What is the difference between potable drive and external hard drive?

maggie

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A portable flash drive is a small USB stick connected to the PC that hold probably up to 64 GB of data.

An external hard disk drive is a hard drive like the one inside your PC except it is a smaller form factor like a notebook one optimized for portable usage. All power and data go to one or two cables depending on maker. These hard disk drives can probably hold up to 2 TB.

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What is the difference between a Portable/External Hard Drive?

ForTheWin

And if I want to back-up the contents on my internal hard drive, which would I need?
Is there certain cables i would need (USB etc) to connect either hard drive to my laptop?

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Portable external hard drives are simply hard drives connected to the main computer by a USB plug. That way you can unplug them and take them with you. If you find a external drive you want, look on the box for package contents. If there is no USB cable listed, then you will need to buy one. Just make sure that the external drive is big enough (disk storage space) to hold all your back up information.

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What is the difference between potable drive and external hard drive?

maggie

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A portable flash drive is a small USB stick connected to the PC that hold probably up to 64 GB of data.

An external hard disk drive is a hard drive like the one inside your PC except it is a smaller form factor like a notebook one optimized for portable usage. All power and data go to one or two cables depending on maker. These hard disk drives can probably hold up to 2 TB.

Hop this helps!

What is the difference between a Portable/External Hard Drive?

ForTheWin

And if I want to back-up the contents on my internal hard drive, which would I need?
Is there certain cables i would need (USB etc) to connect either hard drive to my laptop?

Answer
Portable external hard drives are simply hard drives connected to the main computer by a USB plug. That way you can unplug them and take them with you. If you find a external drive you want, look on the box for package contents. If there is no USB cable listed, then you will need to buy one. Just make sure that the external drive is big enough (disk storage space) to hold all your back up information.

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What is the difference between an external hard drive and a portable hard drive?

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quothe_the

I need a hard drive to save all my downloads for iTunes on so that I don't use up the computer space. I found an 500gb external hard drive for about 80$, and 160gb portable hard drive for about 110$. What's the difference between an external and portable, because it sounds like the same concept to me.

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they are the exact same but some people don't know the right word
but portable hard drives are pocket sizes kinda like a flash drive but a bit bigger and external hard drive is more of an at home one you plug into the wall. id go with the external 500gb for 80 rather than 160 for 110 500 is allot more and more useful my opinion.

What is the difference between... a portable hard drive from an external hard drive?

Marcus

What is the difference between... a portable hard drive from an external hard drive?

do they function differently or just the same?

explain more about the two.

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Actually, external hard drives are portable. In that sense, there is no difference (if a drive is external, it is portable). I use mine to backup critical data on multiple pc's before upgrades.

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What is the difference between an external hard drive and an external hard drive enclosure?

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Jon07 M

Can anyone tell me what is the difference between an external hard drive and an external hard drive enclosure? I had just bought a rocketfish 3.5" USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure Kit because I want to put my movies on something portable, but it seems to be that something is missing...

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Why didn't you google it? Anyway, a disk enclosure is just the chassis that protects the hard disk. And the hard disk is.... well... the hard disk itself.

What is the cheapest 1 terabyte external hard drive on the market?

Rainor

I'm looking to buy an external hard drive, specifically 1 terabyte of storage, and I have found some for over $200, but also some less than $50. I'm wondering if there is a major difference between these, since really there are not many features you can add to a hard drive other than more storage, and these are all just 1 TB. So I've decided that I am just going to buy the cheapest one I can find, because I don't see any reason to buy an expensive one if it has the same amount of storage. So, would anyone care to direct me to the cheapest 1 TB hard drive available?

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Though other external hard drives offer a preset menu of ports, the Se agate Free Agent GoFlex cuts costs by letting you pick from a buffet of "personality cables" so that you buy only the connections that suit your system profile. We applaud Seagate for making data backups easier than ever, and recommend the FreeAgent GoFlex external hard drive for extra data storage now and easy upgrades in the future.
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Pro (500GB)
Visit http://goo.gl/vPJeX for cheap external hard drives will back up your digital life without making a huge dent in
Even with the slightly low USB 3.0 performance, the GoFlex Ultra still makes an excellent portable external hard drive for people who need to expand their computer's storage.
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra-portable (1.5TB, USB 3.0, 22mm)
The WD My Book (4TB) desktop-class external hard drive is a basic, large-capacity drive. It's what you need if you're a compulsive video downloader, photograph everything you do,
So i thing this information will help you choose best and cheap hard drive.
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