My hard disk is nearly full.
Not all members may have heard this question at the last meeting on external hard drives and the very brief discussion it produced . Here it is as if posted directly to the Blog with the answering comment.
Computer related questions of any type are welcome.
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External hard drives are a cost effective storage for photographs and backups, 500Gigabyte costing under $200 and 1000GB (1 Terabyte) not very much more. Like a Memory stick they plug into a USB port and behave just like any other drive or folder. Most have a built in backup program.
Terabyte and sub-terabyte hard drives are available from all major hard drive companies, including Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital. Seagate and Western Digital usually top a HD list but due to their emphasis on reducing noise and power usage they are slower than several other external drives.
These links may be of help in choosing one.
http://tinyurl.com/dc48ym
http://tinyurl.com/dedxe6
I like the ones with a separate power supply, not just the lugs in the wall or computer. If you have a powersupply that fluctuates it does not do the powersupply for the harddive to much good, ask Marty.
I like the Western digital and Samsung ones. Speed is good but not critical, reliability is.
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