The Desktop External Hard Drive

Desktop external hard drives are normally 3.5" hard drives mounted in a larger enclosure than its portable counterpart. The enclosure may also have fans integrated to assist in keeping the drive cool during operation, which extends the life of the disk driveThe desktop external hard drive is designed with storage capacity in mind, rather than portability. Common desktop hard drives boast 500GB of storage, which would have been unbelievable only a...

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The Portable External Hard Drive

Portable external hard drives are usually 2.5" hard drives (laptop hard drives) in a slimline enclosure, making them easy to carry. Although they are portable, they are not unbreakable and extra care is neededwhile transporting them, for example, don't put them in your back pocket and then sit down!The portable external hard drive is commonly "USB Powered", which means you don't have to carry a separate power supply unitaround with you. The only...

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What is an External Hard Drive?

An external hard drive is the same type of hard drive as you would find inside a PC or laptop, except that it is mounted in a separate enclosure. It can be used to store information (data) permanently or temporarily, in the same way as a computer's hard drive.External hard drives (the actual drive itself) come in two main sizes (physical size), 2.5" and 3.5". The 2.5" drives are the same as you would find in a laptop computer, whereas the 3.5" drives...

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computer generasi 2

In the year 1948, the findings influence the development of the transistor computer. Transistors replace vacuum cleaner tube in television, radio, and computers. As a result, the size of electrical machinery decreased dramatically.Transistors used in the start in the computer start in 1956. The findings in the form of the development of magnetic-core memory to help the development of second generation computers smaller, faster, more reliable, and...

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