First of all, it’s possibly important for you to understand what makes the difference between hard drive and hard drive on the external storage market. Not every 500GB USB HDD is the same, let alone different models from different manufacturers. USB hard drives stand out of the crowd, or more like, are the crowd, that stands out of the weed. Twisted enough to think about, but that’s how it really…

Guys, there is one thing I want to put into your head, and if that’s the only thing you take away from this site, I’ve probably managed to teach you than anyone else ever have. Technology, being a complex thing to comprehend, always has more in store for you than what you think you’ve signed up for you. That’s exceptionally true for computer parts and external hard drives in particular….

An external hard drive is a hard drive that adds storage space to your computer through an external port, most likely USB. These units are enclosed in a metal (most often aluminum), or plastic case to protect them from external effects, and to dissipate excess heat. They’re available for Mac and Windows computers by default, the latter being the cheaper in most cases, but you can use them on any…

Okay, a 250GB portable hard drive is not the most complicated piece of technology in the world, but every joke is new to a newborn, so let’s just go through some quick facts and interesting things to know about these units, shall we. It professionals may want to look away, because we’re covering basics here. 1. Portable hard drives are made in only that many different capacities. The smallest capacity…

Hard drives in general are tightly connected to computing, so differentiating between computer external hard drives, and HDDs that are not made for computers is almost pointless. Even though there are storage units you can connect to your DVR unit, or the dashboard of your car, they’re a small sub-segment of the whole market, and not as different in their build to worth talking about separately. I might touch them…

The intention to get the cheapest external hard drive is pure and perfectly understandable, but when one plans to achieve it by choosing a hard drive that is just big enough on space, there are some issues coming up. Anything under 250GB is now obsolete, and is not even the cheapest solution to any storage space issue you might be having at the moment, here is why. Older hard disk…

You’re most probably running low on hard disk space, especially when using a laptop. It’s been like that for ever, and solutions have been popping up to solve this urging problem. It’s becoming more and more severe as a laptop ages and we demand more from the same old technology. Blu-ray disks, High-Definition movies and all the pictures we can take with an ordinary digital camera require more space than…

A laptop external hard drive is basically a hard drive you can connect to your laptop, without opening its enclosure and adding the hard drive inside. With laptops, that would be plain ridiculous if you had to upgrade your hard drive every time you need some extra space, anyway. There are some things that make an external HDD feasible to laptop users, and this article will try to point them…