How many times have you experienced that sickening feeling when your hard drive suddenly fails?
How many times have you experienced that your hard disk just does not boot and all the data may be gone forever?
A hard drive failure is one of the most common problems and worst nightmares faced by computer operators all over the world.
Precious data is lost either at home or in big corporate environments. What can be done in these situations?
Well, there are certain solutions that can be performed by you in order to revive your hard drive. We will talk about the solution later. First, let us discuss why a hard drive fails. Read the rest of this entry →
Verbatim portable hard drive offers an easy and convenient solution for storage of data. I have recently purchased it and I am quite pleased with its performance.
For one thing, I like its size, its palm-sized and easy to take anywhere with you, and it is very stylish and durable too.
I would say it combines the best features of all hard drives. It comes along with the FireWire cable and a USB cable.
The USB cable can be used to obtain additional power as it is Y shaped. And due to the FireWire cable no external power supply is required.
The Verbatim offers quite a large space for storage, 320 GB is a huge space and you can easily use it to store your work information so that you don’t have to carry your laptop home.
However, there are a couple of things you will notice about it that might surprise you.
Firstly, the case looks like a metal case in the picture but when I bought it, it was actually a plastic silver case.
Secondly, the bottom of the drive heats up after one uses it for a few hours.
I would advise anyone using this drive that one should not use it for a long length of time. Otherwise it is perfect value for money.
My Passport Essential Portable hard drive is a wonderful storage media for people on the go. It is light and easy to carry and hence is a popular choice with users.
It is compatible with both Windows and Mac. The most important and useful feature is that you do not need a power adaptor to charge them. You can charge it from the USB cable itself. This makes it even more convenient for the users.
These hard drives come in different colors and are very sleek and beautiful hence you can easily hold them in your hand or pocket.
These drives are ideal for people who do not wish to carry around their laptops. It helps them synchronize their work and home computers.
This hard drive can also be used for storing images, videos, and digital music. On these drives you can encrypt everything for added security.
In fact, you can also transfer files from a Windows PC to a Mac PC with the help of these portable hard drives. It is available in different capacities such as 500 GB, 400 GB, 350 GB, and 250 GB.
Just because there is a supercomputer displayed on a computer showroom doesn’t mean you have to buy it.
A computer can last longer but since technology advances quickly and software requires new technology that after four or five years, your new computer is considered outdated.
So what should you? Upgrade? Replace? Sell it? It is not funny if you will still keep your old computer. You can still use it for testing purposes, word-processing and internet surfing.
If you are deciding whether to upgrade or replace your computer, think again. There are things that you still need to consider with this kind of decision especially if you have a tight budget for a new computer. Read the rest of this entry →
Computers have different types of storage devices. The non volatile storage devices used in computers are called hard drives.
In hard drives, data are stored on magnetic surfaces in the form of platters. Data is stored in digitally encoded format in hard drives.
Hard drives were introduced for use with general purpose computers. later they were expanded to facilitate much more uses like video recorders, PDAs, video game consoles etc. tolerance of hard drives are high as compared to the normal floppy disk drives.
As a result, hard drives can store more amounts of data as compared to the removable storage media. They have a faster access and transmission as well. Read the rest of this entry →
