Sunday, February 7, 2010

How Much Storage Capacity Do I Need?



Hello Media Buffs,
One of the first things you will discover in your endeavor to store all your media projects, which includes video, audio, and photographs, is that drive space disappears very quickly. Considering that the average photograph consumes about 0.1 megabytes, the average song uses 10 megabytes, and the average dvd movie gobbles up 3-4 gigabytes, it is quite easy to see how much disk capacity you will need to satisfy your requirements for storage capacity. As a practical example, suppose your DVD collection consists of 230 movies. Assuming 2.5 Gigabytes (GB) per movie, your collection would consume 575 GB. So the 2 TB My Book Essential from Western Digital would be a very good choice and at the same time, there would be plenty of excess drive capacity to expand your collection.
For the average individual, a minimum of 2 terabytes of storage should work quite well. I use the Western Digital My Book Essential 2 TB external drive, which is now on sale at DISCOUNT GIFTS ONLINE, for only $215, which includes free ground shipping and no sales tax...Great Deal!
In addition to media storage, the 2TB drive excels at computer file backup and complete systems backup and restore.

For the more demanding individual, the Western Digital 8 TB Sharespace hard drive will satisfy all data and media storage requirements at a very cost effective price of only $1,030, including shipping and no sales tax. This is the lowest price anywhere when you factor in shipping and sales tax charged by the other merchants, on or off line.

All Western Digital drives include a factory 2 year warranty, which can be extended at the buyer's option.

I hope this information has been helpful. You can now calculate how large an external hard drive you will need to satisfy you storage requirements.

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