New PC and storage

*Geek warning*

I upgraded my PC this week. Not because it was terribly old but because a nagging issue with hard drives losing power was best resolved by a completely new system!

This should, one would think, be a fairly straightforward upgrade and migration.. if only! My problem is the copious volumes of divx films, series, etc that I store on HDD. My penchant for British comedy means I have 200gb of comedy series alone (including The Office, The Royle Family, The league of Gentlemen, Nighty Night, Black Books, Phoenix Nights, I'm Alan Partridge, etc etc).

There are two things regarding my excess of digital videos. First, that it's a complete nuisance to easily and efficiently move around between drives/disks, and second, that it was only a decade ago that I had a 4.2gb hard drive in a well-specified - at the time - PC. As I shuffle files around to enable the formatting of the cleared drives I find myself moaning that my USB HDD only has a mere 500gb storage capability!

Technology has a strange habit of advancing massively but subtly and throwing the end-user meted reminders, like mine today, of just how far things have come.