2 TB (terabyte, 2 TB = 2000 GB) are the largest consumer disks currently for sale.
1.5 TB of storage
There are many places on the high street to buy hard drives for data storage like PC World. You can also find hard drives for sale on both Amazon and eBay.
to connect storage devices such as hard disk drives to a PC
Hard disk drive inside the PC, CD or DVD drives/disks, USB (thumb drive, jump drive), and floppy disk drive/disk storage. Other storage can be external Hard disk drives, tape drives, RAID drives and the newer Blu-Ray.
a hard drive is what stores all the files on your pc.
Yes. This is what's known as 'NAS' or 'Network Access Storage'
Inexpensive external hard drives for data storage can be obtained online from the Ebay or Amazon websites. Instore, PC World and Best Buy offer the best prices.
Solid State Drives (SSD) are more reliable than Hard Disks as they have no moving parts.
Typically, hard drives are mounted in the front of a desktop PC and somewhere on the underside of a laptop. External hard drives will be wherever you place them.
External memory is also known as secondary storage. As the name implies, it is a storage unit for your computer that is not internalized and has to be accessed through an input or output device such as a USB cord. External hard drives for your PC are usually used to store large amounts of information safely and securely. Such examples of information are office files, tax information, videos and sometimes even music. External hard drives vary in size and price depending on the manufacturer, so finding one to fit your budget should not take long.
There are a few different external USB hard drives that PC Magazine recommends. They recommend the SanDisk 2TB hard drive, as it is very large and works well.
"A PC tower is what houses the various components of a PC that are required for the computer to function. A few of the major components housed in the PC tower are the hard drive, floppy drives, optical drives, and the motherboard."