HT1751 What HD size for library capacity?

I have 12,000+ songs in my Itunes library. How much memory/how big a hard drive should I get at the minimum to back up the music to an external?

"Though if you only want to back up your iTunes, copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder to the external."
to see how much space ull need u can go to this folder he mentioned and right click/properties to see how much space that folder will take up.

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