what to look for when buying an external hard drive
External Hard disks or drives provides large data storage(around Tera Bytes) at very less price. External Hard disks used to transfer large files from for one PC to another easily.. When ever you going to buy External Hard disk at shop you need to consider lot of things...
The first thing you need to consider is the type of external HDD for your system. Basically there are two types or flavors..
1. DESKTOP DRIVE EXTERNAL HDD
2. PORTABLE DRIVES or SOLID STATE HDD
Desktop drive external hard disk having the 3.5 inch mechanism and requires the Power adapter ,developed to put them in one place(such as office or home). Now a days maximum storage size available in Desktop drive HDD's is 4 TB. You need to look for built in fan, it will increase the life span of the Hard disk....
Portable Drives or Solid State HDD's(SSD) having the 2.5 inch mechanism and it doesn't requires any power adapter. They usually gets the power from the cable that is connected to PC or Laptop.Maximum storage capability of Portable drives is less compared to desktop drives, they comes in the range of 500 GB to 750 GB.
The second thing you need to consider is the USB Interface for the Hard Disk...
Currently Hard disks are coming with two types of USB Interfaces. They are USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 . USB 3.0 standard is newer one and it is 10 times faster compared to USB 2.0 but it is some what costly compared to USB 2.0. If you want more transfer speed then you can go for USB 3.0, if not go for USB 2.0....
The third thing you need to consider is the Performance of the external hard drive. It includes the storage space , Specifications and Speed of data transfer.You can select the storage space of hard disk around 1 TB or 500 GB, It is more than enough to store the applications , games, videos and pictures etc...
The last thing you need to check the warranty , Technical Support by the company and the components that are included with Hard disk. If the design is also important then go for the Portable or SSD hard disks instead of Desktop HDD.
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The first thing you need to consider is the type of external HDD for your system. Basically there are two types or flavors..
1. DESKTOP DRIVE EXTERNAL HDD
2. PORTABLE DRIVES or SOLID STATE HDD
Desktop drive external hard disk having the 3.5 inch mechanism and requires the Power adapter ,developed to put them in one place(such as office or home). Now a days maximum storage size available in Desktop drive HDD's is 4 TB. You need to look for built in fan, it will increase the life span of the Hard disk....
Portable Drives or Solid State HDD's(SSD) having the 2.5 inch mechanism and it doesn't requires any power adapter. They usually gets the power from the cable that is connected to PC or Laptop.Maximum storage capability of Portable drives is less compared to desktop drives, they comes in the range of 500 GB to 750 GB.
The second thing you need to consider is the USB Interface for the Hard Disk...
Currently Hard disks are coming with two types of USB Interfaces. They are USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 . USB 3.0 standard is newer one and it is 10 times faster compared to USB 2.0 but it is some what costly compared to USB 2.0. If you want more transfer speed then you can go for USB 3.0, if not go for USB 2.0....
The third thing you need to consider is the Performance of the external hard drive. It includes the storage space , Specifications and Speed of data transfer.You can select the storage space of hard disk around 1 TB or 500 GB, It is more than enough to store the applications , games, videos and pictures etc...
The last thing you need to check the warranty , Technical Support by the company and the components that are included with Hard disk. If the design is also important then go for the Portable or SSD hard disks instead of Desktop HDD.
ADVICE
So many pepole asks which brand or company HDD to buy, Each and every company will have drawbacks and fail at some time. The main concern should be the Size of the Hard disk ( 1TB or 2TB) and warranty provided by the company( 2 Years or 3 Years)....
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