Protecting yourself from a laptop disaster - Buying A Drive, capacity.
The capacity choice facing you is 20, 40, 80 and 120 GB, gigabytes.
Forget 20. Almost forget 40. So your choice is 80 or 120GB. You probably won't even see 20GB offered any more anyway and 40GB is disappearing fast too.
Update 23rd May 2008. That's how things stood... There is now a greater selection of capacity sizes. I recently saw 160, 250 and 360GB and bigger.
But, don't get carried away with getting the biggest. Why not? Because, for our purposes, it is better to have multiple small drives (capacity wise) than one huge one. In my own case, I have two 80GB drives. This is MUCH better than getting, say, a 250GB drive for the same outlay. This is because you need to spread your eggs around - don't put them all in one basket, one hard drive; remember that the biggest cost is not the cost of the drive but the cost, the value, of your data.
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