Hi guys,
I'm looking for an external drive to store my files instead of on my laptop itself because I no longer have faith in Windows or something. I used to have a desktop which I'm happy with until something bad happened. The technician told me that a virus wiped out my hard drive and all my portfolios, 10 years of hard work and most importantly my family photo collection which I painstakingly scan each one of them from the photo album is gone. And with the cost of recovering the files in it would get me 2 brand new laptops. So I gave up on it. Got myself a new laptop and ever since then I've been backing up files in CDs and DVDs and my laptop is virtually empty ever since I bought it,. But it's kind of a hassle because I've got to try each and every CD just to find the correct file. So I'm looking for an external hard drive which could store my files and access them only when I need them.
A friend of mine recently got this external 1TB drive and he was telling me how good it was, the storage capacity and more interesting, the drive speed which he mention was some in the excess of 7K RPM or something.
Now, I'm not a computer hardware expert or anything like that (and please do correct me if I'm wrong) but no matter how fast the drive is, the speed of external hard drives are still capped by USB right? In the end even if we have a 7K RPM drive with extraordinary transfer rate, it would still be pretty much useless if it's plugged in as USB instead of plugging it internally into the desktop.
I'm asking this because I'm comparing between the bulkier external drive which requires external power source and the slimmer ones which is powered by USB itself. If there's no difference in terms of speed, then I might just as well settle for the latter as portability is definitely a plus point for me. The intern at my office also suggested that I get the notebook hard drive and an external enclosure and put it together myself. Any comments, opinions or recommendations?
I'm looking for an external drive to store my files instead of on my laptop itself because I no longer have faith in Windows or something. I used to have a desktop which I'm happy with until something bad happened. The technician told me that a virus wiped out my hard drive and all my portfolios, 10 years of hard work and most importantly my family photo collection which I painstakingly scan each one of them from the photo album is gone. And with the cost of recovering the files in it would get me 2 brand new laptops. So I gave up on it. Got myself a new laptop and ever since then I've been backing up files in CDs and DVDs and my laptop is virtually empty ever since I bought it,. But it's kind of a hassle because I've got to try each and every CD just to find the correct file. So I'm looking for an external hard drive which could store my files and access them only when I need them.
A friend of mine recently got this external 1TB drive and he was telling me how good it was, the storage capacity and more interesting, the drive speed which he mention was some in the excess of 7K RPM or something.
Now, I'm not a computer hardware expert or anything like that (and please do correct me if I'm wrong) but no matter how fast the drive is, the speed of external hard drives are still capped by USB right? In the end even if we have a 7K RPM drive with extraordinary transfer rate, it would still be pretty much useless if it's plugged in as USB instead of plugging it internally into the desktop.
I'm asking this because I'm comparing between the bulkier external drive which requires external power source and the slimmer ones which is powered by USB itself. If there's no difference in terms of speed, then I might just as well settle for the latter as portability is definitely a plus point for me. The intern at my office also suggested that I get the notebook hard drive and an external enclosure and put it together myself. Any comments, opinions or recommendations?