Best hardware for backup

[spartan92]

This might be a really stupid question, but I'm getting ready to buy components to build my first system and had a question about what storage to buy for backup of files - mostly digital music and a few documents.

Can I just buy a second internal hard drive to back stuff up to? If so, can I use the same copy of Windows XP Professional to load onto both drives...or do I even need to load XP on it at all? I figure I need to format it some way but not sure about the particulars.

I'm just trying to decide between buying a second internal hard drive to use as backup or if I should buy an external drive of some sort. I probably don't need a ton of space - probably about 50 Gig.

Any advice/informed opinions are appreciated - thanks!

 

[blah]

Enclosure + internal IDE = best backup (use whenever, wherever)

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[RichPLS]

Cheapest and fastest is another internal drive plus backup software, a version is included with XP.
A more secure and the simplest form is something along the line of external Maxtor One-Touch backup. Starts at around $160 for a 200 gig model.


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