Over here, Ken writes about the recently released Hitachi 1TB drive.
We spotted one of these drives in our local PC World last week.
Interestingly, all the drives up to and including the 750GB unit where just sitting in brown boxes. Contrast this with the additional security that was installed for the 1TB drive:
Evidently the 1TB drive, which won’t format to give you 1000GB, must be a desirable item for the light-fingered fraternity!
It is a fairly tempting purchase, but at about £225 (at the time of writing), I’ll probably settle for a couple of 500GB units for a third of the price. Besides, one wouldn’t be enough, I could use two 1TB drives! Of course, with large hard drives becoming so commonplace, we must think about backup strategies – it’s all very well having 1000GB attached to your PC, what do you do when it goes belly up?
My simple advice: any backup that works is better than no backup. A simple backup regime would involve using an external USB drive and a program like Cobian backup. External USB drives are cheap enough these days, getting 500GB for under £70 is achievable. Just think of your photographs and all those iTunes bits that you’ve downloaded…backup is important.
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