You can purchase a "USB 2.0 to IDE Cable" adapter for a reasonable price. Once you have one of those handy devices, any IDE or SATA disk drive just becomes a removable disk. Mine was under $25.00, US, but the price and availability will depend on where you are.
There are two ways: Research Disk Striping or RAID.
Cleaning your hard drive will speed up the speed of it, and make your computer read information better. Cleaning can help your computer as a whole not just one part.
---- # go to "my computer" # browse to your external hard drive # then open another "my computer" window # drag and drop the file(s) you want to the window displaying the external hard drive. ----
Simply connect your external hard disk to your computer. Then select the songs you want to play later, copy them and paste to your computer hard drive. And after disconnecting your external hard disk you can now play the selected songs from your computer hard drive.
The internal Hard Drive in a computer has an average life span of 10 years. If a computer is nearing this age it is a good idea to have an external hard drive to back up your files in case of a crash.
Speed and size are the best friends of multimedia. You will want a 7200 rpm hard drive and the largest size (GBs) drive you can afford. If you want an external drive and have a FireWire connection on your computer, that is much more preferrable than USB due to its speed.
I would want to buy something that has a CPU of 3.0 GHz or more and about a 250GB or more hard drive. You can find such computer systems at http://www.vinixcomputer.com
It depends on what your setup is. If you have two computers, and you want to transfer data between them, you should be able to network the computers and copy the files directly. If you just have a hard drive and want to copy some data to your computer, you can install the drive into your computer (assuming you have a slot for the drive, an available data cable for the drive and and available power connector.
it saves all of your syuff like tv stuff or videos or what ever you want
Yes, you can put your iTunes files on a portable hard drive. Simply drag and drop the files in iTunes to the drive on your computer that is your portable hard drive. You can even drag the iTunes software itself, if you want.
if you un-install it then re-install it on your extrenal hard drive then you can run it when the hard drive is plugged in. if you want to completely remove it then unistall it first then back your extrenal hard drive up again and it should be gone
If you want the computer to forget what is read and written then Random Access memeory is the best. If you want the computer to remember what is read and written then Saving the writing to the Hard Disk means the writting can then be read at a latter time