Backing up my pictures and deleting them off of my PC, is this a good drive?

[AprilArchambeau]

I am going to staples today, they have a Western Digital 1TB mybook for $99, I was going to buy two since I am deleting them off of my PC, so two would be $200 and I would get $40 off via a coupon.

OR, I would not be able to use my coupon and I could get the WD My Book for 640gb essential edition for $59.99 so two would be about $130 with tax, so I could still save $40 bucks even not using the coupon, and I could always buy more drives later, so do I really need the 1tb?

I just want the one that people have had experience with so I hopefully do not have problems, thanks so much

[Pita_146]

I would get the 1tb. It's amazing how fast they fill up.

I'm assuming you're getting two so you can have one primary and one backup right? I hope...

[PunkRudeBoy]

If you're going to delete them off your pc entirely and work off them externally I would look into a dual drive external with RAID 1 capability that way you're protected against hardware failure.

[nekrosoft13]

storing your pictures on a single drive is just asking for trouble.

doesn't matter how much you spend on a hard drive, simple truth is hard drives fail, you never know when that might happen.

if you care about your pictures keep constant backup.

I personally have my pictures on 3 drives, main rip, HTPC, and external backup, and after every trip I also burn them on archival verbatim dvds, that are stored just in case.