KSAGirl
I want to buy a new external hard drive , around 350 to 500 GB , but i don't know what is the best hard drive !!
cause i have lots of movies and i want them to be save in a hard drive for ever ! is it possible ? or i can lose data ?
Answer
I just received my copy of the January issue of PC World Magazine and it has a review article on external hard drives, the article's title is "The Wide World of External Drives." Its a great article reviewing 10 top notched drives divided in to 2 catagories, portable and desktop external hard drive. You are probably best off with a desktop external hard drive since you just want to backup your movies. The more compact and portable a drive is the most expensive it becomes. Personally, my preference is for Western Digital and Maxtor. I have both products and they are extremely reliable. Please read the article for all the reviews:
"The Wide World of External Drives: Today's options provide impressive combinations of speed, interfaces, features, and software." -- written by Narasu Rebbapragada (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127545/article.html#)
It is a shame that Black Friday has come and gone. The day after Thanksgiving is called "Black Friday" and it is the number one shopping day of the year. Stores slash prices hoping to attract customers. Best Buy was selling a Western Digital 250GB external hard drive for $59.99 (no rebates). If you can hold off buying the hard drive until Christmas, you can save a lot of money because stores like Best Buy or Circuit City will have holiday specials on computers and accessories.
I just received my copy of the January issue of PC World Magazine and it has a review article on external hard drives, the article's title is "The Wide World of External Drives." Its a great article reviewing 10 top notched drives divided in to 2 catagories, portable and desktop external hard drive. You are probably best off with a desktop external hard drive since you just want to backup your movies. The more compact and portable a drive is the most expensive it becomes. Personally, my preference is for Western Digital and Maxtor. I have both products and they are extremely reliable. Please read the article for all the reviews:
"The Wide World of External Drives: Today's options provide impressive combinations of speed, interfaces, features, and software." -- written by Narasu Rebbapragada (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127545/article.html#)
It is a shame that Black Friday has come and gone. The day after Thanksgiving is called "Black Friday" and it is the number one shopping day of the year. Stores slash prices hoping to attract customers. Best Buy was selling a Western Digital 250GB external hard drive for $59.99 (no rebates). If you can hold off buying the hard drive until Christmas, you can save a lot of money because stores like Best Buy or Circuit City will have holiday specials on computers and accessories.
Installing a portable hard drive to more than one computer?
Q. I recently got my first portable hard drive, a WD Elements. My friends said that they didnt even have to install there hard drives, they just plugged it in and it would work like a normal USB so that is what I expected. Except for mine, I realised I had to install it. So I partitioned it and everything for my Macbook by using support.wdc.com, but what happens if i wnat to drag files onto my hard drive from another computer? I have a PC desk top and I want to drag some movies from it onto my hard drive. I tried installing it onto the PC as well, but it wouldn't work... any help?
Answer
I'm not totally sure about this but it is more advisable to format the drive under Windows using FAT32 (not NTFS) as it would be recognized by both PC and Mac. As far as I know, PCs do not recognize anything outside the world of Microsoft. Macs (and Linux boxes) are more adaptive. If your Mac fails to recognize the drive automatically, you can try forcing it manually. Under Linux that would mean typing "mount -t msdos /dev/sd-something /tosomewhere". I'm not familiar with the Mac although I know it's distantly related to Linux nowadays.
I'm not totally sure about this but it is more advisable to format the drive under Windows using FAT32 (not NTFS) as it would be recognized by both PC and Mac. As far as I know, PCs do not recognize anything outside the world of Microsoft. Macs (and Linux boxes) are more adaptive. If your Mac fails to recognize the drive automatically, you can try forcing it manually. Under Linux that would mean typing "mount -t msdos /dev/sd-something /tosomewhere". I'm not familiar with the Mac although I know it's distantly related to Linux nowadays.
Powered by Yahoo! Answers
Title Post: i need some advices to buy a new hard drive?
Rating: 100% based on 9998 ratings. 5 user reviews.
Author: Unknown
Thanks For Coming To My Blog
Rating: 100% based on 9998 ratings. 5 user reviews.
Author: Unknown
Thanks For Coming To My Blog
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar