Smart Ways to Choose an External Hard Drive

If you're like most people, you must have experienced this one. Feeling the storage capacity on a hard drive installed in the computer shrinks rapidly. That is, the faster you lack the capacity to save.

This is not really surprising, considering that these video files from YouTube, photo collections of digital camera shots of the higher resolution, plus exciting applications that you frequently download, edit, and use, continues to grow, while the capacity of your hard disk is not added.

If you have this, the most practical solution is to add a portable hard drive, external alias. Why do we call practical? Because not bother to open the casing and hard drive cable connects to the motherboard.

Practical, Concise
Stay just connect a portable hard drive into a USB port / FireWire computer via the supplied cable, and you've got extra capacity, which may be greater than the established hard drive in your computer. Also do not need to install additional power supply. Easy and fast is not it?

Portable hard drive, as the name, of portability, including the inclusion in his pockets, because of its concise, compact. Typically, portable hard drive comes accompanied by backup software. It functions as a portable hard drive had been the backup medium. Therefore, portable hard drive also serves as the restorer (restorers) data and files if the files 'original' is corrupt, for example because of a virus.

What to Look For?
In today's market there are many brands of portable hard drive options, including A-Data, Buffalo, Iomega, Imation, LaCie, Maxtor, QNAP, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba, Transcend and Western Digital. Physical portable hard drive today pretty, petite, with an increasingly large capacities. There is created the hard drive 1.8 ", there is a 2.5", also 3.5 ". Just choose which ones as needed.

Here are things - things to consider when buying / shopping for an external hard drive:

1. Capacity (maximum file storage capacity)
   Portable hard drive storage capacity varies, starting from 40GB to 500GB. But now also have a portable hard drive which appeared its capacity to 1.5 TB (terabytes). If you are a lot of work with video and graphics files, we recommend choosing a portable hard drive with the largest capacity you can buy.
   In addition to the hard drive is intended as a supplement in desktop computers, most portable hard drive is now precisely target user market notebook and netbook (mini notebook). Portable hard drive which is aimed at notebook / mini notebook comes in two sizes: 2.5 "and 1.8". But you also are not prohibited from choosing a size of 3.5 ", although this one is usually aimed at desktop PCs. Of comfort carry it will be different. In addition, the price of portable hard drive 1.8 "would be more expensive than 2.5", though both are exactly the same capacity.


2. Speed ​​rotary drive
   Disk rotation speed is partly determined by the speed of data rate, and is expressed in rpm (rotation per minute). Generally, portable hard drive spins at a speed of 5400rpm.


3. Large buffer or cache
   The amount represents the amount of memory buffers to be cached, or stored which can be handled by a drive while waiting for a request (request) The next of the system. The amount of buffer ranging from 2MB - 16MB. The larger the buffer size, the more data can be stored and the faster delivery of data. However, the greater the size of the buffer that packed a portable hard drive, will the more expensive the price of portable hard drive.


4. Recovery Features
   Pick a portable hard drive comes with backup and recovery features. This feature is useful when your files are damaged or corruption of data due to loss of electrical intake suddenly, or even due to virus attack. Through the recovery feature, you'll be able to recover data lost / damaged.


5. Ability PnP (plug and play)
   Plug the cord and a portable hard drive can be used directly without the need to install any drivers or software, so intent PnP. PnP capabilities especially necessary if you intend to use a portable hard drive on several computers - PCs in the office, outside the office netbook or notebook at home.

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The first thing to do is open a terminal, then log in as root by typing
sudo -s -H
after that enter your password, a $ sign in the terminal is now turned into a # which means that you are logged in as root
Furthermore, to obtain hardware information that we use in ubuntu, we use the command diterminal head. Command head will show the file system associated with the information we need, directly Okay try it.

Knowing the type of Processor
 
# Head / proc / cpuinfo
as an example of a processor that I use is Intel Dual Core 2.2 GHz, the results are as shown below:

Knowing the version of linux that is used

# Head / proc / version

Here I am using linux ubuntu 9.10 karmic koalahasilnya like the following picture:

Information Displays memory used
 
# Head / proc / meminfo

Here I use DDR 2 GB, the results are as follows:

Displays the disk partition information
 
# Head / proc / partitions

I am using 500 GB SATA hard drive and 40 GB partition for linux results like the following picture:

GOOD LUCK......!!!!!

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1. Search on google.com fonts you want to add, as an example I will use the font here is "Korean Fonts".

2. Extract the first font that will be installed. (Before installing check whether it's good Winrar / Winzip is installed)

3. Extract Method: Click on the file will be extracted> Right click> Extract Here.

 4. Then it will appear Korean.ttf fonts (with large T logo)

5. Continue to copy a file to be installed

6. Copy the Korean font was then PASTE in the folder C> Windows> Fonts.

7. Completed, to see the results, try to open an Office application or Photoshop, Korean must already exist in it.

Good Luck.........

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Computers are often used, and not to forget to take care of him. The computer also just like humans, need a break too, needed treatment, and prevention of virus necessary.

Treatment is by way of cleaning the inside of the computer (CPU), check the disk, using an updated antivirus, and give a break on that computer.

Check the disk:
     Disk Defragmenter
     Disk Cleanup
     and programs from other third parties.
 
Antivirus:
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      AVIRA
      McAfee
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