Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newyana2 Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Mechanical or SSD for backup drive Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 07:15:58 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <5cm80k1qavurb3keb805p5msgsbaimh7qt@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 13:14:52 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="93dd70d0ad4e9c027001a6118569abfe"; logging-data="3882398"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19/R4ZR2ss52Ay4uuyaO2ud3nyfmVwPA7I=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0Zx+PIm4vXs6uteCHtvLkMxn61Q= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <5cm80k1qavurb3keb805p5msgsbaimh7qt@4ax.com> Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:18526 alt.comp.os.windows-10:183828 On 4/19/2025 10:34 PM, micky wrote: > The small 2 Terabyte WD Elements external backup drive I paid $60 for 4 > 2) Do you keep your backup files for an old computer, when you've copied > everythign to the newer computer? Since all the data files have been > copied to the new computer, I could, to save m money, erase the old > computer files and use it for the new one and I wouldn't have to buy a > new drive. Good idea? > Why not just do some housecleaning? Everything I have, and everything I've backed up, wouldn't fill 500 GB. Are you *really* ever, possibly, going to want to access most of those files? Do you really need 17 3-MB photos of the 2010 July 4th cookout?