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On 25/10/12 19:59, bad apple wrote: >> > > Yes, that would have been me - running any operating system that stopped > getting security fixes 6 months ago is probably not a good idea! > > Is 500Mb a typo? Yes, of course, I meant 500 gigabytes. Oops! Currently my home partition is using about 170 Gb. That's a *really* small /home. In your case, why bother > with an external USB drive if you have so little to back up? An easier > option would be to buy 2 x 16Gb USB thumbdrives (less than £10 each from > your choice of online retailer) and set your backup tool (good old rsync > from cron is my favourite) to automatically synchronise your /home once > a day. Unlike expensive, slow USB attached disks, a 16Gb stick will > survive being dropped, put through the washing machine, etc and for £20 > you get redundant backups. Being so small, it's easy to drop one off at > work/the girlfriends/wherever so even if your house burns down you've at > least got your data safe. > > Whilst you're buying drives online, I would hugely recommend plunking > ~£100 on a 128Gb SSD (I'm partial to the Corsair Force 3 models) to use > as your OS drive. If you've never used one before, the speed increase > will absolutely blow you away. Adding more RAM used to be the default > "best bang for buck" upgrade to any computer but not any more. Even if > you've only got SATA2 on your PC, the performance increase is awesome > (and you can buy an el cheapo PCIe SATA3 card for less than £15 anyway). > > What's your shortlist of 4 distros incidentally? Already answered that one. Yes, I have had a look at Debian and I find it all scary. There is so much there I really can't decide which one to try. Not quite sure what you mean about getting a SSD drive. Will research it. Thanks Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq