Do I Need An External Hard Drive?

[Dusty Bin]

I have a 7 year old PC which uses windows XP.

It has 38.2GB of disk space, but only just over 7GB of free space.

Most of the space, I think, has been used up by My Music as I have over 1000 songs on my PC and about half a dozen videos.

Would getting an external hard drive help free up some disk space?

(Sorry if this is a really simple question to answer and if I appear idiotic to even ask it, but I don't understand what an external hard drive is really or how they work.)

[ChuckFickens]

1TB 2.5inch externals are not too bad these days (1.5TB laptop drives will be available soon!)

http://www.misco.co.u...?Nav=|c:2266||c:3092|

[jno]

Chuck, yes, but the original question was 'do I need an external hard drive?', apparently on the basis that his computer was filling up. I thought extra memory might be an alternative he hadn't thought of.

[ChuckFickens]

http://www.weeno.com/art/0699/87.html

the typical computer is a little old, but the principle remains the same.