On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 13:52:06 -0500 Jerry Mellon <jfmel...@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? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/