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Is a 40gb external hard drive enough?

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"Enough" will greatly depend on what you plan to do with the drive. It's more than large enough to transfer documents between computers, and it could probably hold a couple dozen XVid-encoded movies, or most people's music collections. It is likely unsuitable for higher-definition video.

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