Generally, that would be what a server is used for. If you have an old computer laying around, you can probably reformat it and add hard drives, then install either Linux or Windows Home server.
In our old computer I put a SEAGATE 500 gig External Hard Drive. The computer was windows XP Is it a working chance to use the external hard drive From The system i first installed it.
I would like to have an external hard drive to store our recorded videos. Is that possible?
I'm going to assume you want to use the old drive as a secondary drive for this answer. Get an external USB hard drive enclosure which is compatible with your "old" drive. CHECK ON THIS, there are several types of hard drive (SCSI, IDE, EIDE, and SATA) and you need to be sure the enclosure and drive are compatible. (Cost: around $30-$40)Put old hard drive in new external case, plug in power source, plug USB into laptop. Plug 'n' play (uPnP) will recognise drive and incorporate it into devices.
Yes.
One can buy an external hard drive from a number of places. Shops that deal with PC/computer components and parts such as PC World or Comet have external hard drives that you can buy. You can also use the internet and use online websites to purchase an external hard drive.
Yes! Well No, Well Sorta! Direct connection = No However, if you have an external hard-drive on your wifi network, or if you want to use the hard-drive on your laptop then YES! FileShare™ will do this for you.
While external hard drives have the availability to work with multiple computers, it would be false to say every external hard drive works with every computer.
I opened the 500gb external and found a Seagate Barracuda drive to my surprise.
No. However, if you remove the hard drive, it can be used as a regular hard drive in a computer.
It saves hard disk space.
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
No, they don't disappear, unless you use the command move to...