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:
- 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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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