Choosing Portable Hard Drive

If you're like most people, you'll have this one thing. Feeling the storage capacity on the hard drive installed in the computer shrinks rapidly. That is, the faster you lack storage capacity.

It is not surprising, considering the video files from YouTube, a collection of photos 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 the practical? Because do not bother to open the casing and connect the hard drive cable to the motherboard.

Practical, Quick Start
Stay Just connect the portable hard drive to a USB port / computer via FireWire cable supplied, and you've got extra capacity, which may be larger than the disk that fester in your computer. Also do not need to install additional power supply. Easy and fast is not it?

Portable hard drive, as the name implies, of course portability, including the inclusion in his pockets, because of the concise, compact. Usually, coming portable hard drive comes with backup software. It's a portable hard drive function - was - is as backup media. Therefore, a portable hard drive also serves as a restorer (restorer), data and files if the files 'original' is corrupt, because the virus for example.

What to Look For?
In the current 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's pretty, petite, with an increasingly large capacity. There are packed hard disk 1.8 ", there is a 2.5", also 3.5 ". Just choose whichever is required.

Well, so you're not too busy thinking about what to consider when buying a portable hard drive, here we provide some guidance. Consider the following when shopping for a portable hard drive.

1. Capacity (maximum file storage capacity)
Portable hard drive storage capacity varies, starting from 40GB to 500GB. But now there had also been a portable hard drive reach its maximum capacity 1.5 TB (terabytes). If you have 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 market is now precisely target users of notebooks and netbooks (mini notebook). Portable hard drive aimed at notebook / mini notebook comes in two sizes: 2.5 "and 1.8". But you also are not prohibited from selecting a size of 3.5 ", although this one is usually aimed at desktop PCs. Sure to bring comfort carried it will be different. In addition, the price of portable hard drive 1.8 "is definitely more expensive than 2.5", though both are exactly the same capacity.

2. Speed drive
Disk rotational speed is partly determined by the speed of data rate, and is expressed in rpm (rotation per minute). Generally, portable hard drive spinning at a speed of 5400rpm.

3. Large buffer or cache
The amount represents the amount of memory buffer that is cached, or stored which can be handled by a drive while waiting for a request (request) the next of the system. The size of the buffer ranges from 2MB - 16MB. The larger the buffer, the more data can be stored and the faster delivery of data. However, the greater the buffer size dikemaskan a portable hard drive, the more expensive the price of portable hard drive.

4. Recovery Features
Pick a portable hard drive comes with backup and recovery features. This feature is useful when your files were damaged or corruption of data due to loss of electrical intake suddenly, or even due to virus attack. Through recovery features, you will be able to recover data lost or damaged.


5. Ability PnP (plug and play)
Plug in the cord and a portable hard drive can be used directly without the need to install any drivers or software, so intent PnP. PnP capability especially necessary if you intend to use a portable hard drive on some computers - PCs in the office, netbooks outside the office, or notebook at home