 500 Gigabytes, and if you get a "Drobo", you get like 10 times that. A Drobo is a storage robot that you plug multiple hard drives into, and it tells you when you need to insert a larger drives. It also protect your data from damage sections of your hard drive, retrieving the data that may have been lost otherwise. Although External Drives can run up to over $200, but its well worth it when you realise all the versatility of a drive.
