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External Hard Drive

There is a variety of different types of hard drives. It is hard to decide which one you need. There is SATA hard drives and there is IDE drives. Here is information on determining if you have an IDE or a SATA drive and connections. There is internal and external drives. Here is information on the difference between External and Internal Drives.
External hard drives are great to use.

Best way to explain the functionality of it is to use an example. Mary works at home and she works at an office. She has too many files that she uses at both locations and needs to move them back and forth.
She can use a flash drive but there is disadvantages of it.

She can use a flash drive but there is disadvantages of it.

  1. Due to the size, they are very expensive
  2. Some systems that you put them in doesn't have enough power to power the USB flash drive and the drive will not work properly.
  3. Live span of a thumb drive is not very long
  4. They are easily corrupted.

Advantages of an external drive

  1. They are much cheaper than the flash drives
  2. They last much longer than flash drives
  3. They have their own power cord and always have enough power.

If you have a hard drive that you cannot insert into a computer, you can use a hard drive enclosure