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There are many uses for a portable hard drive, they include: backing up files, sharing storage between several devices, locking access to files by physically removing their connection to the network, organizing files, and additional storage space.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 10y agoA portable USB hard drive or external hard drive has several advantages. Some of the advantages of a portable drive are backing up data, extra data storage, and security features.
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If I am buying a hard drive to back up music and other files which is best to get a portable or other Hard drive what memory would I need?
I would get an external 250GB hard drive for movies and pics. Or if you backing up your whole Master drive a 1.5TB External hard drive world be the best.
Is it worth it to buy a portable hard drive?
Portable hard drives are worth it if you need to take a lot of your data with you away from your computer. Some people use them as a safe back up for their computer system. If you have information that you want to be sure is backed up, then a portable hard drive may be worth it for you.
Why would someone need a portable hard drive?
Many personal and professional documents are created and stored on a PC. This information may be lost through a variety of accidents. A portable hard hard used as a back up can help to prevent the loss of the valuable documents.
When your downloading an album from itunes do you need to be connected to the internet?
Yes. How else would you receive data? You need to be connected to the internet to transfer any information to or from your computer; unless of course you are using a flash drive, portable hard drive., etc.
How do you change a internal hard drive to a external hard drive?
The easiest way to make an internal hard drive portable is to purchase what's called a hard drive enclosure. Hard drive enclosures are kits that have everything you need to make your own portable hard drive. Make sure you get a hard drive enclosure that matches the size and interface type as your hard drive, as well as the means of connectivity that you wish. As an example, you can have a 3.5" IDE hard drive enclosure that connects to your computer with a USB cable. Most computer stores have hard drive enclosure. The best place to get one is probably tigerdirect.com. There are many of them available on eBay.
How do you make portable hard drive serve a network wifi?
There's no way to connect a hard drive (or any other secondary storage device) directly to a network; you need a computer to provide the interface to the TCP/IP (the common data protocol of the Internet). The computer is either classic (laptop or desktop) or embedded (a NAS device). If you want to create a portable hard drive NAS, you need to go this route.
Can a movie be played from a thumb drive?
Yes, it can. The thumb drive is simply a small sized portable hard drive. You need a video player program installed on your main computer to play the video file off the thumb drive.
How do you extract data from a hard drive in need of formatting?
Copy the data in some storages devices like CD's, DVD's, Pendrives, Portable hard disks etc and then format your pc.
Can you down lowed a operating system on a lab top?
Yes. There are several Linux distributions that can be freely downloaded. To install them, you would probably need to burn it to a CD or DVD, but some of them can install from a portable hard drive.
4000000 KB is what percent of hard drive?
The percentage depends on the size of the hard drive. You would need to know the entire size of the hard drive to do the simple math. 4000000kb equals 4Gb.... now if your had a 100gb hard drive, that would add up to 4%.
How do you use a flash drive as a hard drive?
i dont think you can Answer Flash drives are used as portable memory--like a floppy disk or a CD that you write to. You cannot use them to run a program. For that, you need the CPU.
Do you need a hard drive to play CD?
No, but you need to have a hard drive to put them on your xbox.
