Cheap but Priceless. The Cost Of A Second Hard Drive

By: Dave Lewis

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, Hard Drives were only big enough to store a very small amount of data. The very first hard drive, invented by IBM could only hold 5Mb of data (less than 2 average sized MP3 tracks) and was basically the size of a small closet. Want to talk cost? How about somewhere in the region of £25,000. (About £5,000 per Mb) This was back in the mid 1950’s though, and boy! How things have changed.

Just 6 or so years ago, a 10Gb Hard Drive was considered more than big enough for all but technology industry users and cost well over £200.

These days, hard drives capacities are huge… And cheap!

Right now you can get a 250Gb hard drive for less than £50. Think about that for a minute… 250Gb. That’s big enough to hold over 72 THOUSAND average sized MP3 tracks. Big enough to store about 250 full length AVI feature films. Decent resolution photos? Somewhere in the region of 2.5 million ok for you?

1Terrabyte drives are out now too so if you really think you’d struggle with 250Gb of extra storage space, just take the numbers above and quadruple them!

Just about every computer used today with the exception of the new “micro form factor” systems are capable of housing an extra hard drive, and even then external drives of the same size are available for not much more so for the sake of £50, why wouldn’t you fit one!

Consider this. Every important document, letter or irreplaceable photograph you have. The years of work on your family tree all gone in an instant because your existing hard drive has failed. You could replace your current hard drive with a new one but that still only gives you one copy of your work. Adding an extra hard drive is both cheap, and priceless. It gives you copies of everything as a back up.

So your computer crashes. Your hard drive stop won’t boot up. You wipe it or replace it, install Windows all over again and your back in business. Everything you can’t afford to lose is sitting on the other hard drive unaffected by the havoc the computer crash caused.

It’ll be the best £50 you’ll spend on your computer in a long time.
A second Hard Drive… Cheap, but Priceless.

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