Take the tour ×  When I worked in small design studios, I was
always trained to keep my work files on an external hard drive,
and never store them on the computer hard drive. One of my
design friends asked why I worked that way the other day, and I
replied that was just how I've always done it.  Is there an
inherent flaw with this work flow? Or any huge pros to storing
your work files on your desktop/computers' hard drive?  I am
curious as why all the small studios I worked for had that
setup, I could try tracking down their IT guys and asking but
that I would check here first! My work files are about 1.5TB,
and of those about 700 gb are very relevant the other half are
referred to often enough that it isn't worth zipping and
archiving.  share|improve this question External hard drives are
terribly easy to drop on the floor. Don't rely solely on them – 
Pekka 웃 Sep 9 '11 at 8:50 External drive or shared network
drive? The latter is typically used for backup purposes (the
server is backed up or version control