Adding a second hard drive

I've almost filled up my computer's built-in hard drive. I'd like to add a
second one to store my music and movies, but I want to power up this second
hard drive only when I want to watch a movie. Is there an approved way to
add such a drive; anything I should look for in choosing it?

IOW, how do I do this?

Thanks,

Norm Strong

Don
Fri May 23 10:12:17 PDT 2008

<normanstrong@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I've almost filled up my computer's built-in hard drive. I'd like to add
a
> second one to store my music and movies, but I want to power up this
second
> hard drive only when I want to watch a movie. Is there an approved way to
> add such a drive; anything I should look for in choosing it?

Your simplest solution is an external HD connected via USB,
nowadays quite cheap.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)