Archive game collection

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Started by beikenson 8 posts View original ↗
  1. beikenson
    #1 Source
    The disk space is in short for my 3 years old laptop so I plan to archive the game collections. Burning those games to DVD is a good ideal? If so, how to do that?
  2. MushroomCake28
    #2 Source
    Why not just buy a new hard drive? A 2TB should be pretty cheap, even a 4TB is affordable. That should be plenty of space for the near future.
  3. Andar
    #3 Source
    You'll need a dvd-burner-drive for that, and they usually come with the programs needed to do that.
    However, if your laptop does not already have one, you'll need an external DVDR, and then it might be cheaper to go either USB drive or external HDD.
  4. beikenson
    #4 Source
    MushroomCake28 said:
    Why not just buy a new hard drive? A 2TB should be pretty cheap, even a 4TB is affordable. That should be plenty of space for the near future.
    not a tech guy so it sounds complicated for me.

    Andar said:
    You'll need a dvd-burner-drive for that, and they usually come with the programs needed to do that.
    However, if your laptop does not already have one, you'll need an external DVDR, and then it might be cheaper to go either USB drive or external HDD.

    Seems I need to buy a portable dvd drive. There is no slot for dvd currently
  5. MushroomCake28
    #5 Source
    @beikenson By hard drive I meant an external USB hard drive. It can't be simpler: you plug the drive to the computer by usb and it will appear in your computer. That's less than 100$ for at least a 3 TB hard drive. Plus, the current USB 3.0 is A LOT faster than DVDs, meaning the transfer of files will be a lot faster (100+ Mb/s)
  6. jokechengQ
    #6 Source
    beikenson said:
    not a tech guy so it sounds complicated for me.



    Seems I need to buy a portable dvd drive. There is no slot for dvd currently
    You can use USB cable to connect it to computer , then burn them on your computer .
  7. beikenson
    #7 Source
    MushroomCake28 said:
    @beikenson By hard drive I meant an external USB hard drive. It can't be simpler: you plug the drive to the computer by usb and it will appear in your computer. That's less than 100$ for at least a 3 TB hard drive. Plus, the current USB 3.0 is A LOT faster than DVDs, meaning the transfer of files will be a lot faster (100+ Mb/s)

    Oh, understand. it is acceptable. thanks

    jokechengQ said:
    You can use USB cable to connect it to computer , then burn them on your computer .
    Would you please share more details?