Did you honestly think solid state hard drives are only for the big guy, who run 12 gigs of ram and a 6 core desktop system? Nope, they aren’t, in fact, even slower computers can benefit a lot from having an SSD instead of a good old hard disk drive. What’s the problem with laptop hard drives, anyway? Nothing serious, but they’re just not as fast as they could possibly…

Mobile hard drives are made so that you can carry them around. They’re compact solutions to add more disk space to your computer without opening its enclosure. External hard drives all can do that, but only mobile hard drives can be carried with ease. What makes it all possible? You may be aware that USB is used for carrying data, but you may have missed the fact that USB can…

Much. That would be my first and shortest answer, but I know that much you’ve already figured out, so I’ll dwell into the depths of capacity things, and the things you can keep on a 750gb external hard drive in particular. It’s not an interesting read, look away if you’re not really interested in all this stuff. I hope you are, though. First, the disappearing gigabytes gig. Have you noticed…

Seriously now, people, am I missing something about 20GB external hard drives, because some people keep asking about them. I do have an opinion about them, I have one about everything, but that’s not the point here. Is there a positive side to them I can’t see, or is there something they’re worth their money for, because I’m not sure I’m following the trends on outdated hard drives. That’s what…

Well, okay, first of all, it’s important to point out what on earth a mobile external hard drive is, apart from rolling off your tongue as an expression, of course. These little buggers are hard drives you can connect to your computer without touching the casing. Laptop users don’t really like grabbing the screwdriver anyway, and they can’t just slap a new HDD inside, so here they are, the mobile…

A mini external hard drive is an external magnetic storage device that’s smaller in it’s form factor than what the main-stream offers to customers. The main stream at the time of writing is 2.5″ or 3.5″, both with their ups and downs. A mini HDD is smaller than these form factors, and it also comes in smaller capacities and is harder to come by. If you want to build a…

You want to save some money on your external storage device, don’t you? Well, you can either do that, cut some of the up-front cost, or plan your purchase before you reach for your wallet to make sure the external hard drive doesn’t cost you more money on the long run. It’s the bad versus good quality stuff again, with some technical this and that you should pay attention to,…

The one you pay the least amount of money for, of course! Joke aside, the cheapest 1TB external hard drive has some key features I’d like to share with you. Whether you’re shopping around, or simply curious about what’s going on behind the scenes, read on. Connector The type of connector, or port they use to make an external hard drive makes a difference. USB is the most common port…