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
Now a days every storage disk drive is portable.. You can have portable hard disk, cd/dvd drives and floppy drives.. All are having a USB interface..
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
people are buying laptops because laptops hard drives have maximum capacity they can easily upgraded . and specially they are more portable
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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.
Solid State Drives are currently replacing hard drives in most desktop and laptop computers, and have already replaced them completely in tablets, smartphones, and portable media players. Solid state drives use much of the same technology found in USB flash drives and SD cards.
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.
You can install them the same way as all other hard drives to your laptop. You can put the CD into your laptop and install it or you can put in the USB cord and install it like that.
The question IS answered. Look at related links for pictures of 2 portable hard drives and 1 portable (but smaller) Flash Drive.
Portable hard drives, sometimes called an external hdd are available from places like Amazon, Target, Walmart, eBay, Best Buy, Fry's Electronics, Newegg and Tiger Direct. Portable hdd are getting to be less expensive these days, even 1tb models.
Portable & External Hard Drives.
Laptop hard drives are very similar to desktop hard drives, indeed they work in exactly the same way and even use the same interfaces. However laptop hard drives are designed to be much smaller (2 inches as opposed to 3.5) and draw less power than desktop hard drives. As a result laptop hard drives are usually much slower in terms of data transfer and have much smaller storage capacity than a desktop hard drive of the same year manufacture. With an adapter it is possible to use a laptop hard drive in a desktop computer, and if mounted externally it is also possible to use a desktop hard drive on a laptop.