External Storage - USB Stick or Drive?
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My laptop is running out of storage I need external Storage now, shall I buy USB stick or drive?
What are you planning to put on it?
You can get a 1TB of external storage for under £40 nowadays.
Looking to buy one of these but I never used external drive before and usb stick are easy to broken or lost. What would you suggest?
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AmazingPerson Depending on budget and how much space you need then the USB may be the best option.
but you can get a lot of storage for not much money with an external drive.
blacklabrador let's say about £20, is it reasonable?
As it's my first experience so naturally a bit hesitating to spend a lot.
Mareean This one looks ok, and prices start at around £19 depending on the capacity
blacklabrador thanks I ordered one alike this morning which will be delivered tomorrow figure crossed for my luck now 
How much would you need? 1TB despite looking like a lot, it's more around only 940 GB-ish.
If you use a lot then try to get at least 2TB.
That is a very good question and I am looking for answer myself my laptop's capacity is 32gb and I dont know how to find out how much external storage can be accepted by the laptop 
Modern computers accept just about as much as you want. If you want 10TB then it'll take it on. Mareean
i purchased an external hard drive so did my dad and its saved us loads of space!!
Personally I use both. Sticks I find a bit annoying thou as they are easily mislaid and if you have a few sticks it is are difficult to work out what you have on them , without plugging them in. but they are very portable . External hard drive is probably better if you don't need portability
I think if you have a fast usb 3.0 port and maybe buy a low profile usb 3.0 stick the type that don't stick out from the usb port and want permanent expanded storage for a laptop you can format it as non-removable storage and put the windows swap file on it and it can make the laptop much faster. Only makes sense if your laptop runs windows from a hard drive though not a solid state drive already. Also you can't remove the usb drive. It can give a decent speed boost though especially with larger applications and games, video editing etc.
Do you have a cd dvd drive?
If so then remove it - install a laptop dvd/cd hdu swap drive cage and put another hard drive in it, thats what all my laptops have now and my desktops and servers!
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