All I want this for is to store my photos on. I have too many and it's taking up too much space on my computer. Will this work?
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Warning!!! If you "store" your photos on "any" external device as opposed to "backing up" to an external device, then you don't have a backup. So if the external device fails, you will lose all of your data. Always make sure you have multiple copies of important data, not just a single copy. This happened to my daughter. Luckily for us, I had made a copy of her external hard drive containing literally thousands of pictures. I now have also copied those pictures to an online backup services (I use amazon s3).
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Buy any external HD to store your images. Buy another one to backup the first one.
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It will work, however, it is simply an external HD which you can access from other locations. Some people make a backup to an external HD and keep that dive somewhere other than their house such as in the bank safe deposit box, etc. Also, copy photos to a true cloud such as Amazon, Dropbox or Google and they should be safe.
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Yes, it will work just fine for that purpose, but if that's all you want to do, it's sort of an overkill. You can buy an external USB/eSATA hard drive already set up in an enclosure so all you have to do is plug it in for quite a bit less than the My Cloud. And, it comes in your favorite color only if your favorite color is white. On the other hand, if you have broadband internet, the My Cloud offers the ability to set up a sharing network which allows you to securely access your My Cloud files from any computer anywhere in the world, a VERY useful feature that standard external drives don't have. The cloud is really a nice drive, and other reviews indicate that it's durable and is easy to set up. I've had great experience with WD hard drives and I suspect the quality of the Cloud Drive to be no less. One additional note: If you've REALLY got a lot of picture files, for future needs you might want to consider the 3 TB or 4 TB Model.
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I can't say definitely since I own the latest MBP 15 inch... It will surely work as a memory SD Card but it probably will not give you the aesthetic you want. If you are looking for an alternative to the Nifty Drive, you will be dissatisfied.
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Yes! I use it to boot up all my laptops. It runs cooler than the internal drives and should last much longer. I'm still using a 500 gb I bought 6 years ago. Also, much more portable than a laptop.
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I agree with Tom. You shouldn't need to use an extra storage device unless your primary one is full.
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I don't think I"m going to be overly helpful here. I use a card reader to drop my photos onto my mac. Saves the camera batteries. Also, I have an 8 GB card and it is fine. Good luck!
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Absolutely! And it's no problem. I love this thing! Just remember that it only has approx. 900 item memory so eventually you would have to delete something in the past.
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Though I have not used it for this purpose it should work fine if you are using the Windows 7 back up feature. Also I believe your disk is much larger than 500kb, 500GB possibly? Even at 500GB, unless the drive is completely full, you should be able to create at least two different images on the drive.
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There isn't that much space you can free up. I recommend that you store all non essential files on an external drive of get a micro SD card which can give you up to 64GB extra space.
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Yes, if that's all you're using it for. When you start downloading games and apps it'll slow down a few things like photomerge. But it stores my RAW files and photoshop works well on it. I recommend deleting any bloatware once you get it as well.
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Yep, it should be just what you need...you can fit thousands upon thousands of photos there.
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I will agree with the other two comments.. Just upgrade the drive to a larger size. Storage is pretty cheap these days. Good Luck!
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It would be pretty slow compared to an internal hard drive. You could probably make it work alright if you keep the Lightroom catalog on a faster internal drive, and only used the USB drive to store image files.
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I used the 16GB, took over 1700 pictures / short video clips and only used about 1/3 of the space. Just a thought. However, I believe it takes up to 32GB. Good luck.
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You can absolutely set it for external storage and automatic backup. It comes with software designed with a program specifically for automatically backing up your data on your computer. It sounds as if you don't particulary need 4TB of storage though. Each TB will holld approximately 250,000 pictures at an average size of 4mb. If you hold your pictures and video near to your heart as I do, I would get 2 each of the 1TB or 2TB drives and use one of them as a backup for all your files, pictures, videos, etc... It's a much better value in my opinion because it gives you a backup copy of all you data, but that's up to you. In the mean time what I would do is cut and paste some of your picture files to a thumb drive so your antivirus software can update itself, buying you some time until you get your hard drive. I hope this was helpful. I don't think you were looking for detailed "Geek speak" to to hlep you make your decision. If so, please let me know and I sill be happy to provide some.
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I don't actually know. What I use is a thumb drive with the photos on that and it allows me to load several gigabytes
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I really do not know, but if it is for pictures and little videos a lot can be stored in any capacity, I am always amazed. I have an 8 in my camera and is more than enough. I would check in Amazon list for sale.
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Hi, I'm no PC expert by any means, but I myself use it for storage of photos, as well as weekly back up of my files on my work lap top. Also I transfer files from one pc to another and never have had an issue. Hope this helps! God Bless......