<p>CompUsa and Costco (my favorite two stores) have LOTS of options.</p>
<p>There are external drives that attach in a variety of ways, as well Network Attached Storage (both protected and just regular) that attach via an ethernet cable. </p>
<p>After going through all the options, my mid said:
“Dad. All these are great options. How about the simple one that doesn’t require another power cable.”</p>
<p>So, just look for a simple USB-powered external hard disk drive. No extra muss. No extra fuss. Plug it in and it works. </p>
<p>(I actually got a $28 USB external hard drive enclosure that would hold a little hard disk drive… And I had a spare laptop harddrive from a laptop that had a cpu/system board die). Voila! <$30 and I now have a 80 GB USB hard drive.</p>
<h2>Anyway, you’re going to find these things just everywhere. I’m sure BestBuy and CircuitCity have something as well. Good luck.</h2>
<p>And at this point, they just DON’T have that much stuff on their disks… Well, at least mine doesn’t. But what IS important is that they have snapshot copies of documents… in case they overwrite their project, or it gets corrupted. They can always go back to the previous day’s version. MAKE THEM CONFIGURE DAILY BACKUP OF DOCUMENTS! Other have really good ideas on this as well.</p>