| Ken, I use 500GB external drives, have 5,292 fairly large XL work files in 163 folders dating back at least 10 years, keep music downloads, have 62,356 program files in 3704 folders, and a 1596 file family photo gallery. I backup important work files, backup outlook data, and rotate 3 images. Just checked one of my external drives and still have 45% free. The size of the drive you need depends on what you have on your computer, and more importantly how disciplined your computer maintenance regime is and if you frequently clean up the computer. Most people are not good about computer maintenance and allow old and unnecessary data to clutter their drives, and slow down their computer as well. I could never use up a 1TB drive much less a 2TB, but other people may have huge photo image files that use a lot of space. |
