Well, there are lot of options when it comes to external hard drives but I would suggest Buffalo Tech. Buffalo offers a wide variety of reliable solutions for all your portable storage and backup needs with compact hard drives or RAID systems with up to four separate hard drives. They have a lot of choices so everyone can find something to suit their needs and they have great prices. You should also look for esata if you have that port as it is around 6x faster than usb 2.0.
Any Firewire hard drive is best for a MAC. You can get either an empty one and install the software yourself or can buy the external hard drive with software pre loaded.
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.
The fastest type of external hard drive would be a external 3.0 USB hard drive.
One of the cheaper and best external hard drive options is the WD My Passport 2 TB External hard drive. The WD My Passport 2 TB External hard drive is portable, and cost about $69.99 before taxes. The hard drive has an average of 4.5 star, and good reviews from customers. If you are looking to buy a desktop hard drive, the better option would be a Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard drive. This hard drive would cost about $84.00 before taxes. The Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard drive has an average of 4.5 stars, and all the reviews from customer are good.
You get another memory storage device, such as an external hard drive, and you copy everything on your hard drive onto the external hard drive, and keep it safe. That way, if your hard drive crashes, then you can take it out, and plug your external hard drive in, and work from that.
You can completely clear your external hard drive by formatting it.
---- # 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. ----
you can go to the service center of your external hard drive.
The external hard drive is a great way of backing up your data.
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
Purchasing an external hard drive would be the best and the most inexpensive way to backup your home data. You can purchase an external hard drive for around $70
A 1TB external hard drive can be purchased in any large electronics stores, such as Best Buy or Fry's. Online retailers such as Amazon and eBay also sell these hard drives.