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On 26/10/12 10:36, Migel Wimtore wrote: > I put kubuntu on my parents pc and they are pretty happy with it. It's > Ubuntu based, obviously, so it is nice and easy for me to administer > (package and advice availability). Is that on the list (I'm not digging > back through this thread to find your four, am on a phone)? Yes, both kubuntu and Mint KDE are possibles, having used both in the past. As far as > the hd goes - figure out what size you want, then procure it. I recently > got a 2tb usb3 drive and I love it. Had made do with a 300 gb before > that and it suited fine, it cost £70, four or five years ago, so > something like that should be very affordable now. Also an ssd (solid > state 'drive') is an option: faster, but smaller and more pricey. I am > getting good speeds with my new (non ssd) 2tb drive and a usb3 > expresscard expansion card in my laptop, and don't have to sacrifice > storage density or put down so many dabloons. That sounds good. I suppose it is a matter of luck really whether you get a drive that just works or one that has problems. Hence the variety of review results. > Incedendaly (I mention again), do you have any old internal drives? > Because a caddy (connection kit) for one of those is very cheap. Just > remember you will need 2.5 inch for laptop and 3.5 for desktop, and > either ide or sata connectors (on the caddy), if it's an old drive: > probably ide. Cheers. > Thanks for the info. I now remember what a SSD is about. It seems to me that that would be more useful for someone who wanted to use it all the time. I am mainly looking for somewhere to store my current /home folders and files. Then, once I have installed the new distro I will be able to copy whatever I want from the external drive to the new /home partition. Then the external HD would be used occasionally for backup. I have my own web site so at the moment really critical files are stored there as backup, but that is only a few files. An external HD could store many more files more easily and quickly. Yes, I do have some old internal hard disks around somewhere. I must see if I can find them! We are talking desktop here so 3.5 inch is the way to go. These hard disks are quite old mind, so I suspect they will be IDE. If so I may decide not to bother with this old technology. Regards Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq