subject: Portable External Hard Drive Information [print this page] Extra storage for your digital information used to be an expensive game, whether it was an iPod upgrade, a new bigger memory card for your camera, or an extra hard drive for your PC.
Technology has advanced quickly, seeing huge price reductions in only very recent technology. Portable external hard drives that used to cost hundreds of pounds can now be purchased quite cheaply.
The rise of gigabyte has given way to an ever increasing array of products equipped to deal with vast amounts of information, and recently, the term terabyte has surfaced, meaning 1000 Gigabytes, demonstrating just how much storage we require for home and businesses purposes. The average album is usually 80mb worth of data. A DVD is usually around 700mb. Blu-Ray and HD files will be much bigger.
The Freecom Classic 1TB external hard drive can be purchased for around 120 online, a mere 12 per 100 gigabytes, which is fantastic value for money. This model has a USB connection for easy linking to your computer, and removing any conflicts within your computer or operating system. The model is extremely quiet due to its fan free design.
The classic is available in different storage sizes, but as time goes on, you will likely accumulate more data, so it makes sense to buy into an affordable product and save hassle of multiple external drives, and buy a 1tb drive. However, prices do continually drop, and I will not be surprised to see the next major advance in data storage occurring any day soon.
Mark James is a webmaster and his latest website is about External Hard Drives, and Portable Hard Drives.
