A portable hard drive is just an external hard drive with set memory, for example 320GB, A hard drive enclosure is if you have an internal you wish to use as an external, you simply connect it to the enclosure and use it. However permissions etc have to be overwritten to access the data, so if your not very technical, best just buy an external
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It can range from half a gigabyte to 2 terabytes, and anywhere in between.
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
There is not a difference between IBM lto5 tape drives 3588 f5a and hp lto5 tape drives eh957b. They are both a software tape.
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If you mean between hard drives and ssd's (solid state drives), then you need to read the wikipedia page on Solid State Drives, it has a comparison of the two technologies.
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
There's no difference other than what's on them.
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..
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.
Yes. All Flash drives are portable. They come at a size of about 5 cm.
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.