How to choose a good external hard drive

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Choosing an external hard drive should focus on four key elements to ensure you get the best external hard drive:

Whether you are a fan-cooled
The speed of the drive - 5400 rpm or 7200 rpm
Who is the current disc
Testimonials Online Check

Let them go one by one, to ensure that all the benefits of control of these four key elements.

Keep a fan You DriveCool

Heat is one of the worst things for electronic devices. Many manufacturers do not include fans with their external hard drives, and can destroy the hard disk. I had a disk that broke after 25 months rather bad if you did this test for 1 month after the warranty has expired.

In addition, if only I had known that there was a fan that I could mount a. After 23 years of experience with computers, where once I realize that heat is one of the most dangerous of these products. Please note that the data center cool areas in their network locations. Mainframe systems are built in large boxes, where the fans make less noise - and you're able to computer even colder outside, where we move people.

The speed of the disc

hard drives now work with four speeds:

For ATA / S-ATA> Hard to be 5400 or 7200 rpm
For SCSI drives or 15000rpm 10000rpm

For the average user, you must focus on species usually ATA / S-ATA. About the speed of the disc in the drive, you are also in cache key. This is a small amount of data to be read as "after" the real content that are necessary, and often provide the data for the CPU next to the information you need. There is much debate about theEffect of cache. You need to test drive performance reading what others have said, that - as I mentioned below.

Who provides the actual driving

Some manufacturers do not make the hard drive itself. They create the external box, and put in a hard drive after the company, could come from one of Seagate, Quantum, Lenovo (formerly IBM), Maxtor etc

Which manufacturer do you prefer depends on your personalPreferences. Normally, all have good records, but be sure to have a decent warranty on the hard disk. The hard drives contain important information and you need a guide that works.

Testimonials Online Check

One of the best tools for the control of the disk with the type of Bing's name into a search engine like Google, Yahoo o. In this way you can see what others say about the product. This canvery nice to know if you see the unit almost identical technical specifications for two.

In conclusion

This should give you four good opportunity to review your next external hard drive. Remember that the products have special drives to the advantage of not depending on the manufacturer and independent information is often more honest than relying on the technical specifications alone.