Any advice regarding options for computer backup as well as central storage for digital music/movies?

I want to do two things:


- backup my computer


- have a central source for digital movies/pictures/music that can then be played through the home entertainment system





Any folks out there who have a setup they're happy with? Any particular products you recommend?Any advice regarding options for computer backup as well as central storage for digital music/movies?
I got a Western Digital 120 GB hard drive from Best buy. It comes with some nice, simple back-up software so you can do it manually or automatically. As to how you use this to store music to play back thru your home stereo, that gonna depend on what kind of interface your receiver has, that may/may not let you plug in a USB. A few new receivers do (Denon %26amp; Onkyo I think). Call up the guys at Crutchfield.com. They will know. It can be done, but it may cost you some bucks to do it.Any advice regarding options for computer backup as well as central storage for digital music/movies?
get an external hard drive.. you can back everything up in it.. without taking up space in your computers hard drive.. got one from dell.. awesome...
Hey, I just did that a couple of days ago. What you should do is go get an external hard drive that uses a plain old USB cord. All you do is plug it into your USB drive and it just acks like a big thumb drive. I saved all my pictures and music files on it. And if you need to reinstall your computer, that is a good temporary place to store all your stuff. I got me a 100 GB hardrive. The brand name is Maxtor or Maxtar or Maxor, or soemthing like that from Bestbuy
To back up ur computer just get another hard drive. Get a program to clone ur current drive onto the new one. so if something happens to ur old harddrive u can just transfer the stuff onto another drive with all the settings and drivers still in tack, so it'll be like nothing happened.





I guess to store music and movies, the best would be just use some blank dvdr or cdr. They are the cheapest way.