Maui Media Lab
Electronic Media Arts & Science
Advance Placement High School Curriculum Resources
External Hard Disks
Description
An external Hard Disk is used to save and backup text, images and large audio and video files.
Teacher's Guide
Require students to backup projects to a recordable CD or an external hard disk every time they
are finished doing modifications.
Audio files are typically hundreds of megabytes. Video files are typically several gigabytes. Remember
that a floppy disk holds only 1 megabyte for about $1. A Zip disk holds about 100-200, megabytes for
about $10-$20. A Jazz disk only holds 1 or 2 gigabytes for about $100-$200. A CD holds 650 megabytes
for about .40 cents.
Use recordable CD to backup everything that will fit in 650 megabytes or less. Use an external
hard disk to backup video files in excess of 1 gigabyte.
Recommendation for the 2000-2001 Academic Year
Maui Media Lab recommends Maxtor 80 Gigabyte hard disk with a FireWire Interface only.
Do NOT get any external hard disk that requires a parallel, SCSI or USB interface.
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