Why You Need an External Hard Drive

The boom in data storage - in effect in the buyer store - is almost unprecedented. Whilst businesses, governments and commercial organizations struggle to keep up the burgeoning mass of data that deluges them day after day, the home or buyer store has never been so flush for affordable and accessible storage.

Gone are the days of having to delete your old files because you have run out of disk space, or worrying about whether that Cd-R you just overburned will in effect be still readable in 6 months time. We now live in world where - if the need is there - we can walk into any uptown store, or any online computer supplies retailer and buy a collection of storage options that could fit all the electronic data the world had any decades ago, and all of this can fit in the palm of your hands.

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Why an external hard drive?

Why You Need an External Hard Drive

Whilst the current boom and fashion in the store is for flash storage devices (the Lightening fast storage devices in all the contemporary smartphones and some cameras), the real gem in this store is the external hard drive. Whilst fixed, corporeal hard drives for desktop or even laptop computers are cumbersome to install and can rarely be hot swapped in or out, the external hard drive equivalent allows you to read and write data at near internal hard drive speed, but also enables you to add and take off the drives when the need arises. Given that you could realistically attach 10 external hard drives via Usb to your day to day computer, the affordable external Hdd store now allows for manifold layers of redundancy, all under the roof of your own home.

Data portability - and expandability

Of course, flash drives and pen drives are the extreme in portability. They make data so conveyable that you can fit them in the middle of your finger tips and read and write to them thousands of times. However, if you are needing to vehicle tens of gigabytes of data and files around, your affordable options start to narrow dramatically. When considering the data requirements of Hd movie editing, the cost of supporting these files via flash drives would be pretty large compared to the external hard drive equivalent. Whilst hundred-gigabyte flash drives may exist, they are in effect not affordable at the moment.

Choosing your external hard drive

Remember to select and buy your external drive with the Fitness for purpose in mind. There is no need to spend extra money on terabyte level Hdd if you are only going to be backing up and transporting your house holiday snaps, and at the same time, don't rely on many smaller drives if you are editing Hd movies for a living - you would want manifold terabyte devices to give you a layer of affordable redundancy (putting this much data into the cloud would be very expensive).

Remember, even with the added security net of external hard drives - you should all the time have a tiered backup routine. Whilst drives are very unlikely to fail these days, there is nothing stopping you accidentally dropping your devices or your bag being stolen on the way to work.

Why You Need an External Hard Drive

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