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Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

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On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 13:52:06 -0500
Jerry Mellon <jfmellon@netscape.net> wrote:

> I
> have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of memory
> and intel corei7 and a 500gb hard drive.
> 
> My question is what is the best(use dummy for linus statements please)
> way to add a second hard drive with 2T of space. I wiil use this to
> store photos and documents etc.

I'm guessing you want an external drive for this, even if you have an
empty hard drive bay in the laptop. I'd get a USB 3 external drive. I
have several Seagate Backup Pluses that I use for offsite backups.

I highly recommend you encrypt the partitions on any external drive.

For how to do that, see:
https://charlescurley.com/blog/posts/2019/Nov/29/encrypting-an-external-partition/

Once you've done it, you'll want scripts to mount and unmount the
drive. https://charlescurley.com/blog/tag/backups.html

To back up to the external drive, consider rsnapshot. It will detect a
removable drive and only run if the partition is mounted.

-- 
Does anybody read signatures any more?

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https://charlescurley.com/blog/

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Add a hard drive to existing system?? Jerry Mellon <jfmellon@netscape.net> - 2021-01-17 20:00 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> - 2021-01-17 20:00 +0100
    Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-01-17 20:20 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-01-17 21:20 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-01-17 21:20 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Jerry Mellon <jfmellon@netscape.net> - 2021-01-17 23:50 +0100
    Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-18 00:00 +0100
      Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-01-18 00:20 +0100
        Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-18 00:40 +0100
        Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2021-01-18 08:50 +0100
    Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-18 09:00 +0100
    Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2021-01-18 10:10 +0100
      Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-18 10:30 +0100
        Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-18 21:20 +0100
          Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2021-01-19 07:40 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-18 10:10 +0100

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