Not really, no. However if your boot hard disk was near max capacity and you freed up some space on it by moving stuff to the portable hard drive, THAT might make your computer run quite a bit faster.
It can be made portable, but would have to be physically removed from one computer and installed in another one. So they are not generally used in that manner.External hard drives are the drives associated with portability.
Not all portable hard drives work with every laptop. Some portable hard drives are formated for specific types of laptops. For example a portable hard drive that is formated for a Mac cannot be used with a windows laptop
Portable hard drives are worth it if you need to take a lot of your data with you away from your computer. Some people use them as a safe back up for their computer system. If you have information that you want to be sure is backed up, then a portable hard drive may be worth it for you.
External hard drives are used for storing documents, pictures, videos and any other computer files. The external hard drive can be plugged into any computer so it makes the files more portable. Many people use external hard drives as a way of backing up files.
Simpletech produce portable external hard drives. These range from small USB sticks, to larger external hard drives. Simpletech also produces mini versions of the portable hard drives
External hard drives are used for storing documents, pictures, videos and any other computer files. The external hard drive can be plugged into any computer so it makes the files more portable. Many people use external hard drives as a way of backing up files.
Some well rated portable hard drives available to computer friendly consumers are: Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0/USB 2.0. This can be purchased online for $109.00.
yes... certainly...
One can find cheap portable hard drives on online shops like Amazon or eBay. Just look for regular hard drives instead of flash drives, as these are more recent and cost much more then classic hard drives.
The RPM of your hard drive. A 7000RPM drive is faster than a 5000RPM drive, and an SSD is faster than all Platter hard drives.
Portable hard drives work by interfacing with whichever computer they are connected to. In most cases, this connection is established by USB. Once the portable drives are connected they allow the user access to the data contained on it and the drive's storage capacity.
There are many different stores that sell portable hard drives. One of them is RadioShack, and they can offer low monthly payments that are very affordable.