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…

Looking for a 500GB portable external hard drive, huh? Are you sure this is the one you really want? I’m not trying to second guess your decision, I’m just trying to point out that things you want aren’t necessarily those you really need. Quite a good choice, though, 500GB external drives are in the sweet spot for many different factors, and they’re a solid option to extend the current disk…

What is an Online Hard Drive Storage? Online hard drive storage, or otherwise known as remote backup solutions are what you use when you want to save your files on a distant server, rather than a local, physical storage unit. They’re great for many things, but they’re not for bulk media storage. Why? Because the cost of transferring big batches of files through the Internet is still prohibitive compared to…

The cheapest external hard drive is always the best choice, right? Completely wrong, unfortunately. If you’re serious about purchasing an upgrade for your computer, you always opt for a cheap one when you’re not exactly full of cash to blow through, but does it get you the piece of technology you make the best use of? Sadly, it doesn’t. In this article I’m trying my best to point out why…

Hard Drives in a Nutshell Hard Drives are data storage units used mainly to keep bulks and batches of files at a quickly accessible location in your computer. They’re designed to be quickly read and written, and as such are extremely viable at being the main storage device in any modern computer. We may see an explosion on the SSD market in the next few years, but until that, inexpensive…

A wireless external hard drive is a network enabled storage device that allows you to access it via your home network. You need a network attached storage drive and a router that is wireless capable. Everything else is just integrating more components to a single case, which you most probably have no particular need for. A Network-Attached Storage, or NAS is an external hard drive, looking just like your USB…

Okay, it probably isn’t the best portable hard drive out there, but it’s pretty darn close to being one. I have a thing for WD, I must admit, but if anything, it’s a respect for their properly made hard drives. The WD Elements 500GB is exactly what it says on the box; a portable HDD that can be loaded with most of your data. I like the design, and you…

An internal hard drive is the component of the computer where most of or all the data is stored on. It’s typically used to start the system and it’s the device on which you keep your music, documents, photos and movies. Without a hard drive built-in you’d be mostly out of options to save your files, or be seriously restrained on storage space like users of early PCs were with…