Why is the 1TB external hard drive bigger than two portable 500MB external hard drives put side by side?

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the 1tb drive can be a combo of 2x 500 gb drives.
it may have more power and fan room to.

500mb external hard drive question?

Sue Kirk

my son wants a external hard drive for his birthday. I dont want to spend a fortune for one, I was looking at a 500 mb one. I know nothing about these. He wants to download some videos on it. I want to know since it only holds about 38 hours worth of videos, can he erase the ones he dont want an free up more space to record more.any help would be appreciated. thanks

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Perhaps you meant GB?

Yes, well, a 500GB hard drive can store more or less videos depending on the filesize and quality of the video itself, so measuring a hard disk by saying how many hours worth of video it can hold is not really practical.

Yes, he can delete data on the drive that he doesn't want to keep in order to free up space.

There are 2 types of external drives -- pocket drives and desktop drives.

Pocket drives are more expensive per gigabyte, but they are very small and portable. Example:
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Passport-Essential-Portable/dp/B0041OSQ9S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327352717&sr=8-1

Desktop drives are bulkier and requires it to be plugged into a power source to work, but they are cheaper per gigabyte than pocket drives.
Example:
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-External-WDBAAU0010HBK-NESN/dp/B002QEBMB4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1327352717&sr=8-2

Obviously, if he wants a lot of storage space, but you want to keep the price down, you should get the desktop drive.

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