Of course.
Anything. You can use it to store things just like you would a internal hard drive. So you can store videos, music, data, games, programs, or whatever you could possibly want on an external hard drive.
Yes there is a way.
They where to big and didn't have a very big hard drive.
A 160gb hard drive for a laptop is plenty. Most laptops now are pushing 300gb and up, although it depends if you have a full size laptop or a netbook.
So many laptops available in market. user can easily change or upgrade their memory space and hard drive.
people are buying laptops because laptops hard drives have maximum capacity they can easily upgraded . and specially they are more portable
The hard drive controllers are SATA, IDE, and EIDE. The hard drive configuration tells the computer what drive controller to use and how to store the information and where to store the information.
Laptops have two types of memory, the hard drive (used to store your video, music, and photo files) and RAM (which affects how quickly your computer runs when multiple applications are running). The trend is for newer laptops to have larger hard drives. If you need extra space, portable hard drives are available for external storage.
At the moment it is 7400 rpm but these tend to cause some laptops to over heat. The best hard drive overall is the SSD. A Solid State Drive (SSD) is a hard drive of sorts. I uses a large flash memory bank that has the ability to retain all data and store and run an operating system. These drives have no moving parts which is best for laptops and they also allow for faster data retrieval and booting up. It also has no adverse heat affects.
Dvd is a disc used in DVD players and computers and other things, but a hard drive is used in computers but not in DVD players. Also, DVDs store quite a bit of stuff- about a few gigabytes maybe - but a hard drive can store so much more-for example the one terabyte hard drive exists today.
Not unless it doesn't work anymore or you simply want to.
All computers use a hard drive to store programs and files.